Tweets Integrated Into Google Results Offer Marketing Potential? A few weeks ago, Google started pulling in tweets for certain search terms, particularly those using a hashtag. In this interesting review of how it’s playing out, Lisa Braziel looks at how and when tweets appear, as well as...

14 June, 2015

In late May, Twitter and Google solidified a partnership to begin embedding tweets in Google search results.  Now that we're starting to see what this integration looks like in the wild, let's dive into this a little further and reveal what this means for brands moving...

11 June, 2015

Employees with Diverse Twitter Networks are More Innovative A compilation of studies published by MIT Sloan School of Management suggests that employees with diverse Twitter networks generate better ideas. The study found that ideas submitted by Twitter users with diverse followers rated higher than those of users...

07 June, 2015

On the trend of many new social ad formats launching, Pinterest and Instagram are stepping up their game to support e-commerce. This is a really smart move by both channels as Marketing Managers are looking for more ways to tie social media directly to sales....

04 June, 2015

Google Begins Rolling Out Google Photos App Remember when Google+ announced it was breaking apart into Photos and Streams? This week’s Google I/O conference unleashed a host of Google updates and shed light on the direction Google Photos will be taking. Overall, Google is enticing users...

31 May, 2015

TL;DR – The Retailer of the Future Won’t Look Anything Like The Retailers of Today Is Google a retailer? Is Apple? More people search for product information on Google than any other digital source and Apple is now the #2 eCom retailer in the world in...

28 May, 2015

Within the last week or so it seems like every social platform has announced a new ad product offering. The main focus for these ad types, and a hot topic for the social industry overall, is video. The new YouTube, Snapchat, and Pinterest ads focus...

28 May, 2015

On Tuesday, May 12, a group of philanthropic Igniters headed to nearby Southfield, MI to volunteer at Angels’ Place, a non-profit organization that provides homes and services to persons with developmental disabilities. They have twenty residential homes that are located in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb...

19 May, 2015

Succeeding in social media as an alcohol brand presents a unique set of challenges. Besides the obvious hurdle of connecting with an age-appropriate audience, alcohol brands have to stand out from an enormous crowd of category competitors who are all vying for the attention of...

11 May, 2015

Last week, several members of our team attended and lead panels at Brand Innovators Chicago Brand Week. These one-day symposiums bring together brand leaders and media-focused technology companies at the headquarters of major brands to share their experiences in emerging media. This week’s events were held...

10 May, 2015