[caption id="attachment_36408" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Marc Sternberg of Brand Innovators introduces Mark Cuban at a recent BI event.[/caption] If you don't know about Brand Innovators, you probably don't work in marketing for a good sized brand. At first blush, the organization seems similar to many in the...

30 March, 2016

Facebook is now allowing Canvas ads, which are sort of like Instant Articles for ads. Instagram has already passed Twitter for the number of active advertisers and Google may be helping businesses with their “permanently closed” problem, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Facebook Canvas...

07 March, 2016

You know that content marketing is the way to go for your brand. And you know that thought leadership content (actual thought leadership content) has the best chance of getting traction in this modern world. But your boss just won't sit and crank out a...

17 February, 2016

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