The 24 biggest Google Trends This Month
Scheenagh Harrington2024-08-20T07:35:31+00:00So, the UK election dust from the start of July has definitely settled and the keys to Number 10 have been handed over. Now we [...]
The 24 biggest Google Trends This Month
Scheenagh Harrington2024-06-29T10:22:23+00:00It’s so close to the summer we can almost taste it. We’re also in the middle of a General Election campaign (snooooore) and the [...]
Google’s Silver Search-iversary: 25 Years of Answering the World’s Questions
Scheenagh Harrington2024-01-05T11:36:39+00:00The Christmas and New Year holidays are strange. It's so easy to lose track of time (apart from the day we return, triumphant and half a stone heavier, to the [...]
From #BookTok to British Sign Language: a look back at 2023 on TikTok
Scheenagh Harrington2023-12-31T06:54:59+00:00Life at 24 fingers towers moves fast, and that’s how we like it. December is no different, but the Christmas holidays give us, and everyone else in the business [...]
Our top trends from Pinterest Predicts
Scheenagh Harrington2023-12-29T11:14:28+00:00We’ve previously highlighted how Pinterest can be seen as a bit of a hobbyist indulgence. Don’t be fooled by that slightly soft reputation: the Pinterest Predicts annual trend forecast [...]
Top 10 Last Minute Marketing Ideas For Christmas
Scheenagh Harrington2023-12-06T11:55:33+00:00Much like the people who claim they’ve got all their presents bought and wrapped by the end of September, some businesses begin their Christmas marketing [...]
Our Pick Of The Social Media Trends For 2024
Scheenagh Harrington2023-12-05T06:13:29+00:00We love December: it’s a month that is filled with possibility, even as the year itself is drawing to a close. Plus there’s champagne.Will Emma be [...]
Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Scheenagh Harrington2023-05-11T12:02:51+00:00This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week takes place between 15 and 21 May, and the theme is anxiety. Feeling anxious from time to time can be perfectly normal, especially [...]
Social media trends 2022: What should you be looking out for?
Scheenagh Harrington2022-03-17T08:19:03+00:00We can hardly believe it's time to look ahead to the social media trends of 2022 as 2021 draws to a close. It’s been a busy 12 months, from [...]
Instagram allows posting from a desktop but Facebook’s Meta steals its thunder
Scheenagh Harrington2021-10-29T08:51:33+00:00You know the saying “always the bridesmaid, never the bride”? We wonder if Instagram feels a little like that at the moment. Just when it was enjoying a moment [...]
You’re our Favourite: Instagram developing new feature to help prioritise user feeds
Scheenagh Harrington2021-09-17T08:06:51+00:00Can you imagine what life would be like if every acquaintance you’d ever made turned up at your front door, demanding you listen to the latest thing they had [...]
It’s ‘The End’ for Linkedin Stories as it aims for TikTok’s short-form success
Scheenagh Harrington2021-09-03T12:42:04+00:00Fans of superb 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off will be familiar with the line: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a [...]
Forget swiping up in Stories as Instagram debuts the Link Sticker
Scheenagh Harrington2021-08-26T20:25:43+00:00We love it when the social media giants play with their toys, and Facebook-owned Instagram is the latest platform to fiddle around with its features - so to speak. [...]
TikTok overtakes Facebook as the world’s most downloaded app
Scheenagh Harrington2021-08-13T09:33:49+00:00“I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for those pesky kids”, said almost every Scooby Doo villain ever. Those clever boffins at Facebook might be [...]
How to run a social media audit
Scheenagh Harrington2022-01-07T09:01:31+00:00From a certain point of view, social media looks easy peasy: chuck out the odd quote from someone famous here for Facebook, throw together a quick Instagram video on [...]
Facebook’s Campaign Ideas Generator offers out-of-this-world marketing inspo
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-30T08:04:13+00:00Facebook, ever on the lookout for ways to help entrepreneurs of all sizes get a leg up, has come up with a nifty solution for anyone whose marketing tank [...]
Should a business be on every social media platform?
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-23T09:08:13+00:00Never let it be said we don’t appreciate the value of choice here at 24 fingers (just ask Emma about shoes) but - and we can barely believe we’re [...]
Get Fit for Business, thanks to the Brentwood Community Fund
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-16T15:27:38+00:00We’re thrilled to announce the Fit for Business entrepreneurial programme, delivered by 24 Degrees and BlitzFitMe, has secured a share of the Brentwood Community Fund, offered by Brentwood Borough [...]
Ouch: Linkedin bans more than 80 automation tools in platform clampdown
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-09T07:51:33+00:00We live in an amazing age of artificial intelligence and digital wizardry that has made life easier than our ancestors could have ever imagined. It seems as if there’s [...]
Facebook unveils new tools for the future as Apple takes a bite out of data privacy
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-09T07:49:27+00:00If social media was a soap, we think it would be Dallas: impossibly wealthy warring clans constantly trying to get the upper hand on each other (though maybe without [...]
Back of the net: why Euro 2020 and social media are a marketing marriage made in heaven
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-02T17:46:18+00:00Tomorrow night, eight o’clock. Stadio Olimpico, Italy. Euro 2020. If you’re not among the millions who will be an inch away from their TV screens, smartphones clutched in their [...]
Instagram Reels ads gets an international launch
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-18T10:03:47+00:00The world of social media never stands still, not for one second. It's part of the reason we love it, but the speed of change can take some business [...]
Linkedin’s new features promise to make business owners’ lives a little bit easier
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-11T10:03:38+00:00We know many business owners wear several hats, from HR to PR and back again and there are some days that really ought to be four times as long, [...]
Emma Goode appointed by Facebook as an Official Trainer for #SheMeansBusiness campaign
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-11T12:10:14+00:00Audrey Hepburn once said: "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others". We at 24 fingers [...]
Instagram adds Reels Insights feature as it chases rival TikTok
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-04T07:08:33+00:00Blur vs Oasis. Microsoft vs Apple. Coke vs Pepsi. They are among some of the greatest rivalries the world has ever known. Now you can add Instagram Reels Insights [...]
Transform21: Emma Goode among the customer experience speakers at June event
Scheenagh Harrington2021-05-27T13:02:30+00:00We love the thrill and buzz of social media here at 24 fingers towers, everyone knows that. But the biggest buzz? Watching a small business owner go from barely [...]
Emma Goode named an adviser for Enterprise Nation business.connected programme in partnership with Vodafone
Scheenagh Harrington2021-05-21T14:14:39+00:00If there's one thing you have to be good at in business, it's making connections: whether it's communicating with customers or chatting to supplier partners, relationships are the grease that [...]
Instagram Remix: Insta gives its Reels a new twist
Scheenagh Harrington2021-04-09T06:43:57+00:00Just when you think you've got to grips with the latest video-sharing technology on the web, they go all Etch-a-Sketch on us and give everything a good shake, this [...]
Self-confessed networking junkie Kay Skelton joins 24 fingers
Scheenagh Harrington2021-03-17T15:02:59+00:00It's a documented fact that we LOVE a good natter here at 24 fingers towers, but Norwich-based Kay Skelton might just take it to another level. She's a self-confessed [...]
Cocktails and Cumberbatch: Saffron Hogg joins 24 fingers as Engagement Assistant
Scheenagh Harrington2021-03-05T17:00:02+00:00Like millions of people, lockdown has stopped Saffron Hogg from doing the two things she loves best: expending energy and speaking to people. 24 fingers to the rescue 🦸♀Bubbly, Birmingham-based [...]