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UK social media use dropped by 9%

In an online survey of over 9,000 consumers from nine countries, UK regulator Ofcom found that UK social media use among adults in the last 12 months has dropped 9%. Among the nine countries – including – France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Australia, Spain and China – the UK saw the biggest drop of social media usage among adults. UK …

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Facebook news feed update punishes promotional content from brands

Facebook announced this week that, as part of an ongoing survey, they asked hundreds of thousands of Facebook users how they feel about the content in their News Feeds. That means a Facebook news feed update is coming. The bad news for businesses? The overall response from users is that they want to see more stories from friends, and less promotional content from …

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3 new twitter tools to try: flounder, @goodaudience and @sumall

Here at Empower, we like to try out new social media tools, products and services on a regular basis. Comms and social media is a fast-moving industry, so there’s always a new product or service to play with that could improve your campaigns and change the way you communicate with your audiences. Although there’s lots of tools we could cover, we’ve picked out just 3 …

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Mobile Shopping: Email marketing works, social media doesn’t

Custora have published a new research report about Mobile Shopping in the US, finding that Social Media advertising isn’t working for mobile shopping – but email marketing is. Less than 1% of mobile sales came from social media networks (including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest). Email marketing, on the other hand, drove 27% of sales on mobile phones. Customers responding to email …

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