Giggem Helps Musicians Find Bandmates, Managers and Labels + MORE

This week on Sprout Insights we tackled guides for Facebook, Twitter, and to help you better reach your customers with the social media tools that make a difference.
Check out our articles below to find out more about each one and how they can help you with your social media goals. And check in every day to Sprout Insights for more how to guides and breaking social media news…

Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Emily Joyce of Fueled. Fueled is a digital product design and development incubator based in New York, Chicago and London.
Emerging from the spectral edge of online financial markets comes Bitcoin, a crypto-currency that uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to process a growing amount of online financial transactions…

Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes a complete social media image size guide, tips on how to create perfect posts on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+, a look at how social media is being used around the world, thoughts on why Instagram’s new video tool isn’t any real threat to Twitter’s Vine and a visual that addresses the current state of content marketing…

A musician for more than 20 years, Emir Turan of Turkey struggled in recent years to put together a band. He tried finding fellow musicians by searching on Craigslist, browsing social networks, sifting through classifieds and hanging fliers at bars. All the while, he thought a simpler way must exist for him to form a band…

You hear that? It’s the sound of 130 million people closing the Instagram app.
Instagram video is a big mistake. Huge.
More than any other social network, Instagram is a consumptive experience first and foremost, even though it might have tricked you into thinking it’s all about taking pictures…