What Your Brand Can Do To Win the Instagram Game

What Your Brand Can Do To Win the Instagram Game

Instagram virality can be a natural byproduct for marketers who mix an understanding of the algorithm’s desires with a devotion to the customer-content experience. Instagram crawls content to determine how popular, valuable, and relevant posts are for an audience segment or individual. Thus, the algorithm is in control of the content that surfaces for Instagram … Read more

YouTube Confirms Shorts Views Don’t Count For Monetization

YouTube Confirms Shorts Views Don’t Count For Monetization

Views of YouTube Shorts count toward a channel’s total watch time, but they don’t count toward eligibility in the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). Channels in the YPP are able to monetize and earn revenue from videos, though not everyone is eligible to join it. Among other criteria, acceptance into the YPP requires 4,000 valid public … Read more

Content Skills or Subject Matter Expertise?

Content Skills or Subject Matter Expertise?

Whenever I hear someone use the term SME (pronounced “smee”) for subject matter expert, I imagine a Dr. Seuss-like character and accompanying verse: On the 25thth day of March, in the jungle of sales,In the pall of the calls, the in of the bound,Hey yelled, “Data! Information!” and other leadership sounds.Then the SME stopped and … Read more

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