Social Media Trends: Hubspot report and Instagram launches new app (Edits), META In court!
| Hubspot’s 2025 social media management report is out, featuring data-backed insight into what trends are on the rise, what strategies are working, where fellow marketers are investing, and where you might want to as well. The HubSpot Blog’s 2025 Social Media Marketing Report: Data from 1100+ Global Marketers Discover what we learned from surveying 1100+ global social media marketers about their 2025 goals, challenges, and more. Written by: Ramona Sukhraj  Explore the top trends in social media, along with opportunities, challenges, and new data to optimize social content. Download for Free |
| Instagram launched a new app called EDITS A few things we’ve found online that we hope you’ll enjoy or find useful.The biggest news in the social media world this week was from Instagram, who have launched a new app called Edits. Edits is a video editing app for your smartphone, and if it reminds you of CapCut (the video editing app from TikTok-maker ByteDance) you wouldn’t be the first to make that comparison. |
| META Anti-trust Lawsuit All eyes are on Meta this week, as the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit targeting Facebook’s purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp finally goes to trial. The New York Times is reporting on every step of the trial, and their coverage of what happened on Monday kicks it off: Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand to Defend Meta Against Antitrust Suit (gift link) |