Snapchat Rolls Out New Group Sharing Features – Ideal For Events & Concerts
Snapchat has rolled out a new feature called ‘Our Story’, where users in the same location can contribute snaps to big story. Users not at that location can then watch the story unfold from many different users perspective. From the Snapchat blog, they go on to say: Snapchat has always been about sharing your point […]
Read More | ShareThree In Five Australian Males On Snapchat Use It To Sext
Marketers and brands are failing to exploit social video such as Vine, Instagram Video and Snapchat despite evidence of greater engagement with users compared to other content types, a major study of Australian social video use has found. While social video is in its relatively infancy, it is gaining in popularity, particularly with women. Some […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – May 2014
It’s time to post our monthly stats report showing the most popular social networks in Australia over May 2014. Social Media Statistics Australia – May 2014 1. Facebook – 13,200,000 users (steady, according to Ad tool) 2. YouTube – 12,750,000 UAVs 3. WordPress.com – 6,200,000 4. Tumblr – 4,850,000 5. LinkedIn – 3,650,000 6. Blogspot […]
Read More | ShareApple To Purchase Beats Electronics For $3 Billion USD
Apple has announced on their press site that they have entered into an agreement to acquire the Beats Electronics business, famous for making the Beats headphones created by co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. The deal is worth $2.6 Billion in cash, and $400 Million in stock (USD). It is expected that Jimmy Iovine and Dr. […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Introduces ‘Mute Button’ To Free Up Your Timeline
Follow people on Twitter who tweet too much? But don’t have the heart to unfollow them? Recently annonced in a blog post, Twitter has released a new feature where you can ‘Mute’ people you follow, and their tweets will no longer show up in your timeline. To mute a user, goto their profile, click on […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Retires Their Snapchat Competing App – Poke
Facebook has quietly removed their Poke application from the App Store, an application that was created by Facebook to compete directly with Snapchat. Poke was launched in December 2012 and much like Snapchat allowed users to send short 10 second images that disappear, however the service never gained considerable traction despite Facebook’s best efforts. Facebook […]
Read More | ShareAnti Social Media Video Goes Viral
This great video by Gark Turk was posted on YouTube about 1 week ago. Now with over 25 million views, it is worth taking note. In the video Gary explains how many of us are absorbed by the ‘social media life’, and how we need to focus more-so on real world connections, in person. The […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – April 2014
It’s time to post our monthly stats report showing the most popular social networks in Australia over April 2014. Social Media Statistics Australia – April 2014 1. Facebook – 13,200,000 users (according to Ad tool) 2. YouTube – 12,700,000 UAVs 3. WordPress.com – 6,150,000 4. Tumblr – 4,800,000 5. LinkedIn – 3,500,000 6. Blogspot – […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Mobile Users
In Facebook’s latest earning release we are given further insight into how the world’s largest social network is growing. Firstly, Facebook’s financial results for the quarter was US $2.5 billion in revenue and US $642 million net profit. In a first for the company – active monthly mobile users reached 1 Billion. Commentary from Facebook: […]
Read More | ShareInstagram’s Popular Page Now Shows ‘Unpopular’ Random Photos
You may have noticed over the last week that many images on Instagram Explore Tab (which used to be called the popular page) have a minimal number of likes, but getting maximum exposure in this prominent section of the app. This is a recent change by Instagram but hasn’t specifically been announced by the service. […]
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