Twitter has unveiled its earnings results for the first quarter of 2016, and they tell a familiar story for the social network. The American company's revenue lifted 36% year-on-year to US$595 million, below expectations, while the average monthly active users jumped just 3% year-on-year. Mild boost not enough Having earned US$436m in the first quarter …
Tumblr might be one of the most popular platforms for the lucrative teen and young adult sets, but that doesn't mean every marketer is au fait with the nuances of the network. Helping accelerate that learning curve is an update that suggests conversation starters on Tumblr. Talking points Users logging into Tumblr for the first …
Are you a Slack fan looking to make your favourite communication tool even better? Now there's an app that lets you schedule Slack messages with one tap. Timing is everything Schedul lets you automatically schedule your Slack messages, so your entire team sees them. After downloading, simply select a message to schedule and publish across multiple …
It might be a bit early to call, but 2016 is already looking like the year of the emoji. Facebook recently released Reactions, letting users respond to posts with a variety of new emojis. Now Google Photos is getting in on the game, letting you search for photos via the cute little critters. Oh Snap …
Who says we can't all just get along? A new update from Twitter lets users tag businesses and restaurants using Yelp. #Yelpers Yelp announced the collaboration in a blog post. "Whether you are having a breakfast naan at Yelp’s recently crowned #1 restaurant in the UK, Dishoom in London, or taking in the sights at …
Slack's only been around for two years, but it's already one of the most popular (and chic) team messaging tools on the digital block. Today we're looking at what makes Slack tick. Not much Slack Slack was launched in August 2013, the brain child of colleagues Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson and Serguei Mourachov. …
Today we're looking at the spiffy new automation features now available on MailChimp. Mail by Numbers MailChimps Automation workflow now features a swag of new categories including Nonprofit, Education, Software, Music, and Transactional. MailChimp says this will make it easier to serve your different audiences with their requirements. For example, the Nonprofit workflow covers welcoming …
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In news that will surprise few, it turns out Facebook is getting even bigger and quite a lot richer. Giant steps Facebook's Q1 2016 earnings report revealed that the social network now has 1.65 billion monthly users. Over this period Facebook netted a tidy US$5.38 billion in revenue and US$0.77 earnings per share. This was …
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Tumblr has made good on its promise to reintroduce Replies after six months in the wilderness. The Yahoo-owned platform removed Replies in November 2015, when an instant messaging service was added to Tumblr.com and its apps. Following some blowback from its users, Tumblr said in February that Replies was removed to avoid having two features …
As a reader of the SMK blog, you are all now aware of the forthcoming new Instagram algorithm that will rank content based on relevance rather than chronological order. The official announcement from Instagram resulted in a sudden panic from Instagram users, with a huge amount of Instagrammers asking followers to turn on mobile notifications …