LinkedIn's New Features For Users & Advertisers Alike LinkedIn latest product release and Microsoft’s latest quarterly results demonstrate the platform is both literally and metaphorically ‘open for business’. Microsoft’s latest data shows continued growth in user sessions, revenue and on-site engagement. LinkedIn’s heritage has long been in recruitment, with its Talent Solutions being its main […]
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What A Difference A Viral ‘Gender Swap’ Filter Can Make… At the Snapchat Partner Summit in April, CEO Ev Spiegel outlined bold growth plans for the quirky messaging app: Doubling down on Gen Z Fixing its woeful Android app Extending beyond its border with Snap Kit Big bets on augmented reality (AR) via fun filters
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Instagram Dips Its Toe Into Search Engine Marketing With Explore Ads Instagram has this week announced the launch of the latest addition to its rapidly growing ad business… Explore. With over 500 million Instagrammers using Explore monthly, it was only a matter of time before the ads rolled out. In fact, SMK blogged on the
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New Facebook Avatars Launch For Messenger & News Feed Comments Having successfully cloned and scaled Snapchat’s best feature, Stories, Big Blue is now back for Snapchat’s next best feature… Bitmojis. This week sees the first steps in the global rollout of the popular feature with Facebook Avatars launching in Australia. Avatars are launching this week
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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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500+ Million People Use Instagram Explore Each Month As part of Instagram’s ongoing 2019 redesign, the platform has announced a series of updates for its important Explore discovery feature. Instagram Explore drives 20% of Instagram usage, according to Mark Zuckerberg, and has 500 million people using monthly. Therefore, for Instagram, it is a crucial lever
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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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F8 Changes Galore: Vanity Metrics, Influencers, Camera, Commerce and Stories Last week was Facebook’s F8 Conference, the biggest event in Facebook’s calendar. For the uninitiated, think of one of those Apple events; when they release super, rad features, like a snazzy red version of your current mobile device. F8 is always choc full of new
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Strong Snap Q1 Sees Usage & Revenue Up After a 2018 to forget, Snapchat is finally rocking and rolling again, with both usage and revenue up for the plucky camera company. Snapchat posted its first daily user growth in over a year. Adding 4 million daily active users (DAUs) in the first quarter of 2019,
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'But How Will We Validate Our Existence', Cry The Instafamous??!?? A leaked Instagram design trial shows the platform is experimenting with obscuring and hiding ‘Like’ counts, as uncovered by reverse-engineering guru Jane Manchu Wong. On the link above, if we view screenshots left to right; you can see on the far left that the Instagram
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