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Welcome back to our industry benchmark series, an ongoing research project where we examine the degree of influence brands from various industry categories have on Instagram. This week, we’re examining some of social media’s top airline brands. Some key findings: Qatar Airways soars above the competition – Gulf carrier Qatar Airways has bested every airline competitor around the…

YouTube at its heart is a video-sharing platform. After all, video is the reason this wildly-popular video-sharing tool now claims more than one billion users. But despite its incredible popularity, YouTube’s creators and marketers face stiff competition. Whether we’re talking about Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, or Instagram, all of today’s top social media platforms inevitably are…

Welcome back to our industry benchmark series, an ongoing research project where we examine the degree of influence brands from various industry categories have on Instagram. This week, we’re examining some of social media’s top makeup brands. Some key findings: Anastasia Beverly Hills and Huda Beauty dominate grassroots activity – cult favorites Anastasia Beverly Hills and Huda…

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. If you’re a retailer, that means one thing: Black Friday. This annual buying extravaganza, along with its newer e-commerce sibling Cyber Monday, are becoming two of the retail world’s most important annual events. According to the National Retail Federation, this annual shopping and sales day in 2016 was worth an…

Welcome back to our industry benchmark series, an ongoing research project where we examine the degree of influence brands from various industry categories have on Instagram. This week, we’re examining some of the top banks. Some key findings: Wells Fargo has seen a quick rebound on social: Wells Fargo ran into some challenging social media problems in…

Earlier this year, Captiv8 took a closer look at how creators were using Instagram Stories and Snapchat, two of today’s most popular social platforms for consumers and marketers. Based on a study we conducted in Q1, Instagram Stories was seeing lots of initial success when compared to its main rival, Snapchat. Even though creators were evenly split in terms…

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel had the influencer world talking earlier this month when he announced the platform would start offering “monetization” opportunities to top creators in 2018. Creators will soon have the option to earn ad revenue using the same type of model used on other content platforms like YouTube. What’s the strategy behind Snapchat’s…

We spend a lot of time at Captiv8 talking about how brands can partner with some of the world’s best-known creators. But up to now, a lot of our content has focused mostly on humans. The truth is that there’s a “non-human” segment of the creator audience that marketers can no longer ignore: pet influencers….

Welcome back to our industry benchmark series, an ongoing research project where we examine the degree of influence brands from various industry categories have with Instagram users. This week, we’re examining some of social’s top luxury automotive brands. Some Key Findings: Luxury auto is about the “haves” and “have nots” – the top six luxury carmakers have…

Apple’s flagship device, the iPhone, has long been a consumer and media favorite. Each new device release is accompanied by a seemingly endless series of tech and news reviews about the latest features and software updates. But with the release of its newest device, the iPhone X, Apple decided to take a different approach. Instead…