Super Bowl 50 won’t go down as the most exciting game ever played. Nor will it go down as the social Super Bowl, as very few of the ads had social tie-ins. But the few notable exceptions show how powerful social media can be at...

08 February, 2016

Twitter continues to make change after change to their platform, Facebook tweaks the newsfeed algorithm (again) and Snapchat makes major changes to increase connections on their network. Also, are you going to SXSW Interactive? Write me back. Maybe we can meet up. Twitter Offers $1M Emojis,...

08 February, 2016

There's an allegory attributed to the Cherokee about two wolves doing battle inside people for control of their soul. One wolf represents evil and one wolf represents good. Which wins, the story asks? The one you feed. While my daughters giggled uncontrollably when I told them this...

27 January, 2016

[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
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