Posts Tagged ‘social media’
Advertising on digital platforms has now grown into the number one market, recently overtaking television advertising spend for the very first time. This fundamental shift means that each year, companies put more and more effort into conceiving interesting campaigns in order to stay ahead of the competition. This year has been no exception, with a [...]
Facebook Places, the newest addition to the social networking giant, has now been officially rolled out in the UK. The service, which allows users to ‘check in’ to locations from their mobile devices or iPhone applications, has already been unveiled in the US and Japan and the whole of Europe is thought to be next [...]
Twitter can be a fantastic tool for business, assuming you know how best to use it and you’ve decided what you’re going to use it for. It’s no good having a rough Twitter strategy and just randomly tweeting generic information about your company – you won’t get the referring traffic you’re looking for nor will [...]
Moma Propaganda, an ingenious advertising agency from Brazil, has come up with a series of incredible vintage adverts to demonstrate how social media could have been portrayed in the swinging sixties. The ad agency produced promotional posters for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Skype as part of their ‘Everything Ages Fast’ campaign for client Maximidia Seminars.
Twitter celebrated is 20 billionth ‘tweet’ yesterday; yet another major milestone for the social networking site. The tweet was sent by a graphic designer in Tokyo at 3.44 GMT, who upon realising he had sent the landmark message had this to say in another tweet sent minutes later: It looks like I posted the 20 [...]
A lot has been said recently about Facebook’s privacy policies, their databases and the fact that Facebook are second only to the US and UK governments in terms of how much personal information they hold. With Facebook reaching a mammoth 500 million worldwide users (which, if they were a country, would make them the third [...]