Less than a year after Ignite Social Media was named Social Media Agency of the Year worldwide, our sister company, Carusele, received top honors at the 2017 Shorty Awards, where they were honored as Small Agency of the Year. The award was given after the influencer-generated...
Can the world handle two Facebook news feeds? We may find out, plus automated Canvas ads and Instagram stories expand opportunities for advertisers, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Instagram Offers Stories Ads Globally and FB Automates Canvas Instagram has made Stories ads officially available...
Now that they have 150 million daily users looking at Instagram Stories, the social platform is going to start selling ads between different people’s stories. That, and much more, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Instagram Ties Snapchat in Daily Users? Offers Ads Instagram is reporting...
Remember when Facebook pages were a thing and we all built tabs? Well, we’re not quite going back to that, but Facebook has improved the experience for companies for the first time in years. All that and more, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Facebook...
Finally, Instagram will allow links and @mentions in their stories, while Twitter makes another move to make the platform friendlier, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Instagram Adds Links, Boomerangs and Tagging to Stories Instagram has become an increasingly vibrant community over the last two years,...
It seems that Twitter is guilty of letting their 6-second video platform wither on the Vine (sorry…). Meanwhile Instagram is making it easier to sell on the platform and Snapchat analytics arrive, but they’re not cheap, all in this week’s Social You Should Know. Instagram Lets...
In a Nixonian twist, Geofeedia (which began as a way to gather social posts by location) was being marketed to police departments as a way to monitor activists and protests. Find out how Facebook and Twitter responded to the news, in this week’s Social You...
A week after the news broke that Facebook over-reported video view lengths, they release an updated metric in which average view length can actually be longer than the video itself. Confused? You should be. Read on for more information in this week’s Social You Should...
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all made moves last week in the ad space that social media marketers will want to be up to speed on, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Facebook Announces New Data Analysis Options for Advertisers Facebook last week announced five new ad measurement products,...
Snapchat is reportedly on its way to its first billion-dollar year. Meanwhile, the last couple of earnings reports for Twitter can best be described as flat. Flat user growth and flat revenue growth. This week, Twitter made two (more) changes to try to increase revenue....
Social Agency Bucks Industry Diversity Trend and Taps Three for All Female Leadership Team Bucking the 'lack of representation' trend in the advertising business, Ignite Social Media today announced several management changes. The agency, recently named the Social Agency of the Year Worldwide in the Corporate Social Media Awards, named...
Facebook this week introduced Lifestage, a new app only available to people in the “high school” life stage. I’ll discuss that, plus improvements that make Facebook video ads much easier and Twitter notifications much cleaner, in this week’s Social You Should Know. Lifestage is Facebook’s New...