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SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING: CURRENT TRENDS AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT

Social networks have become an alternative and promising platform for advertising and establishing lively, active and mutually beneficial communication with customers online in the fastpaced world of digitalization. The purpose of the article is to reveal the features of social networks as a platform for marketing applications, to identify main trends and prospects of social media marketing development. The results of the study of the essence of social networks were revealed.