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Getting started with Social Marketing

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Use social events across Klaviyo

Learn more about the social events syncing to Klaviyo and how to use them effectively across your account.

Identify social data syncing to Klaviyo

Every brand investing in social media has the same issue. Thousands of followers engage with their content across social channels. Some DM the brand. Some tag them in posts. Some comment on every launch. But how do you keep track of and use all of this data?

Klaviyo closes that gap by syncing engagement from Instagram into your account and logging it directly on your customers’ profiles to personalize and target future content.

Click into the flashcards below to learn more about some of the core data you’ll now access beyond your Social Auto-reply data:

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Social DM
Definition

Logs when someone sends the brand a direct message on Instagram; this becomes a profile event in Klaviyo that can be used in flows and segments.

Event
Social Comment
Definition

Logs when someone comments on the brand’s Instagram content; it’s stored as a Klaviyo profile event for segmentation, targeting, and automation.

Event
Mention / Tag
Definition

Logs when someone tags or mentions the brand on Instagram, including in posts, stories, or reels; this can trigger automations like ambassador or loyalty flows.

Event
Posted UGC
Definition

Tracks user-generated content activity after someone has gone through an auto-reply; helps brands identify and act on content customers create about them.

Unlock new possibilities with social events

Now that you know additional social events you gain from Klaviyo’s Social Marketing features, let’s discuss how to use this data wisely. Click into the dropdowns below to learn 3 use cases for this data across Klaviyo.

Create social media-specific segments

Social event data, including DMs, tags, and other engagement signals, can be added to your existing segment conditions to make them even more powerful. You can use these segments to:

  • Better schedule and target omnichannel campaigns.
  • Build segment-triggered flows.
  • Show or hide forms or Customer Hub widgets onsite.
  • Re-target them with paid ads, using custom audience syncs (e.g., to Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, or even Google Ads).

Add a condition to capture subscribers who recently interacted with your brand on social (e.g., What someone has done > Tagged your brand in a post > At least 1 time in the last 30 days).

Build new metric-triggered flows

As with any metric, you can trigger new metric-triggered flows in Klaviyo using social media data. For instance, you may trigger any of the following:

  • Instagram-specific welcome: Triggered by joining your list via Instagram.
  • Referral flow: Triggered when someone engages (DMs or tags someone), encouraging them to refer a friend.
  • Brand advocate or influencer flow: Triggered by someone tagging your brand a certain number of times or tagging your brand and having a certain number of followers.
Create unique flow pathways

You can also split your flows by dragging in a conditional split based on if someone has or has not done something since entering the flow.

For instance, you can create distinct paths based on:

  • Whether someone subscribed to multiple channels in your Auto-reply.
  • How someone answered a custom question.
  • How many followers someone has.
  • How many times they engaged on social.
Enhance your reporting

Use Klaviyo social events within your reporting strategy to build more robust reports or to dive deeper into a single metric.

For instance, you may:

  • Build a multi-metric report, looking at all the metrics syncing from Social Marketing to assess trends month over month.
  • Use Metric tools, like Best People and Cohort Analysis, to see who among your social audience is engaging most.
  • Use the list and segment growth reports to analyze engagement trends for audience groups built from social or social engagement data.
Use social events across Klaviyo