Month: July 2015

PR For Startups, Publishing Experiments, Speed as a Habit

PR For Startups: You’ve built your product and you’re now ready for your first major launch. Or you’ve been through a launch or two, but are looking to scale the process as you’re doing more launches and announcements. You really have two options: do it all on your own, or work with a PR agency. One frequent crossroad is that …

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Instagram User Stats: 300 million worldwide, 90 million in US, 14 million in UK

Instagram revealed it’s user stats last week, indicating that it now has 14 million monthly active users in the UK. By comparison, Facebook has 35 million users in the UK. This is the first time Instagram has revealed its UK figures and the first time it has ever broken out a single geographic region in terms of audience numbers. Here’s what else was revealed …

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Instagram Food Capitals, Facebook Shop Pages, Twitter Data Dashboard

Every Monday, Empower publishes the latest digital, social and content news. Sign up by email to receive free updates straight to your inbox – every update, every Monday, every week. Instagram Food Capitals: Data taken from Instagram has been analysed to find the ‘food profiles’ of the world’s cities, based on food-related hashtags posted from them, so you can see which …

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Twitter celebrates your birthday, Facebook’s floating videos, IFTTT comes to Pinterest (Empower Mondays)

Every Monday, Empower publishes the latest digital, social and content news. Sign up by email to receive free updates straight to your inbox – every update, every Monday, every week. Twitter Now Celebrates Your Birthday: You can now add your birthday to your Twitter profile, which will  be displayed on the upper-left-hand side of your profile page, under your profile photo and just beneath …

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#PoweredByTweets Winners, Mark Zuckerberg AMA and Slack hits one million daily users (Empower Mondays)

Every Monday, Empower publishes the latest digital, social and content news. Sign up by email to receive free updates straight to your inbox – every update, every Monday, every week. #PoweredByTweets Winners: Twitter has announced the six winners of #PoweredByTweets, the contest to encourage Twitter users to create something beautiful via Twitter, or use Twitter to solve a problem. From Pigeon Air Patrol …

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#WalkTogether on 7/7 to remember 10th anniversary of London bombings

7 July 2005 was just another Thursday morning and Londoners were on their way to work. But at ten to nine, terrorists detonated four bombs at Kings Cross, Aldgate, Edgware Road and Tavistock Square. 52 people lost their lives and over 770 were injured. That’s why we’re supporting #WalkTogether – a public call from a broad coalition of people and organisations, …

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