Knowing when to post next on Facebook is a common question Publishers and Social Media Managers face when managing their online presence. You can take two approached: Simple to manage: The simplest way is to auto-post at set intervals. It requires zero effort once you set it up and it’s enough to keep your page …
Say what you want about Facebook, but media publishers are still able to engage with their audiences there. And it’s not only national broadcasters or well-known brands either. This year Facebook traffic bounced back (somewhat) across the board for publishers. Sceptical? Take a look at Sosialnytt – a small Norwegian publisher who started out sharing …
There is a simple equation between social engagement and organic website traffic. The more people you can engage around your content on any social platform, the more people you can bring to your website. Both ad-based and subscription-based business models can benefit from this logic. The formula is simple, but how can you apply it …
The Far Right is feeling targeted on social platforms. Britain’s Nigel Farage directly questioned Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the very subject, claiming that: “right-of-center political opinions” had been affected by a change in Facebook algorithms in January of this year, and that “on average, we’re down about 25 percent over a course of this …
Recently announced changes to the News Feed algorithm are causing a lot of discussion and uncertainty among publishers. Facebook has not provided specifics on how or when the changes would be implemented, and the majority of the discussion is driven by speculation and fear rather than facts. Based on our data, although there are many …
What we already know: Donald Trump regularly criticises the mainstream news media in the USA, especially the New York Times, claiming it is unfair and one sided. He notably uses Twitter to directly address the public, but how influential is he on Facebook? We know that Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm is optimised for engagement, by design …
Our recently launched Chrome extension already has many fans amongst our customers. When you add it to your browser, you can see at a glance a detailed breakdown of all the social media engagement any article has generated. Some use it to check how well their own story is doing. Others use the extension to keep an …
A robust digital media market heavily relies on well developed infrastructure – things like broadband penetration, high internet speed, and universal coverage. It’s no wonder back in 2012 HBO chose the Nordics to test their first ever standalone video streaming service. Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark have some of the highest percentages of households …
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. …
When Facebook says ‘jump’, media publishers ask “How high?” With the introduction of Facebook’s new reactions, every digital media publisher must rethink how it presents its articles on the platform to maximise engagement.
One of the top questions publishers struggle to answer satisfactorily is “Does more engagement mean more clickthroughs?” We have seen that the answer to this is yes, although it isn’t always reflected in the data clearly enough. In this post I’ll explain how social media engagement eventually does lead to greater exposure and inevitably greater clickthrough numbers.
Facebook finally rolled out the first wave of its Instant Articles system on mobile. In case you haven’t, I’ll explain briefly what it is and what it means.
Working with many of the top publishers across Finland and Sweden, EzyInsights has a unique birds-eye view of the online publishing industry which is fuelled by our thirst for data. Here is our overview of what has been happening over the last year and what will happen in 2015.
Many brands struggle to generate engagement on their Facebook pages. So if it’s happening to your company, don’t feel lonely – there are lots and lots of brands who only generate a handful of likes on each post. As we know, lack of engagement reduces the percentage of your fanbase that will see your content, …
We spend all day every day at EzyInsights enveloped in Social Media, so here is our take on what sort of things you might be likely to see on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram over the coming year. The good stay good There’s a reason that the companies with the best presences on Social Media are …
The problem isn’t data, it’s understanding what it means. Data is a word that’s used again and again these days, big data, using data to make decisions, data driven design. But with the tools available today, getting data about your company is relatively trivial – the real question is what is that data actually telling …