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Realtime Trends, Twitter Goes Editorial and Tumblr TV (Empower Mondays)

Google Trends Goes Realtime: You can now explore minute-by-minute, real-time data behind the more than 100 billion searches that take place on Google every month, getting deeper into the topics you care about. During major events like the Oscars or the NBA Finals, you’ll be able to track the stories most people are searching for […]

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Pinterest UK users double, with DIY, cookery and gardening most popular categories

Pinterest UK users have doubled in the past year, with 1.6 billion items pinned from the UK. Pinterest does not disclose how exactly how many UK users it has but they “about 3 million pins a” day in the UK. DIY, cooking recipes and gardening were among their favourite topics, with the following percentages showing who searched for what. 52% of […]

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Best time to tweet for clicks, retweets and engagement

Knowing the best time to tweet when you schedule your tweets is important to get the clicks, retweets and engagement that you’re looking for. But a lot of research out there around the best time to tweet is outdated. Still tweeting at 11am in the morning and at around lunch time, to try and hit people when […]

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Snapchat advertising, Buzzfeed news and the thing about influencers (Empower Mondays)

Daily Mail, WPP and Snapchat launch native advertising agency: The Daily Mail, Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP and Snapchat are to launch an agency to cash-in on the rise of native advertising. The agency, called Truffle Pig, aims to combine the “best of global agency, newsroom and social media talent”. BuzzFeed launches dedicated news app: Another day, a new […]

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Digital News Report: 7 Key Themes

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report has been released for 2015, delivering useful and timely data about the transition to digital. Each year, the report brings together an annual benchmarked international survey and a series of essays which help to contextualise some of the key themes. This year’s report reveals new insights about digital news consumption […]

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Twitter removes 140 character limit on Direct Messages, adds App Targeting and Block Lists (Empower Mondays)

  Twitter removes 140 character Limit on Direct Messages: As of July, the 140-character limit to DMs on the platform is being removed. Useful from a customer service point of view and gives Twitter a competitive advantage in terms of being able to transition users from a lightweight sub-140 character interaction to a more in-depth […]

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Video Streaming Apps: Periscope vs Meerkat

The live video streaming app Meerkat was the talk of the town after its appearance at SXSW, but its popularity was short-lived. Just a few weeks later, Twitter released Periscope, a similar live video streaming app. Apps like Meerkat and Periscope are ushering in a new age of instant, in a world where we thought […]

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