[caption id="attachment_35922" align="alignright" width="300"] Instagram is growing much more quickly than Twitter[/caption] Twitter is stuck. Usage has stagnated at about 320 million monthly users worldwide and U.S. usage is projected to lag well behind Instagram's growth. Revenue was actually up 61% in Q2, to $502 million,...

22 December, 2015

From December 2004 until the end of 2011, Google's monthly US desktop searches hockey-sticked steadily up and to the right. A multi-billion industry around search engine optimization was born to ensure that brand's could be discovered in a search environment. In the four years since then,...

11 November, 2015

Facebook is adding a shopping channel to the social network, Google has new results for custom audience matching for ads and Snapchat’s shuttering its own content channel, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Facebook Adding a Shopping Section Buy buttons are all the rage, but Facebook...

19 October, 2015

Major companies procurement teams typically require a Request for Proposal be sent before hiring a new marketing agency. At times, these are formalities in which agency marketing teams already know their short list of agencies and are "checking the box" by issuing the RFP. At...

14 October, 2015

Twitter’s plans to go beyond 140 characters got a lot of press this week, although what they’re likely to do is only an incremental, wise step. New research on millennials and social behavior has some nuggets for social media marketers and YouTube and Facebook have...

04 October, 2015

New Challenges and Opportunities for Marketers Star Wars released the first 360-degree video on Facebook yesterday and it’s already been shared over 55,000 times. Last night at Social Fresh, I used the Oculus Rift headset to take an immersive VR tour of Patron’s Hacienda in Mexico....

27 September, 2015