The social media space never sits still: two particularly shocking growth stats to share this week, while Facebook is under fire from certain advertisers. Let’s get to it. Teens Make Snapchat Photo Sharing Behemoth Snapchat launched in 2011 and has become wildly popular with teens (including mine)...

10 June, 2013

Facebook begins verifying brand Pages and Yahoo wastes no time getting paid ads into desktop Tumblr feeds in this week's Social You Should Know. Brands Can Find Opportunity with YouTube’s Newest Tool YouTube improved its suite of video editing tools with a slow motion enhancement feature. Developed...

01 June, 2013

Two big shifts in what social media means and more data on Facebook ad performance in this week's Social You Should Know. Highly Shared Vines Creeping Into Brand Marketing Plans New research from Unruly Media shows that branded Vines are shared four times more often than branded...

12 May, 2013

It's been a while since we last updated our list of the top 10 YouTube channels with the most subscribers. So, here they are as of May 9, 2013: 10. Movies YouTube's own channel where you can buy and rent movies online has cracked the Top 10...

09 May, 2013

The Guardian gives marketers a scare, Instagram launches its new "Photos of You" capabilities and more in this week’s Social You Should Know. Twitter Opens Ad Platform to U.S. Users Twitter made a splash at TechCrunch's Disrupt NY 2013 this week, announcing that its self-service ad platform...

04 May, 2013

Edgerank demystified, brands that rock on YouTube and how Tumblr and Facebook are adapting for mobile, all in this week's Social You Should Know. Top 500 Brands Generate Nearly Half a Billion Views Per Month The top 500 brands on YouTube generate an average of 884,000 video...

27 April, 2013

Twitter and Foursquare are further monetizing their platforms with new ad targeting abilities, and Facebook’s hunger for ad dollars may be a big problem in this week's Social You Should Know. Twitter Now Targeting Ads Based on Tweet Content This week, Twitter introduced the ability for advertisers...

22 April, 2013

CMOs are increasing social media marketing budgets, Facebook requires new best practices and a couple social networks offer new functionality in this week's Social You Should Know. CMOs: 21.6% of Budget Will Go To Social in 5 years Duke University's Fuqua School of Business released its twice...

13 April, 2013
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