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Ditch the vanity metrics and learn how to grow your social audience with Caliber's quarterly social guide, The Drop.

Social moves fast. The Drop is Caliber’s guide to the trends, formats & insights brands need to win on social. Learn from us, and make it yours.

Stay ahead with the latest edition of The Drop - Caliber's guide to trends formats & insights brands need to win on social.

The 4 BIGGEST trends in social media right now… FYI, this is all proven. Direct from Caliber’s new report, The Drop. 1. Saves are the new flex (I’ve been trying to tell you!) - On TikTok and IG, saves are the quiet signal that your content is valuable enough to revisit. - The report shows how saves correlate to wider reach. 2. Watch time beats views - YouTube and Reels are rewarding accounts who hold attention, not just win the click. - Average view duration is the new CTR. 3. Audience specific feeds >>> - Each feed has two jobs - Content for non-followers (views) & content for fans (saves + shares). - The report breaks down how to design for both. ☝️that’s a bar. I love this point. 4. Format > frequency - Industry deep dives, “if you like X” recs, lo-fi nostalgia. - Fashion brands are proving that format choice matters more than posting every day. When I was a Social Lead for Ralph Lauren, I would build these reports for work. They already did the work. If you run social and want your 2026 plan to get you a raise, grab The Drop. Here’s the link 👉 https://bit.ly/4pulsMD Save it and send it to your team. #CaliberPartner

So what's the best Instagram metric to track? Hint: it's not comments. I hope you’re already focusing your IG content strategy on Reels and Carousels, but more specifically, maxing out WATCH TIME for Reels while optimizing for SAVES on Carousels. That's what Caliber's pushing right now—they're the media company behind this 36-page social media report with new analytics thinking, content prioritization strategies and 30+ examples of trending content formats (you're gonna wanna download the whole thing, link at the end of this post). The Watch Time + Saves focus makes a lotta sense when you think about it. The Instagram algorithm's doing its best to figure out what's actually valuable to scrollers. If someone watches a full Reel? That's probably valuable. If someone slaps the save button on a Carousel? That means it's so good they wanna come back to it later. Go grab that report right over here, it's got a bunch of content examples my millennial self hadn't seen yet: https://bit.ly/4nVhnA1

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