Bluefly launches a new shopping app

Bluefly launches a new shopping app

Fashion e-retailer Bluefly wants to live in its shopper’s pocket, says Carly Rosenberg, president at Bluefly. To do so, it needs to be on consumers’ smartphones, so the retailer, No. 223 Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide, recently launched an app that offers all of the retailer’s products. Until last week Bluefly had an outdated […]

The Sydney Opera House invites you to #ComeOnIn with social media campaign

The Sydney Opera House invites you to #ComeOnIn with social media campaign

The Sydney Opera House’s campaign #ComeOnIn, which was an attempt to attract visitors to come inside the building rather than simply viewing it from the outside, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The Sydney Opera House is the most Instagrammed spot in Australia, with over 8.2 million […]

Peruvian Red Cross experienced an 1800% increase in potential donors with ‘Hashtags for Life’ Campaign

Peruvian Red Cross experienced an 1800% increase in potential donors with ‘Hashtags for Life’ Campaign

Hashtags for Life, a social media campaign to help expand the Red Cross‘ donor database in Peru, won the mobile category’s gold award at the 2016 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With a population of over 30 million people, and yet only 1250 registered blood donors, Peru faced a potential catastrophe incase of emergency. […]

Instagram now has 500 million users

Instagram now has 500 million users

Instagram is getting bigger. Still. The photo-sharing app, owned by Facebook, now has 500 million monthly active users, the company said Tuesday, which is up from 400 million last September. That’s 100 million new users in roughly nine months — the same nine-month window it took to grow from 200 million to 300 million users, […]

The Travel Industry’s next Social Revolution

The Travel Industry’s next Social Revolution

In 2014, KLM threw down the gauntlet. The Dutch airline promised it would respond within 30 minutes if anyone tweeted or Facebooked with it. That audacious claim of customer service via social media came literally out of an ordeal by fire. In 2010, a volcano eruption in Iceland stranded travelers. Faced with a “tsunami in communication,” […]