Instagram users hanging out in New York City or Jakarta this week might want to get in the sticker state of mind. Today, the company is rolling out geotagged stickers for Instagram Stories. The feature allows users of the platform's more ephemeral format to post location-based stickers highlighting neighborhoods and landmarks in certain areas within...
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Digital & Tech Daily
March 08, 2017
Today's top news for digital marketers
It's copying Snapchat again
By Marty Swant
Instagram users hanging out in New York City or Jakarta this week might want to get in the sticker state of mind. Today, the company is rolling out geotagged stickers for Instagram Stories. The feature allows users of the platform's more ephemeral format to post location-based stickers highlighting neighborhoods and landmarks in certain areas within...
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Could reach another 1 billion users
By Marty Swant
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Einstein, meet Watson
By Christopher Heine
Cookie brand's latest marketing stunt
By Lauren Johnson
Denny's viral tweet, Snapchat and YouTube data, and connected cars
By Christopher Heine
It was a stellar week in digital marketing stats, and here are the nine that really stood out: 1. If one tweet can sell a thousand Moons Over My Hammy, this is it Denny's tweet on Wednesday represents a historic Twitter marketing achievement. The following message has garnered 108,000 retweets and more than 152,000 likes...
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3 takes from Resource/Ammirati, Edelman and Huge
By Erik Oster
With Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. going public today, analysts everywhere have weighed in with forecast and think pieces. But what about its potential for future client work? We spoke to three digital shops for their takes on the platform. Facebook's decision to imitate some of Snapchat's key features with new launches like Instagram Stories...
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And avoid Twitter's rocky relationship with investors
By Christopher Heine
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, today is expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, where it's reportedly being valued at $24 billion, or $17 per share. The mobile-focused player, founded by CEO Evan Spiegel in 2011, is a classic challenger brand, taking on digital behemoths that came before it as...
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Livestreaming connected people with the news
By Lauren Johnson
BARCELONA, Spain--Telecoms have notoriously rocky relationships with Facebook and others when it comes to their "pipes" and letting tech companies push data-heavy content like video through them while consumers don't have the data plans necessary to watch them. But as mobile phones become the predominant way that consumers access the internet in parts of the...
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Including Pokemon Go, AI, VR and connected cars
By Lauren Johnson
BARCELONA, Spain--More than 108,000 people descended on Barcelona this week for Mobile World Congress, which wrapped up today. Here are eight stats that grabbed our attention. 1. Pokemon Go is far from dead During the conference's keynote with Ninantic CEO John Hanke, the company behind the game, it was revealed that the app has driven...
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Analyzed thousands of photos of Antoni Gaudí's buildings
By Marty Swant
BARCELONA, Spain--IBM has come up with a way to show off the more artistic side of its artificial intelligence capabilities while honoring one of Spain's most famous architects. For this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, IBM tasked its Watson super computer with the understanding Antoni Gaud?'s greatest works such as La Pedrera and la...
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