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 […]
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Facebook Latest Quarterly Results: A Platform In Rude Health Despite an almost unending stream of bad press in 2018 Facebook ended the year on a high, beating Wall Street’s expectations with its fourth-quarter results, announced yesterday. The scandal-riddled behemoth hit 2.32 billion monthly users, up 2.2% on the third quarter, speeding up its growth rate.
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YouTube’s New Video Experience To Woo Mobile Viewers YouTube has today announced a new way for users to experience video on the platform, taking a leaf out of Tinder’s book. The update announced today for iOS (sad face for Google’s Android users), sees YouTube rolling out a new horizontal swiping gesture that lets users move
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Users Have 7.6 Social Accounts, On Average A new study released today provides interesting insights for marketers on how different social apps impact users’ moods and the underlying motivations for using. In 2019 few web users are partisan enough to be 'all in' on only one social channel. Except, maybe, Tom on Myspace. Social users
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Insta Ads Getting Better and Better Unlike parent company Facebook, Instagram had one hell of a 2018. It tipped over one billion users, daily time-on-site grew rapidly, and marketing uptake boomed, with Insta ad spend up 177% in 2018. Further good news for marketers is that Instagram still offers good value, according to a recent
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2018 Has been very much a watershed year for the major digital players. The Facebook Kool-Aid has well and truly worn-off A year to forget for Facebook, as it has lurched from PR crisis to PR crisis. User sentiment and trust are at an all-time low for the platform and regulators around the world are
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Tommy Hilfiger is getting creative with its digital marketing, and buzz is building behind the brand’s strategy. You must be at least this cool. Tommy Hilfiger is unlocking more behind-the-scenes-styled ads with the more friends you invite, through Hilfiger’s new SideFlix app. Combining social interaction with a shoppable experience, users can click a link to
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UK based mobile network Three is running platform-specific promotions through Snapchat and Tinder for the next three months. 1…2…Three! Three is hoping to persuade customers that it’s more than a utility service by sponsoring AR lenses and a gimmick Tinder profile of Henry VIII and his ex-wives, with a bold new cross-platform promotion. Instagram is
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The latest lens from Snapchat creation tools is bringing 2D objects to life in augmented reality. Photos with panache Snapchat wants users to interact with new advertisements by “unlocking” signs and posters to reveal hidden animations and more. The real genius behind the new feature is the embedded marker tracking feature that allows 2D items
Original programing is coming to Snapchat, and it's not all reality TV and event coverage either (!) Getting’ original Snapchat’s bread and butter remains its relevancy with teenage demographics, and now it wants to compete with big name subscription services with the launch of Snap Originals. Though Snapchat has the ear of the young crowd, it
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