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Shuttout - The community-driven marketplace startup that's adding social value to photographs... The market for still imagery is estimated to become worth $4 billion by 2020, at 7% growth every year. Everyone with a smartphone is a photographer these days. Our food, our dog, our daily commute becomes art, frozen on our screens and mused over like it’s a Degas. By ourselves. And then we ge...
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Goodbye Google+. The end game/date for Google+ for consumers (personal) has been announced as the 2nd April 2019. So what....now? Honesty is (most often or not) the best policy and Google has been pretty upfront that they are shutting down Google+ for consumers due to "low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers' expectations." Now Google have a...
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Pukket is aiming to create word of mouth on a large scale, by putting a usable, redeemable value on people’s social media impact when they help to spread word of a brand. Content is king. A brand producing meaningful, engaging, interactable content rather than simply advertising at people finds its message reaching further and being taken on more. However, continually producing content is n...
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Fahim Pour, co-founder of early-stage UK tech startup Pukket, argues that the the digital economy isn’t built to serve the people and Fahim envisages a new, 'fairer' future for the digital economy... I might have been a little harsh with my title up there and I understand your complaints. At the end of the day, we surf the internet with ease, access free flow of information and enjoy being ...
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When Storify announced last December that it will officially shut down in May 2018, Wakelet a free-to-use content curation platform saw an opportunity, and quickly came up with a solution for Wakelet users to find a new home for their content. Storify, a leading digital publishing tool that allowed users to chronologically order links and social media posts, along with their own no...
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Having a strong digital marketing plan will help your startup stand out from the crowd. To get you started, here's some useful tips and tricks, from Nicolas Finet, co-founder of sortlist, covering many of the key elements of online marketing."Creating and running a startup is an exciting job, especially in the first few months of business or when you’ve just landed your first investors. But,...
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GirlCrew - this Dublin based social media platform and app is on a mission to help women to make new friends This startup’s origin story might be familiar to many. Elva Carri wanted to go out dancing, but none of her friends were able and willing. Undeterred, she took to Tinder to find (no, don’t get ahead) some female friends in the same position by changing her profile picture to ex...
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Many consumers are moving into the realm of purchasing through social media. These are a few of the signs that your business needs to take advantage of social selling. The business world is constantly evolving, and one rapidly changing area is in the way purchases are being completed. While the standard purchasing methods remain an option, many consumers are moving into the realm of purchasin...
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Hold - the innovative mobile app that helps students focus in school and gives them the opportunity to get rewardsThese days, it’s rare to see anyone under 40 not glued to their phones. Whether we’re retweeting puppy videos, checking emails, or reading the news, a good portion of the day is, for a lot of people, taken up the little rectangle of knowledge. While it is a great benefit to...
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FavourUp, an influencer-generated content aggregator that helps brands & their agencies extend the impact of social media influencers, reaches it's 90k Crowdcube crowdfunding target in two weeks.  Many fashion brands are investing up to £50k in one-off influencer posts on social media, but these posts quickly disappear from view, being pushed down users feeds by new posts. This mak...
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