There’s probably no group better placed to examine coming visual trends than the team at Shutterstock. One of the biggest image and video sources on the internet, Shutterstock facilitates more than 170 million downloads of their visuals per year, giving the company a huge pool of data from which to identify key visual trends. Which […]
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Last year, every marketer spending budget in AdWords held their breath at the beginning of October. Why? That’s the day Google decided to drop what, upon first glance, appeared to be a bomb: “Starting October 4, 2017, campaigns will be able to spend up to twice the average daily budget to help you reach your
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I’ve no idea how to actually do the two-step. Apparently it looks a little something like this:It’s way too complex for me. Fortunately, when it comes to marketing, the two-step opt-in form is much simpler. What is a Two-Step Opt-In Form? Well for starters it’s a two-time hyphenated term that’s really annoying to type. Functionally
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Marrying logic and magic pushes campaigns beyond the marketing noise Today’s savvy consumers require authentic connections at precise points in the buying cycle. Brands that fail to consistently hit that mark will struggle to keep up. Instead of adding value, they end up just creating a busier, more confusing market. Finding these key points of
For the last 15 years, we’ve been using social data wrong. We think that because social marketing programs create lots of social data these two things — social programs and social data — should fit together. But they don’t. Social data doesn’t prove social success. And yet most marketers use engagement as their top social
What’s in store for the social media industry in 2018? The way consumers use social media channels is constantly evolving and as marketers and entrepreneurs, we need to adapt to these changes. To better understand these changes, plus what’s ahead for 2018 and beyond we teamed up with Social Media Week to collect data from
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There’s no hiding from the opioid crisis that became a national emergency in 2017. An estimated 20 million Americans, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from drug or alcohol addiction. These facts are important and difficult to dismiss. Addiction is a complicated disease with no simple cure. But nearly every recovery program agrees that
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While Snapchat is known as the key place to reach younger users, as the home of tech-savvy Millennials, Snap Inc. itself rarely provides any detailed figures on exactly how many people are using each of its elements, on who, exactly, you’ll be able to reach by marketing through the app. Of course, there are overall
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Google announced that the PageSpeed Insights tool has been updated to use data from the Chrome user experience report, which means the tool is using metrics from “real-world Chrome users who experience popular destinations on the web.” The pagespeed tool now shows you how fast your pages load based on real user data, which is
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PageSpeed Insights provides information about how well a page adheres to a set of best practices. In the past, these recommendations were presented without the context of how fast the page performed in the real world, which made it hard to understand when it was appropriate to apply these optimizations. Today, we’re announcing that PageSpeed
