The Twitter Google Partnership Brand Opportunity

Google will restart its program that indexes tweets and pulls them into search results sometime in the first half of 2015. This means users searching for different topics will see real-time tweets along with recommended webpages based on their queries within search results.

The agreement between these two online companies is big news for marketers. It makes marketing on Twitter and Google even greater opportunities.

Read More

Brave Ad World - Episode 187

Another week means another episode of The Brave Ad World Podcast, and there's so much to discuss!

This week’s headlines: Twitter Tests Instant Timeline, Twitter Selling Ads on Flipboard and Yahoo Japan, Google to Display Tweets in Search Results Again, LinkedIn Wraps Up Big Quarter and Twitter’s Q4 Earnings Don’t Impress Wall Street.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Uses Real People to Optimize News Feeds, WhatsApp Launches Voice Calls in India, YouTube Testing Videos with Multiple Angles, Twitter Opens R&D Center in India and Instagram Adds Looping Videos.

You can get this episode and many others in the podcast section, and be sure to subscribe via iTunes. However you choose to listen, please leave a review. You can also contact us on Twitter and send us an email to braveadworld [at] gmail [dot] com.

Read More

The Tweet Seen Round the World and What Marketers Can Learn

The Oscars provided no shortage of social conversation, but what took the cake was a "selfie" from Oscar host Ellen Degeneres that featured several other celebrities including Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence and others. The photo was taken with a Samsung phone to help promote Samsung devices. The result was more than any tweet had ever achieved.

Read More