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Content Marketing
Google Makes Public Domain Images Look Like Stock Photography, And That’s a Problem
In 2007, famed photographer Carol M. Highsmith donated her entire lifetime archive to the Library of Congress. Years later, Highsmith discovered that stock photography company Getty Images had been charging licensing fees for using these public domain images without her consent. And so she filed a lawsuit for $1 billion, claiming copyright violations and alleging gross misuse and false attribution…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
When is the FTC Going to Cash In on Celebrity Endorsements?
The warnings from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have been sent, more than 90 direct emails to marketers and their influencers, including actors and musicians like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski, Hailey Baldwin, Sofia Vergara, Lindsay Lohan, Sophia Bush, Zendaya Coleman, Jennifer Lopez, Luke Bryan, and Sean Combs. We’ve written about disclosure before, but I’m still amazed at the number of…
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Marketing Infographics
Social Media Checklist: Strategies for Each Social Media Channel for Businesses
Some businesses just need a nice checklist to work from when executing their social media strategy… so here’s a great one developed by the whole brain group. It’s a great, balanced approach to publishing and participating in social media to help build your audience and community. Social media platforms are constantly innovating, so they have updated their checklist to reflect…
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E-commerce and Retail
Why User-Generated Content Reigns Supreme In The Age of Social Media
It’s pretty amazing to see how technology has evolved in such a short period of time. Long gone are the days of Napster, MySpace, and AOL dial-up dominating the online market. Today, social media platforms reign supreme in the digital universe. From Facebook to Instagram to Pinterest, these social mediums have become integral components of our everyday lives. Look no…
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Advertising Technology
10 Content Trends Advertisers Cannot Afford to Ignore
At MGID, we see thousands of ads and serve millions more of them every month. We track the performance of every ad we serve and work with advertisers and publishers to optimize the messages. Yes, we have secrets that we share only with customers. But, there are also big picture trends that we want to share with everyone interested in…
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E-commerce and Retail
Rethink Social Media’s Impact on Traffic and Commerce
We continue to educate businesses on the myth of attribution and the under-reported impact that social media has across marketing efforts. Because technology is lacking and it’s difficult to attribute sales to social media does not mean that it doesn’t happen. In fact, the statistics speak to the opposite: 71% of consumers are more likely to make a purchase based…
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E-commerce and Retail
Including Instagram Photos Increased Email Engagement 7x
In The State of Visual Commerce, a study conducted by Curalate and the Internet Marketing Association, just 8% of marketers strongly believed they were effectively using images to drive email engagement. 76% of emails include social media buttons but only 14% of emails include social images. The original promise of social media was the ability for brands to create a…
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E-commerce and Retail
Why E-commerce Brands Should Invest More Into Instagram
These days, you can’t build an ecommerce brand without an effective social media marketing strategy. Almost all marketers (93%) turn to Facebook as their primary social network. As Facebook continues to get saturated with marketers, the company is forced to decrease organic reach. For brands, Facebook is a pay to play social media platform. Instagram’s rapid growth is capturing the…
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Content Marketing
8 Image Ideas to Market your Business on Instagram
Every once in a while, I come up with a good quote or succinct piece of advice that I’d like to share socially. Rather than just tweeting it out, I open up the Depositphotos mobile application and find a beautiful image. I crop it using my iPhone and then open it in the Over App. Within 10 minutes, I have…
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Content Marketing
Visual Content Drives Comprehension, Engagements and Conversions on Social Media
Have we yelled enough about visual content? I don’t think so. Utilizing a variety of types of visual content continues to be effective. I was explaining this process to a local retailer this week and they were really having a difficult time believing the impact that daily visual content shared online could help their business. While I was there, I…
