Ecommerce is shattering records. Will it continue with holiday shoppers?

The retail landscape has significantly altered over the past few months, with record ecommerce numbers replacing foot traffic and ushering in an unprecedented holiday shopping season. While many brick and mortar stores will struggle to survive the year, ecommerce and click and collect are expected to continue encouraging massive online shopper audiences. With online shopping…

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Better Colbert Ratings Equal Better Social Affinity for Brands

Since Jimmy Fallon took over NBC’s The Tonight Show in 2014, he has been a ratings juggernaut. But in January, CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, took a lead in total viewers, which has now extended to an eight-week streak and a rare win for CBS late night in the first quarter of 2017.…

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How to Tailgate Like a Southern Football Fanatic (Using Mutual Affinities)

As a southerner, I spend a disproportionate amount of my life thinking about college football and eating.  As any reader of Garden & Gun knows, the two of these come together each Saturday in the fall via the time-honored “tailgate” tradition1.  During my undergrad at NC State, no game experience was complete without pregame spicy…

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2013 Social Media Brand Analysis Infographic

  With interest intensifying on how to best leverage social media for brands and businesses, we thought it would be clever if we turned our platform back onto the social media networks to see which brands, TV networks, and celebrities the social networks’ fans engaged and identified with the most. Since this was new to…

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