Digital Marketing & Communications

The latest post on the Pinterest blog takes a close look at what the post popular categories are for each day of the week.

So, what kinds of things are people pinning on Monday through Sunday? Here’s how it breaks down:

People tweet about anything and everything, but a new Twitter analysis by a UMD computer scientist shows much of this conversation falls into six distinct patterns or networks.

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr drove an unprecedented amount of traffic to retail sites in Q4 2013 with revenue-per-visit (RPV) increasing across all social channels.

SEO in 2014 will be more comprehensive than ever before. Learn how to align your strategies for better ranks in 2014.

Even if you haven't quit Facebook, you probably know someone who has. Here are some reasons twenty-somethings are checking out of the social network.

Check out this infographic called "You are looking in the wrong place" - for latest global internet, mobile and social media statistics.

Just when you’ve adapted to the idea that your company or clients needs a content marketing strategy to excel online, Google has changed the rules of the game. With the introduction of Google Hummingbird earlier this month, priorities shifted from a general marketing strategy to a mobile one. But executing a content marketing strategy that responds to mobile and the changes of Google Hummingbird in an intelligent way requires shifts in both mindset and technique.

Is it better to build a site that's purely mobile -- or one that adapts to mobile and desktop viewers?

Facebook and YouTube are dominating mobile traffic shares in early 2014.

Facebook continues to dominate on iOS and Android, by time spent, but its lead has slipped slightly. The average U.S. user spent an average of 2 hours and 42 minutes per day on ...

Twitter has been busy opening its data up to media — through a deal with CNN and Dataminr — and the music industry — via an agreement with 300 Entertainment — and now it is focusing on helping researchers and academics.

The company has announced the Twitter Data Grants initiative which it says will “give a handful of research institutions access to our public and historical data”. Users send over half a billion tweets per day, so there is all kinds of information that researchers may want to dig into, from health predictions and information, to global weather, seasonal culture (like Chinese New Year), public opinion on issues, etc.

IBM's predictions all involve big data and using computing to glean intelligence from vast systems. We discuss them with IBM's research boss.

Agency execs talk about what's trending and what's tired in the world of mobile advertising for 2014.

Now that the Xbox One has finally hit the market, one of Microsoft's visions has almost come true. For years, the company has been trumpeting its long-term plan to have 'three screens ...