With Instagram’s roll out of shoppable posts late last year, brands and influencers gained the ability to better spotlight products and create a clearer path to purchase for their audience. Other social platforms were quick to follow suit with all roads leading to video. Pinterest introduced features to make it …

As influencer campaigns wind down for the year, marketers will need to understand the value and impact of their influencer activations in order to prove its value and determine whether to continue the investment in influencer in 2020. Today, some global advertisers spend as much as a third of their …

The holidays are upon us and this year we’re facing a shorter shopping window between Thanksgiving and Christmas making the competition to reach shoppers tougher than ever. For marketers, it’s worth taking the time to re-evaluate your holiday marketing approach to ensure you’re implementing the best strategy this holiday season. …

Brands and influencers are trying to answer the ‘what now?’ question plaguing everyone since Instagram announced the platform would test removing the public display of likes in the U.S. For brands using likes as a key metric to measure campaign performance, this is concerning news. But, it’s not all doom …

Just ahead of New York Fashion Week this fall, YouTube launched a new centralized hub for fashion and beauty content on the platform. /Fashion allows users to find videos from fashion and beauty brands, as well as creators. During Fashion Week, /Fashion housed livestreams of runway shows along with videos …

Instagram is going all in this year on bolstering its ecommerce capabilities with the goal of transforming the social platform into a digital shopping hub. In March, the platform unveiled their new in-app checkout process for shoppable posts with the hope that a more streamlined purchasing method would allow users …

Jack Neff covers household and personal-care marketers, Walmart and market research for Ad Age and recently wrote an article: Google Links Brands With YouTube Creators: Are Agencies and Influencer Networks Threatened? The story looks at the Google Labs initiative to bring together marketers and YouTube Creators for media and features …