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Facebook campaign gone too far? Model strips for Likes
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Brands are getting more and more creative when it comes to encouraging Facebook users to click those ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ buttons to make their campaigns go viral. One campaign that might not have a very hard time achieving its goal comes courtesy of the Amsterdam branch of fashion brand, Stüssy. AdRants...
The Most Social Super Bowl Breaks Records, Offers Advertisers Lessons
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Twitter did not crash and the Super Bowl became the most tweeted sporting event in history, averaging more than 10,000 tweets per second. That wasn't all that surprising: continued growth of the social network, not to mention tablet and smartphone technology that make it easier to tweet while watching television,...
PeerPerks lets brands reward influential social media users with freebies
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PeerIndex, a service which measures influence and authority on the social web, has just announced a brand new service, PeerPerks, which aims to reward you for your social media influence on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Much like Klout’s own rewards service, Klout Perks, PeerPerks wants to reward you...
Women are ‘more likely’ to make your social media campaign go viral
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uSamp has just published a study that gives a little insight into what kind of information men and women are willing to share on social networks. Surveying 600 adults in the UK this past January, the survey revealed that 78% of women were happy to share what brand they preferred, compared...
Adapting to Facebook Timeline is a huge challenge for brands, here are some tips on where to focus
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With all Facebook pages now upgraded to the new Timeline whether they like it or not, many brands have found themselves struggling with the challenge of adapting their content and marketing approach to the new layout. A new Simple Usability study, which uses the firm’s eyetracking technology, is giving companies an interesting insight...
In letter to stockholders, Groupon CEO explains why he wants to move fast on a bumpy road
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Andrew Mason, co-founder and CEO of Groupon, says the company wants to build an ‘Operating System for Local Commerce’ in a letter to stockholders that was just filed with the SEC and published on the Groupon blog. Mason reiterated that, in 2011, Groupon sold more than 170 million Groupons to...
Social media backlash sees Oasis drink maker backtrack after trying to take a small business down
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Social media certainly has its uses. It’s a marketing tool, a journalism tool, and even has a role in fighting crime. Today it can add another accolade to an already long list: taking a stand against the Man. Deborah Kudzman, the owner of a small Canadian business, Olivia’s Oasis, found...
Beyond The Daily Deal: Groupon’s 170M Deals And 33M Users; Aims To Be ‘The OS For Local Commerce’
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Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason today posted a letter to shareholders with some updated figures on how the company is doing, and a more specific outline of what Groupon plans to do to to move beyond daily deals: ”To become the operating system for local commerce.” The move is a significant one...
Google launches Hangout series ‘Versus’, featuring Richard Branson and Julian Assange in its first debate
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For the most part we’ve seen Google+ turn into a great marketing tool for celebrities to connect with their fans, from Japanese girlbands and Egyptian pop stars to international stars like David Beckham and Will.I.Am. In between all the star-studded Hangouts, we’ve also had seen some interesting political and global...
Google launches Hangout series ‘Versus’, featuring Richard Branson and Julian Assange in its first debate
Facebook Unleashes Powerful Marketing Tool: Page Post Targeting By Age, Gender, and More
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Today Facebook begins the roll out of “Page Post Targeting Enhanced” allowing Pages to target their posts to segments of fans with certain genders, ages, and other characteristics so they can tailor market messages to specific audiences. For example, a business could tell teens they’ve got “swag” while telling adults...
Online retail platform Goodsie aims to be one-stop shop for newby sellers
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Helping small businesses make the jump to online sales is becoming a big business opportunity, especially with the added boost coming from sales via smartphones and tablets. Companies like Shopify, eBay with its X.commerce platform and more mobile platforms like Mobify and Pressly are helping address the growing needs of...
Get Satisfaction Wants To Spread Community (Widgets) Everywhere With Engage
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Get Satisfaction was built around the importance of community to businesses. Now, with the launch of a new product called Get Satisfaction Engage, it wants to make those communities embeddable anywhere. Basically, Engage is a new architecture for Get Satisfaction widgets, turning them into customizable versions of a company’s Get...
Pinfluencer Gets Around the Pinterest Analytics Problem
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Pinterest, as I’ve written before, hasn’t been particularly friendly to people who try to harness its site for commercial purposes. The site flags short URLs and strips tracking codes, both of which are standard practice for brands in social media. The prevailing assumption is that Pinterest will later introduce its...
Swipely connects customer rewards with your credit card, launches “Marketing Manager”
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One of the most exciting aspects of the tech startup scene is the potential it has to make our lives easier. The only problem is, companies often start out solving a problem that never existed. Plus, if there is a legitimate problem, solutions that are proposed aren’t always going to...
From mod to game: How DayZ will evolve as a standalone release
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Rebuilding DayZ from the ground up will mean zombies won't just run straight at you at full speed. Bohemia Interactive / Dean Hall When Dean "Rocket" Hall started working on the zombie-themed DayZ mod for Bohemia Interactive's ArmA II, he figured it would get a decent response from the...
AdRoll Raises $15M For Ad Retargeting, Round Led By Foundation Capital
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AdRoll, one of the leaders in online ad retargeting, has raised a new $15 million round of funding. Back in February, the company announced that it had quadrupled revenue and become profitable in 2011. AdRoll now says it has more than 5,000 customers and is adding almost 500 new ones...
Street Fighter and me: Yoshinori Ono on the future of the fighting game
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The Street Fighter producer, now recovering from a recent illness, tells us about his aims and ambitions for the legendary series, and reveals his favourite Tekken characterIf you're a fighting game fan, you'll have seen the videos. Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono and his Tekken equivalent, Katsuhiro Harada, at the...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
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Good morning! Here's the news: Apple is finally planning to kill off Ping, its failed attempt at a social network, with the next release of iTunes, AllThingsD reports. Tim Cook revealed that Apple will come out with a refresh for the Mac Pro sometime later next year, in response to...
At this trendy nightclub, social media nerds are the new VIPs
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At one of L.A’s hottest nightclubs, social media enthusiasts and horn-rimmed hipsters can jump straight to the front of the line, swiftly past gaggles of giggling girls. Oh, how the tables have turned. Playhouse nightclub announced today a first-of-its-kind partnership with influence-tracking startup, Klout, to offer VIP access to those with a...
Groupon’s Andrew Mason: We want to be “the OS for local commerce”
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After a rocky showing in its first earnings report, Groupon CEO Andrew Mason revealed his grand ambitions for the company in a letter to stockholders today. It’s not just about daily deals anymore — Mason wants Groupon to become the “operating system for local commerce.” “We are building an...
Why Andrew Mason is still wrong about Groupon’s prospects
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After an accounting restatement, a shuffling of its board of directors and Groupon’s stock falling to below 50% of its initial public offering price (and 66% off the high it reached on its first day of trading), Groupon CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter to shareholders yesterday to try to...
The dark side of QR codes
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Quick response codes are everywhere -- magazines, take-out menus, and the sides of bus stops. But this marketing tool could be just the opportunity hackers are looking for. [Read more]...
Desperate To Reverse Negative Momentum, Andrew Mason Explains His Long Term Vision For Groupon (GRPN)
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Groupon CEO and cofounder Andrew Mason just released a letter to shareholders outlining a long-term vision for the company that goes well beyond the daily emails it is known for. He's trying to reverse some seriously negative momentum. Way back in 2010, Groupon rejected a $5.75 billion acquisition offer from...
Desperate To Reverse Negative Momentum, Andrew Mason Explains His Long Term Vision For Groupon (GRPN)
Video conferencing firm Vidyo launches free service VidyoWay
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Vidyo is launching a new product called VidyoWay, the video conferencing firm announced today. This service will serve as a complement to the company’s flagship service portfolio, VidyoConferencing. While VidyoWay may compete with services such as Skype and ooVoo, it will differ from them in several ways, starting with interconnectivity....
Study: The Top Words Used In Mobile App Titles On iOS
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Wondering about which words are the most commonly used in mobile app titles? So was Appsfire, apparently. The company just shot us over the results of a study it ran to determine the top words developers are using in app titles today. While some of the results are obvious (“app”...
One week in, how are the Harry Potter e-books selling?
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It’s been a week since the Pottermore shop launched – making the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks available legally for the first time. Seven days in, how is Harry selling? Since Pottermore is mum on actual sales numbers — and the New York Times and USA Today aren’t yet tracking the...
Ptch social iPhone app launches with DreamWorks Animation backing
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But startup stresses that it's not just trying to become a movie marketing tool for its parent companyPtch is guaranteed to get app-sceptics hot under the collar. It's missing a vowel, launching on iPhone alone, and is the kind of social videos'n'photos app that generates talk of "Instagram meets Viddy...
After You See This Data, You'll Never Call Groupon A Ponzi Scheme Again (GRPN)
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About a year ago, merchants using Groupon started complaining about nightmare scenarios in which groupon-wielding customers would come in, buy only discounted items and then never come back. These stories led to theories that Groupon was a ponzi scheme that would eventually run out of steam in part because no...
GUY KAWASAKI: Here's What I've Learned About Twitter Marketing
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Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist at Apple and all-around marketing guru, knows quite a bit about generating hype. His account @GuyKawasaki is followed by more than 800,000 people, and he uses it to promote his aggregation site Alltop. Kawasaki uses Twitter as strictly a marketing tool for Alltop. He revealed some of the...
Stamped Founder Robby Stein On Launching Version 2.0 And Roping Celebrity Investors
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Stamped has been a busy little startup. The company just launched version 2.0 of the app, letting people take action on the things their friends have suggested through a stamp of approval. This is thanks in large part to a massive funding round from various celebrities and companies including...
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