It’s a busy time in the Empower offices, so we’re looking for an excellent and ambitious digital marketing superstar to help our growing agency. We’re looking for someone who loves all things digital and is keen to learn more about social media and content marketing. Remote working is an option (bonus!), plus we’re nice people to work with. Sound like …
Empower Director Ben Matthews has been announced as Runner-up in the National Freelancer of the Year Awards, run by the self-employment trade body IPSE. IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, presented Ben with a wealth of technology and business support package as part of the prize. The Awards were announced at a ceremony in London on …
Charities have been using Facebook since brands first started using the platform and have been using it well over many years to raise awareness of the work they do. However, charities have been restricted in how they could use the platform to its full extent, including raising funds and running campaigns through the platform. That could all be about to change, …
Dark social is a mysterious type of traffic where links are shared in a private yet social way, such as sent in an email, by instant messenger or in a text message, and is an increasing problem in a measurable digital world.
Bloomberg News recently broke the story on a new artificial intelligence program from Google that it calls “Rank Brain”: “For the past few months, a “very large fraction” of the millions of queries a second that people type into the company’s search engine have been interpreted by an artificial intelligence system, nicknamed RankBrain.” So what is Google’s Rank Brain, how …
Empower Director Ben Matthews has been selected as a finalist for the 2015 Freelancer of the Year Awards, hosted by IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed. Freelancers from a whole host of sectors applied and the winner will be announced in an awards ceremony in London on National Freelancers Day on 12 November. Chris Bryce, IPSE CEO, …
Facebook Reactions are coming! Facebook have said that they are testing a new feature called Reactions in Spain and Ireland, which gives fans the ability to Like, Love or Laugh at Facebook Page Posts and Ads. Reactions can be either Like, Love, Haha, Yay, Wow, Sad or Angry: “Reactions works an extension of the Like button, designed to give people …
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 reaches 400 million users Instagram’s community has grown to more than 400 million strong, with more than 75 percent living outside of the US. Among the last 100 million …
Speaking about digital trends for 10 minutes is hard enough. Speaking about digital trends for 10 minutes to a group of around 50 independent consultants is harder. Speaking about digital trends for 10 minutes to a group of around 50, slightly soggy from the London rain, eager to get back to networking, independent consultants was the fine audience I spoke …
There’s been a recent new addition to Empower’s “Marks Of Quality” in the form of becoming a Recommended Agency. The Recommended Agency Register is “the place where clients look for trusted, high-performance agencies”. The scheme works by having agency clients independently rate and review on the marketing services they’ve been provided by their agencies. It’s particularly exciting for Empower to …
A good read on how and why the Facebook vs YouTube video landscape has changed, by Louise Tierney at Storyful. They analysed their substantial videos on both platforms and shared some insights in the context of this big shift: “Have no doubt about it, YouTube should be worried. Facebook entered the ring swinging, not just as a contender for audience views, but for …
There are a whole ton of digital marketing resources out there if you’re looking to learn more about digital marketing. There are also plenty places where you can find out information or advice if you’re looking into specific marketing areas, like Communications, SEO, Social Media, Content Marketing, or Email Marketing. To help you out (because that’s what we like doing best) the Empower team have been …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 and where in the world …
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 Uk searches on Pinterest where …
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