Best Practices

Social Analytics: Breaking Down Facebook Insights

Facebook Insights frustrate me. The Insights Overview isn’t accurate or consistent and sometimes doesn’t even work. If analytics are supposed to shed light on the performance of your content, the light shining from Facebook’s Insights tab is dim and flickering (at best). But as life tends to go, the answer we seek is out there […]

How To: Create A Facebook Live Poll Video

Last month, I wrote about Facebook Live and why it is thriving. Things like anticipation and the fear of missing out drive people to watch and interact with live content. But there’s another trend floating around that uses Facebook’s Live video platform in a different yet equally effective manner: Voting polls. I typically see brands […]

The Power of Typography

Typography is composing fonts and typefaces in a meaningful way. Its power often goes unnoticed, despite its influence on everyone. Different moods, eras, regions and attitudes can be expressed simply from a type choice. A font or typeface can be playful, serious, classic or fresh. When learning about how to pair type, combing serif and san […]

FOMO & Dopamine: Why Facebook Live Is Thriving

We fear missing out. We crave suspense. For a Millennial generation that is highly skeptical of institutions, live content is a breath of fresh air, serving up unfiltered content that is stripped of any manipulation or deception. What is seen is what is true. Unscripted.