Festivities are officially in full swing as we approach the onset of this year’s holiday season. This means one thing for consumers: endless shopping and too many decisions. So how can retailers ensure that they’re targeting and effectively influencing their audience before the celebrations begin? (more…)
An article from Adweek discusses the rapid emergence of the digital advertising community’s newest format, native advertising. For some, the approach seems to cloud the line between what is advertising and what is editorial, and believe that consumers may not always be able to identify the difference. The Federal Trade Commission’s workshop today, Blurred Lines: Read more…
Coin is a new startup that’s trying to replace traditional credit cards. Its YouTube video has 6.8MM views. When you Google the word “coin” they show up as the #1 search result — not only that, but news story results fill out much of the first page of search results. Not bad for a startup with a Read more…
usatoday.com Commuter train derailment kills 4 in NYC On Sunday there was a fatal crash on the Metro North train in the Bronx on the way into the city. Four people were killed in the derailment, and upwards of 60 passengers were both minorly and critically injured. The train cars rolled extremely close to the Read more…
Facebook’s announcement of changes to the algorithm for stories promoted in their news feed is indeed good news for publishers and many of them report that they have been seeing increasingly strong traffic referral growth as a result. None too surprising news for sites that spend the bulk of their time and resources generating high quality Read more…
Volume 1 Issue 2 In the second issue of our “Shared Conversations” series, where industry leaders discuss their most innovative practices for connecting brands with consumers, ShareThis sat down with Shaun Farrar of Digitas. An advertising industry veteran, Shaun oversees the Multicast within BrandLIVE program for Digitas. He is responsible for making sure that the Read more…
There is still time! 1. Samsung, Siemens and HP are the top brands being shared leading up to Cyber Monday. 2. Online sharing engagement peaks on Black Friday, and then continues to decline through Cyber Monday. 3. Fashionistas can’t share enough about shoes, jackets and shirts. 4. Coupons and deals are being highly consumed, but the primary content Read more…
OK, you’ve done it. Your web service is working. It is useful, it is getting popular, people like it, and want to integrate with your service. So you create and API and everybody is happy. Nowadays APIs are the glue that allows for different services to benefit from each other, synergistically creating what we call the Read more…
We want to wish you all a happy and healthy holiday season, and hope you kick it off with a great Thanksgiving. We’re so thankful for everyone that we work with, keep sharing, and have a lovely holiday!
thehollywoodreporter.com ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Sets Record Imax Per-Screen Average in U.S. The second movie in the trilogy “The Hunger Games” hit theatres this weekend and saw the best three-day Imax domestic opening in November to date. This Imax record even beat out Skyfall in 2012. Internationally, the movie grossed excellent numbers as well. Read more…
Why VPC ? Why VPC ? We have been running on classic EC2 for a while now. There are a few good reasons why we started our journey to the VPC world. While we were able to secure our infrastructure using security groups, managing a large number of groups with rules started to become tedious. Read more…
