BET.com ditches BET On Blast, Takes note from Hulu
Though the BET On Blast video player was nice when it launched a little over 2 years ago video on the web has certainly moved in another direction. Specifically if you happen to be a television network. BET.com recently ditched the BET on Blast player, which many thought was hard to navigate, and leveled the [...]
Read More#BeatCancer Breaks Twitter Trends and Sets Guinness World Record
EVERYWHERE, a Social Media Marketing and Content Development firm based in Atlanta, GA set a record October 16-17th for the most widespread social network message in 24 hours. According to Radian6, the official online monitoring company, the phrase #BeatCancer set the record with 209,771 mentions on Twitter, Facebook and blog posts. This translates into an [...]
Read MoreFord adds Gwen Peake to Social Media Division
Ford is already pretty well known for it’s social media strategy, led by Scott Monty, and was ranked the #1 Social Automotive Brand by Virtue.com. They not only use social media to engage with current customers (and potential customers) for Ford products, they also use it for Customer Service and to combat “haters” when those [...]
Read MoreHuffington Post Launches Technology and Innovations Section
Last Monday The Huffington Post announced it would launch a Technology and Innovations section on September 21st. The section will be lead by Jose Antonio Vargas. In the blog post last week titled Technology is Anthropology Vargas goes into detail on how this Technology blog will be a bit different than what we are use to.
Read MoreJay-Z the #1 Trending Artist on Twitter
To take a look at Jay-Z ‘s trending reign on Twitter you’ll have to go back to June 5 when Jay-Z released Death of Autotunes track. We covered it here on the post “Jay-Z Kills AutoTune via Twitter with D.O.A.” Ever since then Jay-Z has been trending on Twitter longer than any other music artist. Jay hasn’t been trending every day since June 5 but every time a new announcement about the Blueprint 3 album was made he would crawl back to #1 trending on Twitter or reappear.
Read MorePhonte Phontificates on His New Work and iTunes
Best-selling hip hop artist Phonte gives one of the most concise explanations of the beefs recording artists have with iTunes. In this video he dishes on iTunes and discusses his latest project. (Viewer advisory. Yes, he cusses.)
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