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The Boom of Social Media Technology

   “Let’s take a selfie! No let’s like, tag and share this post,” are some of the most used phrases of today’s media world. The boom of social media is even more pervasive in 2014. Most people have become avid social media users fuelling an enduring boom of social media channels. Users are also enrolling… Read More…

Twitter Acquires Mobile Ad Exchange MoPub

Google’s got an ad exchange. So does Facebook. Twitter is said to be working on one too. But in the meantime, the company has just purchased MoPub, a burgeoning mobile ad exchange business. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MoPub has built an ad exchange through which mobile publishers and app developers can sell ads, and… Read More…

Why CRM and SFA are yesterday – from Customer Relationship Management to Customer Engagement

2.8 million Emails per second, 400 million brand oriented tweets per day, 1 billion+ Facebook users. The rules of engagement have changed. Customers are Digitally Connected 24/7, Socially Networked in multiple ways and have access to information than ever before. In this world, where 79% of customers spend at least 50% of shopping time researching products… Read More…

The Rise of Social TV: How Social Media Is Amplifying TV Advertising

Research has shown that TV-watching and social media usage isn’t mutually exclusive. Consumers appear to love using social media while they watch TV. Many discuss what they’re watching, and these conversations continue long after air-time, with TV-linked chatter accounting for a significant percentage of overall social media activity. TV industry players and TV-focused marketers realized they could piggyback… Read More…

Mobile Advertising Check-Up Reveals Turbulence and Steep Growth

Mobile advertising looks like a spring seedling underneath the massive cloud that was $216 billion worth of all advertising in the U.S. last year. While it produced almost $4.75 billion, or 2 percent of all ad spend last year, mobile is riding a wave of growth that continues to outpace online by a large margin. Online… Read More…

Analytics Wars: When Selling Trumps Building

Yelp launched a new analytics package this week, letting business owners visualize exactly how much money they can make by buying advertisements. It’s just the latest example of how social networks are having to pour more resources into analytics. The consequence is shifting resources from building new things to selling advertisers on the value of what’s already… Read More…