What can we learn from the successes and failures of Unicorns?
Leadership

What can we learn from the successes and failures of Unicorns?

7y Clark Boyd

What can we learn from the successes and failures ...

The term “unicorn” is commonly used to define a privately-owned company that is valued at $1 billion or more. Although named after a mythi...

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Seeing the trees for the forest with paid social
Social & Community

Seeing the trees for the forest with paid social

7y Mike O'Brien

Seeing the trees for the forest with paid social

Everyone’s on social media these days, so your business should be, too. But without paid media, your campaigns could have the impact of a falling tree...

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What the future holds for AR and VR
AR & VR

What the future holds for AR and VR

7y Mike O'Brien

What the future holds for AR and VR

Despite all the hype, AR and VR haven’t yet achieved critical mass, but the best is yet to come. Here are four things to keep in mind as that happens....

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Snapchat Stories vs Instagram Stories: Which should brands choose?
Social

Snapchat Stories vs Instagram Stories: Which should brands choose?

7y Tereza Litsa

Snapchat Stories vs Instagram Stories: Which shoul...

It's been a year since Instagram launched Stories, its Snapchat-inspired feature for publishing ephemeral content. One year on, who is the victor of t...

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Eight reasons to include Snapchat in your marketing strategy
Social

Eight reasons to include Snapchat in your marketing strategy

7y Tereza Litsa

Eight reasons to include Snapchat in your marketin...

Snapchat has been something of a mystery to marketers over the last year. But with fresh features, an engaged audience and new advertising capabilitie...

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How Snap Map brings Snapchat closer to location marketing
Local

How Snap Map brings Snapchat closer to location marketing

7y Tereza Litsa

How Snap Map brings Snapchat closer to location ma...

Snapchat recently announced the launch of Snap Map, a new feature that could become very useful among brands looking for new ways to benefit from loca...

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What Facebook's big bet on AR means for brands
Disruptive MarTech

What Facebook's big bet on AR means for brands

7y Al Roberts

What Facebook's big bet on AR means for brands

For years now, brands have heard that augmented reality (AR) is one of the next big things, but there's a strong argument to be made that it hasn't qu...

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Will Instagram crack the local commerce code?
Local

Will Instagram crack the local commerce code?

7y Al Roberts

Will Instagram crack the local commerce code?

When Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, skeptics questioned whether the world's largest social network would ever recoup its investm...

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13 epic stats and facts from The State of Social webinar
Data insights

13 epic stats and facts from The State of Social webinar

7y Andrew Warren-Payne

13 epic stats and facts from The State of Social w...

On March 23, ClickZ Intelligence held the webinar ‘The State of Social 2017’ in association with Tracx. As part of the presentation, a huge number of ...

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Snapchat is not just about millennials anymore. What should we expect?
Social

Snapchat is not just about millennials anymore. What should we expect?

7y Tereza Litsa

Snapchat is not just about millennials anymore. Wh...

Snapchat started as a simple messaging app that made the idea of ephemeral messages into a trend among social platforms. Read More...

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What can advertising spend tell us about the future of social networks?
Ad Industry Metrics

What can advertising spend tell us about the future of social networks?

7y Rebecca Sentance

What can advertising spend tell us about the futur...

Social media, as an advertising channel, is relatively young compared to mainstays of the online advertising world like display and search marketing. ...

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As investors bet on Snap, some Snapchat influencers bet on other platforms
Media

As investors bet on Snap, some Snapchat influencers bet on other platforms

7y Al Roberts

As investors bet on Snap, some Snapchat influencer...

Last Thursday, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, went public. And in spite of questions about Snap's growth, finances and competition, investors w...

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Five ways President Trump takes advantage of social media
Content

Five ways President Trump takes advantage of social media

7y Bob Cargill

Five ways President Trump takes advantage of socia...

I didn’t vote for him last November. There was no way this registered Democrat from the blue state of Massachusetts would check that box. But I have t...

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Is Twitter slowly dying?
Data insights

Is Twitter slowly dying?

7y Al Roberts

Is Twitter slowly dying?

On Thursday, Twitter reported its earnings for Q4 2016, and the results have raised questions about the company's long-term future. Read More...

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Ads are now a billion-dollar business for Amazon
Display Advertising

Ads are now a billion-dollar business for Amazon

7y Al Roberts

Ads are now a billion-dollar business for Amazon

Yesterday, Amazon disappointed Wall Street when it reported its fourth-quarter earnings for 2016. But buried within its earnings report was data sugge...

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Instagram Stories might be killing Snapchat Stories
Media

Instagram Stories might be killing Snapchat Stories

7y Al Roberts

Instagram Stories might be killing Snapchat Storie...

Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but for Snapchat, imitation could be putting a dent in its business. According to TechCrunch, numer...

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More brands sign up for Snapchat, but many aren't active
Display Advertising

More brands sign up for Snapchat, but many aren't active

7y Al Roberts

More brands sign up for Snapchat, but many aren't ...

As it prepares for a 2017 IPO that could be the largest in the social media space since Facebook went public in 2012, all eyes are on Snapchat. Read M...

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Can sub-three second video ad views deliver results?
Media

Can sub-three second video ad views deliver results?

7y Al Roberts

Can sub-three second video ad views deliver result...

Brands have been upping their investments in new ad products from popular social media services, but are they getting their money's worth? Read More...

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Instagram introduces Live video to Stories
Social

Instagram introduces Live video to Stories

7y Tereza Litsa

Instagram introduces Live video to Stories

Instagram is determined to introduce as many new features as possible in 2016 and that's why it has launched Live video on Stories, as well as ephemer...

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Snapchat to publishers: no more revshare, we'll pay you for content
Media

Snapchat to publishers: no more revshare, we'll pay you for content

8y Al Roberts

Snapchat to publishers: no more revshare, we'll pa...

Snapchat Discover has been a hit with publishers that want access to the popular messaging app’s highly-desirable audience, and some reports eve...

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Snapchat's new glasses aim to bring first-person video to social media
Media

Snapchat's new glasses aim to bring first-person video to social media

8y Al Roberts

Snapchat's new glasses aim to bring first-person v...

Can Snapchat make tech-enabled glasses cool? It’s going to try. Last week, it was revealed that the company behind the ascendant social app part...

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Snapchat adds Facebook-like audience targeting
Media

Snapchat adds Facebook-like audience targeting

8y Al Roberts

Snapchat adds Facebook-like audience targeting

Facebook Custom and Lookalike Audiences are two of the most powerful tools in a social media marketer’s tool kit, and it’s no surprise tha...

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Social media marketing spend has surged over the years, but falls short of estimates
CPG

Social media marketing spend has surged over the years, but falls short of ...

8y Al Roberts

Social media marketing spend has surged over the y...

Marketers' spending on social media has tripled in the past seven years but falls way short of where marketers expected it to be when they peered into...

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Behavioral targeting is coming to Snapchat
CPG

Behavioral targeting is coming to Snapchat

8y Al Roberts

Behavioral targeting is coming to Snapchat

Advertisers have been flocking to Snapchat, which now has more daily users than Twitter and is increasingly seen as perhaps the biggest threat to Face...

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YouTube prepares to expand beyond video with more social features
Content

YouTube prepares to expand beyond video with more social features

8y Al Roberts

YouTube prepares to expand beyond video with more ...

YouTube is said to be preparing new non-video features that will allow content creators to interact with their viewers through photos, text posts, lin...

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Will Instagram Stories put a dent in the rise of Snapchat?
Acquisition

Will Instagram Stories put a dent in the rise of Snapchat?

8y Tereza Litsa

Will Instagram Stories put a dent in the rise of S...

Instagram has announced the launch of Stories, a new feature which introduces the concept of fun and ephemeral posts that disappear after 24 hours. So...

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A beginner’s guide to Snapchat for marketers
Insights

A beginner’s guide to Snapchat for marketers

8y Nicholas Fuchs

A beginner’s guide to Snapchat for marketers

We’ve written a lot about Snapchat, but here is a back-to-basic's guide for setting up an account and how to use it. And an overview of why and how ma...

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