Tag: social media marketing

Emojis are starting to make their way into mobile marketing

Julie Campbell
emoji mobile marketing

Brands are adopting the use of these emoticons on an increasing basis in order to make posts more relatable. When it comes to mobile marketing over social media, some brands seem to have it down pat while others are missing the mark, but nobody seems to be able to come up with a specific formula to reach consumers and successfully engage them. In order to help to improve social media marketing success, brands have been turning to emoji adoption. A new report published by marketing automation firm, Appboy, has shown…

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Mobile marketing firms are asking if their ads are worth it

Jennifer Goula
Mobile Marketing statistics

Businesses are struggling to see the direct return on their investment into social and smartphone advertising. While businesses are spending a rising amount of money into mobile marketing and social media advertising strategies, the majority of them aren’t actually able to see all that much of a return on the investment they’ve been making, according to the results of a recently released study. At the moment, companies are spending an average of 10.6 percent of their overall marketing budgets on mobile and social. The percentage of the budget being dedicated…

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Massive Twitter outage sweeps mobile app and web experience

Julie Campbell
Twitter QR codes outage Mobile social media marketing mobile ads

The social network experienced a worldwide malfunction on all platforms on Tuesday. On Tuesday, users around the world found themselves faced with a huge Twitter outage that placed the social network’s services out of reach, beginning with usage issues, followed by extensive access problems. The outage lasted well over an hour, which is an outstanding length of time for a social network. The Twitter outage spread rapidly across the web, mobile and even its API (application programming interface, which is the system used by the apps in order to communicate…

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Wendy’s mobile ads on Facebook have a Snapchat style

Jennifer Goula
wendy's QR codes mobile ads

The fast food chain is creating interactive burgers through the use of GIFs and videos. Just as brands start tinkering with the mobile ads in the new full screen Facebook style, Wendy’s is working on using this new format in a whole new and creative way that they hope will encourage considerable interaction from consumers. The fast food restaurant chain is using images, videos and GIFs to illustrate how their burgers are made, layer by layer. The layers of the hamburgers are all displayed and added to each other, including…

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Bacardi social media marketing strategy adds Facebook immersive mobile ads

John Montgallo
Facebook mobile social media marketing

This effort is mean to help the brand’s messages to be delivered on a quality global level. Bacardi has now become the first among brands of alcohol to implement a social media marketing strategy that includes the new mobile ad format from Facebook called Immersive Canvas. This is meant to enhance the quality of Bacardi’s creative when it comes to the mobile sphere. Now, Bacardi is hopeful that this new component to its social media marketing – which will make it possible to use an experience somewhat like a microsite…

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