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LinkedIn Live Launches, Alongside New Community Features LinkedIn had a strong 2019. It now has 660 million users, with 11 million and 2 million users in Australia and New Zealand respectively. Usage popped amongst its white-collar user base, as user sessions grew quarter on quarter throughout the year. Sessions were up 22% in the third […]
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Pinterest Popped In 2019 The renaissance of Pinterest is well documented and, if eMarketer’s latest data is anything to go by, the “visual discovery tool” is set for a bumper 2020. According to data released yesterday, Pinterest surpassed Snapchat as the third-biggest social media platform in the US in 2019, and it will continue to
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Instagram Streamlines Influencer Activity Ahead Of 2020 Onslaught Instagram is widely considered, by marketers anyway, as the home of influencer marketing. Which social media channels are most important for influencer marketing? Instagram = 89% YouTube = 70% Facebook = 45% Blogs = 44% Twitter = 33% LinkedIn = 19% Pinterest = 15% Twitch = 6%
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Google Analytics Study Claims Organic Search Best Channel A study of Google Analytics for local businesses claims they see an average (across verticals and regions) of 414 monthly website users each month. Local business websites receive 50% of their traffic from organic search, with 37% coming from direct visits. The average local business receives no
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LinkedIn Launches Events Hub For Face-to-face Networking After 15 years of trying to convince that world that “networking on the interweb was the future”, LinkedIn has finally thrown in the towel and launched an offline event offering. Computers are good, I suppose, but you can’t beat the real thing. LinkedIn Events is now live worldwide
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Google Search Beta Will Capture Leads Directly From Results Page Google is testing a new way for businesses to capture customer information with lead form extensions for Google Ads. The new beta functions very similarly to Facebook Lead Ads, in that Searchers can submit their information directly from the search ad. See image above via
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Reports Claim Organic Reach Is Shifting To Mimic Ad Reporting According to reports circulating over the weekend, Facebook is expected to introduce changes imminently to how organic reach is calculated. The changes were first announced by social media expert, Matt Navarra, who claimed that the changes would be going live between 17th – 28th October.
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LinkedIn Upgrades Audience Targeting LinkedIn has just pushed live several new tools to help marketers on its platform bolster the effectiveness of their targeting, in keeping with similar launches from earlier in the year The most notable update of the recent release is perhaps the new audience forecasting information which sits within the Campaign Manager
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Innovation, visible social responsibility, valuing employees and video: new analysis says these may be the most important factors to amass a following for your company on LinkedIn. Kylee Lessard—LinkedIn’s own Associate Product Marketing Manager—has profiled and analysed the 10 most followed companies on LinkedIn and says we should all learn from their performance. Lessard’s Lessons to Impress
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Pew Research's YouTube Deep Dive Shows Power of Power Keywords YouTube is perhaps the best-kept secret in modern digital marketing. Outside of television, in its various forms, YouTube rules the roost for online video consumption. Globally, YouTube is responsible for 11.4% of total internet data consumption, second only to Netflix, which hoovers up 15% of
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