Brace yourselves. Facebook hashtags are coming. Today, Facebook begins rolling out hashtags on its News Feed, and just like hashtags on Twitter, Vine and Instagram, Facebook's hashtags will be functional. Clicking the hashtag will pop out a feed that shows others’ posts that have included the same hashtag. All hashtags...

12 June, 2013

So, you went and won yourself an international client. Well done. Though the Internet allows you to do almost anything from anywhere, there may come a time when you will have to travel overseas. Whether you need to visit company headquarters or cover a product launch at...

12 June, 2013

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

The Instagram hashtag has become crucial for brands and businesses to gain a greater reach on their photos. Choosing the correct hashtags is the equivalent of choosing SEO keywords for a blog or tags on a YouTube video, and at the end of the day,...

06 June, 2013

Beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, June 5th, YouTube will automatically be implementing a new layout for everyone, they're calling it YouTube One Channel. Here is everything YouTube marketers need to know to get their channels updated. Channel Art A new cover photo, similar to Facebook and Google+, will be highlighted...

04 June, 2013

At Ignite Social Media, we love a healthy debate and JELL-O's most recent Twitter campaign, Fun My Life #FML, has us talking. In this blog post, two of our community managers, Thea Neal (Pro JELL-O #FML) and John Patterson (Con JELL-O #FML), enter the ring...

03 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

It's been about 24 hours since Facebook announced that it would begin verifying pages and most of us in the Facebook marketing world are still trying to determine what this means for brands. Personally, I think this is one of the few additions Facebook has...

30 May, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing brands in the social space today is building active communities. Big and small brands alike strive to have interactive advocates on their channels. If we really want to build truly active communities as large brands, community managers, content creators,...

29 May, 2013

It’s been five months since a little thing called Vine debuted in the app store. And it still appears it’s spreading like weeds – when used correctly. In Vine’s first month, the percentage of highly active users using Vine was much higher than the percentage that...

28 May, 2013