Ryan Holmes
Fast Company
Richmond, BC, Canada
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In 2020, social media will be less social
Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes explains trends that will change how we use social media, and why 2020 will almost certainly be a year of reckoning. → Read More
Is TikTok a time bomb?
In its meteoric rise and its approach to leveraging user data, TikTok may augur the AI-informed future of social media, for better and for worse. → Read More
Is TikTok a time bomb?
In its meteoric rise and its approach to leveraging user data, TikTok may augur the AI-informed future of social media, for better and for worse. → Read More
The Rules Of Social Media Just Changed. Here's How To Keep Up.
Facebook is moving steadily away from a public broadcast channel and more toward the world of private messaging. Users and brands that rely on social media to reach their audience are already experiencing growing pains. Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes explains how to keep up. → Read More
More than a game, Fortnite is emerging as the best new social network
The wild popularity of the shooter game is a reminder that socializing is way more fun when you’re actually doing something with your friends. → Read More
How China Beat Us At Social Media – Ryan Holmes –
Back in the ‘70s, the average consumer in the U.S. saw around 500 ads per day. That number has since increased by a factor of 10 to upward of 5,000 ads per day. If there’s a breaking point, my best… → Read More
Five trends that will change how businesses use social media in 2019
Forget the influencer and make the shift to more authentic engagement → Read More
Social media predictions for 2019: a return to personal authenticity
The Hootsuite CEO cites six trends that will change how businesses use social media in the coming year. → Read More
Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes shares the two incompatible skills leaders need to get right
Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes provides perspective on the balancing act of scaling a business. → Read More
Fake-news patrolling may be next big Internet boom: Ryan Holmes
Putting false statements into politicians' mouths could spur stock market panic or even war. Prevention presents huge opportunity → Read More
Are Facebook Groups The Future Of Social Media (Or A Dead End)?
For a combination of technical and cultural reasons, social media Groups are suddenly having their moment. In the past year alone, Facebook Group membership is up 40 percent, with 1.4 billion people — more than half of Facebook’s massive user base — now using Groups every month. → Read More
The two oppositional skills leaders need to master: Ryan Holmes
Creating a successful company isn't magic; it calls for both the dexterity to move between required competencies and the ability to delegate them → Read More
How Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes beat imposter syndrome
Hootsuite's Ryan Holmes writes about overcoming imposter syndrome after receiving an honourary degree from the University of British Columbia. → Read More
Is content validation the next growth industry?
In this era of disinformation, dissembling, and deepfakes, emerging technologies that restore our trust in online content could make for booming new businesses. → Read More
On my first day as CEO, I rolled out of bed and started building web tools — and the skills I needed then are the same ones I use now to run a 1,000-person company
Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite, shares what it was like in the early days of leading a company. His first day as CEO was in 2000, and he was a company of one. Since then, he's taken on running a global company — but the same skills are needed. → Read More
In the fight for democracy, can we still tap social media for ‘good’?
If you haven’t seen Yuval Noah Harari’s recent TED Talk on the allure of fascism — and why now, more than ever, it’s a real threat to democracy — it’s worth watching. An author and historian, Harar… → Read More
Tech brain drain can be solved by having U.S. employers pay our grads’ tuition subsidy
If they want to hire Canada's STEM grads, let them reimburse us for the education we taxpayers have invested in → Read More
The most in-demand tech job is the one nobody associates with tech
When people think of tech jobs, they usually think of developers, programmers, and engineers, who translate great ideas into working technology that we know and love. But there is another wildly in-demand tech job just as important as the creatives who produce tech products: sales. → Read More
Hootsuite’s Ryan Holmes on the high-demand tech job no one talks about
In this op-ed, Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes explains why we need to reframe how we see sales jobs in tech. → Read More
How do we give young entrepreneurs across Canada a better shot at success?
Democratizing innovation through virtual accelerators will boost startups' hopes, regardless of geography → Read More