Photo and video apps have surpassed music as the number one Internet activity in terms of time spent in minutes (according to this Flurry research study). They are the fastest growing App category with 89% growth between July 2011 and March 2012. Between that and the huge growth of smart phones – estimated to hit […]
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Social Media Monitoring Tool Video: How Can SMM Jumpstart Your Writing
Social media monitoring tools: Every blogger has been there before. You have a deadline coming up at the end of the day and you need to get a post out but you don’t know what to write. So you decide to cobble together another “how to” guide on a beginner-level topic, knowing your readers will […]
How Do Publishers Make Money from Images (Part 2)? Future of Publishing
Last week, FamousBloggers showed you the first part of a two-part Future of Publishing episode about how to make money from images. This week, I’m sharing the second part of the episode with you: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyaKcqhD91M] Highlights Banner ads don’t work very well anymore… Many publishers have click rates lower than .1%… Monetized images work by […]
Yelp IPO: Did Social Media Manipulate Stock Prices? Find out in Future of Engagement!
Yelp’s share price jumped from fifteen dollars per share to twenty-five dollars in what became the biggest single-day increase on the day of IPO for any web company in 2012. Yelp got heavy criticism for not even being profitable, despite having been around since 2004. However, most of the social media response and much of […]
How Do Publishers Make Money from Images? – Future of Publishing
Stock photography stores have sold photos online for years. Recently, ordinary bloggers have gained the ability to make money off images too, but in an entirely different way. In this Future of Publishing episode, Influence People’s Murray Newlands and VigLink’s Oliver Roup interview image monetization experts Chas Edwards and Rey Flemings on how bloggers can […]
Nike’s Black and Tan Fiasco: How the Luck of the Irish Saves Shoe Giant from PR Disaster
The Black and Tans were a royalist paramilitary group funded by the British government’s Irish police force in 1920 and 1921, when Ireland was in open revolt against colonial rule. In this Future of Engagement episode, host Murray Newlands examines how social media covered the Black and Tan fiasco, and how Nike mitigated the damage […]