If the headline ‘Apploud Is Like An Instagram For Live Music Where Musicians Get Paid’ makes you want to flee for the hills with a little red button marked ‘destroy […]
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Wait! Where did Prince go?
Don’t expect an explanation immediately, but Prince appears to be having a ‘moment’ on social media. The Verge noticed yesterday that his @3rdEyeGirl Twitter account has been deactivated, as has […]
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Here’s why Beyoncé hasn’t used Twitter since August 2013
Beyoncé has 13.7 million followers on Twitter, but her account is mothballed: it has only ever tweeted eight times, and the last one was on 19 August 2013. Yesterday, I got to find out why, by interviewing Lauren Wirtzer-Seawood on-stage at the Web Summit conference in Dublin.
She handles digital strategy for Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment, a company that’s part management firm, part digital agency and part creative studio for its founder, president and CEO: Beyoncé Knowles.
Wirtzer-Seawood’s job thus encompasses social networks, Beyoncé’s own website, and partnerships – as part of the close-knit Parkwood team – of the kind that saw her boss’ last album shock the music industry and fans alike with a surprise iTunes release in December 2013.
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Instagram launches its first video ads
Instagram has been testing 15-second video ads for a few months now, but its new units officially went live yesterday with four brands: Disney, Activision, Lancome, Banana Republic and CW. […]
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Tumblr improves its video player
Tumblr rolled out some new features for its video player last night, including the ability to pop it out as a separate window, so that users can continue to scroll […]
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Sony Music on board for Instagram ads launch in the UK
Yesterday, the UK became the second country to get advertising in Instagram, following the US, where the Facebook-owned app launched ads last year. Seven brands are on board for the […]
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Etienne de Crecy invites fans to ‘Hashtag my Ass’ on Instagram
Talk about bum cakes? Etienne de Crecy’s new interactive video’s got ’em. But beyond the wiggling backsides – and yes, this being the music industry in 2014, none of them […]
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Instagram’s new Hyperlapse app has lots of creative potential
Facebook’s strategy of “unbundling the big blue app” is well known, but now its Instagram subsidiary is trying something similar. Well, it’s launched a single spin-off app, anyway, called Hyperlapse […]
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Every month, 100m people watch Vine video clips
Twitter’s Vine video app got a small but significant update yesterday: the ability (on iOS only for now) to import videos stored on your iPhone and turn them into six-second […]
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Lewis Watson gets his own Instagram album sampler
We were reading the other day about an inventive use for Instagram by retailer Ikea, which has created a ‘catalogue website’ using tagging and cross-linking for individual products. We wondered […]
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Photo-sharing app We Heart It is a hit for women under 24
While it’s tempting to think about social networking in terms of a few big services – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for example – the reality is that there are […]
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Facebook boss Zuckerberg on plans for ‘unbundling the big blue app’
Facebook’s mobile strategy has been evolving fast over the last year: it’s now focusing on launching more standalone mobile apps, rather than concentrating on putting everything into its main app. […]