Google Product Listing Ads Generated a 417% increase in Revenues for 2013 Holiday Season
Are you interested in learning how Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) played a roll in the 2013 holiday shopping season? According to a recent report from Kenshoo, the 2013 shopping season saw record-high global increases in key paid search metrics year-over-year (YoY) with a 27% increase in clicks, 12.5% lift in impressions, and 31% increase […]
YouTube’s New Tool Makes it Easy to Create Slow-Mo Videos
What turns an average video into a spectacular one? Slow motion. Working under the premise that “slow-mo makes everything better,” YouTube added a new slow motion enhancement tool to its built-in editor on Tuesday, making it accessible to everyone who uses the site to create videos SEE ALSO: 5 Tips to Design the Best YouTube […]
How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource
In the age of social media, we have countless outlets for job searching. Platforms such as LinkedIn are the first to come to mind, but can candidates use Twitter to find jobs as well? This past Thursday the HR teams at Twitter and NPR collaborated in the first live #NPRTwitterChat aimed at helping job seekers […]
Facebook Educates Developers With New Live Video Series
Facebook launched Developers Live Wednesday, a new way for developers to stay on top of everything Facebook. An extension of Facebook’s existing developer’s site, Facebook says the new live portion of the site will be a “central place to learn about the latest tools and to get access to product manager and engineers who created […]
Facebook Launches Shared Photo Albums and Other News You Need to Know
Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting storiesFacebook is starting to roll out its newest feature, shared photo albums. A white Xbox One surfaced on Reddit, but it’s only available for Microsoft‘s employees. Finally, Apple may launch an iPhone trade-in program ahead of the launch of the new iPhone next month. Check out the video […]
Google+ Sign-In Is Your New Key to Apps and the Web
Google hasn’t had as much success building a vibrant social network as Facebook, but the search giant now seems far less interested in concentrating all social activity inside Google+ and much more keen on using it as social connective tissue throughout its network of products and services. Google+ Sign-In, a service revealed Tuesday, lets third-party […]
Yahoo Adds Twitter Content to News Stream
In a move that shows how Yahoo values what industry organizations, outlets and people are saying on Twitter, the company announced it will be integrating tweets into the news stream on Yahoo.com. CEO Marissa Mayer delivered the news in a blog post which detailed how the company views tweets “as [an] important information source for […]