What goes from serving 8 billion a day to serving 10 billion a day in three months? Snapchat. Find out the latest news from a roundup of social media platforms — Snapchat, YouTube, Periscope, Pinterest, Google Hangouts, Facebook and Twitter — in this article from Social Media Examiner. Read more here.
One Minute Slide Show: How Millennial-Friendly is Your Destination?
Beards, selfies, craft beers, tattoos…are you tapping into the massive buying power of Millennials? Is your destination a magnet for Millennials?
The brand new Millennial Destination Desirability Index (MDDI) metric from Cooperatize provides some answers. Introduced by Co-founder Al Chen at April’s DigMe Summit in Philadelphia, they analyzed hashtags on Instagram to understand what Millennials were talking about and geo-tags to figure out where.
See the Cooperatize slide show presented here.
Christian Mani (left), marketing manager for Cook Islands Tourism, talking tattoos with Al Chen, Co-founder, Cooperatize.
Test Yourself: Do You Know All the Social Media Acronyms? YOLO!
Since YOLO, YSK all the lingo around CPCs, PPCs, and CTAs to hit your KPIs and maximize your ROI for your SMB. Right?
Hootsuite has produced a handy list of popular acronyms used on social media as well as shortcut abbreviations used inside social media marketers’ circles. (It’s brief, so you won’t need to say TL;DR!)
TBH, you can learn these via WOM or test yourself by clicking here.
One Minute Round-Up: Latest Social Media Tech Tidbits
When was there ever a week without changes on the social media channel and algorithm fronts? We like this one-minute catch-up from TwoSixDigital, a popular eTourism Summit presenter.
This post introduces three enhancements: Facebook Messenger capabilities, Pinterest How-To’s and new, longer Instagram videos. Your quick read is found here.
