Latest and Breaking Social Media News and Top Stories - July 8
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Katie Stanton to Replace Exiting Twitter Media Chief Chloe Sladden ( Variety ) Less than a month after the departure of Twitter Media chief Chloe Sladden, the socia...
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Are you looking for new ways to improve engagement with your audience? Do you want to know the most effective, yet rarely used social tactics? In this article I’ll share research findings that reveal three widely underused tactics you ca...
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Are you finding it difficult to generate organic leads with Twitter and LinkedIn? Have you tried paid social media advertising? Twitter and LinkedIn offer opportunities to target leads in a cost-effective way. In this article you’ll disc...
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This week's Mashable Photo Challenge will provide you with some thirst-quenching, sweat-cooling images to help you relax. Now that the sticky days of summer are upon us, the intense heat and humidity make it almost impossible to sit comf...
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Facebook came under fire from hunting advocates and gun-rights supporters this weekend when it removed a series of pictures from the account of Kendall Jones , a Texas cheerleader. Jones' pictures showed her posing with a variety of anim...
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Facebook wants you watching videos. If you already do, it wants you watching more The social network is testing a new "related videos" feature that surfaces similar, popular videos after you finish watching one in your mobile News Feed S...
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Twitter Inc has appointed Katie Stanton its new media chief, placing the former Google executive at the heart of its crucial relationships with Hollywood and the global media industry, a source with knowledge of the move said on Monday. ...
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On the eve of his opening session at our MobileBeat conference tomorrow, Google’s head of performance media, Jason Spero, tells us how the company is approaching mobile ads, attribution, and more. At MobileBeat, Spero will be discu...
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Somebody at the Central Intelligence Agency has a pretty good sense of humor. Just one month after the organization sent out an epic first tweet, the CIA returned to the social media network to answer five of the top questions people hav...
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During times of unrest, nations such as Turkey, North Korea and Iran have enacted social media bans. Social networks allow for decentralized collaboration among protesters, and governments often try to cut the problem off at the source. ...
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How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! Studies have shown t...
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How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few tickets left! Last Thursday, the E...
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Last week Vine introduced loop counts , and the general consensus has been that counting “loops” — or how many times a video has been watched — is great for marketers. And why wouldn’t it be? Before loop counts, Vine populari...
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Looking for a job should be simple; you spend hours trawling career websites, tweaking your CV, writing cover letters, and brushing up on your interview skills. But, in an age where Facebook has become such an...
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Shwen Gwee joined Digitas Health LifeBrands as vice president/group director of social strategy, charged with leading, developing, and shaping the future of the social media business unit for the New York office. He reports to Michael Le...
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As it turns out, Facebook’s now infamous psychological research study appears to have been standard practice for the social giant. “The experiment was the work of Facebook's Data Science team, a group of about three dozen res...
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Amid continued executive turnover at Twitter, the company’s success hinges more than ever on one man: Adam Bain, global president of revenue and partnerships, and, as The New York Times call him, the “lead money man since he ...
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Twitter, Vine and Facebook feeds are offering jokes, solidarity and helpful tips for Muslims fasting through the month of Ramadan "Can you please avoid the # during Ramadan? It looks like a waffle." Do you see food, everywhere?...
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More than 259 million people are using LinkedIn, but fewer are tapping into the network’s full potential. Whereas Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are more consumer-based marketing platforms, LinkedIn is essential to lead generation...
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It's hard to talk about disruptive innovation without talking about Harvard Business School, where Clayton Christensen incubated his influential theory, and the Japanese auto industry, which provided much of the crucial fodder for it. So...
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Recently, while on a walk with my family, we stopped at a coffee shop for a quick snack. My wife and kids went in, while I stayed outside with the dog. Five minutes later, my daughter came out with a "pupcake." She told me that this tiny...
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"The campaign is about encouraging consumers to define the outdoors for us, asking them to share their summer adventures," Sam Martin, brand manager, tells "Marketing Daily." "We are trying to give a little spark to the sense of adventur...
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Noisy Neighbours, Jump, Civilization Revolution 2, Haste, Facebook Messenger, Poplings, Monster Hunter and more It's time for our weekly roundup of the best new iPhone and iPad apps and games to have emerged on Apple's App Store. As ever...
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Moscow-based ad agency Instinct helped Ikea promote a limited designer collection by creating an Instagram-powered website. The agency created the ikea_ps_2014 account on Instagram, which serves as the site’s main page with produc...
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Facebook is testing another redesign of its events page , and the most prominent new feature is an “Events for You” section, which includes public events on Facebook that users or their friends were not invited to, in places users hav...
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Some Facebook Page admins are seeing a new ranking display on their Pages, which shows how they rank compared to their competitors. For example, if your’e the fifth most popular business of your type in your town, it will show …
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While all place-based Facebook page admins can see how well their fans and customers have rated them, some page owners are now seeing how they stack up among the competition. Inside Facebook reader Giannis Andrikopoulos of Greece...
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While Facebook apparently experiments with our emotions from time to time, most of the psychological damage we incur by using social media is probably self-inflicted. As evidence for this claim, I would draw your attention to new researc...
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The ‘Sharing Economy’ has arrived, sites that connect ordinary citizens with other citizens to do business directly, face to face, bypassing brands and corporations. Platforms like AirBnB or Lyft are demonstrating the ways th...
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The Fourth of July saw some daytime fireworks in the form of two 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil quarterfinal matches, as host Brazil edged Colombia 2-1, while Germany dispatched France 1-0. According to the Facebook Data Science Team ,...
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Brazilian footballing superstar Neymar retains his crown as king of Starcount's chart of the most popular people on social media for the week of June 30-July 6. New to the top ten is Colombian midfielder James Rodriguez, whose team ...
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A new picture-sharing app from the creators of Moshi Monsters aims to wean children off more adult networks
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Land Rover has awarded The Brooklyn Brothers its global content marketing and social media brief. The global role also includes Range Rover. The agency won in a four-way pitch against Lida, We Are Social and Ogilvy PR. The process was ha...
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British businesses estimate that negative online reviews, malicious comments and misjudged social media posts are costing, on average, GBP46,000 in lost sales. According to the Reputation Report, three in four of the five hundred busines...
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. This is a fantastic quote from Douglas Adams, best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the answer to life, the universe and every...
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On Facebook you have the ability to talk to friends publicly and privately, share your thoughts, photos and videos, chat, play games, sell things, promote your business or... Read More The post Yo, Emoj.li and the Rise of the Gimmick Soc...
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Today in celebrity gossip: Lea Michele and Chris Colfer have both been hacked, Miley Cyrus got a poignant new tattoo, and Tyler Perry now owns the phrase "What Would Jesus Do?" One quick thing before we begin: Can Twitter pleas...
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Removes Mom’s Photo of Daughter’s Bare Bottom (Today) A mom who tried to recreate a famous Coppertone ad with a picture of her 2-year-old daugh...
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As one of the world’s most widely used social relationship platforms, Hootsuite has social baked into our DNA. Four years ago, we were a scrappy startup with very... Read More The post How to Drive Leads for One Third of the Cost appeare...
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Mobilizr, a new mobile startup, is helping to turn users' social content into a promotional tool for brands. Continue reading →
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Cities are lining up for behind-the-scenes access to apps like Waze, Moovit and Strava, to track how people are moving.
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Want a pet? Here's a tip: don't get a moose, however cute it may be In the latest installment of Mashable Minute, Elliott discovers a strange trend of Alaskans keeping baby moose for pets and why that’s a terrible idea. On Friday, ...
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We should insist that Facebook do experiments on the decisions it's already making for us. Anything else would be unethical Several years ago, my student and I studied anonymous email server data from 40,000 students, faculty and staff a...
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We should be afraid of a company that serves 15% of mankind and treats them like lab rats...or worse. "The Wall Street Journal" reported that concurrent with the emotions experiment two years ago, Facebook -- in designing anti-fraud meas...
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While Facebook can make us feel connected and socially happy, at times it can put us down and take a toll on our well-being If you're an active Facebooker, you may be engaging in self-destructive behavior without even realizing it. By id...
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