9 essential newsletters for staying on top of the latest social media trends

Social media moves fast. Really fast. Here’s how to keep up.

Keeping up with the latest product innovations, usage trends and research on social media can be exhausting. Fortunately, there’s a bunch of super-smart people who are constantly monitoring and analyzing these developments so you don’t have to.

These newsletters do much of the heavy lifting for you, making them essential reading for anyone wanting to understand this rapidly changing space.

Here are nine of the best newsletters covering social media in 2022.

1. Creator Economy (The Information)

Kaya Yurieff (@kyurieff) is a reporter at The Information (and before that at CNN) covering the creator economy. The “Creator Economy” newsletter is short, punchy and rich in great insights and examples. (Read the Archive)

Media organizations can learn a lot from how influencers are using social, and in my view, they’re not paying nearly enough attention to this. This newsletter is one way of beginning to address that knowledge gap and to identify transferable lessons to your own content and social media strategies.