Come February and it's time for the marketers to play the love tune. This year we saw some witty, sweet and unabashedly romantic campaigns. We've rounded up some of the most talked videos, ads and online Valentine's Day campaigns in 2014.
Twitter went down Tuesday afternoon, and everyone flipped out. The service is restored now though. But tweeps who couldn’t access Twitter have taken to the social network, mainly posting their reactions when the service crashed. #Whiletwitterwasdown trended on Twitter (quite an irony) and we dug into the conversations. Here's what we found -
Attendees at The Social Media Marketing World Conference in San Diego held last month received valuable lessons on social media - not through expert-led sessions but a gig titled “Let’s get social”. Mary McCoy from Continuum Managed Services gave the attendees a musical insight into the world of social web - from cats to hashtag fails. The song, a warm-up for a keynote panel led by Jay Baer (Convince & Convert) on the topic of "Have We Lost the Social in Social Media?", has created a considerable buzz online - for good or bad reasons that’s for you to decide!
With a population of 2.4 billion people, the city of internet never sleeps. Every minute there's something happening. Here's some interesting data that internet users do every minute online:
Email users send across 204 million messages
Amazon gets $83,000 in online sales
Apple users download 48,000 apps
Facebook users share 2.46 million pieces of content
Today is Computer Security Day! There will be thousands of articles, focused on how to protect your social media accounts and apps from hackers. We will highlight some of the major points and links. We have decided to feature some of the scariest online hack stories.
Before we go to the scariest online hack stories, things you need to know:
The search giant winds up the year with a list of top 10 searches for the last 12 months. iPhone6 gets the position of top consumer electronics searches. Flappy Bird tops the list of gaming searches. Jennifer Lawrence overshadows Kim Kardashian in the most-searched people’s list. Robin Williams tops Google’s list of most-searched terms for 2014 - for global and the US list.
The time has come when half of America would be at the football ground and half would be glued to their TV sets. It's also that time of the year when the entire world gets to witness some fantabulous content. Remember the Oreo tweet?
Are you an avid Twitter user? Do you use it for marketing, branding or just because you love the network? Whatever your reason is, you must have noticed that every user is unique on Twitter. Some people just love to talk, some belong to the so-called elite class thus only speak to Twitter celebs, some only RT, some keep favoritizing tweets, some share knowledge, while some people just prefer to stalk others.