After months of rumors and limited rollouts, Instagram is officially adding GIF support to its Stories feature. You can now plaster dancing cats and flying cheeseburgers over your photos and videos. The options are endless with hundreds of thousands of moving stickers to choose from thanks to GIPHY integration. Instagram is also announcing an upcoming […]
Facebook is running a small test to let users post their Instagram Stories directly as a WhatsApp Status. The new feature will let users post decorated photos, videos and GIFs on WhatsApp, which will disappear after 24 hours. “An Instagram Story posted as a WhatsApp Status also becomes encrypted like the rest of WhatsApp,” TechCrunch […]
62 per cent of millennials say they are more likely to become loyal customers if a brand engages with them on social networks and, because of this, Instagram expects social media to be the go-to for brands next year. In anticipation of this, the Facebook-owned app has been trialling Shopping on Instagram over the last year in the […]
S.O.S Amitié has launched #AtFirstSight : a broad mobile campaign exploiting the invisible area scrolling through Facebook’s feed to reveal in “full screen” the pain that people who call S.O.S Amitié hide. Initiated by Facebook in partnership with Stratégies, the winning campaign “Hack for Good” is signed by Buzzman. 1 in 10 French people has nobody […]
From Grumpy Cat to OMG Cat and, of course, the classic Nyan Cat video, the world is cat-mad. In fact, cat related media content is shared twice as much as selfies online. Virgin Media has put its own unique spin on this craze and created a meow-nificent piece of social content to support the Virgin […]
BigCommerce, which develops eCommerce software for businesses, now supports sales through shoppable posts on Instagram. The integration means that retailers on the eCommerce platform will be able to tag products in Instagram posts with a link to take consumers directly to an associated product page, so they can proceed with their purchase or find out more about the […]
After his first Hollywood hit, King Kong rampaged through various sequels. Aping that career trajectory, the king-sized, Kong-style gorilla balloon that stole the show in Volkswagen’s popular Tiguan TV campaign poped up on September 15, in a virtual scavenger hunt game. Called “Rule the Road” and played on Instagram, the game has a race-through-the-city format that positions the 2018 […]
Teens are leaving Facebook faster than expected, according to a new study from eMarketer. The study estimates that Facebook’s user base among 12- to 17-year-olds in the US will shrink by 3.4 percent in 2017, the first time eMarketer has predicted a decline in Facebook usage for any age group. The company said that it “reduced […]
When the latest series of HBO’s Game of Thrones launched globally, NEON marked the release with a New Zealand-wide Snapchat lens, created by Mango Communications and DDB New Zealand, allowing fans to turn themselves into an ice-breathing White Walker. Mango was charged with generating hype ahead of the season premiere and public launch of the lens […]
If you’re into Instagram food porn, you’ll know how hungry you can get by just looking at people’s mouthwatering posts. So, in Brazil, Heinz capitalised on this by enabling Instagram users to actually eat the delicious food posts they were drooling over. The so-called “Irresistible Posts” campaign, created by ad agency Africa with the support […]