Future Social
Intelligence extracted from Future Social newsletters.
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Key Insights from Future Social
**Sprout Social's 2025 Index** found 33% of consumers find brand trend content embarrassing, while 57% want brands to prioritize original content series over trends and memes.
**Caliber's Build-To-Breakthrough Framework** (Audience Insight + Original Idea + Platform Insight) offers a structured alternative to trend-chasing by forcing originality at every content development step.
Five original brainstorming frameworks — Benefit Ladder, Use Case Blitz, Content Pillars, Build-To-Breakthrough, and the Customer Support Goldmine — provide actionable ways to generate brand-specific content without relying on trending topics.
**Syncly** offers video-first social listening that analyzes actual video content frame-by-frame to catch untagged brand mentions that traditional tools miss
Social-first marketing requires including social teams in strategic planning rather than treating them as distribution channels for repurposed TV content
Brands must create content optimized for social platforms to compete with 1.3 billion daily Instagram posts and 34 million daily TikToks
**Average Post Views** is the most underrated social metric because it measures consistent content performance rather than viral one-offs.
Brands should hire **Creative Strategists** instead of traditional Social Media Managers to combine platform-specific insights with creative campaign development.
**Instagram Reels** and **TikTok's** recommendation algorithms create a new opportunity for organic content success for those who understand platform mechanics.
Latest issue: May 13, 2026
💀 Social trend content is embarrassing (33% of consumers say so?!)
Jack Appleby argues that over-reliance on social media trend content is hurting brands, citing Sprout Social data showing 33% of consumers find it embarrassing and 46% prefer original content. He presents the Build-To-Breakthrough Framework from Caliber and five original brainstorming techniques as alternatives to trend-chasing. The newsletter is part one of a two-part series, with next week making the case for why brands should sometimes participate in trends.
🪦 Duolingo quits unhinged marketing?!
📱 How to make "social-first" marketing
Marketing newsletter discussing the importance of 'social-first' marketing strategies where brands create content specifically optimized for social media platforms rather than repurposing traditional advertising. The author argues that brands need to include social media teams in strategic planning and invest in content creation that's native to social platforms to compete effectively against the billions of posts shared daily.
🫥 Stop hiring Social Media Managers.
This newsletter argues that brands should hire Creative Strategists instead of traditional Social Media Managers to develop platform-specific creative campaigns. It emphasizes that Average Post Views is the most underrated social metric and explains how Creative Strategists combine strategic thinking with creative execution for better social media performance.