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“Customers don’t want a trend six The mass market has been months found to often use social media as a platform for building their down the line business. The recognition of the 92.6% UK internet uses anymore; (InternetLiveStats 2016) can be used as advantage by companies they want to advertise brands within the mass market on social media. it at their Facebook is currently the most dominant social media site as fingertips” 71% of internet users have an account on Facebook. (Duggan (Newis-Smith et al 2015) However, Facebook BBC, 2016). isn’t the only social media site popular amongst consumers. 45% of consumers aged 16-24 were found to use social media sites like ‘Snapchat’ and those who fall into the aged bracket of 16-24 (social and media networks - UK -May 2016, 2016) are suggested to be targeted within brands such as Topshop, ASOS and River-Island, all brands found within the ‘mass market’. 7