Social commerce finally comes to Facebook, as the social media giant launches a new e-commerce feature called Shops for its suite of social media apps. The link to digital wellbeing might appear tenuous, but did you know that shopping can improve...
Monetizing social media matters. How can retailers, advertisers and tech companies turn social media into social sales? You could hire a head of social commerce, just as Twitter has done this week, appointing former Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard...
So Facebook is adding video ads to peoples’ Facebook feeds, further increasing daily exposure to advertising messages (about 60 banner ads, 50 TV ads, and countless (well between 500 – 3000) other commercial messages)). These rich media...
Want a smart one-glance-and-you’re-done summary overview of the state of social media in 2013? Then check out the latest 2013 version (v 4.0) of Brian Solis‘ [updated] conversation prism (hi res here), with players segmented into 26...
Social commerce star “Fab” that pitches itself as “the world’s design store” offering flash-sales on design goods has just closed $150M in initial Series D financing from Tencent, with contributions from existing...
Chirpify, the social commerce in-stream payments company, has announced that is cutting out the PayPal middleman (and associated charges) and enabling direct card transactions. Shoppers will now be able to connect their payment cards (American...
Toyota has demoed its upcoming new social car configurator at Google’s I/O conference. Check out the video below. Built in collaboration with Google and Saatchi & Saatchi LA and Joystick Interactive, the new social shopping Toyota app...
Jennifer Lopez is launching a new social commerce venture – Viva Movil – a new mobile service for US Latinos – with their $1.2 trillion spending power (16% of US population and set to double by 2050). The ‘social’ piece...
So social commerce is a unicorn, a beautiful but imaginary idea; or that’s the headline finding of a brilliant (free) report is just out by Monetate on social commerce – with Mitch Joel and Jay Baer as contributors. If you look at the...
Forget B2C, B2B or even P2P – the future is M2M – machine to machine communication. And forget virtual world vs. real world, in this M2M Internet of Things, the two are fused together in synthesis. These are the two central messages of a...
“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” is a truism that Yahoo! wants to monetize with its $1.1bn cash purchase of Tumblr blogging platform. With 108m bloggers generating 13 billion page views per month on...
Warren Buffet: “If you lose money for the firm I will be understanding. If you lose reputation I will be ruthless.” Why? Because, on a 10 point reputation scale, 1 point difference is worth $500m for large corporations*. Here’s the deck from a...