Monday 5 March 2018

Social Media Trends That Will Influence 2018


How are you socializing this year? Do you have any new plans to reach more of your target audience with enhanced peculiarity? If you haven't done yet, then do not delay because when a business underappreciates the progress of technology, then it is likely to rigmarole among the same targets without reaching the new ones. Another reason is that social media platforms change slightly but frequently by rolling out updates regularly.

Experts believe that this year will witness a handful of highly essential trends unfolding over social networks. Let's take a look at them:

·         Augmented Reality on Board- When Google introduced Google Glass to streamline augmented reality (AR) to modify the way people interact, it failed to gain popularity. But, today's marketing strategies of giants like Snap, Google and Facebook are implementing AR to attain more significant technological sophistication. If AR gets word broad acceptance, then it will make social media one of the favorite applications of technology by bringing people from vast distances together and providing them with entirely new UI for their interactions.

·         Live Streaming Will Continue to Lead- Approx 80 percent of consumers preferred watching live videos rather than taking the linguistic road. The year 2017 exploded social media platforms with live video streaming feature, and it was accepted by the users with fully open arms. Experts are predicting that the year 2018 will keep the significant impact of the live video feature on consumers. Brands and consumers have very well settled into the matrix of this quick, informative entertainment segment.

·         Privacy and Open Source Elements Will Hype- No matter how open you want to stay on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, you always expect that no interrupting apps are selling your private information to advertisers. Facebook and Twitter have been continually creating awareness about the privacy rights of users to them. However, other apps are still at stake. The year 2018 will grasp numerous privacy storing apps that can offer users with open-source APIs to assure users and encourage them to use their respective apps.

·         Gamification Will Stay Popular- Though social media apps aim at connecting people worldwide, they have also achieved success in keeping game lovers at bliss. Companies have been generating significant revenue by leveraging immersive gaming experience to its users, and in the current year as well there should not be any fall in this sector.


A company which keeps a 360-degree view of the processes hopping around tends to attain success and create higher competitive levels. Digital Media Sapiens is a digital marketing firm in Dubai which has enhanced the social presence of many of its customers with its aim targeting approaches. If you want to reshape the online presence of your business, then connect with the experts of Digital Media Sapiens.