So many social media outlets means so, so many different required image sizes. To help you sort out this confusing mess and streamline your marketing efforts, we share this Social Media Image Size Chart 2017. ________________________________________ Related articles Here Are The Biggest Lies People Tell On Social Media – Infographic…
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Death Of Twitter Has Been Greatly Exaggerated: 9 Million New Users In Last 3 Months, 14% DAU Rise
Twitter revenue fell 8% last quarter, according to new financial from the company. The drop was smaller than expected and sent the stock up 11% in pre-market trading Wednesday. Twitter also added 9 million new users in the last 3 months. That’s the biggest quarter-over-quarter user jump for Twitter since…
How Instagram Has Eaten Snapchat’s Lunch In A Single Chart
Facebook and it’s Instagram app have made a cottage industry out of copying features from Snapchat. As the chart shows, the result has been meteoric growth for Instagram and slowed growth for Snapchat. ________________________________ Users may not be leaving Snapchat in droves for Instagram Stories, but they appear less likely…
Facebook Video Profiles For Musicians Plus Instant Social Videos
In this piece we look at TAD, an app which has helped artists to create album cover art, and has since been expanding into giving artists the opportunity to create Facebook video profiles and expand into a social media tool. ___________________ Guest post from Make It In Music A little…
Acing The Basics Of Social Media To Grow Your Followers
Social media is an integral part of our waking lives, and just as each platform has its own distinct attributes, each one represents an opportunity for a band or musician to draw attention to themselves and their work. That said, there are certain basic practices that apply universally across all…
WED. BRIEF: Spotify, Apple, Analytics, #AR @ F8 • New Prince EP Draws Lawsuit • ASCAP Expo Recap • More
Wednesday 4.19.17 Music Business News From Around The Web Interesting music related announcements at Facebook’s F8 yesterday, but still no overarching music strategy or or promise of payments to rightsholders. Updated continuously under our More News tab
Spotify Has Launched A Facebook Messenger Bot For Music Discovery And Sharing
UPDATE 2: Spotify has launched a bot for Facebook Messenger that lets friends share music within chats. The bot includes search, recommendations, sharing a 30 second song clip within Messenger, or launching Spotify to hear the full song. Spotify has created a bot for Facebook Messenger that lets friends discover…
Increase Your Audience Reach, Album Sales Using Pinterest
Although using various forms of social media to promote new music or an upcoming tour is par for the course by this point, many artists may be neglecting to consider the power of Pinterest, which can be a great resource for inexpensively building your audience and driving web traffic. ______________________…
Facebook Owns 4 Of 5 Most Downloaded Apps
Facebook’s march to world domination continues. New research by app analytics firm Sensor Tower shows that Facebook’s WhatsApp, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Facebook owned Instagram and (those guys who refused to sell to Facebook) Snapchat were the most downloaded apps worldwide for the first 3 months of 2017. Related articles Facebook…
Pandora Predictions: Boy Band ‘Why Don’t We’ Rise, ‘Cigarettes After Sex’ Light Up, #Classicalbae
In this round of Pandora’s Predictions Chart, we take a look at a violinist bringing the strings to hip-hop, a new boy band fivesome, as well as two dream-pop acts riding the escapism wave. ________________________________ Guest post by Emily Blake of Next Big Sound On this week’s Pandora Predictions Chart,…