Digital News

What Happened on Social Media in November 2020?  As we approach another month closer to the end of the year, we look back on the journey so far. With a COVID-19 vaccine forecasted, the major tech platforms have agreed to partner on a new program, in conjunction with fact-checking organizations, in order to formulate a new, improved approach to combatting the spread of misinformation and conspiracies about the vaccine.   As […]

For many generations, culture before the Internet was kitschy and beige. This moment was relished for its television jingles, Tetris, disembodied radio babble, and those Nokia ringtones we inherited. The laundry list goes on like a familiar song to forgotten lyrics: there’s the cheer of a Sega Mega Drive powering on; the mechanical suction of a VCR gulping up a taped copy of Terminator 2; a pocketful of Gameboy that help us escape during the holidays.   Yet, from the universe of sounds that connect […]

Search is a numbers game. So, how does Bing stack up? 40: that’s the number of languages that Microsoft’s Bing translates into, according to a survey on the search engine’s most fascinating statistics. In a world with widening horizons, Bing holds the second largest market share with its shy 4.4% in the UK, and a […]

In the dramatic year that has been 2020, our digital platforms have evolved in ways that they have never had to before. As this year comes to an end, we begin to wonder what the top social media trends will be for 2021? With consumers more aware than ever about global issues, audiences are becoming increasingly socially conscious and valuing how brands tackle these […]

On September 2nd, PPC marketers were met with an unforeseen memo in Google Ads: This tiny notice was all that was provided by Google to inform users of a major change in their reporting. PPC advertisers across the board had no prior knowledge of the change, meaning all of a sudden their insights into their […]

What happened on social media in August 2020?  This month, Twitter and Facebook have begun rolling out updates and changes to their platforms ahead of the upcoming US presidential election.  Alongside this, Chinese owned video-sharing app TikTok is also caught up in a legal storm against Trump, thanks to his attempt to ban the app in […]

What happened on social media in July 2020?  This month has been another busy one for the social platforms, particularly for Twitter. With its enormous security breach going down in history, the platform has been in the limelight heavily this month, and not for positive reasons. Read on for a closer look into social media updates for July 2020.  Facebook Updates July 2020  Facebook Rolls Out Face […]

What happened on social media in May 2020?  We’re into our third month of the Coronavirus pandemic, and more than ever, we’re seeing the main social channels adapt to the new way of life that we, as individuals, have had to as well. With channels launching messenger chatrooms and adapting the way we use them in line with current circumstances, we investigate how social media has changed this month.   Facebook Updates May 2020   With […]

Why is social media so important during Covid-19? Right now, the only way we are contacting our friends and family that live outside our household is through the forms of social media and our phones. So, it goes without saying that the Covid-19 outbreak is making us use the social media platforms we’re already addicted […]