Social Media Trends 2023: From Designer Avatars to AI
Roanna Schneider2022-12-20T22:09:49+00:00As the temperature drops and we find ourselves huddled under blankets and glued to our small screens in the comfort of our ‘working from home’ [...]
How TikTok text-to-image AI generator can help your business
Rose Merchant2022-08-18T08:44:17+00:00Companies are using AI technology to automate tasks faster, accurately and efficiently than ever before. You may have heard about artificial intelligence before, but the concept can [...]
Meta announces the launch of “Digital Collectibles” on Instagram
Rose Merchant2022-08-15T08:26:41+00:00Facebook and Instagram are up to their antics AGAIN. As a business owner, it can be hard to keep up with the ever-changing information circling the web. Don’t panic [...]
Rediscovering your brand on Instagram
Millie Usher-Tollan2022-08-02T14:54:42+00:00Calling all Insta Kings and Queens 🤳 The platform has recently announced the introduction of their new algorithm, where users will be able to view their feed in chronological [...]
Do you love using emojis? You’ll be a fan of emoji 15.0 then
Lola Kingsnorth2022-07-21T17:54:14+00:00In celebration of emoji day, Emojipedia have released sample images of new emoji designs hopefully to be approved in September of this year. 31 emojis are up for approval [...]
Time ladies and gents, please: what brands need to know about the Chronological Instagram feed
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2022-05-18T08:44:38+00:00For Instagram OGs, the recent announcement of a return to a chronological feed if we so choose it sounded like music to their reels. However, if you’ve not been [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Business platform LinkedIn shares its best tips through new magazine
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-06-29T20:06:23+00:00LinkedIn has long been the business social media platform of choice. And with business networking and growth at the forefront of the platform’s mind, they’ve got something a little exciting [...]
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 [...]
The social media hater’s guide to marketing on social media
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-06-17T10:00:08+00:00Many of us have a love-hate relationship with social media. Many more of us have a favourite platform, and one which we really don’t get on with. But for [...]
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 [...]
5 Ways To Improve Your Social Media Videos
Louis Websdale2021-06-04T07:47:03+00:00Video content is a brilliant way to gain both extra followers and improve your social media reach, while getting your message and business out there. However, not all videos [...]
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 [...]
24 fingers crossed, you’ll soon be able to post to Instagram from your desktop
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-05-21T14:07:12+00:00Instagram has always had a mobile-first approach. Which is great, if you’re out and about and using the app as it was originally intended, to post insta(nt) photos of what [...]
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 [...]
Do Instagram Engagement Pods Work?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-03-22T21:33:55+00:00Let’s face it, we’ve all had times when we’ve popped a post up on Instagram, and…well…nothing. Or at least, not a lot. Sometimes, posting on [...]
24 Tips to Grow your Instagram Followers
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-03-16T21:36:47+00:00If you’re on any of the social media platforms, you’ve probably asked yourself countless times, how do you go about growing your followers? And when [...]
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 [...]
How often should you post on social media in 2021?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-02-12T11:52:08+00:00Let’s face it: over the past year, we’ve all had a lot more time on our hands to be scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. And while social media has been fantastic [...]