VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb. 22, 2017) - Hootsuite, the most widely used platform for social media management, today announced the acquisition of leading social analytics company LiftMetrix. The addition of LiftMetrix to Hootsuite's social marketing solution enables organizations to drive more effective marketing campaigns by giving them tangible insight into the ROI of their paid, earned and owned social campaigns. Coming on the heels of Hootsuite's recent acquisition of digital advertising technology leader AdEspresso, LiftMetrix continues to build on Hootsuite's momentum in social marketing.
"It's critical for marketers today to prove the impact of social advertising on the company's bottom line. LiftMetrix offers a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use analytics solution that helps our customers make sense of data to maximize social marketing results. LiftMetrix will be a fantastic complement to the Hootsuite platform," said Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite.
As social matures, marketers are increasingly tasked with demonstrating business impact and ROI from social marketing and advertising efforts. According to the CMO Survey, social media spend has increased 234% over the last seven years to 11.7% of marketing budgets, but only 20.3% of marketers are able to prove the impact quantitatively.
Recognized by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor" in Social Marketing for enabling marketers to "design more effective engagement strategies and improve ROI," LiftMetrix allows marketers to better understand the business impact of social media. Through this acquisition, Hootsuite adds to its powerful analytics platform to measure the full social conversion funnel - delivering end-to-end ROI measurement from posts thru to purchases.
With LiftMetrix customers can drive business impact through:
- Sophisticated social campaign analysis across paid, owned, and earned media to maximize performance
- Social-to-web conversion tracking to help prove the value of social initiatives
- Easy-to-understand content recommendations and insights
- Social data-warehousing and integration with business intelligence tools
"LiftMetrix helps our team by easily turning data into specific insights and recommendations. Our digital team can make strategic decisions based on the deeper level of business intelligence LiftMetrix provides and we are seeing positive results," said Andrea Sanchez, digital product specialist, GEx Digital, Grupo Expansión, a leading international media publisher.
"Hootsuite has been a key LiftMetrix partner for several years. By joining Hootsuite, we will be able to offer increased value to our existing enterprise customers around their paid, earned and owned social initiatives. It's exciting to be part of a company with Hootsuite's velocity and trajectory," said Nik Pai, co-founder and CEO of LiftMetrix.
LiftMetrix was previously one of Hootsuite's top partners in Hootsuite's extensive open ecosystem that supports more than 250 best-of-breed partners and applications to help extend social media into existing critical systems across the entire organization.
More Information:
- Webpage: http://www.hootsuite.com/liftmetrix-announcement
- E-Book: A Practical Guide to Measuring Social ROI: https://hootsuite.com/resources/guide/social-roi
- Media Kit: http://media.hootsuite.com/media-kit
About Hootsuite
Hootsuite is the most widely used social media management platform, used by over 15 million people around the globe and trusted by more than 800 of the Fortune 1000. Hootsuite's battle-tested technology, extensive ecosystem, and social DNA help organizations to champion the power of human connections at scale. To learn more, visit www.hootsuite.com.
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