
Social Platform Hootsuite Adds Features To Help Employees “Amplify” Company News
New controls in the platform’s dashboard allow a company manager to curate content or links and make them available to a new Amplify...

Social Brand Mentions: Key Tools To Find And Fully Capitalize On Them For Marketing
If you don’t monitor mentions of your brand online, then you’re missing out on some valuable feedback and opportunities. These are the...

Buffer’s Pablo Now Creates Images Optimized For All The Social Networks
Buffer has given its free images-with-a-message tool an upgrade. “Pablo,” launched last spring and the generator of more than 500,000...

At Critical Juncture, Bacardi Tries To Capture Millennial Attention With #BacardiHouseParty
Trying to capture the intimacy of a house party while also conveying the impression of freedom that knows no bounds, Bacardi rum this...

Bridging The Gap Between Search Traffic & Social Conversion
A few weeks ago, we discussed how social psychographic targeting can power search retargeting. In this week’s edition of aimClear’s...

Instagram Says It’s For Business, Not Just Selfies, With New Account
Chukcha / Shutterstock.com Instagram is open for business, and this week the company created a new Instagram account —...

Twitter Names Google’s Omid Kordestani Executive Chairman
Twitter has named Omid Kordestani, Google’s former chief business officer, executive chairman of its board of directors. Kordestani,...

The Messy, Mappable World Of Influence
Dr. Robert Cialdini, the author of the book, “Influence,” defines it as “change,” or the ability of a given person to affect the views,...

B2C Content Marketing Report: 94% Of Marketers Use Facebook, But Only 66% Rate It Effective
Polling marketers on a number of B2C content marketing tactics — everything from types of content being used to what’s most effective and...

Pinterest Place Pins Now Allow Customers To Contact & Find Local Retailers
Pinterest just made it easier for customers to reach your business on Pinterest, and you don’t have to do anything to reap the benefits....

Watch Out, YouTube: Facebook Is Finally Building A Video Hub
Facebook video is finally getting a home. Up to now, the social network has been content to let its users bump into video on the News...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Confirms Company Will Lay Off 336 Employees
Eight days after being named Twitter’s permanent CEO, Jack Dorsey confirmed a report from Re/code last week that the company would be...

Simply Measured Acquires Social Intelligence Firm DataRank
Simply Measured announced today that it is acquiring social intelligence company DataRank to add another arrow to its quiver of marketing...

What Marketers Need To Know About Facebook’s New & Existing Product Ads
Facebook is continuing to tweak and build on its ad offerings for e-commerce marketers and position the social network as an actual...

Look Out, Amazon: Facebook Testing Dedicated Shopping Area & “Canvas” Ads For Retailers
Facebook continues to push the Facebook shopping cart forward. Today, the social network introduced tests of two new e-commerce features,...

How To Get Your Content Amplified By Influencers
Creating content can be relatively simple and straightforward, but successfully getting it out there in front of the right audience is...

No, What Facebook Hears On Your Phone Isn’t Triggering Ads
Is Facebook listening through your phone to target you with ads? No. But it is listening sometimes for other reasons, and that is causing...

Southwest Airlines Boasts Of Simple Fee Structure In Fun #Transfarency Campaign
In its newly launched campaign, dubbed Transfarency and using the hashtag #FeesDontFly, budget flyer Southwest Airlines compares itself...

Pew Survey: Nearly Two-Thirds Of All Americans Use Social Media
It’s a social media landslide. The Pew Research Center is out with a new social media survey this week and it finds that 65 percent of...