I’m pleased to announce today that John Andrews, founder and former CEO of social shopper media company Collective Bias, will join Ignite Social Media as our first ever Chief Marketing Officer. In that role, John will help guide the company's marketing and product development and...

16 December, 2013

Facebook’s December News Feed algorithm change is so far punishing brand pages, regardless of how interested fans are in that page’s content, according to a new analysis by our social media agency. Ignite analysts reviewed 689 posts across 21 brand pages (all of significant size,...

10 December, 2013

Pinterest Posts Have a Long Half-Life New research from Piqora shows that half of all product orders from a Pinterest pin come at least 2.5 months after that product was first pinned. This is a dramatically longer half-life than the 30 minutes a brand Facebook post...

23 November, 2013

Pressure on Facebook from Marketers Rises Some people were surprised that I challenged Facebook ad investments in my new book Earn It. Don't Buy it. and had some critical things to say about how the site is treating marketers. But I’m not the only one. The...

11 November, 2013

Twitter isn’t sitting still as it gets ready for the public offering. Much of this week’s social news was dominated by that network, so let’s jump in. The Meaning of DM is Changing Quickly Two pieces of news this week involving Twitter and its direct messages. One...

27 October, 2013