Browse, Shop & Buy Direct From Google Shopping A recurring theme over the past month has been the major players’ developer conferences. Since the end of April, SMK has explored the latest 2019 innovations from Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram & Messenger. Today we are shining a light on some of Google’s latest marketing updates, via its recent Google Marketing Live event. Last week …
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100% Ad Revenue Growth Powers Pinterest To 'Unicorn' Status Visual search engine Pinterest has announced details for its April initial public offering (IPO), based upon 100% increases in marketing revenue and burgeoning user engagement. Valued at $12.7 billion in 2017, Pinterest has been attracting marketing investment at an increasing rate for the past two to …
Gmail's New Dynamic Email Will Be A Bonanza For Marketers Google has this week announced the biggest upgrade to email, as a communications mechanism, for at least a decade, with the launch of ‘Dynamic Email’. Dynamic email, which is essentially AMP for email, was first announced in mid-2018. It aims to turn emails from static …
Google Makes Move On Instagram & Pinterest With Shoppable Images On Tuesday, Google revealed two new shoppable ad formats for Google Images at the Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas. The sponsored images highlight products that, when moused over, reveal brand, price and other details. The new Google Images offering is very similar in nature to …
Instagram's New IGTV Redesign & ‘Pinteresty’ Features Social media super-sleuths have recently uncovered some interesting new Instagram features being tested, seemingly ‘borrowing’ from Snapchat (again) for IGTV and Pinterest. Instagram is in the process of redesigning its user interface (UI) and business profile UI. Within the new interface, Instagrammers can expect not only more prominence …
YouTube Testing New Organic Reach Driver YouTube is expanding the test of its “Explore” feature, a new discovery tool it first introduced as an experiment within its iPhone app last year. The Explore feature, initially popularised by Instagram, seems to be the latest must-have tool for the major social players. Launched on Instagram back in …
Twitter finally reveals 126 million daily users, 60 million less than Snapchat Twitter has finally revealed its daily active user levels, and it’s a lot smaller than many in industry might have anticipated at 126 million. Its share price dropped 10% on the news. The fact Twitter has held back on its daily active usage …
Latest Microsoft Results Show LinkedIn Is Flying Once largely the domain of annoying recruiters, ninjas and cheesy business development people, LinkedIn has within the past 24 months finally started to come good. 17 years after launching. According to Microsoft's latest quarterly results, released last week, LinkedIn user sessions are up 30% year on year, fuelled …
Producing Compelling Visual Content In 2019 Visual marketing has been in the ascendency online for some time. Senior Facebook execs predicted the demise of the written word online, a few years back. More recently Mark Zuckerberg announced that visual sharing, via formats like Stories, was growing fifteen times faster than anything else. The challenge for …
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 …