Twitter rolls out Promoted Stickers for brands

30/08/2016 SMK Editor

Back in July Twitter released promoted stickers to all users. Now the platform has extended the feature to brands, starting off with Pepsi. Pepsi challenge Twitter announced the news in a ....

MarTech Mashup: Inbox by Gmail update

29/08/2016 SMK Editor

Inbox by Gmail has just got a little more mobile, and now alerts you to upcoming tasks directly from the app. Mobile mover and shaker Alerts from Trello, GitHub project updates, a ....

Clickbait ship sails on Facebook

26/08/2016 SMK Editor

Always iterating its News Feed, Facebook's latest change is another push to rid users' feeds of clickbait and unscrupulous headlines. Having previously tried to punish pages by reducing their reach if users didn't spend long enough reading an article, ....

Snapchat releases Australian GeoFilters

26/08/2016 SMK Editor

In another indication that Snapchat's reach is becoming more global, the ephemeral messaging service has released a heap of new geofilters custom made for Down Under. Oi oi oi ....

LinkedIn launches Influencer Videos

25/08/2016 SMK Editor

Since LinkedIn was snapped up by Microsoft back in June, things have been a little quiet over at the social network for professionals. Presumably there were many documents to be signed and champagne to be swilled. Now the dust has settled, LinkedIn has rolled out ....

Google AMPs up mobile Search

25/08/2016 SMK Editor

The NBN might seem like a far off dream, but Google Search isn't wasting any time in its quest for speed. Its latest update sees a significant boost to mobile loading times. Loaded question Google has recently been working on the Accelerated ....

YouTube gets encryption boost for brands and Bieber fans

24/08/2016 SMK Editor

You can now post view your favourite videos on YouTube, safe in the knowledge that they're encrypted. Mostly. Private viewing YouTube announced the update to its security settings in a ....

Instagram testing "Save" feature

24/08/2016 SMK Editor

It sounds like Instagram is testing a new "Save Draft" feature.  Savers Certain Instagrammers have reported seeing a dialogue box pop up offering to save their drafts, when hitting the Back button after composing a post. Until now, ....

All Aboard with All-In-One App

23/08/2016 SMK Editor

The modern marketer is faced with many agonies of choice. To keep in touch with clients via Skye? Or do you collaborate using Slack? Mercifully, a flipping good new app spares you from ever having to make such fraught decisions ever again. One App ....

Stat Attack: Facebook surges as Twitter flails

23/08/2016 SMK Editor

A new study says that Facebook will continue to surge as Twitter looks set to sputter. New World Order According to research from eMarketer, Facebook is set to increase its US user base by 2.9% this year, to claim 167 million Facebookers.  T ....

Battle of the Sexes on Social: A Study

22/08/2016 SMK Editor

The battle of the sexes has found a new platform: social media. A new infographic from Digital Flash explores how men and women are ....