This document discusses social media marketing strategies based on research from over 2,300 award-winning campaigns at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity from 2012 to 2015. It identifies seven common brand roles or personas on social media: Master of Ceremony, Sage, Muse, Pitchman, Host, Volunteer, and Idol. The key findings are that social media is vital for marketing, half of all successful social media campaigns are based on content marketing, and campaigns focused on entertainment content and useful information saw the biggest growth from 2012-2014. Additionally, campaigns with an altruistic or cause-based focus ("Volunteer" role) performed best consistently over the four-year period. The document concludes by stating different