Posts Tagged ‘social media’
The Ideal Length of Everything Online, From Tweets to YouTube Videos (Infographic)
How long are the most engaging tweets? How long are the most viewed videos on YouTube? How many characters are in the best performing Facebook updates? How long should email subject lines be? AdWeek just released a great infographic: The Ideal Length of Everything Online. Below are a couple of helpful snippets pulled from the infographic…
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Coming Soon to a Snapchat Near You
Wherever you are, they will find their way in. We’re talking about advertisements, of course. Brands want to reach you and will adapt to popular platforms to be seen. If the masses are interacting on a specific site or social media application, brands need to be there. It is their job to be relatable and bring the…
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Blogs Give Real Boost to Brand Marketing
We came across this delightful little nugget while reading Direct Marketing News the other day: Blogs are 63% more likely to influence purchasing decisions than magazines. That stat just sort of popped out at us while we were reading DM News Senior Editor Natasha D. Smith’s take on this year’s trends in social media marketing.…
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It happens to every brand at some point: an unhappy customer or client leaves an angry comment on Facebook or Instagram or sends an upset tweet on Twitter. And how brands deal with these posts can make or break their social presence. A recent article in Inside Facebook, reveals speed is important. In fact, the article reports that 42…
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The Ever-Changing Game of Social Media
For most of my generation, Myspace was the first major social media site we used. While others existed, like Friendster and Hi5, they failed to hold an audience. Myspace catered to its users, allowing us to talk more about ourselves showing off our top friends. At the time, Facebook started to come around but it seemed like…
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Social Media Marketing: The Next Generation
Are you keeping up with the times? Chances are, if you’re a marketer, you’re still living in the dark ages (say, 2011) when it comes to how you use social media metrics to help guide your marketing decisions, writes Pernille Bruun-Jens in a recent piece for AdWeek. According to the CMO Council’s State of Marketing 2014…
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“Did That Really Just Happen?” Social Media Crisis Management
We’ve all seen that one post, picture or tweet that made us ask, jaws dropped, “did that really just happen?” Social media problems arise every day for brands of all types. A company has the option to fix it or fall deeper into the black hole of crisis. According to Ozgur Alaz, author of Ozurg Alaz:…
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Nostalgia Marketing
The difficult and essential job of marketers is to create a need or want that resonates with consumers. And in today’s increasingly dynamic marketplace, marketers are interminably adapting to consumer behaviors. Recently, cereal companies have found themselves fighting against the rising tide of health-conscious millennials and gluten-free eating by providing new, healthier offerings and repacking…
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Infographic: Facebook’s Top Brands in August 2014
Many companies and brands say they’re active on Facebook — but some really go above and beyond. Socialbakers, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer, tracks engagement and response by brand each month. And their findings are really interesting — not only do we get a peek at what some established brands are doing, they also give us…
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New on Twitter: A “Buy” Button That Supports Instant Sales
Twitter launched an exciting new tool for digital marketers this week: a new “buy” button that allows users to make purchases straight from a tweet. Billions of dollars in online sales are already generated via social media, but this is a more integrated approach. By embedding the new tool directly in the tweet, customers can…
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