A few short years after the iPhone was launched, a little app called Instagram was born in October 2010. By December of the same year, 1 million users had signed up to the photo-sharing service. By comparison to the 30 million active users on Twitter at the time, Instagram wasn’t breaking any social media records…. View Article
Love it or hate it as a social media platform, what can’t be denied about Facebook’s somewhat Marmite online presence is its power as a marketplace. While many are hooked on Facebook’s feeds and those of its sister site Instagram as places to share photos of food, family and felines, there’s also some serious selling… View Article
Remember when shopping meant people heading directly to a specific high street store to find what they were looking for? Then, as online retail increased, they navigated straight to a brand’s website. Today, with millions of stores vying for attention, there’s no guarantee that shoppers are going to land on your site at all, even… View Article
If you’re looking for a good price on a second-hand teapot, an electronic device or even a car, the chances are you’ll head to eBay and bid on what you’re after. More than 183 million people around the world do the same across a wide range of product types. On eBay in the UK, for… View Article