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 […]
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 […]
Are Paid Facebook Ads Worth the Bucks?
To advertise on Facebook, or not to advertise on Facebook? There’s still plenty of debate about whether advertising on Facebook (or social media in general) is worth it, and whether it’s more useful as a lead generation tactic than a direct driver of sales. But as anyone on Facebook can see from the sheer number […]
Yahoo to Pay Tumblr’s David Karp $81 Million to Stay for 4 Years
Yahoo filed a 10-Q report with the SEC Thursday, disclosing some additional details about the 10 startups it acquired between the end of March and the end of June — including its biggest one, Tumblr, which cost the company around $1.1 billion. The filing also reveals Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp’s compensation package. In […]
Analyst Prediction: Facebook Video Ads Will Generate $1 Billion in 2014
Facebook users may not be excited to see video ads hit their News Feeds, but company stockholders should be. A report released by Morgan Stanley on Wednesday predicts that Facebook’s video advertisements will generate more than $1 billion in 2014 — a lofty total considering they don’t exist yet. This total would constitute 1% of […]
Buy Linkedin Company Page Followers – Linkedin marketing
Attracting LinkedIn followers comes with challenges. Namely, LinkedIn Company Pages are not as popular as Facebook pages and company pages haven’t been around as long. But this doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to boost the number of followers your company has, you just might need to dig a little deeper and uncover some less obvious […]
The Next Wave of Ads Knows Everything About You — Before You Do
Welcome to the world of inference advertising, which relies on targeted ads that use your smartphone’s geo-location and social history to serve relevant mobile ads that know what you want, even before you do. Predictive ads — tailored to your exact location and taste — may sound intrusive, but the idea is to cater to […]
Good News For Digital And Social Media Agencies In India. AICC Is Planning To Hire
Congress To Hire 50 Social Media Activists For 2014 General Elections. Isn’t It Late? The country will witness Lok Sabha (Lower House) elections in 2014. Once again we would see the politicians coming out on the streets, knocking the doors of the common man and begging for their valuable votes. Political party promotions would see […]
Foursquare Starts Showing Ads After You Check In
Next time you check in to a location on Foursquare, you may see an ad pop up right after. AdAge reports that brands like Toys ‘R’ Us and Captain Morgan have started placing ads that appear after users check in to locations on Foursquare. Users who check in at a bar may see a Captain […]
Is Facebook advertising poised to overtake television advertising?
Following a recent cross-media channel campaign, Nestle attributed 11% of KitKat’s sales to its Facebook ads. Is this a one-off situation or are we increasingly now going to see Facebook advertising trump television advertising? Statistics suggest that the amount of time the average person now spends on Facebook exceeds the amount of time he/she spends […]
