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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Increasingly, Canadians are enjoying the video-based platform TikTok. Fifteen per cent of Canadians are using this youth-oriented platform, and of those, two-thirds us it daily. You may have heard rumours that Twitter is dead and nobody uses it anymore. But, Twitter is alive and well in Canada.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Increasingly, Canadians are enjoying the video-based platform TikTok. Fifteen per cent of Canadians are using this youth-oriented platform. Twitter is alive and well in Canada. Forty-two per cent of us are on Twitter and half of those users are on it daily. Before 2005 our goal was to get our clients in the news.

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Experiment: Do Other Social Networks Hate YouTube Links?

Hootsuite

Or there’s the option that many of us do: upload your video to Youtube and simply share the link across all of your social platforms. But what you want and what social media platforms want isn’t always the same thing, is it? The Youtube link method seems logical, doesn’t it? And every social media site wants its users’ content.

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The Top 3 Social Media iPhone Apps

Firebelly

The list of the ” Top 25 Free iPhone Apps of All Time ” has, no surprise, social media platforms taking three out of the top five spots. Admittedly, Instagram is my social media platform of choice. YouTube was founded in February of 2005 and currently over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on the site.

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The Average Social Media Privacy Policy Takes an Hour to Read

The Realtime Report

The app is popular among Generation Z (1995-2005), and 30% of GenZ users are 18 or under. All but two privacy policies (Instagram and Twitter) require a 10th-grade reading comprehension level or higher. Ironically, most companies advertise their platforms as 13+, which is 2–3 years younger than someone in 10th grade.

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What Should We Expect from the New MySpace?

Mindjumpers

When Specific Media Executives, the Vanderhook brothers, last June announced to have acquired MySpace with superstar Justin Timberlake for just $35 million (News Corporation with Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for it back in 2005), the buzz about the new MySpace started to spread.

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How Does the YouTube Algorithm Work? A Guide to Getting More Views

Hootsuite

YouTube’s first video was uploaded in 2005. Fifteen years later, people are uploading 500 hours of video to the platform every minute. But here’s the long answer, too: 2005-2012: View count (a.k.a. In 2012, the platform announced an update to the discovery system designed to identify the videos people actually want to watch.

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