Google finally adds Reminders to Calendar
As the year winds to a close it can be difficult keeping up with all those Christmas parties, present lists, and general errands. Happily, Google is making the holidays a little easier for its faithful by bringing Reminders to Calendar. It's a date ....
16/12/2015
SMK's app of the week: Tapatalk
15/12/2015 SMK Editor
In the flutter of tweets, Likes and paid ads, it can be easy to forget about the "social" aspect of social media. Helping keep it real is Tapatalk. Up for discussion ....
YouTube releases new tools for content creators
15/12/2015 SMK Editor
YouTube has launched a range of new translations features and legal support for its growing community of content creators. Subtitles and subtext YouTube announced the updates in a ....
Number Crunch: Visual Marketing
14/12/2015 SMK Editor
Sometimes, looks are everything. Especially on social. Which is why visual marketing continues to grow in optical leaps and bounds across stills, video and infographics. Ahead of the silly season here's the latest from the vivid world of visual marketing. ....
Facebook updates Page Plugins for brands
14/12/2015 SMK Editor
A few months back Facebook launched the Page Plugin, which allows Page owners to embed and promote Facebook Pages on their website. A new update now lets ret ....
Love still rules on Instagram
11/12/2015 SMK Editor
While our Instagram feeds might be cluttered with photos of lunches and puppies, love still rules the day. The ubiquitous #love was the most popular hashtag on Instagram in 2015. #Warmandfuzzy Instagram revealed the most popular hashtags of the y ....
Australian and NZ Instagram stats
10/12/2015 SMK Editor
At Socialbakers, we studied 18,547 posts made by 642 branded Instagram pages from Australia and New Zealand in October to find the largest, fastest-growing, and most engaging profiles. The results showed that Australian E-commerce, Fashion, and Retail industries d ....
Messenger trials self-destruct option
09/12/2015 SMK Editor
You could never accuse Facebook of being inflexible when it comes to digital world domination. The latest pivot sees Messenger testing a Snapchat-esque self-destruct function. It's a snap Select Messenger users in France have reported that th ....
Santa take note: Google reveals the hottest gifts this Christmas
09/12/2015 SMK Editor
Santa might have his elves, but the rest of us have Google. And following the recent Black Friday spending spree in the US, Google has r ....
Snapchat bounces back, triples daily views
08/12/2015 SMK Editor
While Facebook and Twitter might get all the headlines, it's worth remembering there's are plenty of social networks with seriously impressive numbers. Today's case in point: Snapchat. Triple treat Snapchat has confirmed its users now ....
SMK's app of the week: One
08/12/2015 SMK Editor
Do you want to let someone on Twitter know you care, but hashtags and retweets seem a bit passé? Now you can spread the love by sending cold hard cash via new app One. $1 Shop ....
Number Crunch: Messenger
07/12/2015 SMK Editor
You know something is big when it doesn't need the prefix 'Facebook' to be readily identified. And so it is with Facebook Messenger, the wildly popular messaging app more commonly known simply as 'Messenger'. Today we're having a look at Fa ....