Tuesday Mar 19th

Protect your brand by monitoring social media
Social media is a kind of love-hate relationship since it can like you, share with you, and engage you in conversations, especially when content is created from a user-centric point of view, but also knock you for six, if you are not foresighted and careful.
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Do you have what it takes to “Make the Cut” in the first-ever crowdsourced music video competition?
According to a survey by Bazaarvoice, the majority of millennials (84%) say online user-generated content influences their purchase and usage decisions. Indeed, open sourced content creation is a trend that continues to evolve and has supposedly been started by Nine Inch Nails with the release of a ...
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Livestreaming brings your campaigns to life
Livestreaming is a powerful emotionalizing medium for its users and many want to share their experiences immediately with friends and acquaintances via social media. This automatically creates a link between the video content and other platforms, advertisers can make use of for their next campaigns.
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Get the ball rolling for your social media success
To score with content on social networks, proper preparation is everything! Therefore, you might want to consider the following tips how to get the ball rolling with good social media content ideas:
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Social media overtakes print in ad spend
According to Zenith's recently published Advertising Expenditure Forecast, social media ad spend is the fastest growing segment of online advertising with a growth rate of 51% last year. The forecast estimates that spending on social media will reach $55 billion and that print media will be signific ...
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Latest Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
Jamie Spencer impressed us already last year with his Social Media Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet, that includes specific commands that would otherwise be accessible through a menu via a click of a mouse button.
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Website performance expectations are high in South East Asia - on all connected devices
Smartphones are the go-to device for accessing the Internet throughout South East Asia and consumers expect fast performance of websites across all devices, according to the “State of the User Experience” research report released by Limelight Networks recently.
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AdParlor’s new technology disrupts traditional digital creative testing
AdParlor Asia launched Intelligence Tags™, a technology that uses artificial intelligence to test the creative effectiveness across a range of social ads, including images, videos, as well as unique formats such as GIFs, cinemagraphs, canvas ads and text.
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Alpha users
Just like viruses spread in nature, there is an initial starting point to communications in social networks triggered by so-called ‘alpha users’. They are key elements of any social networks and manage the connectivity of the core members of the community.
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‘Wander’ App brings back the 'social' in social networking and the ‘personal’ to the mass
Say goodbye to posting on social networks and waiting for comments, feedback and likes, as Wander is the new, better way of interacting with other people digitally.
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Social media in upheaval
For a long time, companies could draw attention to themselves with social media, but free media performance becomes a phase-out-model. Social media has left the "hype cycle" behind and became a common media business as any other where companies want to present themselves. But the question of how to ...
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The main benefits of Social Media Marketing
If you still didn’t jump on the bandwagon of social media marketing, Wendy Suto’s list of benefits clearly speak for social media and are quite convincing to get started.
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What is allowed and ‘legal’ in Influencer Marketing?
With the increase in user numbers on social media, advertising effectiveness on these platforms increases simultaneously, opening up a new advertising channel -  the so-called "Influencer Marketing".  However, since the Internet isn’t a right-free area, the question arises of respect ...
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More people are willing to share personal data in return for rewards
According to a recent GfK study, over a quarter (27%) of internet users strongly agreed that they are willing to share their personal data in exchange for benefits or rewards, while in contrast 19% were firmly unwilling to share their data.
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Email marketing and social media achieve more when used in combination
Social media networks are an indispensable part of communication and question a bit the usefulness of emails. Social media postings take place in real-time, are easy to create and animate to interact, therefore have a clear advantage regarding branding. Usually, people who see that friends like a co ...
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A significant number of SMEs have not yet adopted social media
A new survey, conducted by Clutch, a B2B ratings and reviews firm, offers recommendations, based on original data, for small businesses’ social media endeavors in 2017.
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Advertisers in Vietnam appraise social networks as highly effective marketing channels
Firms in Vietnam that use digital marketing channels are finding social networks and search engines most successful, eMarketer states in one of its latest research reports.
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Why ‘Social Media Listening’ is good for business
If it is used without prejudice, ‘Social Media Listening’ can be used by companies to the benefit of business development, sales support, or personnel and product development, to name a few.
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Socialyk, the world's first human centric SaaS based networking platform
Intelliber Technologies introduced Socialyk earlier this year, the world's first human centric, SaaS based, fully functional, end-to-end, demand and supply side networking platform.
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With Influencer Marketing to success - what really matters
Influencer Marketing describes a marketing approach where a person's awareness is used to pay more attention to a product or brand. It is settled somewhere between the recommendation of a friend and classic advertising. It’s a clever strategy, because in times of ad blockers and advertising bl ...
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Hootsuite acquired Naritiv’s Analytics Solution to enable customers leveraging Snapchat in digital marketing campaigns
The social media management platform Hootsuite acquired the Snapchat analytics solution created by Naritiv, a Los Angeles-based content creation company.
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Using social media platforms for efficient growth
In social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, it is no longer just about posting pictures and photos from the last party. Companies have been using these channels for a long time to communicate with their customers and promote their brand.
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ESET discovers new Instagram credential stealers on Google Play
Researchers at ESET, a global leader in proactive cybersecurity, have discovered 13 new Instagram credential stealers on the Google Play store and provided greater insight into the motivations behind their fraudulent schemes.Instagram users have recently been the target of several new credential ste ...
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2016 ended as the worst year for phishing attacks in history – social media is involved
According to the APWG’s new Phishing Activity Trends Report, the number of phishing attacks in 2016 were the highest ever recorded with 1,220,523, representing an increase of 65% compared to the previous year.
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Unified Inbox and IBM Watson delve into communication between people and machines
IBM announced it is collaborating with Unified Inbox, a Singapore-based intelligent IoT messaging company, to provide businesses with the world’s first intelligent ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) messaging platform, using IBM Watson. IBM will also provide Unified Inbox, an IBM Cloud (Bl ...
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First-of-its-kind influencer reality show intends to find ‘Asia’s Next Top Beauty Creator’
If you love the spotlight and managed to enthuse a large following, you might be able to partner with large brands or even create your own fashion and beauty lines to sell via social media. Take Chiara Ferragni as an example, who is by now a Global Fashion Icon and lead judge of the Beauty Bound Sea ...
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Pressure is on to keep up with personalization vs privacy
Social networks and search engines are increasingly customizing our advertisements, contact networks and search results, making each user’s experience unique. But at least since Edward Snowden’s revelations, consumers started to be concerned about data collection and want to know why thi ...
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March 2017 - Social Media & Influencer Marketing

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