They say two heads are better than one. But what about two hundred? If you want to find out what the common wisdom is at any given time one, you run a poll. And one of the best apps to run polls with is Straw. Not the last Straw Straw offers an easy way to take […]
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Twitter has celebrated one year of mobile app promotions by announcing a range of features including video support. #HappyBirthday Twitter announced the milestone and update in a blog post. "A year ago, we launched mobile app promotion to help marketers drive cost-effective app installs and engagements. "Along the way, we’ve enhanced the product suite with
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Much maligned, often misunderstood, Google+ holds a unique place among the social platforms. Google+ has the active (some might say pushy) endorsement and considerable resources of Google behind it, and on paper should have had every chance to succeed. Yet a few years on, it's not unkind to say that Google+ has failed to live
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Twitter has officially rolled out its much-anticipated Mobile Ads Manager. Management material Twitter announced the launch in an official blog. "Since campaigns don’t stop running when the office closes, we’re making it easier for advertisers to manage them from anywhere, at any time with the new Twitter Ads companion," wrote Christine Lee, Senior Product Manager, Revenue.
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Facebook has just tweaked the News Feed with a featured dubbed "See First" that could be a potential game changer for marketers. Hide and seek Facebook explained in a blog post that the update was designed to give users more control over their News Feed, by choosing the content from up to 30 users to appear
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Facebook has just changed the way it charges for ads – and it's good news for marketers. Down, down, prices are down Now marketers will only have to pay for clicks, not broader engagement. That means you're only charged is a user a actually click-through on your ad, and not if they Like, comment or
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Twitter is testing two new pages that intend to change the way users interact and share products. Visionary? Twitter announced the new pages, Produce and Place Pages and Product and Place Collections, in a blog post. "It can be challenging to find and engage with the most relevant Tweets, images and videos about products and
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Facebook has released a new photo uploader that looks and feels a lot like Snapchat. If it walks like a duck… The new uploader is available for iOS users, and allows Facebookers to overlay images with text in a variety of colours, and access preview filters to see how their snaps will look. As an
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Looking to edit your next viral vid but don't have access to an edit suite? Never fear, help is at hand with Vimeo's Cameo. Lights, camera, cameo Vimeo acquired video and editing app Cameo last year, and has just given it some new features to help editing mobile movies. Cameo 2.0 for iOS now gives users a
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Dropbox is one of the most estabished and popular platforms in the crowded cloud-storage market. So today we're going beyond the uploads to understand what makes the file-sharing service tick. Drop of a hat Like many tech start ups, Dropbox was founded by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Houston reportedly came up with
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