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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Posting and Publishing

Tag

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

/tæɡ/verbCore term

In social media & content creation, tag means: To link another account to your post, photo or comment by adding their username, so that they get a notification.

In Turkish: etiketlemek

How it is used

You tag a person, a brand or a location in a post. Brands ask customers to tag them, and creators usually have to tag the brand in sponsored content. 'Tag a friend' is a classic way to ask for engagement.

Example sentences

  1. Tag us in your photos and we'll feature our favorites.

  2. Make sure you tag the hotel and the location in the reel.

Common collocations

  • tag a friend
  • tag the brand
  • tag a location
  • get tagged
  • tagged photos
  • hashtagA word or phrase that starts with the # symbol, which groups posts on the same topic and helps people find them.
  • handleThe username of an account on a social media platform, usually written with the @ symbol in front of it.
  • postA piece of content, such as a photo, video or text, that you publish on a social media account for other people to see.
  • sponsored postA post that a brand has paid for, in which a creator or account promotes the brand's product or service.

This word in other fields

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