The world of social media never slows down and this week is no exception. Below are some highlights including the value of a social media fan, if Snapchat’s new IPO was a success or failure, and Pinterest continuing its foray into the visual search world,...
WHAT ARE INSTAGRAM PHOTO ALBUMS? Instagram is giving us yet another way to story tell, sharing a more complete picture of our experiences. This week, Instagram launched its multi-photo carousel, which gives the user the ability to share a mix of up to 10 photos and/or...
In the growing world of social media, user experience and customer service are playing an ever-crucial role. Your channels are the meeting ground of your community, where they can voice both their love for your brand, and rant about what they wish was different. It’s...
Instagram artists are some of the most entertaining types of influencers to follow on the social media network, today we're going to highlight five. The reason I love them? They constantly put a smile on my face and prompt me to wonder if I too could create some...
Tough competition for Twitter and Facebook’s latest moves to remove flaws in data. That and more in this week’s Social You Should Know. Sina Weibo Creeping Up on Twitter After China blocked Twitter in 2009, a clone emerged in the form of Sina Wiebo. The platform...
March Madness is right around the corner, and you know what that means, brackets, brackets and more brackets. Avid college basketball fans everywhere will be filling them out, and subsequently crumbling them up half way through the first round of games, but how will brands...
In the world of social media marketing, it’s a misconception that we’re always hidden behind our computer screens scouring social channels 24-7. Every so often, we get the opportunity to support our client’s event activations via social. Most recently, our team braved the Blizzard of...
Facebook copies Snapchat, Instagram is rolling out photo albums, and some interesting findings involving men and women on Instagram, as well as Facebook debuting autoplay for videos, all in this week's edition of Social You Should Know. Facebook Copies Snapchat (Again) Within WhatsApp WhatsApp is...
It has been awhile since we have heard much about ‘buy buttons’, even though almost all of the social channels have their own version. Buy buttons started coming on to the scene in 2014 in response to marketers trying to better tie social media...
The battle lines were drawn last August between Instagram and Snapchat the day Instagram Stories was released. Eerily similar to Snapchat, when Stories first arrived on the scene, a lot of us laughed. We laughed because we all saw it for what it was: a...
Although we all thought Facebook organic reach to be near dead, we’re starting to see the first signs of improvement in years. Additionally, Pinterest is once again putting pressure on Google when it comes to discoverability and search, and in case you think all...
In a perfect world, we’d create beautiful, engaging, social-first content for all our brands’ social channels. In the real world, budgets and time constraints stand in the way, and sometimes, it’s just more efficient to work with what you have. Here are a few tips...