Invitations to dinner parties; updates about work; an excursion with the college soccer team: if you’re not using WhatsApp, you run the risk of missing out on important information. With more than a billion worldwide users to date, the app is more popular than almost any other on...
Invitations to dinner parties; updates about work; an excursion with the college soccer team: if you’re not using WhatsApp, you run the risk of missing out on important information. With more than a billion worldwide users to date, the app is more popular than almost any other on the market. But this networking comes with its disadvantages too: the main one being that WhatsApp shares user data...
Reading interesting posts from friends, acquaintances, celebrities. Maybe even throwing in a tweet of your own here and there: The short news service, Twitter, is one of the most popular social media channels worldwide, thanks to its simple concept and wide reach. However, when it comes to data protection, the platform exhibits the typical weaknesses of the social media world – this is reason...
Since Instagram was released in 2010, the photo platform has been steadily growing. After being sold to Facebook, the online service became one of the most important marketing channels for bloggers, companies, and influencers. Being successful on this social image network, however, isn’t set in stone: Instagram apps help to create content and posts, and aid with time management as well as other...
We once used phone calls and text messages to carry out all our communication, now our private conversations are largely digitalized and carried out almost entirely online. We write to each other via messenger apps and share photos, thoughts, and feelings on social networks. But because all our private communication now takes place over these digital channels, we now need to think more about our...
YouTube has revolutionized the internet: since it was founded, it has been inundated with video content and more than a billion users have been recorded. No other alternative has come close to this impressive number. But what are the other alternatives to YouTube and what do they have to offer? Here are the five best YouTube alternatives at a glance.
With 1.3 billion active users per month, WhatsApp is the most popular messenger app worldwide. The service has replaced SMS as a means of communication for smartphone users across generations. This is a good reason for companies to look more closely at using the app as a marketing channel. WhatsApp marketing isn’t yet a very widely implemented way to get in touch with customers.
It’s no longer a secret that advertising with social networks can effectively target specific customer groups. Each network offers a different set of benefits depending on its thematic orientation and functions. Pinterest focuses predominantly on image-based content. The pinboard network has almost no thematic restrictions and is therefore in high demand when it comes to advertising. What do you...
The beginning of all social media efforts: running a critical inventory on your company or business. How well known is my brand within the biggest social networks? In what context do mentions of my products or services arise? On which platforms do these discussions occur? Social media monitoring (SMM) can deliver valuable information on this front. Different tools can assist you in keeping track...
For millions of people around the world, video chats and conferences are an essential part of daily life – for both work and leisure. When it comes to video telephony software and applications, Skype is by far the leader of the pack. In fact, many people are unaware that there’s a considerable number of good alternatives to Skype on the market, which are also available free of charge. Some of...
In order to remain at the forefront of the social media world, even pioneers like YouTube must be guided by younger competition from time to time. Youtube has therefore decided to introduce another communication channel in addition to the Community feature. Like Snapchat and Instagram, the video platform now has a Story feature that allows you to share short videos with your followers. Originally...
