Give Dark Social Some Light

Have you ever found the perfect BuzzFeed quiz, Which Bachelor Contestant Would You Most Likely End Up With? but decided that not all your Facebook friends needed to know your results, so you messaged the quiz to your co-worker through G-chat?

If that is something you have done, then you have participated in dark social. Dark social is a private conversation, a lot of times happening through email, text and social apps and involves sharing a link to a piece of content from a social channel through one of these platforms. What makes it dark is that the referral can’t be tracked. It looks like people are heading straight to your website and reading content there but that may not be the case, they are getting there in a way most analytics platforms can’t track.  Continue reading “Give Dark Social Some Light”

How You Can Track Your Holiday Influencer Campaigns

We hear the term, influencer marketing thrown around a lot! And as the holidays are approaching, it could be the opportune time to work with one of these influencers. But can an influencer bring real profits? And if so how is that measured?

That is what this post is going to show you! Just how easy it is to analyze campaigns with influencers. After all, the ideal time for influences to be posting is RIGHT NOW as your audience is starting to research and take action by making those big holiday purchases. Continue reading “How You Can Track Your Holiday Influencer Campaigns”