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Turns Out Social Media Is Driving Less and Less Traffic to Media Orgs

18 pointsby ahiknsralmost 2 years ago

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saaaaaamalmost 2 years ago
I own a b2b news company. It&#x27;s not big, but in the sector it operates it&#x27;s fairly influential. We never really bothered much with social media. We&#x27;ve recently been doing a more there, and treating it as a content destination, not a promo channel. That works quite well.<p>I don&#x27;t use a lot of social media personally, but I do use instagram for entertainment, and I very rarely click links or click out of instagram. When people post saying &quot;link in bio&quot; I don&#x27;t click. When people tell stories and deliver good content within instagram I stay, and I engage. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;m unusual in that.<p>I think a lot of media organisations still use social media as something to drive traffic, rather than regarding it as a content destination in its own right.