Facebook made much news in 2013, and here at the official blog of Amplitude Digital, we chronicled a good bit of that news – along with many major developments relating to rival social media heavyweight Twitter. As 2014 gets into full swing, Facebook has wasted no time making more big…
We live in a world that is often frantic, and nearly always fragmented. Especially in 2014 America, simply managing and staying on top of all the communications to and from one’s smartphone, social media networks and email addresses can sometimes seem like directing air traffic in a bustling airport. Well,…
We live in an increasingly advanced technological age. Seemingly each and every day, new becomes newer. Cool becomes cooler. Fast becomes faster. And as technology continues to expand in America…attention spans seem to simultaneously contract. Are you still reading this? If so, good. At Amplitude, we like to stay abreast…
Instagram is far from the largest social network – that would be Facebook, which purchased Instagram from its Bay Area-based founders for a cool $1 billion in 2012. But the wildly popular and easily-implemented photo- and video-sharing app is certainly one of the “hottest” and fastest-rising social networks around. Then…
How’s this for a trip down memory lane? In an infamous 1990 television commercial for Canon, then-reigning tennis “bad boy” and cultural phenom Andre Agassi strutted around shirtless, lustily slammed tennis balls and cockily lowered his too-cool-for-school sunglasses before boasting: “Image…is everything.” The tagline that ended that much-talked about spot?…
The social media heavyweight and emerging digital advertising titan keeps on making big news in 2014. And making even bigger deals. The most recent of these high-profile, high-dollar deals sure is a big one, too. As in really, really big. As in $19 billion big. As in the second-biggest tech…
In a recent post over at popular question-and-answer site Quora, someone asked the following question: What is the real secret to going viral? Further elaborating on this question, the author of the post added the following just below it: “I’m tired of hearing social media & seo because Facebook, Insta,…
Happy 2014 from all of us here at Amplitude Digital. We hope you enjoyed a most amazing 2013 Holiday Season. And we wish you the greatest success you have yet to experience in 2014 — both personally and professionally. Here at the official blog of Amplitude Digital, we spent a…
Since its introduction in the 1920s and subsequent standardization into everyday American life in the decades since, television has been called everything from “educational” to “the drug of a nation.” And with the incredible wave of technological advancement that has featured everything from HDTV to flat-screens to DVR to 3D…