2019 Trends From Goat's Milk Soap To Jam Making Coming up with fresh ideas for content is difficult. Year after year, post after post, things can get a bit samey. To help inject some much-needed freshness into content Pinterest has published the Pinterest 100: The top trends for 2019, based on 175 billion ideas saved to […]
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Users Have 7.6 Social Accounts, On Average A new study released today provides interesting insights for marketers on how different social apps impact users’ moods and the underlying motivations for using. In 2019 few web users are partisan enough to be 'all in' on only one social channel. Except, maybe, Tom on Myspace. Social users
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Billionaire shares $925,000 with Twitter users Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has entered the annals of time, posting the most retweeted message in Twitter’s 13-year-history. In a savvy move to promote his online fashion retailer, Zozotown, Maezawa offered to share $925,000 between 100 randomly selected people who shared his tweet. The number of people following Maezawa’s account surged
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Subscription Messages 80%+ Facebook Open Rates Facebook Messenger offers perhaps the best untapped organic opportunity within social media; Messenger Subscriptions. However, outside of small-scale direct marketers, few use them. For most businesses, Messenger is largely reactive; dealing with organic inbound enquiries and complaints. Otherwise, its targeting Messenger placements (often unintentionally) with ads. The base premise
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WhatsApp Campaigns Rolling Out Further Facebook announced at the tail-end of 2018 the forthcoming global rollout and expansion of WhatsApp ads in 2019. As the world’s leading messaging service, by size, and with roughly 25% more users than Facebook Messenger, it was inevitable. WhatsApp ads initially launched in August, via the Click-to-message Facebook advertising objective.
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Insta Ads Getting Better and Better Unlike parent company Facebook, Instagram had one hell of a 2018. It tipped over one billion users, daily time-on-site grew rapidly, and marketing uptake boomed, with Insta ad spend up 177% in 2018. Further good news for marketers is that Instagram still offers good value, according to a recent
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Instagram Fuses Its Two Fave Things: Ads & Influencers Instagram is in the process of launching its first, dedicated, influencer marketing advertising product, ‘Branded Content Ads’. The new feature will offer a new way for brands to sponsor posts created by celebrities and publishers. The solution was announced last week at a breakfast for advertisers and
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2018 Has been very much a watershed year for the major digital players. The Facebook Kool-Aid has well and truly worn-off A year to forget for Facebook, as it has lurched from PR crisis to PR crisis. User sentiment and trust are at an all-time low for the platform and regulators around the world are
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Tommy Hilfiger is getting creative with its digital marketing, and buzz is building behind the brand’s strategy. You must be at least this cool. Tommy Hilfiger is unlocking more behind-the-scenes-styled ads with the more friends you invite, through Hilfiger’s new SideFlix app. Combining social interaction with a shoppable experience, users can click a link to
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UK based mobile network Three is running platform-specific promotions through Snapchat and Tinder for the next three months. 1…2…Three! Three is hoping to persuade customers that it’s more than a utility service by sponsoring AR lenses and a gimmick Tinder profile of Henry VIII and his ex-wives, with a bold new cross-platform promotion. Instagram is
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