The week’s #wins and #fails
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:09+00:00#WINS To me, to Craig David Finally, something surprisingly good has come out of Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Paul Chuckle took this epic selfie with Craig David. Take note that [...]
#Winning on Social Media
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:09+00:00#Wins #HoldTheDoor What do Game of Thrones and IKEA have in common? […]
24 essential questions with Gary Smith of Rival Colour
Emma Goode2019-08-26T17:16:09+00:00Today we’re chatting with Gary Smith, Account Director of Rival Colour. Our Gary started in the print industry nearly 30 years ago at Morgan Grampian Publishers, moved into the production office [...]
She is D-I-S-C-O, D-I-S-E-O
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:09+00:00Search engine optimisation, or SEO, is all about making yourself visible on a search engine’s unpaid results. It’s also referred to as natural or organic. Most people find what they’re looking for [...]
The Four (email) Marketeers
Grace Scott2016-05-23T14:08:02+00:00Want to begin a successful email marketing campaign but not sure where to start? Have no fear, the 24 fingers four-step guide to email marketing is here. 1. Content for [...]
No words needed
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00Don’t really ‘get’ Snapchat? It’s time to get on board. Snapchat announced recently that it’s now serving 10 billion video views per day - that’s two billion more than Facebook. [...]
Promote your pins on Pinterest
Grace Scott2023-06-10T11:59:48+00:00Yes, a lot of Pinterest is wedding pictures but that doesn’t mean it’s not a profitable place for your business. Pinning can create plenty of [...]
24 reasons why social media rocks with Rebecca Davies-Nash
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00From Scooby Doo to Danny Dyer insulting ducks to Kim Kardashian’s bum – these aren’t your average answers from Rebecca Davies-Nash, 24 fingers’ Head of Content. […]
A few good algorithms
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00When I heard there was a new Facebook algorithm coming out, I geared myself up for a ranty blog about spoonfed social and curated Instagram algorithms. […]
24 essential questions with 24 fingers’ Gem Parekh
Yasmine Marden2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00When 24 fingers’ accountant Gem Parekh isn’t number-crunching, she’s number-crunching. Though getting her away from the Excel spreadsheets proved to be a difficult feat, we finally sat down with Gem to talk [...]
Stop!
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00Today, class, we shall be studying grammar. Recent guidelines from the Department of Education advises children to restrict their use of exclamation marks and advises teachers to only mark their [...]
Getting emoji-nal
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00There are certain idiosyncrasies that set the British race apart from the rest of the world. First and foremost is the sheer quantity of tea consumed on these shores. The [...]
Fight the power
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00So, Instagram has ditched its chronologically ordered feed and with it, caused outrage across the internet. Instead of pictures from the people you follow as they are posted, an algorithm will [...]
Seven habits of highly effective Instagrammers
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:10+00:00Instagram’s ever-growing popularity means it’s now officially bigger than Twitter - but how can you utilise this for your business? It’s time to forget the filters and take things to [...]
I’ll have what she’s having
Grace Scott2021-01-31T18:10:39+00:00I'll have what she's having. It’s the immortal line from When Harry Met Sally and still taps into a basic human desire not to miss out on anything good. [...]
#ShakespeareLives
Emma Goode2020-04-19T13:57:37+00:00We may be commemorating 404 years since the death of Shakespeare, the greatest English writer of all time, but it’s not all sad. In fact, [...]
24 essential questions with Elliot Kay of Strategic Brilliance Services
Emma Goode2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00He wanted to be John Travolta when he grew up – with the quiff and everything. Nowadays he helps personal development coaches build their business and think big. We present Elliot Kay of [...]
Gone in 60 seconds
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00Instagram has begun running 60-second adverts. Previously, the maximum length for video ads was 30 seconds. Advertisers involved in the initial test included T-Mobile's Super Bowl ad – which speaks [...]
GIF it a go
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00Sick of only being able to share GIFs on Facebook? You’ll be pleased to hear that Twitter GIFs are now available. Phew. When tweeting from a mobile device, you can [...]
24 essential questions with Samuel Poulsen of Nuvi
Charlie2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00Client Success Manager at Nuvi and all-round charming man, meet Samuel Poulsen. He wanted to be a Spanish teacher and built his own house. Impressed? Read on… […]
Twitter’s top ten
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you… That’s right, Twitter, the staple app on most of our smartphones, is now a decade old. […]
24 essential questions with Grahame Lake
Emma Goode2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00Meet Grahame Lake of GLA. Once upon a time he wanted to be a footballer, drummer and palaeontologist, all at once. He has a whole host of reasons for why [...]
24 essential questions with Miss 24 fingers herself, Emma Goode
Yasmine Marden2021-03-16T13:06:57+00:00That’s right, we finally hid Emma’s BlackBerry and lured her in with a Diet Coke to talk everything from Tesco to virtual reality. We present [...]
24 essential questions with 24 fingers’ Charlie Hall
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00When she’s not breaking a leg, she’s tweeting. We sit down with our resident thespian to find out everything from her birth to the importance of maps. Charlie Hall, take the [...]
A great big Facebook ‘Like’
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:11+00:00It’s a long-running joke on Facebook that people write ‘dislike’ next to posts in the absence of a button that does the job for them. While, on a serious note, [...]
24 essential questions with Peter Moore of PMA
Emma Goode2019-08-26T17:16:12+00:00This week we’re talking to our good friend Peter Moore of PMA about, among other things, the days when articles were completed on typewriters before being sent to print! It all [...]
Just Peachy
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:12+00:00Fed up with Facebook? Sick of Snapchat? Luckily for you there’s a new kid on the block ‘Peach.cool’, or just Peach to its friends, created by the founder of Vine, Dom [...]
Power of squared
Rebecca Davies-Nash2019-08-26T17:16:12+00:00Is your iPhone’s memory clogged with apps like Instasize and Whitagram for creating landscape and portrait snaps? Forget them. Instagram has changed the rules – in addition to square posts, [...]
Seeing stars
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:13+00:00First Instagram ditches the square and now Twitter loses its star – what is going on? Why are beloved social media sites hell bent on changing the things that make [...]
A Twitter Moment to myself
Grace Scott2019-08-26T17:16:13+00:00Twitter’s new feature ‘Moments’ is a section of curated content for the individual – live news, stories and ‘moments that matter now’. Updated throughout the day, there are also topics [...]