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What To Expect In 2023: And How To Excel at Digital Marketing

Personalized marketing,extended use of multimedia and exploring new digital channels remain top content marketing strategies. However, marketers may face unique challenges in 2023 that will change how we approach digital marketing. Here’s how you can prepare for digital marketing shifts. The Biggest Challenges Marketers May Face In 2023 At its Worldwide Developers Conference in 2020, […]

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Is Influencer Marketing still of value during Covid times?

Since April, influencer marketing activities have fallen 40-70% as brands paused their campaigns and postponed new product launches keeping in mind the dip in consumer sentiment, said digital marketing experts. Rahul Singh, founder of Winkl, a platform that helps brands execute, manage and track influencer marketing campaigns: “In April and May we saw a 60% […]

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What Social Media can do during COVID-19 times

Four hundred years ago, during the heyday of the London plague, the English government had realised that an educated populace outweighed the authoritarian need to monopolise public information. Thus, the London Bill of Mortality was born in July 1603: the first public health media artefact that provided a detailed listing of plague deaths and sites of contagion. […]

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Social media companies have partnered with WHO and fact-checking platforms to curb false news on Corona Virus

With over 60 confirmed cases of coronavirus currently in India and over 110K cases worldwide, the epidemic has well and truly taken over news cycles all over the world. And an equally tragic  side-effect of the outbreak is the spread of fake news online. From WhatsApp forwards to tweets claiming to cure coronavirus and Facebook posts […]

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Indian artists and creators create impact on ever-growing social media

The burgeoning independent art scene in India has been shaped tremendously, along with the design industry, by technology and social media. While about 15 years ago in India it would have been difficult to locate anyone doing experimental, fringe work, in the last five years or so, social media has allowed for fast growing connection […]

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Regional and Vernacular Content – Digital Marketing’s new Mantra

A report on television viewership by E&Y reveals that growth is being led by regional TV channels, even as the latest Indian readership survey highlights the boom in regional print media markets. As regional content gains traction, it was only a matter of time before this trend also pervaded the digital realm. As internet penetration […]

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First Indian song to hit 1 Billion views – ‘Laung Laachi’

‘Laung Laachi’, title song of the Punjabi film Laung Laachi (2018), became the first Indian song video to hit the one-billion-views mark last month. Numbers are all the rage these days. From Rs100 crore films to Rs500 crore collections at the box office, the world of cinema has become obsessed with records. With social media […]

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Vigo superstar from Bengal goes missing. Controversy brings more users to the app.

Chinese app Vigo, a video social media portal viral in India’s hinterland, has come into headlines with one of its local stars allegedly going missing. Pratima Mondal, 21, known as Jasmine on Vigo, has 4 lakh followers on the app. The West Bengal native was reported missing by her husband earlier this month after she allegedly went […]

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Rise of the “social media teacher”: the ups and downs of being ‘edu-famous’

Many of the issues arising from the increased use of digital technology in schools aren’t particularly new. For example, current calls to ban smartphones from schools often forget that this isn’t the first time that students have been distracted in class. Similarly, issues of cyberbullying and online cheating are certainly not novel behaviours. However, the […]

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India’s new privacy bill and how it may affect Social Media.

India’s proposed new privacy bill may require large social media platforms to offer an identify-verification option, a potentially precedent-setting effort to rein in the spread of “fake news”, two government sources told Reuters. The requirement would likely raise a host of technical and policy issues for companies including Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram units, […]