In less than a decade, social media has grown from fairly humble beginnings to an integral and increasingly important part of the everyday lives of hundreds of millions of users around the world, as well as playing a vital role in the marketing and branding aspirations of businesses of all shapes and sizes.
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roup buying innovators Groupon have acquired Uptake, a service dedicated to pairing together the “advice and recommendations from the people you trust most.” It’s a social travel website that lets you log in to Facebook and figure out who has been to the places you’re interested in and ask those people for tips.
This year advertisers paid $3.5 million for a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl and $1.7 million for an ad during the Academy Awards. Was it worth it? Check out this postmortem on which of the two live television events gave brands the most bang for their buck.
Nine months ago, PapayaMobile, the creators of “Papaya Farm” and “Papaya Fish,” stopped publishing their own games. Since then, the company says it has reached 50 million users and has just launched a new development tool called “Social Splash” that will make it easier to put games on the Android.
About a year ago, Tello debuted a Yelp-style forum for rating the customer service at local businesses. Now the SaaS and mobile application company has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding from True Ventures and Bullpen Capital.
Today is February 29, which, as you probably know, is a pretty special day—it’s Leap Day! But why do we add an extra day to the calendar every four years? Here are a few great online video explanations.
At this year’s Oscars, Billy Crystal took the time to point out that the assembled magisterial Hollywood elite were packed into the “Chapter 11″ theater — a jab at the fact that Kodak had recently filed for bankruptcy. The company, one of the pioneers of modern consumer photography, has been having a rough patch, and that’s why it was a surprise to see such them release such an innovative social Android application last week.
Over the past few months YouTube has been making major strides towards making content accessible for as many people as possible, putting a lot of effort into new initiatives to get as many of their videos captioned as possible. Today on their blog, YouTube provides an update on their recent progress with closed captioning.
With more and more people joining Pinterest every day, it’s becoming impossible for marketers to ignore the Pinterest phenomenon. But how can marketers get in on this? A new infographic from MDG Advertising takes a deeper look.
In 2009 a soprano named Britlin Losee posted a video of herself singing “Sleep” by composer Eric Whitacre on YouTube. The composer liked it so much that he encouraged his other fans to upload videos of themselves singing along. Three years later, the virtual choir he created with singers from all over the world is set to release its third recording.
