When a majority of consumers migrated their online searches from desktop to mobile in 2016, it marked a seismic behavioral shift. In recent years, consumers have shifted their search habits again, and the aftershock promises to have similar, long-lasting impact. 

As expected, the social media landscape saw tremendous change in 2022. From Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter to the rise of BeReal, we witnessed user behaviors shift with the changing social tides, leaving us wondering what we can expect in the year ahead. While we can’t predict the launch of the next big app or the demise of longstanding social superpowers, we can tell you what to anticipate from user behaviors in 2023 to help inform your social media strategy. 

Brent Diggins is a trusted voice, innovator, agency manager and consultant in the tech comms space.

A champion and leader of digital transformation and data adoption, Diggins built Allison+Partners’ global performance and intelligence team, which formally launched last year, and led creation of the influencer marketing process globally.

We have limited word counts for each agency description, so we won’t have room for all of Allison’s 2022 account wins.  Now a global giant, the 21-year-old firm snagged work from AAA, Athleta, GE Power & Water, Hasbro, Grammarly, Mars Wrigley, Moderna, Poshmark, Sennheiser, and TikTok – and that’s just a partial list. Some of its campaigns became the year’s most talked-about, from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s #MoreForMentalHealth initiative to Corona’s global plastic fishing tournament, which removed over 20 tons of plastic from the ocean and garnered over two billion impressions. If that wasn’t enough, Allison launched its new Allison+Sports and BrandGeist divisions this year.

Brand power and resilience have become hot topics in break rooms and board rooms, as the array of enterprise stakeholders (customers, employees, shareholders, partners, communities) seeks to define their own shared purposes and align with others whose purposes they admire. A+P believes purpose and values are a brand’s heartbeat. As such, they should fuel everything the organization does… down to how it organizes and names other brands in its ecosystem. Properly aligning the lead brand with other named sub-brands, and even named product brands, permits leadership to maximize the business value of the whole brand system.

Do you remember crafting as a kid? Something about November makes me reminisce about arts and crafts. It could be because I grew up in a desert environment where the only autumn leaves were made out of construction paper and decorated the halls of my school. Crafting was like a sport to me, so getting involved in the decorating process was something I looked forward to.

In July 2022, Google shared some surprising new data that revealed approximately 40% of Gen Z shoppers (ages 10-25 and 25% of the U.S. population) now use TikTok and Instagram to discover new products and restaurants, rather than typing keywords into Google Search.