Can’t seem to get the perfect holiday selfie? Haven’t been pinning festive holidays crafts on your Pinterest boards? Can’t stand to receive another Candy Cane Gram? Sounds like you’re feeling more like Ebenezer Scrooge than the Sugar Plum Fairy.
Before you go ahead and tweet #BahHumbug onto your feed, dear Scrooge, let’s take a journey with the ghosts of Social Media past, present, and future for some insight on where we’re headed in the coming year.
This week in social media, Spotify lets you share your Year in Music, Mashable brings climate change into focus with Snapchat Discover, and WIRED sheds light on Christmas characters from around the globe. (Hint: #Krampus isn’t the only Christmas monster!)Continue reading
Kick off the holiday season with social news from Metter Media! In this week’s #MMSocialReport, Taylor Swift takes selfies for a cause, Instagram influences baby names, and more.
This week in social media, local Facebook ads get more advanced, the case for businesses on Instagram gets even stronger, and Snapchat achieves game-changing views per day. All this and more in the #MMSocialReport!
This week, prepare to share your #Halloweekend with seven new social media trends, a fun new app from Instagram, and more!
As fall rolls in, social media evolves with new Facebook features, increasingly creative brand Instagrams, and new legitimacy for Snapchat Producers.
Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are adding new features left and right. However, increased functionality also means a growing need for monetization. This week, we can see both sides of this double-edged sword: Instagram’s going to post more ads, but hey, you can use Twitter in landscape mode now.
When following a large, community-focused social media account, it can be easy to overlook the fact that it is run by an actual person, or if you’re like us, you wonder how such a thriving and well-loved account began. Today we go straight to the source with Javier Mejia, founder of the nearly 40,000-follower-strong @IGersBoston Instagram account, to get some answers. Below, he discusses his inspiration, how he manages it all, and the astounding support of the local photography community.
What did we learn this week in social media? The Twitter world is becoming a safer place, thanks to the introduction of its new Safety Center, and Instagram is improving its search features for the web. Flipagram just scored some massive funding, and just for funsies this Friday, a few unproductive things you can do with Google. Enjoy!
To make your brand stand out from all the others, it’s important to have a plan to help navigate the fast-paced world of online marketing. In this week’s Social Report, we cover a few of Instagram’s latest photo features and how marketers can use them to their advantage.
In other news, Facebook made some female-friendly changes, and our own Lauren Metter shares a bit about our story with IM Boston.