Social Media Archive
09 Mar 2015
Instagram Carousel Ads: This Week in Social Media
Instagram Carousel Ads: This Week in Social Media What’s New This Week? Instagram Unveils Clickable Carousel Ads: The new carousel ads on Instagram are “a new way for brands to share more images with people interested in their posts.” “Carousel ads give brands more flexibility in telling their stories by allowing people who view their ads to swipe left
09 Mar 2015
New Research Reveals Instagram Users Like to Shop
New Research Reveals Instagram Users Like to Shop In this article you’ll discover the most recent findings about Instagram users and how this could impact your social media marketing. Discover new research that shows Instagram users are shoppers. Instagram Reach Instagram announced in December 2014 that its worldwide user base passed 300 million, a leap
09 Mar 2015
LinkedIn takes aim at developers with plans to lock down most of its APIs
LinkedIn takes aim at developers with plans to lock down most of its APIs LinkedIn has called time on a lot of third-party developers after becoming irritated by how many of them were using its open APIs. It’s announced plans to shut down all but four of them and restrict wider integration to official partnerships. In
09 Mar 2015
How I helped take a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and got it acquired by Google
How I helped take a startup from 0 to 40M+ pageviews and got it acquired by Google Before I start this article I want to say that LukeW, Jeff Cole and the entire team at Polar have done an incredible job building and running Polar. I attribute the success of Polar solely to them and their
09 Mar 2015
SocialRank is launching Instagram follower analytics and you can get early access
SocialRank is launching Instagram follower analytics and you can get early access Update: The first 100 codes are gone but SocialRank will still give your sign up priority if you use the TNW100 code here. Original story follows… We last wrote about SocialRank when it launched its Tech Startup Index, tracking Twitter data from the world’s most
09 Mar 2015
7 SEO strategies to implement in 2015
7 SEO strategies to implement in 2015 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) sounds a bit like rocket science. With the right combo of this widget and that module, add in time, subtract theory and maybe the equation will produce a solution better than the last. Like most technology, what was applied last year in online marketing
09 Mar 2015
4 free tricks to find the best business blog topics
4 free tricks to find the best business blog topics If the engagement in your company’s blog posts resembles a graveyard – you are far, far behind your competition. This assumption has tons of research behind it; did you know that companies with active blogs see 60 percent more online sales, as well as earn
09 Mar 2015
What we found when we analyzed the top 1,000 posts on LinkedIn
What we found when we analyzed the top 1,000 posts on LinkedIn Distributing compelling long-form content on LinkedIn can be a powerful way to build your company’s brand, showcase products, demonstrate thought leadership, and boost your own career. Marketing automation company HubSpot has also found thatLinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion ratescompared to Facebook and
09 Mar 2015
Google launches Player Analytics and custom native ads tools for game developers
Google launches Player Analytics and custom native ads tools for game developers Appropriately announced at today’s Game Developer Conference 2015, Google unveiledupdates for developers on its Google Play Games platform, with a focus on more effective audience targeting. Coming to Google Play Developer Console in a few weeks, the new Player Analytics tool is designed to give developers reports of
09 Mar 2015
Google revamps Contacts with new design, integrates emails and meetings
Google revamps Contacts with new design, integrates emails and meetings ogle today announced a huge, long-overdue update to its Contacts app that featuresMaterial Design and makes it easier to keep track of details for people you know. Still in preview mode, it also integrates calendar appointments and emails. One awesome new feature is that the