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Marketers Will Favour Facebook Over Instagram For Some Time

Instagram's Sluggish Story Ad Uptake and Influencer Clutter Will Drag Despite Instagram’s impressive recent marketing growth, eMarketer’s latest data forecasts that it will be some time before the popular photo app catches Big Blue. eMarketer’s estimate, reported by Axios, forecasts that Facebook will generate about $226 per user in the U.S. in 2021. Analysts expect […]

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Facebook Update Squeezes Health Related Posts

Latest Algorithm Update Likely To Be Minefield For Health Social Posts Facebook has announced two algorithm ranking updates, which went live in June, in an attempt to reduce sensationalist content related to health and well-being. The exact update sounds reasonably innocuous, reducing visibility for: Posts with exaggerated or sensational health claims Posts attempting to sell

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Google My Business Ramps Up For 150m Businesses Worldwide

GMB's New Feature Extravaganza Fuses Social & Search Google has sparked off another digital landgrab for marketers as it releases a slew of updates for Google My Business (GMB). Google’s latest move puts Google My Business in closer competition with Facebook, Instagram and other social players. In some ways, perhaps, even ahead. Launched in 2014,

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Facebook Community Management Ranking Update

Renewed Facebook Community Management Focus Prompts Ranking Changes At May’s Facebook F8 Mark Zuckerberg spelt out Facebook’s development roadmap for the next two-three years. One of the key themes was the reprioritisation of community. Or, if you like, a focus on putting the ‘social’ back into social media. Since, alas, in recent years, social platforms

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Standing Out Amongst 500k Influencers On Instagram

This week’s guest blog spot is from Analise Trotter, Head of Delivery at Hoozu. Hoozu leads data-driven, creative influencer marketing activity for leading brands.  From Micros to Macros, Is Anyone Not An Influencer On Instagram? According to a recent study, there are over 500,000 active influencers operating on Instagram alone. That’s 39% of all Instagram

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Facebook Usage Dropping From 2017 High, While Instagram Peaks

eMarketer: Loss Of Younger Users & News Feed Updates To Blame The latest data from analyst powerhouse eMarketer sees daily Facebook usage downgraded, as two years of perpetual negative PR and News Feed updates start to bite. Daily Facebook usage in 2019 is expected to remain at 38 minutes per person per day, dropping to

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Google’s Redesigned Search Engine Results: Spot The Ads…

Google's Latest Redesign Shifts Search Closer To Social News Feeds With each passing year, social media marketing resembles search engine optimisation (SEO) more and more. A recent case-in-point is Facebook’s new off-social News Feed ranking signal, Click-Gap. However, if Google’s latest redesign of search engine results is anything to go by, the feeling may be

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