The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twice as Many Top 100 Brands Use Instagram Video as Vine”. Seth Fiegerman says, “It looks like Instagram‘s new video feature is already beating Vine in the battle to attract the biggest brands.Since Instagram introduced video a week ago, 14 of Interbrand’s top 100 global brands have posted videos, according to data provided to Mashable by Simply Measured. By comparison, just seven of these top 100 brands posted videos on Vine this week”.  [...]

The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Econsultancy announces The Digitals 2013 winners”. Graham Charlton says, “Last night we announced the winners of the Econsultancy / NMA The Digitals awards, which celebrated the best of digital marketing and ecommerce.  At a posh do at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, compere Dara O’Briain announced the winners, which included brands like Barclays, ASOS and Auto Trader. Here’s the list of winners in full”.  [...]

The latest article on Business Insider is titled “The Facebook Advertising Ecosystem Explained”. Josh Luger says, “Facebook is a daily destinations for millions and millions of consumers. Increasingly, their ad products offer targeting according to specific demographics, social connections, interests, and habits. Advertising on Facebook has become more sophisticated, varied, and data-intensive. Facebook has rolled out a spate of new ad formats in the past year and now offers at least seven major ways to advertise”.  [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Google Plus is the Next Yellow Pages, Not Facebook”. Garrett Button says, “Google plus was announced at the height of the social media fever pitch, a year before the Facebook IPO tanked and a year after the Arab Spring showed the power of a connected population. There was nothing but potential in the world of social but, it seemed, Google wasn’t going to be the one to tap it”.  [...]

The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “Keeping Social Media Marketing Loose & Fun, While Staying on Top of Your Business Game”. Alexander Vesia says, “So have you done your update yet? Got your feeds going? How about tagging a few photos? If this language is foreign to you, don’t worry. You probably aren’t in high school or part of an active social network that is working around the clock. You are probably going about your business and bit unaware of all those fancy functions of that new beast known as social media. Some people pride themselves on the... [...]

The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “8 Data-Backed Ways to Get More Repins on Pinterest”. Ginny Soskey says, “There are all sorts of do’s and don’ts out there onoptimizing your content for Pinterest. Keep descriptions short and hashtag-rich. Don’t use shortened links. Include price information. Verify your account. But we don’t often hear about optimizing one of the most important pieces of content on Pinterest: the image itself”.  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Windows 8.1: It’s Getting Better And Stronger — Just Not Fast Enough”. Owen Thomas says, “ Nature abhors a vacuum, a truism that seems very evident in the current race in the marketplace to replace Google Reader when the doomed service closes down for good on July 1. For a service that Google felt was too much of a bother to keep running for its users, building the next great RSS newsreader tool seem to be the summer’s big event in the technology world. The “race” metaphor seem particularly apt, with competitors... [...]

This is our last chance to tell you about Jack Humphrey’s webinar on Friday, June 28 at 2.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “Ten Minute Pages: Groundbreaking Drag & Drop Software Builds Profitable Marketing Campaigns in 10 Minutes”. Humphrey says, “We had such great feedback from our earlier webinar with Kyle Graham, that Kyle and I are getting together, again, as we create a LIVE, profitable marketing campaign in REAL TIME! …One that’s LIVE AND making me REAL money …TODAY! The COOL thing is that he’s made soooo many upgrades, and added... [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “A New Golden Age Of Productivity Software Is Dawning”. Brian S Hall says, “As Microsoft struggles to bring its lucrative Office franchise to Android, iPhone and iPad, investors and developers are seizing the opportunity to create business and productivity software optimized for the new era of mobile computing. These new tools won’t tend to look anything like Word, Excel or PowerPoint – nor Apple’s iWorks, nor Google Docs. Instead, they will leverage the strengths of mobile computing. They will be touch-based, real-time,... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Is Google Building a Games Console?”. Chris Taylor says, “The Sony PlayStation 4, Micrsoft Xbox One and Nintendo Wii U can look forward to yet more competition soon, if a new report is to be believed. Googleis building a videogame console based on the Android OS, according to theWall Street Journal, which cites “sources familiar with the matter.” Google would neither confirm nor deny the report.The rumor comes in the same week as the release of the Ouya, a $99 Kickstarter-backed console and controller combo that runs a... [...]