LinkedIn Trialling Ephermeral Stories Feature Social Stories have been one of the defining social media product themes over the past few years. Originally created by Snapchat in 2013. Instagram cloned in 2016. Facebook emulated in 2017. WhatsApp spun off Status in the same year. YouTube launched its version in late 2018. So did Google. Pinterest […]
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Profile 'Featured' Section Highlights Achievements & More LinkedIn is nowadays to white collar workers, what Instagram is to Married At First Sight rejects. A conduit to leveraging and building personal brand equity, of which they can hopefully dine out for many moons to come. Who knows, maybe get a sweet gig on commercial radio. Or
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September 2019 Launch Pushed Back To February 2020 Last year I wrote about the impending launch of Facebook’s Campaign Budget Optimisation (CBO), which was scheduled to begin rolling out for all in September 2019. Launched initially as an optional budgeting tool in 2017, the feature supposedly helps give businesses an easier way to manage their
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When Memes, Influencers & Politics Collide Last week saw perhaps one of the largest ever influencer marketing onslaughts as US Democrat nominee wannabe, Mike Bloomberg, threw his golden-rimmed hat into the ring. Bloomberg’s campaign team recruited some of the largest meme accounts on Instagram, via Meme 2020, unleashing an unprecedented, coordinated wave of sponsored posts
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New Streamlined Appeals Process Takes Up To 24 Hours Over the past 12 months, the number of organisations that have been on the wrong end of a social media penalty, of some description or other, has exploded. However, as per Instagram’s latest product release, it looks like penalty management and recovery should hopefully being to
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Marketers & Users Are Piling Into Pinterest In 2020 Almost a year after listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Pinterest’s stock is riding on high, as usage and marketing uptake continues to surge. On Thursday, Pinterest posted stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter results, ending 2019 in style, and setting the scene for a very strong 2020. Pinterest
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Facebook Trims Audience Network’s Mobile Campaigns Six weeks into 2020 and the much-heralded online privacy squeeze is well underway for marketers. The latest casualty being the mobile web arm of Facebook’s Audience Network, set to be wound back on the 11th April. Facebook Spokesperson, via Publisher section: “We’ve made this decision based on where we
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YouTube Marketing Spend Up 36% To $15bn In 2019 After 15 years of avoiding the YouTube ad revenue question, Google finally broke rank on Monday and spilled the beans. YouTube is now one of the fastest growing areas of Google’s ad business. According to parent company Alphabet’s fourth quarter earnings report, YouTube ended 2019 on a
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Study Examines Search, Social, Direct & Referral Traffic By Vertical For a high percentage of organisations, in both the public and private sector, driving website traffic is the lifeblood of their digital marketing strategies. However, what is the most effective means of driving traffic, and does this vary by industry? Well, wonder no more, because
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Instagram Stories Median Reach Rate 4.4%, Claims Study The Story-fication of social platforms was one of the leading social media marketing themes of 2018. Stories creation and consumption grew 842% between 2016 – 2018, according to Block Party, a consultancy. In mid-2018 former Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox, claimed, “the Stories format is on a
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