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Facebook advocates for short, engaging, mobile-optimized native videos for organic engagement

Socialmedia.biz

Mobile-first ads have longer average view times, higher engagement rate, better brand recall and a significantly lower Cost per Thousand (CPM). Facebook recommends the following tips to capture the attention of mobile users: Keep your video ad length to be 15 seconds or less.

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SMS marketing 101: How to use text messaging in your marketing strategy

Sprout Social

Looking to tap into the marketing strategy that gets 4x more open rates than email? It’s SMS marketing—one of the easiest and most effective ways to reach your target audience. What is SMS marketing? Marketing by SMS has several advantages over other mobile marketing strategies like email marketing and push notifications.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Debuts New Ad Types, Vine Gets Direct Video Messaging

The Realtime Report

Twitter now displays emoji symbols in Web interface – emoji users on Twitter can now see emoji characters on the desktop version, not just on mobile apps (NDTV Gadgets). Twitter doubles down on TV in Europe – last week Twitter purchased two TV analytics companies, France’s Mesagraph and the U.K.’s

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4 Emerging Social Media Platforms To Watch In 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

In the midst of 4th quarter marketing campaigns and the race to end 2018 with a bang, marketers should also start looking ahead to the new year. It’s a good time to take stock of your social media marketing strategies to assess what’s working and where you have room to improve. So how is a social media marketer to decide?

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What Does 2013 Hold for Social Media?

Mindjumpers

As for 2013, Mindjumpers’ CEO and founder, Jonas Klit Nielsen, predicts that we are heading towards a future where brands invest in people who are highly skilled in content creation and where brands become publishers: “Companies need to be ready to think as publishers and not marketers. Read the entire report here.

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Video is The New King of Content Marketing

Mindjumpers

The path to video supremacy is well underway with Nielsen revealing that 64% of marketers expect video to be a key part of their content strategies. It’s not just the blue chips and consumer giants that need to get behind this trend; SMEs need to embrace the possibilities of video content marketing as well.

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Just get us the Millennials! #Marketing #Fail

Janet Fouts

“Just get us the millennials” This mind set is short-sighted and mindless old-school marketing at best! Millennial’s are just one demographic in your potential market and you need to think carefully before you focus entire marketing campaigns on them. Are you ready to market online? They’re social.

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