How Brands are Using Snapchat
Snapchat’s growth is staggering. From May 2015 to May 2016, Snapchat video views grew from 2 billion a day to 10 billion. This tops Facebook’s 8 billion daily video views, despite Snapchat having far fewer active users. Snapchat recently surpassed Twitter with a reported 150 million daily active users compared to Twitter’s 140 million. As I […]
Facebook Live Examples and Best Practices
New features on established social networks have the potential to give users and brands a first-mover advantage. While there is some trial and error for brands to figure out what works best, brands that excel with the new feature can benefit from doing something before everyone else catches up. In the case of Facebook Live, […]
2016 Social Media Trends You Should Know About
Lucky for you, we’ve sorted through the digital noise to produce the 2016 Social Media Trend Report which describes the major social media updates from Q1 2016 and what they mean for your business. [slideshare id=61208607&doc=tsl2016socialmediatrendreport-160421200427] What Are the Themes From the Quarterly Trend Report? New Video Features From longer Instagram videos to the rise […]
Deconstructing the Creative Process with Ben Nesvig
Do you find yourself wondering how certain individuals always seem to be up on their creative game? Continuously cranking out quality content, testing new ideas, and always in-the-know about the latest technology? We’ve gotten to know Ben Nesvig recently, and quickly realized he fits into this unique category. Curious to learn more about his creative […]
Creativity, Social Strategy and Rejection – an interview with Jon Savitt
Before meeting Jon Savitt IRL, we spent more time than we’d like to admit perusing his Twitter feed, coming across gems like: I can't feel my face when I'm with food — Jon Savitt (@savittj) September 25, 2015 and .@realDonaldTrump Hi Donald, what is your stance on breakfast for dinner? Need to know asap — […]
3-Emoji Review: #itsjustacup So Chill Out Guys
Starbucks Red Cup Meets the Grinch Stole Christmas Who knew a cardboard cup filled with mediocre coffee could give such a large audience firework-eye-shooting-anger? If you didn’t hear, there wasn’t enough tinsel on the debuted Starbucks red cup this year and people are up in arms about it. In fact, people are calling the cup […]
3-Emoji Review: Is New Twitter A Sandwich Or No?
New Twitter Heart Breaks America’s I’m going to be completely transparent with you here. This is how I feel about the new “like” feature on Twitter. In case you’ve been living far, far away riding your own star across the universe, Twitter changed their favorite feature “star” to a “heart.” Why? They claimed a heart […]
Minnesota Retailers Association Event Recap
We were invited to speak at The Minnesota Retailers Association‘s Crushin’ It With Customers Event at Boulay, joining with Nina Hale, Inc. and Blue Earth Interactive. The subject: Digital Strategy for the 2015 holiday season. Here’s a few of our favorite takeaways – in tweet form, of course! Google Search Insights "Near me" @Google searches […]
