Pinterest Hires First International Employees – Buy Pinterest Followers & RePins
Pinterest is hiring abroad for the first time, adding country managers in France and the UK to help grow the site’s user base in Europe, according to a company spokesperson. The new managers will build out the local Pinterest communities overseas and connect with brands and partners. Pinterest is also looking to hire marketing managers […]
Facebook Tests Video Autoplay in Mobile News Feeds
Facebook will begin testing a new mobile feature Thursday that plays videos automatically as users scroll through their News Feeds. The videos will begin playing as they come into view on the screen, and users can preview them within the News Feed without clicking on or opening them. Each video will play silently and can […]
Facebook-Flavored Ice Cream Is a Real Thing – Facebook Marketing
Can you imagine tasting a social network? Two enterprising ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came up with the novel idea. One of the owners, Admir Adil, noticed his 15-year-old daughter was incessantly checking Facebook, so he thought it only appropriate to create a flavor for other […]
Facebook Consumer Marketing Head Goes to Twitter
Twitter has poached Facebook’s head of consumer and mobile marketing, Kate Jhaveri, according to a report. Jhaveri will join Twitter as senior director of consumer marketing, according to AllThingsD. Reps from Twitter and Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment. A Twitter account purported to be Jhaveri’s but not verified tweeted the following Friday […]
Twitter Acquires Trendrr to Build Out TV Offerings
Trendrr announced Wednesday that it has been acquired by Twitter as the microblogging service seeks to further integrate its service with TV networks and advertisers. Trendrr has two products: One, Trendrr.TV, provides TV networks, publishers and media agencies with tools to track TV engagement across social networks, including Twitter. A second, Curatorr, allows those same […]
Twitter Experiment Lets Users Tweet Highlighted Sentences From Articles
A new feature from The New York Times may change the way people share and discover stories via Twitter . The Times tested a feature it developed that allows users to click on a highlighted sentence from a story, and tweet it out directly, instead of just tweeting the headline. Readers who see the tweet […]
Facebook Sells ‘Social Butterfly Blue’ Nail Polish- Facebook Marketing
You can now wear Facebook pride on your fingertips. The company is currently selling a shade of nail polish, “social butterfly blue” at its campus store in Menlo Park, Calif. Although Facebook told Mashable it added the polish to its collection of branded swag at the beginning of the year, its existence was recently brought […]
63% of Brands Have Multiple Twitter Accounts – Twitter Stats
For top brands, one presence on Twitter isn’t enough. In 2013, 63% of brands have multiple Twitter accounts, according to a report by Brandwatch. This trend represents an 800% increase from two years ago, when just 7% of brands had multiple Twitter accounts. Statista’s chart, below, breaks down the number of brands with multiple, single […]
Twitter Teaches You How to Hashtag – Twitter Marketing
Want to be sure your tweet is shared with the right group of users? There’s a hashtag for that — if you can find the right one. Hashtags have become synonymous with Twitter, serving to filter what can otherwise be a wide array of difficult-to-categorize information. Users can join any conversation on the platform by […]
Facebook Now Gives More Control Over What You Share
Facebook announced on Thursday that the site’s two-step app permission process has been fully integrated with users worldwide. The feature, which was first announced in April, allows users to have more control over the content they share to Facebook through third-party applications. When users sign in to an app like Lyft or Words With Friends […]
