According to URL-shortening platform Bitly, the half life of a piece of content on social media is distressingly short. Based on an analysis of 1,000 links distributed on social networks, Bitly found that the typical half life of a link on Twitter is just 2.8 hours! That means that in less than 3 hours, a typical link on Read more …
What do Steve Jobs, Frank Gehry, and Chris Rock have in common? According to best-selling author Peter Sims, these diverse luminaries (and many more) all have the same basic creative process. In his latest book, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, Sims explains how creative geniuses across industries use small experiments to Read more …
By all accounts, the content universe is expanding. Among the Fortune 500, brand activity across social media platforms has become nearly universal. By the end of 2014, 83% of the Fortune 500 had corporate Twitter accounts with a tweet in the past thirty days, up from 77% in 2013. Facebook usage among the Fortune 500 jumped 10 percentage Read more …
The latest edition of The CMO Survey from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business is out! The biannual survey, which this year was conducted across a sample of 2,630 marketing execs, surfaces trends in the budgets and priorities of chief marketing officers at top U.S. firms. So what tectonic shifts are CMOs predicting? Here are 5 key takeaways that Read more …
In the last few years, award shows have been dominated by social media and the second-screen experience. If you weren’t clutching your phone or tablet during the 2015 Academy Awards, you likely missed out on the flood of real-time marketing and online conversations spawned by the fanfare, fashions, and (controversial) results. While we typically think Read more …
