"I don't get the hype either" was Charli D'Amelio's bio on TikTok. She couldn't understand her own success on TikTok, as she saw herself as a normal US American teenage girl. Now Charli is the biggest influencer on TikTok with over 100 million followers. This research focuses on social media marketing on TikTok. The topic is crucial for future marketing approaches, because TikTok offers new and efficient marketing tools and a growing audience. We live in a self-media era. People present themselves on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. TikTok has taken the self-media logic to a new level: anyone can go viral on the platform, even without a large follower base. People are becoming self-publishing consumers. I started a self-experiment and created my own TikTok channel. It was a huge success - I managed to go viral with nearly every video. This self-experiment can serve as a guide for both individuals interested in social branding on TikTok and moreover marketers motivated to run a TikTok channel, in order to successfully market products and services. My name is Giovanni Aytan and I am a Digital Media Management student at CBS International Business School.

"I don't get the hype either" was Charli D'Amelio's bio on TikTok. She couldn't understand her own success on TikTok, as she saw herself as a normal US American teenage girl. Now Charli is the biggest influencer on TikTok with over 100 million followers. This research focuses on social media marketing on TikTok. The topic is crucial for future marketing approaches, because TikTok offers new and efficient marketing tools and a growing audience. We live in a self-media era. People present themselves on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. TikTok has taken the self-media logic to a new level: anyone can go viral on the platform, even without a large follower base. People are becoming self-publishing consumers. I started a self-experiment and created my own TikTok channel. It was a huge success - I managed to go viral with nearly every video. This self-experiment can serve as a guide for both individuals interested in social branding on TikTok and moreover marketers motivated to run a TikTok channel, in order to successfully market products and services.

This book examines issues and implications of digital and social media marketing for emerging markets. These markets necessitate substantial adaptations of developed theories and approaches employed in the Western world. The book investigates problems specific to emerging markets, while identifying new theoretical constructs and practical applications of digital marketing. It addresses topics such as electronic word of mouth (eWOM), demographic differences in digital marketing, mobile marketing, search engine advertising, among others. A radical increase in both temporal and geographical reach is empowering consumers to exert influence on brands, products, and services. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and digital media are having a significant impact on the way people communicate and fulfil their socio-economic, emotional and material needs. These technologies are also being harnessed by businesses for various purposes including distribution and selling of goods, retailing of consumer services, customer relationship management, and influencing consumer behaviour by employing digital marketing practices. This book considers this, as it examines the practice and research related to digital and social media marketing.

Today's Hottest Trends for On-the-Spot Marketing! "A must read for media and marketers.” —Alan Cohen, CEO, OMD USA "What do fish tacos, data storage, and disaster relief all have in common? Each has harnessed the power of marketing that amplifies via the real-time social web. These and many other case studies are part of this engaging new book that details strategies for marketers to understand, evolve, and profit in the social age." —John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer, Young & Rubicam, and coauthor of Spend Shift "Understanding what's possible and how to use social media will be essential for every marketer; this book will hold your hand in this brave new world." —John Miller, CMO, NBC Universal TV Group "Like it or not, social media is here to stay. It needs to be understood, managed, and harnessed. This book tells you how. Read it!" —Zhihang Chi, Ph.D., Vice President and General Manager, North America, Air China Limited "Beverly Macy is a true innovator and thought leader in the field of social media marketing." —Cathy Sandeen, Ph.D., MBA, Dean, UCLA Extension, University of California Los Angeles About the Book In an era when information travels at phenomenal speed along the “real-time Web,” a brand can explode into popular culture overnight--and die just as quickly. As a marketer, how can you stay ahead of the curve? How do you control the chaos? Two words: Social Media. With The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing, you'll learn how to take advantage of today's "fluid" business environment and develop innovative ways to meet market demands. And here's the best part: all your tools--Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites--are free! Leading figures in the exciting new world of sophisticated social media marketing, Beverly Macy and Teri Thompson explain how you can use this global, real-time platform to change how consumers interact with your brand. They then present detailed case studies illustrating how top organizations and emerging brand giants have proven the remarkable effectiveness of social media marketing. Find out how: The American Red Cross turned a single "tweet" into $33 million worth of donations to earthquake victims in Haiti Orange County Transportation Authority engaged citizens to participate in transportation planning and use DIRE CTV boosted customer loyalty and trust by finding and solving complaints in real time EMC transformed business processes by leveraging workforce social media proficiency and "open" behavior models Marketers no longer have the luxury of time to develop, test, and measure a brand. Use the lessons in The Power of Real-Time Social Media Marketing to launch your brand in a fixed amount of time, accurately measure the impact of your activities, and instantly adjust to any unforeseen events.

This book stimulates a discussion on the changes engendered by the digital era, both in everyday life and the traditional marketing realm. It covers scientific studies and theoretical principles as well as educational purposes and practical applications of digital marketing principles, in order to improve our understanding of this domain.

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Koln RFH, language: English, abstract: The classical way music artists have to go to become successful is to convince the guard of a music label to get a chance to convince millions of people with their music afterwards. The labels then contrive a marketing-strategy for the new artists and arrange live-concerts in front of small audiences, which are a good medium to give the world a first impression of the artists talent and style of music. In the era of web 2.01, the way goes the other way around: Through social media they can create their music career vast on their own and can profile themselves. Uploading a music video, e.g. on YouTube, and convincing millions of people can be the key to call the labels attention to the unknown artists. The music labels work has also changed: Scouts search for talents on social media platforms. On the basis of users feedback, they can analyse, whose music runs and so which artists they want to contract. But often the labels look for artists, who are really talented and already have a self-marketing-strategy.2 That shows some kind of a new era in the social media, because during the last years, the term social media marketing was formed and operated. In the first period, after the entrance in the web 2.0, people didnt know about the spheres and possbilities of social media. Using it as a marketing tool has opened new gates for musicians to create the first buzz. The following explanations demonstrate the effectiveness of marketing in social media on the basis of the worlds largest social platforms, Facebook and YouTube. Additionally, two cases of successful self-marketing through social media are exemplified in the end: the story of success of Justin Bieber and Lana Del Rey. Their appearance on Facebook and YouTube will be analyzed with the help of numbers and figur