Social Media Marketing:

Regardless of your thoughts on the success (or flaws) of Google+ the new features announced at Google I/O 2013 have definitely changed the way the social network operates. The platform now boasts a sizeable 190m monthly active users and Google has integrated many of its products and features into the network to bring everything together. [...]

Neat social media content aggregator Vizify brings together your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Foursquare data to paint a biography of your digital self. The graphics are nice, the layout is slick and iPad-friendly and creates a neat digital business card you can tie to a blog or website that gives people a quick introduction to your [...]

A couple of weeks, I had to run a new Pay-per-Click campaign for one of our biggest clients, Madame Tussauds. The task consisted in bidding on keywords related to a museum in Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum, in order to attract traffic to the Madame Tussauds Amsterdam website. The Rijksmuseum was set to do a grand re-opening [...]

                CONTENT It is the hot topic in 2013 and we strive to see great examples around the web. Content is part of SEO because it sends to Google fresh content signals and it attracts natural links. On the other hand, it is part of a social strategy [...]

Tug are presenting at the Future Brands event for Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013 to discuss Social Search and stir up debate about how social media and search engine results integrate. Following Google’s Search plus Your World update, natural search and social media have continued to integrate. Facebook and Twitter both appear in search listings and [...]

Google+ has overtaken Twitter to become the second largest social network worldwide in active usage (next to Facebook). The GlobalWebIndex (GWI) indicates that the growth of  Google+ shows “the immense opportunity of linking Google’s services through the G+ social layer” and says this is a key indication of why Google+ integrated with the Google product set [...]

Mark Zuckerberg announced the new mobile operating system “Facebook Home” yesterday which adds a “social layer” (driven by Facebook) that you can add to your Android phone. Facebook also launched a HTC phone (in tandem) called the “HTC First”. It’s being marketed as the first Android phone with Facebook Home pre-installed. This is Facebook’s first real [...]

Spring is on it’s way and Google are putting us all to shame with a timely Spring Clean. As of the 31st July 2013 Google Reader will be retired having been a part of the Google suite of products since 2005.  The Reader is a news aggregator relying on news syndication technology (RSS) to pull information from [...]

The update is a spring clean for Google+ Pages, ensuring that individuals, companies and brands get the best experience and keep engaged and entertained by the content that gets posted. Larger Cover Photos The cover photo of your Google+ Page now requires higher resolution image which sits across the top of the page. The profile [...]

Since early February, YouTube have been testing a new revamped channel page with a focus on uniformity across devices. Yesterday they released it to the public for anyone to use on their channel. Users of Google Plus will feel a bit of deja vu as they have taken the same simple design ethos used on Google Plus. [...]