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The top 50 marketing, social media and productivity blogs

Mar17
by on March 17, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: advertising, Around the Web, best blogs, Insider, marketing, Roundups, top blogs

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Having a list of go-to blogs can be a great source of information and inspiration. In our case, the blogs and websites we visit most often provide some amazing articles with in-depth insights, tips, and strategies that help inform our social media sharing. Likewise, the amazing content gives us something to aim for and ideas for what to cover next. We’ve shared a bit about favorite blogs for content marketing and blogs for advanced marketing. Now it’s time to ask you: What are your favorite blogs and websites?  We posed this question in our…

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How OnePlus One’s marketing made it the most desirable phone in the world

Mar17
by on March 17, 2015 at 2:25 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Market Intelligence

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It’s relatively new, and you can get it by invitation only. It’s the smartphone that’s managed to dominate the market in a very short amount of time, an impressive feat accomplished largely due to a clever marketing plan. OnePlus One has earned the title as the new king of mid-range smartphones, and the buzz surrounding the product is still growing at an unprecedented rate. The demand for the invite-only smartphone was so great that traffic to the website skyrocketed, reaching 25.6M visits in December 2014 – just one year after the OnePlus website was launched. The OnePlus One craze: How…

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Rdio adds new sharing features and Songkick tour info integration

Mar17
by on March 17, 2015 at 2:19 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Updates

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Music streaming service Rdio has today announced a raft of new features aimed at giving users new ways to share content, find new music and artists and book tickets for live gigs. Among the sharing changes is the ability to tweet at the artist’s verified Twitter account automatically whenever you tweet a particular track – the idea here is that it gives users a sense of being able to engage with artists directly and gives musicians the chance to hear and respond to feedback, if they so wish. Another change is that if a friend shares music with you directly, you…

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Sling TV goes live on Xbox One today in the US

Mar17
by on March 17, 2015 at 2:09 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Product Launches

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If you own an Xbox One, you’ll now be able to hit pause and watch TV without putting down your controller. Microsoft announced that Sling TV is now available to anyone with the console with two exclusive limited-time offers. Current Xbox Live members with the Xbox One will receive a one month free trial of the service, while the first five thousand people to buy an Xbox One from a Microsoft retail store or MicrosoftStore.com will get three months free. The Xbox One is the first console to offer the service and also the first console to offer live, over-the-top television. Sling…

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