PayPal President Moves to Facebook to Lead Messaging Products
Facebook has captured Paypal’s leader in the clearest evidence yet that the social networking organization will soon be wandering into online payments. David Marcus will lead Facebook’s messaging items, the organization proclaimed in a press release on this Monday. Marcus confirmed the move with a post to Facebook, which could be found in its whole at the lowest […]
Twitter Rolls Out Its Facebook-Like Profile Redesign – Social Media
Twitter is gradually rolling out a major redesign of user profiles, starting on Tuesday. The new look, which Twitter was testing in February, adds a lot more user information and several new features — and it looks quite similar to Facebook’s user profiles. The new profile features a larger user photo and customizable header image. […]
How Digital Marketing Is Helping Bollywood?
Billions of money is spent every year in Bollywood for advertising. But are they getting substantial returns on their investment? Are they able to target the right segment of the audience who would actually be interested in their product as in whatever it is a movie, a documentary or a TV serial. Perhaps no! Then […]
How Digital Marketing Is Helping Bollywood?
Billions of money is spent every year in Bollywood for advertising. But are they getting substantial returns on their investment? Are they able to target the right segment of the audience who would actually be interested in their product as in whatever it is a movie, a documentary or a TV serial. Perhaps no! Then […]
Facebook Will Let You Save Links to Read Later
Mark Zuckerberg has described his social network as a “personalized newspaper” — and for seasoned users with a wide-range of like-minded friends, it’s hard not to argue that the articles that pop up in your news feed constitute the most engrossing read in the world, if not exactly the most timely one. But Zuckerberg also […]
Twitter Lets Brands Infiltrate TV Conversations Without Buying TV Ads
Twitter launched TV conversation targeting on Thursday, a feature that lets brands and networks promote tweets to users who engage in specific shows, even if the brand isn’t running a TV ad during the program. As the company wrote in its advertising blog: “Now advertisers can easily reach Twitter users exposed to integrations, sponsorships, and […]
Twitter Arrives on TV in India
Technology and platform convergence is the next big thing that businesses are looking for –- whether it be mobile and Internet or Internet and TV. It’s all about a revenue stream for the future. Airtel Digital TV, an arm of Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel, revealed Monday that it has integrated Twitter with its digital […]
When Facebook Was Down, Brands Pounced – Social Media Marketing
Facebook experienced widespread service disruptions for much of Monday morning, which prevented users from posting and engaging with posts on the social network. While the outage may have been a headache for Facebook and many users, some brands decided to turn it into a marketing opportunity — for better or worse: #Facebookdown Grab your Venus […]
What Social Media Can (Really) Tell You About Job Applicants
It’s no secret that employers research job candidates’ social media profiles to help them make hiring decisions. Most employers, however, may have been inaccurately evaluating applicants’ online personas all along: New research has found that employers who quickly dismiss applicants based on unpleasant status updates and incriminating photos from a trip to Vegas may actually […]
Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Publishers Than Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit Combined
When it comes to referral traffic from social networks, there’s Facebook and Pinterest — and then there’s everyone else. Facebook accounted for more than 10% of overall traffic to publishers in September, by far the most of any social network, according to data released Tuesday from Shareaholic, a social plugin service that collects data from […]
