
Facebook News Feed Will Throttle Pages’ “Promotional” Posts
[Update: We asked social media experts how marketers should react to Facebook’s latest News Feed announcement. Read their answers here:...

Patriots’ #1MillionPatriots Twitter Celebration Interrupted By A Racist Troll
Beware social media robots; they don’t always know a troll when they see one. The New England Patriots are the latest to learn that...

Though People Trust Other Consumers Most, Brands Still Have A Role To Play
As recently as 15 years ago, those with authority were advertisers and marketers. Consumers used to learn about new products from...

Marc Jacobs Beauty Makes Instagram Shoppable With A DIY Effort
Without an official way to link social media with e-commerce, businesses looking to use social channels for direct sales are improvising....

Google+ Makes It Easier To See Your Mentions
Active Google+ users now have a handy new tool — a Mentions tab that displays all + mentions of a personal profile or page. Previously,...

Mike Myers And His Sears Canada Employee Brother Attempt To Save The Company With An Ad
This is just too good not to share. Oh yes, it has a hashtag, #MyBrotherWorksAtSears, but that’s not why I’m sharing. I’m sharing because...

Facebook Updates & Simplifies Privacy Policy
Facebook is adjusting its privacy policy, aiming to create a document that users actually read. To that end, the company is slashing more...

Report: Nearly 60% Of Video Shares Worldwide Occur On Facebook
Taking a look at how the whole world shares video, video metrics company Unruly discovered a large majority of videos shares are...

This Hotel’s RFID Bracelets Make Social Sharing Easy For Super Lazy Vacationers
Well, if sharing your most enjoyable experiences while on vacation weren’t already easy enough with Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,...

7 Things We Learned At Twitter’s Analyst Day From “While You Were Away” to Native Video
But CEO Dick Costolo and CFO Anthony Noto strongly asserted that Twitter is uniquely positioned to be the place the world turns for...

How Individual Identity Influences The Way Audiences Share [Survey Data]
From content influencers to “lurkers,” the content that people choose to share online has come to play a major role in how they curate...

#VeteransDay: Brands Honor Soldiers Past & Present
We give brands a lot of grief for social media flubs, especially when they make ham-handed attempts to exploit real-time trends and...

Starwood Touts New Keyless Mobile Check-In App With Goofy Videos
Well, now that we can all buy stuff without phones using Apple Pay — excusing the few places that have sided with MCX’s CurrentC — why...

Pinterest: We Have Doubled The Number Of Male Active Users In The Last Year
But we do know that women make up a large majority of users, perhaps as many at 80%, as a RJMetrics study found in May. It’s one of...

The Bill Cosby #CosbyMeme Creates An Immediate Backlash
It probably seemed like an innocuous campaign for an Monday afternoon. “Go ahead. Meme me!, #CosbyMeme” Bill Cosby’s account called out...

British Airways Follows ‘Visit Mum’ Viral Success With #WelcomeOfHome Social Contest
I’m not an expatriate and don’t have any relatives that are, either. So I have no idea what it must be like to live in a...

Instagram Enables Typo Cleanup With Caption Editing Ability
Instagram announced several changes to its mobile app today, most notably giving users the ability to edit captions. That means people...

Facebook Makes It Easier To Unfollow People & Pages In News Feed
As promised by CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the townhall Q&A yesterday, Facebook is giving users more control over what they see on the...

Mark Zuckerberg Promises To Give Facebook Users More News Feed Controls
[Update: Moments after we posted this story, Facebook announced that it’s giving users more News Feed controls. Here’s the post about the...
























