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Fake news may be a top concern for media, politics and society in general, but they’re only the first stage in another worrisome development. Indeed, when the reality of fake news exploded into public view with the 2016 US presidential elections, the concept of invented information created and disseminated to purposefully confuse, manipulate and/or polarize […]

Snapchat added 13 million daily users in a breakout second quarter, thanks to the viral explosion of a pair of augmented-reality filters that pulled in more than 200 million users in just two weeks. It’s a significant boost in traffic that has renewed the company’s credibility with advertisers, who are starting to pile into the platform. On Tuesday, Snapchat shared its second-quarter results, reporting […]

Millennials spend 1 hour every week on selfies – from clicking to editing – according to a 2017 study by design agency Now Sourcing and online eyewear retailer Frames Direct. 55 percent of social media selfies come from millennials, but Gen X follows with 24 percent and baby boomers with 9 percent. Selfies are an […]

Image Credit: Illustration by Tam Nguyen/Ad Age Snapchat has replaced one problem with another, to advertisers’ potential benefit: Prices for ads on the platform have gone from ungodly to low, low, low. About two years ago, Snapchat was charging brands $300,000 to $500,000 to sponsor a Lens, an animated filter that transforms people’s faces in […]

Snapchat and Instagram are stepping up their shopping rivalry as they both work e-commerce into new areas of their apps. Instagram On June 12, Instagram brought shopping into Stories, the vertical-video section that was copied from Snapchat. Brands on Instagram will now be able to drop shopping bag stickers into their Stories and sell products […]

The advertising industry is filled with a wide range of characters. They are often stereotypical and some of them need to be alleviated. From idealistic creatives to hardcore finance people, there are numerous classifications of advertising staff. But how does one look beyond stereotypes and reach equilibrium? After years of working with recruiters in the advertising industry, there […]

  The growth of the digital medium, including social and mobile, combined with the increasing consumption of online video in the region, has led marketers to complement traditional marketing with content marketing. “Brands are now challenged with evolving their strategies to not only create the volume of content required to satisfy consumer appetite, but to […]

Although its storyline was cause for concern, very few predicted that The Interview – a movie on tabloid journalists setting up an interview with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un after finding out he is a huge fan of their show – only to then be asked by the CIA to assassinate the leader – would lead […]

  So typical Love transcends all cultures and its close relative, ‘romance’ drives multi-billion dollar industries. Even back in 2009, Valentine’s Day shoppers in the UAE spend on average about US$200 (Dh734.58) on the so-called ‘day of love’ – more than any other country in the region. Humans tend to hold onto fixed, oversimplified ideas […]

To mark the end of 2014, Twitter has delved into its data to create its annual Year on Twitter roundup. Due to its real time nature, whatever is happening in the world happens on Twitter and this even includes spacecraft @Philae2014 landing on the Rosetta Comet. Most Retweeted Every year, Twitter crowns the most retweeted […]

Online journal trendingbytes.com shares with Communicate Levant the latest digital, web and user insights, along with social media news   Etihad Airways takes the first class to new heights Traveling by air can be tiresome, even when you’re in first class. However, Etihad’s Residence, its new and posh on-board suite offering, has won the appreciation […]