It has been four months since the launch of Instagram Stories in August 2016, which sent the internet into a huge hysteria and speculation over the future of Snapchat. To everyone who is on social media, the latest update of Instagram seemed eerily similar to the social networking app Snapchat with 30 million monthly active users. In fact, the update wasn’t just eerily similar, it’s the exact same as Snapchat. Therefore, the hysteria and speculation was with good reason too as Instagram had pretty much replicated one of the main features of Snapchat and added it to their online photo sharing social network platform. Instagram has 500 million monthly active users is clearly hoping that there newly introduced ‘Stories’ will help them steal the Snapchat audience with its nearly identical upgrade.
Read MoreThis year has seen the rise of video content, in fact 2016 has seen a full-on video revolution year for marketers. This year has seen the introduction of Facebook Live, Instagram Stories and apps like Periscope interplaying on social channels. The importance of video content has clearly been becoming extremely popular to use by businesses. According to Wyzowl statistics, 61% of businesses have incorporated video as a marketing tool but 66% of these companies were not using video a year ago. The trend has progressed rapidly and will eventually be explored even more in depth and become even more creative. As you can see, having a promotional video that tells a compelling story is vital for your business and company’s needs due to the rapidly growing trend.
Read MoreBranding has been going through a revolution. Over the past few years, branding has been shifting from representing pre-packaged, unapproachable and distant organisations to a more personal and connective state. Today, the expectations of consumers and B2B buyers are becoming more demanding. People want to understand and know everything about a business. They want to know what it is, what it produces, what it values and stands for and what it employs. More importantly, people want to interact more with brands, be able to demand new products and services, and be active in conversations with them. This has meant that brands have had to lose their impersonal, uncommunicative and distant skins.
Read MoreThe aim of marketing is to reach a consumer and invoke a change in their behaviour by enticing them to take action. Yet, the only way to truly interact with consumers is to be where people are engaging and spending time, which means to be interactive on social media. The question is - Why is Instagram more important than any other social media platform? ...
Read MoreIn the growing social media environment accessed every day via online platforms, the ways in which audiences consume content is consistently changing. Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are leading the race in terms of developing social media tactics to attract consumers, and those using social networks to create an online presence can take advantage of these methods in order to create a brand and attract specific demographics. However, there are some social media tactics that stand out more than others – innovating the way we use social media today.
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