David Arkin Consulting Blog


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September 14, 2026
6 Instagram strategies that are working for publishers right now
If you’re active on Instagram — or want to be — there are some very specific formats and approaches that are working well today that you should know about. Things change fast in social media, and Meta often updates its...
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July 5, 2026
The Reels strategy helping one TV news anchor grow her audience
For television news anchors, social media often becomes another item on an already full to-do list. Between preparing for multiple newscasts, reporting stories, shooting promotions and responding to breaking news, consistently creating content for Instagram and Facebook can be difficult,...
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November 4, 2024
Top Instagram tips for publishers: grow your audience and boost engagement
Instagram continues to be a powerful platform for publishers to grow their audience and ultimately their revenue, but are you doing all of the right things today? Instagram does have tools to drive traffic to your website that are definitely...
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May 31, 2024
How Facebook Groups became incredibly useful during a Texas tornado
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May 3, 2024
Social media strategies that put less focus on links and more on storytelling, engagement and video
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April 12, 2024
Download these 5 Canva templates media companies can use for social media engagement
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April 4, 2024
These are the best social media scheduling tools
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February 26, 2024
Should you be using hashtags on your social media posts?
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February 7, 2024
Why you should create Instagram carousels 
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January 30, 2024
10 Instagram terms to know
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May 3, 2023
5 ideas that will help your newsroom create useful and entertaining content this Mother’s Day
With Mother’s Day around the corner, now is the perfect time to make sure you have a content strategy in place that will engage and help your audience have a great time celebrating Mom. Here are five things to do...
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August 18, 2022
How TV stations can be effective on Facebook today
TV stations are well regarded in their communities with lots of followers on social media. Here are some of the approaches that can really work for them on Facebook. There are some very useful takeaways on the most effective ways...