Amy Gesenhues is Third Door Media’s General Assignment Reporter, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed […]
Updates to Snapchat Stories, Twitter loses its COO & more Read More »
Facebook really wants you to use Facebook Stories. “You’ll like it if you try it – what if we made it so you could see your Stories on desktop too? What if we made it so you could cross-post your Instagram Stories to Facebook? What if we made it so Stories you post on Facebook
As Instagram continues to pile pressure onto Snapchat, the Facebook-owned app keeps adding in smaller variations and tools to better differentiate its Stories option. This week, users have reported a few different options in testing, expanding the possibilities of what you can do within the app. First off, they’ve added a new text-only Stories option,
Instagram’s Adding Some New Tricks, Including Text-Only Stories Screens and GIFs Read More »
This week’s ‘Skim: why marketers and brands should beware of Facebook’s biggest algorithm change in years; LinkedIn fires up an unconventional ad campaign to get people thinking differently about the platform; Facebook unveils major new drive to compete with Amazon Echo devices and Google Home; America’s love-hate relationship with social networks, and which ones they
Social Media News: Big Facebook Algo Change, LinkedIn Repositioning: 11 Stories Read More »
January 18th, 2018 You know what you should do? Add hashtags to your Instagram Stories. You invested serious resources into creating and capturing the perfect Instagram Story. Maybe you put yourself in precarious situations. Maybe you spent eons testing filters and pondering witty captions. When you “do it for the gram,” you better get the
Snapchat may have created the Stories format, but Facebook is taking ownership of it. After seeing success with Instagram Stories, and rolling out Stories variants to Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp, The Social Network is now working on re-focusing its Stories tools, which could provide significant benefits for brands. Their latest effort on this front is
Facebook Is Testing the Ability to Cross-Post Instagram Stories to WhatsApp Status Read More »
Darren: Hi there, welcome to Episode 227 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse. I’m the founder of problogger.com – a blog, a podcast, event, job board, a series of ebooks, and a course all designed to help you to start an amazing blog, to create great content for the readers who come
227: 3 Travel Bloggers Share their Stories and Tips Read More »
This week’s ‘Skim: what Facebook’s new war on “engagement bait” means for you; what name Amazon just trademarked, and why YouTube should be worried; Snapchat’s the only app that teens would take if deserted on an island (which come in second and third?); Twitter’s new business-friendly features make direct messaging more personal (and it ends
Social Media News: Facebook vs. Engagement Bait; Amazon vs. YouTube: 11 Stories Read More »
If you’ve spent any time online in the past several weeks, you’re almost undoubtedly fatigued by the inevitable slew of year-end retrospectives and round-ups. However, at the risk of sounding like one of those insufferable hipster types, we were doing it before it was cool, and we couldn’t bid a fond farewell to 2017 without
The Year in AdWords, SEO in 2018 & More Top Stories From December Read More »
The online advertising and digital marketing industries saw dozens of exciting developments this year, but 2017 also brought with it new challenges to be overcome, not least of which the fraught political and economic environment in which many small businesses are now struggling to survive. As is customary here at WordStream, it’s time to take
