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As we begin planning for the year ahead, we took some time to reflect on what WeCollective accomplished in 2019. Founded just two years ago in 2017, WeCollective has come a long way, with membership just over 100 members (which is all the employees who have opted to participate in the group (that’s close to […]
I’ve been training for a work communications app like Slack for my entire life. I was exactly the right age when AIM first hit the scene in middle school. After dinner, I would dial into the Internet to chat with my friends and obsess over what my Away Status said about me. Chatting with friends […]
Winter is Coming, And So Are Brands Nineteen months, 85 weeks, 595 days. Each equals how long the world waited for Game of Thrones (GoT) to premiere once again for its final season. More than 17.4 million viewers tuned in for the premiere this past Sunday, combined live and streaming within the first 24 hours. […]
Let me try to sum up what happened with Cambridge Analytica as we now can better understand it in hindsight. In March of 2018, news broke that the personal data of 87 million Facebook users was exposed to a political consulting firm based out of London known as Cambridge Analytica. This personal data was mined […]
It started with Radiohead in 2016. Their fanbase was shocked when they began to wipe all content off of their social media pages — to announce the release of their ninth album A Moon Shaped Pool. Deleting their content and the subsequent online gossip that followed led to an increase in over 300k followers over the […]
Becoming a meme or going viral is a once in a lifetime unintentional event. Unless you have thousands of hours of candid footage like the Kardashians or Beyonce, there’s really no way to get that lightning to strike more than once…right? In fact, it seems like some people know how to generate memes of themselves […]
I know you’re tired of hearing about Russia, okay? Trust me, I get that. But the advertising industry in Russia is alive and thriving and, as an agency, we have just entered the social media space there. Vkontakte is a social media site in Russia – and is the most popular platform there by far […]
Today is International Women’s Day, and the last time we checked, women make up 50.8% of the world’s total population (fun fact: that extra .8% is Beyoncé!). However, according to Ad Age, “across industries, women hold 23% of leadership posts at U.S. businesses, up from 21% a year earlier.” While that’s an increase from years […]
Celebrities have always had power. Traditionally, their power was solely linked to how much cash they generated for their studio. Nowadays, celebrities can offer the reach and engagement of their unique fandoms through their social presence. Thanks to digital marketers, their power can be tracked and harnessed. Let’s take a look at the cyclical nature […]
Facebook recently announced its most significant algorithm change since the platform’s creation – choosing to prioritize content from family and friends over brands and publishers in the coming weeks. This means posts that inspire conversations and better engagement among friends will now be favored over other content from brands, news sources, and companies. While the […]