Tag: Social Media Insights

Snapchat is growing again. The platform has released its latest earning report for Q3 2019, showing increases in both users and revenue, and beating all market estimates. ِAccording to the report, Snapchat earned $446 million in revenue, which is up a whopping 50% year-over-year, with an EPS loss of $0.04, beating Wall Street’s expectations of …

Ad targeting is an advertisement technique where advertisements are placed in specific areas to increase visibility and “clickability” or to give tailor-made ads based on the user’s past behaviors and preferences.  Targeted ads are meant to reach certain customers based on demographics, psychographics, behavior and other second-order activities that are learned usually through data exhaust …

In a class-action lawsuit for incorrectly calculating average viewing time for video ads on its platform, Facebook has agreed to pay advertisers $40 million for the inflated video metrics it incorrectly provided. Advertisers sued Facebook in 2016 over user metrics that supposedly measured the average length of time consumers spent viewing posted video ads. The …

Influencer marketing on social media involves interactions with influential people to drive a brand’s message and products to the world market. Influencer marketing is simply the action of marketing through influencers. This form of marketing goes hand-in-hand with creating messages that are carried by influencers to enhance the extent of brand awareness towards consumer segmentations. …

The influence of social media has been felt in the recent political uprisings in the Arab world. In the Arab region, the tools of social media played a crucial role in mobilizing. Whether it is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google or Blogs, they all have found themselves central to the uprisings in an unprecedented way. The …

Social media marketing is one of the most effective ways to connect with the targeted audience, businesses and brands can use these platforms to offer effective touchpoints for users at all stages of the digital sales funnel. Many social media accounts of businesses and brands lack any semblance of a strategy, which is a critical …

The Internet has become a great leveler of playing fields by bringing down the costs of connecting people to near zero. One of the most popular topics in social media marketing is how to get more followers, and not just any followers just real followers with no bots. Brands want to grow their followers authentically …

Social commerce is seen to have the potential to be a major revenue generator and an important method to diversify revenue streams beyond advertising by allowing consumers to carry out a range of commerce activities from booking taxis to paying for restaurant bills or items in-store. Social commerce has been a tough sell in many …