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50% -- share of marketers using automation for social media for marketers (2025)
50% of marketers use automation for social media management according to a 2025 industry report summarized by Saffron Edge.
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50%
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2025
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B
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50
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60
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60
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Saffron Edge
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https://xburst.app/blog/social-media-automation-platform ↗
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Your Guide to a Social Media Automation Platform in 2026
Your Guide to a Social Media Automation Platform in 2026
Learn how a social media automation platform works. This guide covers core features, benefits, risks, and how to choose the right tool for real growth.
You open X to post one update and end up spending the next hour doing five jobs at once. Yo…
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marketers: 50% share of marketers using automation for social media. Source: Saffron Edge (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/marketers-social-automation-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/marketers-social-automation-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>50%</strong> -- share of marketers using automation for social media for marketers<br><small>Source: Saffron Edge (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/marketers-social-automation-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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