
Why The New LinkedIn Group Changes Are A Community Manager’s Worst Nightmare
scyther5 / Shutterstock.com A little less than a month ago, LinkedIn announced it would make a round of changes to its Groups platform —...

Goodbye Twitter Favorites; Twitter Replaces Stars With Hearts
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com R.I.P. Twitter favorites. In a seemingly small but symbolically significant move, Twitter announced today that...

Livefyre Lights Up Its Rebuilt UGC Platform Today
Livefyre is firing up today a new incarnation of its platform for managing user-generated content (UGC). Founder and CEO Jordan Kretchmer...

Instagram Has No Plans To Monetize New Video Streams For Major Events
Like Snapchat and Twitter, Instagram is getting into the content curation game. On Saturday, Facebook’s visually oriented social network...

Facebook Slips Slightly But Still Dominates Social Login Market
For the first time in two years, Facebook’s share of the social login market dropped, according to new Gigya data, but the social network...

20 Things Social Media Professionals Can’t Ignore In 2016
Bloomua / Shutterstock.com The last year in social media has been insanely busy for professional marketers all around the world. If you...

Snapchat’s First Sponsored Lens Features “Peanuts” & A Candy Corn Stream
360b / Shutterstock.com The brand invasion of Snapchat selfies starts on Halloween. Fox Studios has purchased the first “Sponsored Lens”...

Instagram Is Giving Advertisers Self-Serve Access To Carousel Ads
Instagram has announced that it will soon allow advertisers to help themselves to carousel ads. Instagram will enable purchase of the ads...

Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm: A Guide To Recent Changes
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Facebook’s News Feed to marketers. You can think of it as an epic quest to gain...

Unmetric Unveils Prediction Engine For Social Posts
Unmetric’s purpose in life has been analyzing past social data and figuring out what your competitors are doing, so you can adapt your...

Social PR Psychographic Segmentation: The NEW Facebook Influencer Marketing
For hundreds of years, PR pros whipped out little black books for person-to-person content pitching. It’s true. Relationships matter...

Startup HyPR Scores $5 Million, Unveils Influencer Search Engine And Readies “ProgrammaticR
“Everybody is an influencer.” Gil Eyal, founder and CEO of startup HyPR, meant that everyone has influenced someone in some way. But the...

Twitter Hopes To Sell Moments & Woo More Users With World Series Ads
With user growth stagnant, Twitter is hoping to sell a new feature with old-school marketing. The social media network is launching a...

Revenue Is Up, But Twitter Is Still Struggling In Slow Growth Mode
Twitter’s slow growth woes continue. The social media network reported an anemic increase in monthly users in its third quarter earnings...

Facebook Wants To Replace The Phone Number With Your Name
Facebook wants you to forget phone numbers and replace them with Facebook Messenger. The social network announced today that it will soon...

Mobile Vs. Desktop: Mobile Won, But You Might Still Be Losing
I think we are well beyond the point where we are making websites “mobile-friendly” or “mobile-ready.” Doing so still places the focus on...

Hootsuite Offers Free Version Of Hootsuite Campaigns For Lead Generation
Need business leads? But lack funds to pay for a social media advertising campaign? Hootsuite can help with that. The social media...

TV Producers, Advertisers Need To Leverage The Web’s Largest Focus Group: Social Data
So it’s all done. A season’s worth of episodes are ready to go. Viewers are ready. Networks are abuzz with the possibilities for every...

UGC Platform Chute Can Now See
Chute’s visualization of its new machine vision Chute is adding eyes to its platform for user-generated content (UGC). Previously, the...