Social Trending

[wearehappymedia]

Hey,

Just wondering what tools people recommend for finding out trending content on social media?

Thanks

[Andrew_Birkitt]

There are quite a few tool out there that can assist with finding trending content but a few that we have used in the past or still use are:

Buzz Feed: Can be a bit annoying at times but the editorial staff do try and stay on top of trending news.

BuzzSumo: Is another good one especially for looking at what content has done well in the past year.

Google Trends: Which we find is invaluable for tracking trends and content across the internet and too be fair is an undervalued and underrated tool.

You might also want to take a look at such things as Reddit.

Hope this helps and good luck with your search.

[wearehappymedia]

To make that a little clearer, we've been thinking about tools that show which posts within Facebook are doing well. Videos with most views in a particular niche for example. None of the mentioned tools do that do they?

[Andrew_Birkitt]

Hi Radi

No I don't believe any of the above tools do what you are looking for, not sure if there is anything that will do exactly what you want anymore, there used to be many tools that did this like 'Its Trending' but most of these are no longer available.

Maybe some of the Social Monitoring/Listening Tools will do what you need, hope you find a solution and would be interested to know if you do.

Andrew

[MeganSingley]

Hi Radi!

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any tools that do what you're looking for, but you could always check out the trending section that appears on the right side of your Facebook newsfeed. Not sure if that's too obvious, but I thought I'd throw it out there just in case.

[JoeyGedgaud]

I would recommend Klout. It has a list of new and hot posts and content.