Recently, advertisers and business owners had a bit of a rough day when Facebook and Instagram went down for six hours, the largest outage in the company’s history. Luckily, the platforms did indeed come back on, and life returned to normal. But it got us thinking at Overit about digital marketing’s reliance on mega-platforms like Facebook for distributing content and running sales-driven ads. The truth is when you use third-party platforms to push out content or run ads based on location, interest, or other demographics, you don’t own that audience….

Instagram First up on this rundown is the fastest growing social media platform in the world. The one almost every business should be using in one way or another. No, not Facebook. Not TikTok. Instagram. Instagram usage is still growing, and in 2020 they passed one billion monthly users, with 90% of people following at least one brand. On the ad side, Instagram’s advertising reach grew by 7.1% in Q3 2020, compared to Facebook’s 2.2% growth. Of course, thanks to the pandemic, online shopping skyrocketed in 2020. In the U.S.,…

“Content, content, content” We at Overit often talk about repurposing old content or creating content that can be repurposed and promoted in multiple ways. This helps you essentially get more bang for your buck and reach new and different audiences. We think WordPress and Spotify/Anchor were on the same wavelength when they recently announced their new tool that can automagically convert your blog posts into audio podcasts. How it works: Anchor will convert the text to audio using either a male or female sounding voice (I haven’t been able to…