Social network[2] advertising[3] is a digital marketing strategy[1] that utilizes social media[4] platforms to connect with a specific target audience to build a brand[12], increase sales[13], and drive website[7] traffic. These platforms include Facebook[5], Instagram[6], Snapchat[8], Twitter[9], WhatsApp[10], and YouTube[11], each offering unique ad services based on user demographics, interests, and engagement data. This effective marketing approach helps businesses to reach a larger audience than traditional advertising methods. It involves creating engaging content, setting concrete advertising goals, planning campaigns strategically, and analyzing demographic and usage trends. Notably, social network advertising is not only used for business purposes, but also for political campaigns and influencing public opinion. Its significance has grown in recent years, with platforms like Instagram and Twitter becoming vital tools for businesses due to their vast active user base and high potential for ad reach.
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Social network advertising, also known as social media targeting, is a group of terms used to describe forms of online advertising and digital marketing focusing on social networking services. A significant aspect of this type of advertising is that advertisers can take advantage of users' demographic information, psychographics, and other data points to target their ads.
Social media targeting combines targeting options (such as geotargeting, behavioural targeting, and socio-psychographic targeting) to make detailed target group identification possible. Essential factors also include users' likes, comments, views, and follows on social media platforms. With social media targeting, advertisements are distributed based on information gathered from target group profiles.
Social network advertising differs from social media targeting. Social media targeting enhances advertising by leveraging profile data to deliver ads directly to individual users. On the other hand, social network advertising involves aligning social network users with target groups specified by the advertiser. Social media advertising encompasses the creation of content on social media platforms, interaction with followers, and the execution of advertisements.