By early 2012, Pinterest had 10.4 million users, which is more than Facebook had at its first anniversary in 2005, but less than Google+’s 90,000 users. The Pinterest community has grown 145 percent since then and is retaining and engaging users two to three times better than Twitter was at a similar time in the company’s history.
ad raising awareness about the lack of opportunities girls and women face outside of the developed world.
After the technology scanned the viewer's face, women were shown the full advert, complete with details about the three profiled girls' lives; men, however, were denied access to the complete ad and shown a series of statistics about girls around the globe instead.
Neiman Marcus trialling an app that provides sales associates consumer data they can act in real-time.
download app, opt-in, when they walk in store it triggers the app and provides info on product
AMEX can use twitter to get discounts. they tweet hastag or search a term unique to offer and after the purchase, the discount is added to the amex card
Online payment company Jumio has announced the launch of Netverify: an image recognition technology that allows merchants to remotely scan credit cards and IDs with a webcam or phone.
how social media shapes beauty industry
blogs are two times more likely to drive product purchases than magazine ads
The Top 5 beauty brands on Facebook (Dolce & Gabbana, MAC Cosmetics, Sephora, Maybelline, and L'Oreal Paris USA) all have over 1 million fans
Volga Verdi is a California-based fashion brand that offers its customers discounts depending on the number of friends, followers or fans they have on popular social networks.