YouTube Launching Paid Subscriptions to Some Video Channels: Report
– mashable.com/social-media/
YouTube is set to launch a paid subscription model for its specialist video channels as early as this week, according to a reportThe move, which has been in development for months, aims to finance a wider range of content such as television shows and films, and will serve as another source of revenue, according to the Financial Times
The service will include up to 50 YouTube channels, and subscriptions to each channel will start as low a $1…
This Week On Twitter: 6 Amazing Social Media Stats, Twitter Warns Media, Social Shopping Impact
– mediabistro.com/alltwitter/
Need a little weekend reading? We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes 6 amazing social media statistics for brands, a warning from Twitter for journalists and media organizations, a report that reveals how social media impacts shopping, a study that shows how much we value social media whilst on vacation and a look at how favoriting tweets is being used as a tool to increase follower count on Twitter…Social Media Resources: Apps, Community Managers, Content Marketing
– sproutsocial.com/insights
This week on Sprout Social 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 Social Insights for more how to guides and breaking social media news…
Why Brazil’s ShoeDazzle clone Shoes4you decided to close shop
– thenextweb.com/socialmedia/
Brazil’s leading shoe subscription service Shoes4you has stopped operating, the site’s home page informs. The news first came out in a private mailing the company sent to its subscribers, and was soon confirmed when it announced a liquidation sale, to the great surprise of many.While it is nothing uncommon for e-commerce websites to go out of business, Shoes4you isn’t exactly your average startup: it was co-founded and led by French serial entrepreneur Olivier Grinda, and was backed by A-list funds Redpoint Ventures, Accel Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners and IG Expansion, in addition to individual investors such as Fabrice Grinda and Buscapé’s CEO Romero Rodrigues…
Game science will give you an advantage over your competitors
– venturebeat.com/category/social/
In “What Games Are: The Scientism Delusion,” writer Tadhg Kelly argues that there is currently a fashion for “scientism” in today’s gaming industry. He states that developers and companies try to use “mystical formulas” to achieve success but that this approach rarely proves fruitful…
On Rekindling A Sense Of Mystery
– techcrunch.com/social
A little disconnection goes a long way.
In the tangled web of digital social networks that we weave one thing is increasingly absent: a sense of mystery.
We are so wrapped up in our digital social graphs there’s rarely room for gaps. Our networks offer the promise of being entangled with ever more connections — reaching out to grasp the hands of friends’ friends (and so on to the edge of the digital universe) – reminding us how few degrees of separation there are between citizens of the wired world…
In the tangled web of digital social networks that we weave one thing is increasingly absent: a sense of mystery.
We are so wrapped up in our digital social graphs there’s rarely room for gaps. Our networks offer the promise of being entangled with ever more connections — reaching out to grasp the hands of friends’ friends (and so on to the edge of the digital universe) – reminding us how few degrees of separation there are between citizens of the wired world…