Category «Social Media Platforms»

How to grow on Instagram without ads – Interview with Patricia Tiihonen from YLE

How can you grow engagement and reach organically on Instagram? We asked Patricia Tiihonen, the social media guru at Finland’s public service broadcaster whose @yleuutiset is currently the biggest news page in Finland.Q: Patricia, what’s your number one advice on growing Instagram engagement?
First you need to think of your goals on Instagram: what is the …

Instagram goes Realtime

Almost 6000 journalists around the world use EzyInsights Realtime for monitoring content. We’ve just upgraded it for all of you. One of the most requested features has been to include Instagram within our Realtime tool. We’ve worked solidly for the past few months to find a way to include Instagram content in a way that …

Live Video Polls – Never Underestimate a Publisher’s Ingenuity

Live video is Facebook’s current star feature. Ever since its launch this spring, Facebook has been heavily promoting it in the News Feed, giving live videos immense reach and therefore engagement. The idea is not new – Meerkat, Periscope, and other dedicated live-streaming apps have popularised live video over the last few years. Though the …

How worried should publishers be about the latest Facebook algorithm change?

Yesterday Facebook announced an upcoming change to News Feed ranking that essentially further prioritises stories posted by friends over ones posted by anyone else – including publishers and brands. Engineering Director Lars Backstrom reiterates Facebook’s priority of keeping users connected to the people, places and things they care about, people on their friends list being the most important. …

How can I get Facebook page likes that are actually valuable?

In our last post we explained how chasing Facebook page likes can have a negative impact on your brand, “Likes that are attracted through promotions, incentives and competitions can negatively affect your brand’s organic reach on Facebook.“ This leaves many brands with a dilemma. They want their audience to grow (faster), they have a budget …

Note to companies – listen to your Community Managers

Inspired by the recent Community Manager Appreciation Day events around the world, we felt compelled to talk about the oft under appreciated Community Manager. EzyInsights was proud to both sponsor and present at the CMAD event in Finland. Here we had a chance to demo the EzyTool to exactly the kind of people who might …