Social Networks in 2014 and Why Numbers Aren’t Everything
It’s the 3rd of January 2014, and already we are inundated with waves of infographics spreading across social media. The one below created by Adobe is fairly simplistic in nature (and a lot of the numbers can be called into question) but it does…
Google Are Driving Users To Google+ via Display Ads
It’s been clear since its inception that Google are keen to promote and push Google+ as relentlessly as they can. One such example is the recent introduction of Google+ comments on YouTube – which has been lambasted by users due to privacy concerns and functionality….
Brands wittingly join Harry Redknapp’s Twitter Q&A
The famous wheeler dealer of a football manager, now at Queens Park Rangers, agreed to a Twitter Q&A today using the hashtag #AskHarry. Now currently trending heavily in the UK, the ex West Ham, Portsmouth and Spurs man is being overwhelmed by hundreds, if not…
Google Media Tools Now Live
Google have introduced and aggregated their vast array of digital tools into one central site which can be found here. At first glance, its design and purpose looks to be catered specifically towards journalists, yet most of the tools can be used by any media…
Way Back Wednesday: Yahoo.com
Marissa Mayer’s been very busy lately leading Yahoo’s revolution, and I thought it apt to go back in time and explore the changes its homepage has undergone since 1996. Looking at the screenshots below, what might make the New Media geeks among us shed a…
The New Tug Newsletter has arrived!
Our newsletter of old has had a complete overhaul and we’ve got a new, slick design that will be released today! The new Tug newsletter will provide all of our subscribers with the latest, relevant, online marketing news including invaluable Tug insights from our blog…
Embedded Posts: Now Available to Everyone on Facebook
You might be regular embedder of YouTube videos, Tweets and possibly even Vines too. Well if you’re a serial embedder (and not a publisher that already had access to the tool) you’re in luck. As of today you’ll be able to start embedding public Facebook…
The Greatest Vines of 2013
The latest piece of content making waves and circulating via social media currently is a collection of the “greatest” Vine videos available on the internet. For those that aren’t already aware, Vine is a mobile app produced by Twitter that allows you to create and…
Search Trend Thursday: Snowden vs NSA
With the news that Edward Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia, I decided to explore a point made recently by journalists: that the mainstream media have made a soap opera over the topic, deterring readers and viewers from the core issues at hand (privacy…
Publicly Available Data in London Visualised
Privacy concerns are a constant hot topic of conversation and have shot more noteably to the forefront thanks to increased connectivity to the internet, advent of social networks and more recently, NSA revelations. Huge swathes of public data is collected by social networks and other online…
