Twitter Wins Advertisers But Fails to Draw Users
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Twitter Wins Advertisers But Fails to Draw Users

11y Emily Alford

Twitter Wins Advertisers But Fails to Draw Users

Twitter reports record earnings for 2014, but the company has been slow to draw in new users, leaving some to wonder if all these ads are finding an a...

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Coca-Cola Duped Into Tweeting Racist Content
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Coca-Cola Duped Into Tweeting Racist Content

11y Emily Alford

Coca-Cola Duped Into Tweeting Racist Content

Pop culture site Gawker built a bot that fed passages from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf into the brand's #MakeItHappy tweet generator, which then turned ...

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Tweets to Appear in Google Searches
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Tweets to Appear in Google Searches

11y Mike O'Brien

Tweets to Appear in Google Searches

Twitter has reportedly partnered with Google, continuing its mission to expand the reach of tweets. Within the next three months, tweets will appear i...

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Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids of Instagram
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Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids of Instagram

11y Mike O'Brien

Romanian KFC Campaign Taps UGC to Parody Rich Kids...

To promote KFC Romania's value meals, MRM Worldwide launched a user-generated content (UGC) campaign based on Millennials mocking a famous Instagram f...

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Instagram Adds Video Looping to Rival Vine
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Instagram Adds Video Looping to Rival Vine

11y Yuyu Chen

Instagram Adds Video Looping to Rival Vine

Facebook-owned Instagram has opened up its advertising capabilities to include auto-replay videos, a feature similar to Vine’s loop counts. Read More...

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Twitter "Quick Promote" Targets SMBs
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Twitter "Quick Promote" Targets SMBs

11y Emily Alford

Twitter "Quick Promote" Targets SMBs

Twitter's new ad product allows small businesses to promote their highest-performing tweets straight from their analytics dashboards to drive engageme...

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Super Bowl XLIX: Ads, Trends, and Engagement
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Super Bowl XLIX: Ads, Trends, and Engagement

11y Michelle Killebrew

Super Bowl XLIX: Ads, Trends, and Engagement

A look back at this year's bevy of ads from the big game - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Read More...

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Twitter Syndicates Promoted Tweets for Broader Reach
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Twitter Syndicates Promoted Tweets for Broader Reach

11y Emily Alford

Twitter Syndicates Promoted Tweets for Broader Rea...

Promoted Tweets will now appear as native content on other platforms, such as mobile app Flipboard, that already integrate organic tweets into their a...

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Super Bowl XLIX Ad Winners and Losers
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Super Bowl XLIX Ad Winners and Losers

11y Mike O'Brien

Super Bowl XLIX Ad Winners and Losers

With 30 seconds of advertising costing a cool $4.5 million, brands had a lot riding on their Super Bowl purchases. Who made the best use of their ad d...

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Brands Take to Twitter to Cross-Promote During Super Bowl
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Brands Take to Twitter to Cross-Promote During Super Bowl

11y Emily Alford

Brands Take to Twitter to Cross-Promote During Sup...

During last night's Super Bowl, many brands used the advertisements as an opportunity to begin cross-promotional conversations across social media. Re...

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Real-Time Advertising a Staple of the Super Bowl
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Real-Time Advertising a Staple of the Super Bowl

11y Mike O'Brien

Real-Time Advertising a Staple of the Super Bowl

Brands can reach consumers during the Super Bowl with real-time video ads on Facebook and through Twitter war rooms. And with a shoppable halftime sho...

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Burger King Fires Off Snarky Tweet at Former McDonald's CEO
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Burger King Fires Off Snarky Tweet at Former McDonald's CEO

11y Emily Alford

Burger King Fires Off Snarky Tweet at Former McDon...

After today's announcement that McDonald's has replaced its CEO, Don Thompson, fast-food competitor Burger King took to Twitter to mock the headlines ...

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Mobile Acquisitions and Ads to Shape the Future of Social Media
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Mobile Acquisitions and Ads to Shape the Future of Social Media

11y Tessa Wegert

Mobile Acquisitions and Ads to Shape the Future of...

A recent flurry of mobile-related changes in the social media industry means we're about to witness yet another transformation. Are you up to speed? R...

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Discover Gives New Advertising Opportunities to Brands on Snapchat
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Discover Gives New Advertising Opportunities to Brands on Snapchat

11y Mike O'Brien

Discover Gives New Advertising Opportunities to Br...

With Discover, news sources such as CNN and ESPN will appear in users' Snapchat Stories. The ad-integrated feature lets brands reach the platform's fa...

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ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry
Data insights

ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry

11y Mike O'Brien

ClickZ Is Not as Fun as Katy Perry

A company that turns language into data files, Relative Insight, analyzed ClickZ's Twitter feed and then compared it to that of the platform's most-fo...

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Twitter Adds Mobile Video Capability, Private Group Messaging
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Twitter Adds Mobile Video Capability, Private Group Messaging

11y Yuyu Chen

Twitter Adds Mobile Video Capability, Private Grou...

Twitter users are now able to send messages to a select group of people, and create video content directly within the platform, moves that will likely...

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The Home Depot Rocks Social Media [Study]
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The Home Depot Rocks Social Media [Study]

11y Mike O'Brien

The Home Depot Rocks Social Media [Study]

Sprinklr analyzed data from 18 retailers' social feeds, and ranked them based on impressions and engagement. The Home Depot was the clear winner, beat...

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20 Types of Selfies to Ask Your Audience to Share
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20 Types of Selfies to Ask Your Audience to Share

11y Bob Cargill

20 Types of Selfies to Ask Your Audience to Share

There's no avoiding it - selfies are here to stay. Here's how to embrace the selfie and use it to boost your marketing efforts. Read More...

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Twitter Warns Its Users to Stop Sharing Instagram Links
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Twitter Warns Its Users to Stop Sharing Instagram Links

11y Carly Page

Twitter Warns Its Users to Stop Sharing Instagram ...

The social platform is urging its high-profile users to ditch the Facebook-owned app and instead use its own photo service. Read More...

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Twitter Acquires ZipDial in Emerging Market Push
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Twitter Acquires ZipDial in Emerging Market Push

11y Sophie Loras

Twitter Acquires ZipDial in Emerging Market Push

Twitter’s purchase of Indian mobile start-up ZipDial will offer marketers access to untapped consumers. Read More...

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Facebook Dominates Social Sharing While Twitter Sees a Decline
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Facebook Dominates Social Sharing While Twitter Sees a Decline

11y Yuyu Chen

Facebook Dominates Social Sharing While Twitter Se...

ShareThis’s new report shows that Facebook overtook Pinterest, Twitter, and Reddit in terms of sharing activity during the fourth quarter of last year...

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Twitter’s Foray Into Video and the Visual Web
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Twitter’s Foray Into Video and the Visual Web

11y Andy Radovic

Twitter’s Foray Into Video and the Visual Web

As Twitter moves into video, following Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest, here is what it means for marketers. Read More...

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Social Media Will Have 5.4M More Users by 2016
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Social Media Will Have 5.4M More Users by 2016

11y Mike O'Brien

Social Media Will Have 5.4M More Users by 2016

Comparing the user bases of five social networks in the U.S., eMarketer found that Instagram use is growing the fastest, while more and more senior ci...

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Social Site Check-In: Which Network Should You Buy Into This Year?
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Social Site Check-In: Which Network Should You Buy Into This Year?

11y Tessa Wegert

Social Site Check-In: Which Network Should You Buy...

What do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Pinterest have in store for the coming year? Read on to find out. Read More...

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3 Practical Tips for Improved Social Customer Care
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3 Practical Tips for Improved Social Customer Care

11y Dave Evans

3 Practical Tips for Improved Social Customer Care

These three tricks can help you enhance your social customer care, one of the touch points with the potential to create the most conversations among c...

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To Celebrity or Not to Celebrity?
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To Celebrity or Not to Celebrity?

11y Nick Annetts

To Celebrity or Not to Celebrity?

Employing the services of an A-lister for your social media campaigns can be a double-edged sword. Here are some tips for generating the best exposure...

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L'Oreal Paris Makes Golden Globes Shoppable on Social
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L'Oreal Paris Makes Golden Globes Shoppable on Social

11y Yuyu Chen

L'Oreal Paris Makes Golden Globes Shoppable on Soc...

During this year’s Golden Globes, the beauty brand launched a campaign to help consumers recreate red carpet looks through social media. Read More...

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