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Britney Spears Becomes First Google+ User to Reach 1 Million Followers

More than 1 million users are following Britney Spears on Google+, making her account the social network’s first to break through the seven-figure threshold. In ...

Harvest Digital have made the Top 10 of The Drum’s Digital 100: Top Media Agencies by Billings’ list! We are happy to confirm we were ranked 7th place.

This list ranks the top digital media agencies in the UK. Agencies are ranked in terms of their total UK billings from digital activities. Media agencies have been ranked s...

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Facebook Buys Gowalla

Facebook has confirmed that is has bought location-based network Gowalla for an undisclosed sum. The social network had been tipped to have made an offer for the company, a rival to location-based mobile company Foursquare. Gowalla works in a similar way t...

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Spotify Reaches 2.5m Paying Users

Spotify has announced via a blog post that it has signed up 2.5m paying subscribers, driven by its recent partnership with Facebook. The news comes following a report from Enders Analysis that said the subscri...

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Spotify Sign Ups Increase by 4m following Facebook Merge

Music services have seen a significant new sign up surge since integrating Facebook Open Graph in September. Facbook has announced early stats on the growth in users for the music services like Spotify that i...

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Former MySpace CEO says it was a mistake to keep the MySpace brand

Michael Jones has said to CNN money that the falling social network should have re-launched as an “entirely new brand”. Jones, who left the social net...

Background

Marketing has changed since the earlier days before Social Media. Customers now want all-access to sales information, customer services, and marketing teams. A way to give this feel of connection and involvement is through Social Media. Social Media provides direct interaction for a consumer ...

Infographics: the new frontier of linkbaiting

Images transcend linguistic and cultural barriers faced by text. There is no need for machine or human translation. It is a pure exercise to interpret the message transmitted by the image and eventually memorize it for later use.

After all, visual communication it ...

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18% of online audience is mobile-only

Over 18% of people are accessing the internet via mobile devices rather than desktop access, according to Mobile Entertainment Forum’s Global Consumer Survey. The MEF study found that over 72% o...

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Gumtree Launches Social-Media Based Daily Deals

Gumtree, which gains 13.7m visitors a month, are taking on the likes of Groupon (who recently launched a rewards scheme), LivingSocial (who due to launch similar), Amazon and Ebay by launchi...

Marin Software certified agencies provide financial lift to brands through improved online ad management efficiencies

London, October 6, 2011 – Harvest Digital today announced that it has been recognised as a Marin Software Certified Agency. Advertisers leveraging a Marin Software Certified Agency, such...

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- Mobile Social Media use has risen by 30% from 2010 to 2011

- 44% of the UK use the internet on their PC’s, whilst 20% engage on both a phone and a PC

- Mobile Social media is mostly used 6-9pm, followed by 3-6pm

- ...

Blekko Pumped In With Funds

To many the name Blekko doesn’t ring any bells, but to people that work in the search and digital industry it should. In case you work in the digital industry and you don’t know what Blekko is, let me tell you: it’s a search engine.

It’s not a very popul...

The new version of the BBC website went live last week, but is still in beta testing. The BBC is carrying out user testing to get feedback on how effective the changes are before launching the final version. Beta testing of the new bbc.co.uk will run for around two months before the old site is switched off. 

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The Nokia vending machines are making their debut at the Skypark in Glasgow this week. Dubbed the ‘gift machine,’ combined with Foursquare-enabled technology, they allow passerby’s to check-in with the #NokiaConnects hashtag, share on Twitter, and receive a free gift in return. 

Users can only che...

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Vimeo Launches UK Music Store

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