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Apr 19, 2016 3:16:43 PM

Coachella Offers Refuge For The Social Media Obsessed, Especially Snapchatters

With nearly 200,000 tickets sold in 2015 that helped gross over $84 million dollars, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is one of the most famous, largest and profitable music festivals in the country. Dominating the Billboard Touring Awards list for the top music festival since 2011 doesn't mean the event has always been profitable. Starting in 1999 and relaunching 2001 it took the festival several years to find the right mix of ticket pricing, attendance size, musical talent and sponsors.

Over the past 17 years power of the Internet has become a completely different animal and Coachella appears to have its finger on the pulse of online success. From live streaming music and entertainer interviews to professionally managing all of their social media accounts, Coachella is sharing their special event all over the World. Growing to nearly 1.7 million likes of their Facebook page, 870k plus followers on Instagram, 785k followers on Twitter and over 446k YouTube subscribers, Coachella's online voice is very strong and continuously growing.

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Jul 1, 2015 9:22:00 AM

What Is The Top Online Advertising Trend In 2015?

Quite simply, it’s mobile advertisingThe mobile advertising industry is growing far quicker than its desktop counterpart. It grew by 34% as opposed to 11%. Yet for many businesses, mobile advertising enjoys less advertising spend.

The fact is, consumers are looking at content on mobile devices all the time and most advertising platforms know that their users are much more likely to watch a video these days. And because video ads are often more powerful than static ads, there’s a lot of potential profit out there for you.

Recent research shows that 55% of mobile data traffic now stems from video, aided by the likes of Facebook and Snapchat. For instance, Facebook alone enjoys an average of 4 billion daily video views – a staggering amount. And of those 4 billion views, 75% of them are seen on a mobile device. Mobile app Snapchat boasts of 2 billion video views every day. And this is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.

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Dec 8, 2014 8:00:00 AM

Reaching Millennials With Snapchat

Many brands are finding Snapchat to be a great place to reach the coveted Millennial generation. Could it work for you?

There’s no shortage of advertisers trying to capture the attention of the Millennial generation – the challenge is to find even a moment of relevance amid the cacophony of tweets, Facebook updates, and every other platform that defines the current age of casual communication.

One of the newest and most popular platforms is Snapchat, which presents advertisers with a challenge: how to engage consumers via an app in which the content disappears shortly after being viewed?

What Is Snapchat?

Snapchat is a mobile app that allows users to send and receive "self-destructing" photos and videos, known as "snaps." The sender determines how many seconds (one to 10) the recipient can view the snap before the file disappears from the recipient's device. Messages can only be viewed once, and during the viewing period, the recipient must maintain contact with the device's touchscreen, or the snap disappears.

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