Instagram has breezed past another lucrative milestone: 2 million monthly advertisers. Marketers on the grow at Instagram The increase in mobile video engagement has led to a influx of advertisement, up more than 80%. The extra video content can be paralleled with the emergence of Instagram Stories and spurring new marketing opportunities for brands. Lionsgate […]
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In the 18-34 demographic, the Amazon app is widely considered indispensable. In fact, according to one recent report, it rates higher than any single social media app out there. Millennials’ most valued A report from ComScore says 35% of US millennial smartphone users could not live without their Amazon app. It’s the most valued app
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NBC News' recently launched Stay Tuned, an app based news program, is going rather well. It now has 29 million viewers, 60% are under 25 years. The medium is the message The first ever daily news program on Snapchat, with co-hosts Savannah Sellers and Gadi Schwartz, is reaching more millennials, with a runtime of two-to-three
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Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook’s new strategy to bolster the media industry is to use an old tactic: subscriptions. For one low monthly payment In a growing culture of algorithm driven news feeds, Facebook is looking to inject new revenue into publishers through a subscription focused model. Payments will go directly to publishers using
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A new look and feel is coming to YouTube. There are changes to both the desktop site and mobile apps, there’s a bit more to the latter. Mobile make-over For starters, the header on the app is cleaned up: it’s now white and the nav tabs have shifted to the bottom. As well as looking neater,
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In the tradition of Twitter celebrity status symbols, WhatsApp is verifying business accounts. Looking verified When a WhatsApp business account has been verified, a green tick will appear next to its account name. It looks much as you’d expect… As well as the tick in a green star by the account name, verification will also
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There will be more movement in LinkedIn feeds now that the professional social site is letting users upload video. Native video finally arrives Regular users have finally been granted the rather common sounding ability to upload video to LinkedIn. Until now, the main way to get video onto LinkedIn was to use YouTube or Vimeo
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Instagram users will soon be able to invite friends to join in on live video. The more the merrier The idea is for users to “hang out and go live together.” The new feature is meant to spur live interaction between friends, akin to Skype or Facebook Video. The new initiative is spurred on by
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Snapchat’s revenue reached $181.6 million for Q2 this year, a loss of -$0.16 earnings per share. Snapchat snaps a little less Recently released in Snapchat’s earnings, the popular social app fell $4 million short of Wall Street estimates. Having lost $443 million in Q2, the report indicates that Snapchat’s sales and marketing expenses are growing
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Pinterest is launching video ads for all advertisers, with search results and feeds in mind. Pinterest goes video Pinterest is looking to provide quality metrics for perspective advertisers by partnering with Moat and Nielsen to vet analytics through third-parties. Promoted Video was unrolled via the site last August with big name brands like Universal Pictures,
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