Instagram Was All Over Fashion Week
This year’s NY Fashion Week was not only extraordinary for the clothing that strutted down the runways, but also the immense buzz that was generated on social media. As a recent Washington Post article...
View ArticleBanning Guns Seems To Increase The Number Of Guns Sold On Facebook
When Facebook announced at the end of January that it was banning the sale of guns on the social networking platform (as well as on Facebook-owned Instagram), the company stated that it would rely on...
View ArticleTagly App: The Anti-Selfie?
A new app is poised to move social content marketing away from user-generated content and put the power in the hands of brands themselves. TechCrunch brings news out of SXSW that Tagly — an app that...
View ArticleLord & Taylor Settles With FTC Over Paid Posts
Facing charges that it deceived consumers with paid ads that were presented as objective articles, Lord & Taylor has opted to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). As reported on the FTC...
View ArticleSocial Commerce Plays The Long Game
Recently, a group of writers at the content marketing site Contently — inspired by last month’s NCAA March Madness — put together its own “Social Media Championship Bracket.” From a field of 16 retail...
View ArticleProject September Aims To Drive Commerce With Instagram
Could everyone’s favorite image-based social network be transformed into the world’s largest crowdsourced retail catalog? One woman hopes the answer is yes. This coming Thursday (April 21), Alexis...
View ArticleBoy Scores $10K For Uncovering Instagram Bug
Facebook made a $10,000 payment to a 10-year-old Instagram hacker. The boy found a glitch in the picture-sharing social platform’s code and was rewarded significantly by Facebook for the discovery. The...
View ArticleDynamic Ads Jump To Instagram
Facebook has announced that dynamic ads — a targeting feature that allows merchants to tailor what ads are shown to what consumers on the basis of products the customer has viewed on the merchant’s...
View ArticleInstagram Hits 500M User Mark
Facebook’s photo sharing app Instagram is now used by over 500 million users — twice as many as two years ago. Since last September, the app has hit a stride of onboarding active users with over 100...
View ArticleInstagram Becoming Top Destination For Brands, Celebrities
Instagram followers and engagement has skyrocketed among brands and celebrities over the past year, according to a study by ARK Investment Management, illustrating that the photo-sharing social...
View ArticleInstagram Launches Three New Business Tools In The UK
Instagram, the photo-sharing social media network, has unveiled three new tools geared toward advertisers on its website. According to a report, the three new tools include business profiles, analytics...
View ArticleCan Snapchat And Pinterest Be The Web’s Digital Oasis?
It’s been something of a strange year for social media, sort of akin to watching a human make the shift from adorable to child to respectable adult. As children, we are cute and novel enough to the...
View ArticleInstagram ‘Enhancing’ Ads To Up Interaction
In what has been, thus far, a rapid and persistent push for greater monetization in 2016, Instagram has continually been rolling out new upgrades to its ad platform, hoping to make said ads more...
View ArticleInstagram Goes Shoppable
Instagram has reportedly rolled out shoppable tags on photos from as many as 20 retail brands. According to a report by TechCrunch, some of the retail brands include Kate Spade and JackThreads. The new...
View ArticleReport: Sephora Lookin’ Pretty On Social Media
In advance of Black Friday, Sephora is lookin’ pretty in terms of social media. That’s according to Shareablee, which measures social media audiences and released its annual Black Friday Retail Brand...
View ArticleSingapore, Thailand Love Instagram, eCommerce
Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia, with its population of over 620 million, is predicted to be the next site of an eCommerce boom. The region’s internet economy is projected...
View ArticleGeenee Helps Instagram Users With Shopping
If you’ve ever seen an item of clothing online in a photo or video and wanted to know who makes it and where to buy it, there is now an app for that. Geenee allows Instagram users to recognize an item...
View ArticleGen Xers Heaviest Social Media Users
The numbers have it. Move over, millennials, because Gen Xers are the real social media addicts in town. A recent survey from the folks over at global information, data and measurement company Nielsen...
View ArticleFacebook Q4 Beats Expectations, But Growth Slows
After-hours trading saw Facebook stock rise 1.15 percent as the company announced Q4 earnings that beat analysts’ estimates for revenue, ads, monthly and daily users and engagement. Despite beating out...
View ArticlePYMNTS’ Daily Data Dive: Digital Wallets Take Front Seat In Social Media...
In today’s social media sphere, politics might seem to be the most talked-about topic, but that would be an incorrect assumption. In Mastercard’s 2017 Digital Payments Study, the credit card company...
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