TikTok’s story is one of acceleration into the mainstream, with occasional speedbumps over privacy concerns and national security warnings. A lot of its momentum builds through its ‘For You’ feed—a content recommendation system that TikTok says is where most users spend their time. Now, TikTok has offered a glimpse at the algorithm that dictates what […]
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Snapchat Announces New Features Galore At Partner Summit During last week’s virtual Partner Summit, Snapchat announced a flurry of new product releases and marketing features. Snapchat use has boomed in the past few months during the Covid-19 pandemic. The app now has over 229 million daily active users, and more than 100 million of those
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Instagram & Giphy Combine For Improved Story Experience Facebook announced on Friday that it is buying the popular GIF-making and sharing website Giphy for a reported price of $400 million. The deal will see Giphy integrating with Instagram, making its vast GIF library easier to crawl and navigate, injecting even more vava-voom into Instagram Stories
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eMarketer Claims Daily Usage Is Now 30 mins Evan Speigel, CEO of Snapchat, has reason to be cheerful. After a bumpy 2018, usage bounced back strongly in 2019, before skyrocketing in 2020, as Snap’s recent quarterly results demonstrate. On top of that, at the start of March, Snap was recognised by Fast Company as the
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The World's Gorgeous & Glam Feel COVID Pinch A glut of recent studies suggests that the influencer economy is currently not living its best life. Brands have cancelled or looked to postpone influencer activity at scale, with many concerned about both tone and costs. Influencers' sponsored content has experienced a significant decrease week after week
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Reddit Is Fast Becoming A Serious Marketing Channel Reddit is one of marketing’s great underutilised opportunities. According to Alexa, it’s the fifth top digital property in both Australia and New Zealand. Only trailing the big three, Google, Facebook and YouTube in Australia. While in NZ, it trails the same, plus Trade Me. In December, Reddit
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When Memes, Influencers & Politics Collide Last week saw perhaps one of the largest ever influencer marketing onslaughts as US Democrat nominee wannabe, Mike Bloomberg, threw his golden-rimmed hat into the ring. Bloomberg’s campaign team recruited some of the largest meme accounts on Instagram, via Meme 2020, unleashing an unprecedented, coordinated wave of sponsored posts
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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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Report Blames Sluggish Uptake By Older Demos According to new data released by eMarketer last week, Instagram’s stellar growth run is starting to show the first signs of fatigue. In 2019, Instagram's US user growth rate will have dropped to single digits for the first time to 6.7%, down from 10.1% in 2018. Starting in
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Snapchat's Smart New Video Updates Snapchat’s strong 2019 continues apace, with a flurry of video marketing updates just announced at Advertising Week New York. After a troubled 2018, bogged down with product redesign issues, the ephemeral messaging app has bounced back well in 2019, with both growing usage and marketing revenue. At Ad Week Snapchat
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