Let’s Unravel We all felt the knife twist a little bit in Elon’s side yesterday when Meta launched Threads, a day prior to its scheduled live date and just a few short days after Musk imposed a 600-tweet reading limit on all unverified users. Even Linda Yaccarino couldn’t smooth that one over.    As Twitter’s closest competitor (sorry Reddit), Threads is certainly making a dent as it enters the chat. For starters, 30 million sign-ups in the first 24 hours is a strong start. But the real kicker is the amount of chatter about Threads on Twitter. Tough day to have …

For leaders, the ability to effectively communicate and present ideas can be the difference between success and failure. That’s why many of us at MP&F have relied on the best practices and advice of Mimi Bliss, founder of Bliss Communications, to help us coach our clients and take our own presentation skills up a notch or two.  Mimi, a former on-air reporter in Nashville and Memphis and freelance producer for “NBC Nightly News” and the “Today” show, provides media coaching and public speaking training to leaders at major companies including Nissan Americas, HCA Healthcare, Zillow, Capital One, Volvo and Dollar General. …

Adapt your YouTube video strategy with these six things you should keep top of mind.  We all know and recognize YouTube as the OG video-sharing platform, and over the years, YouTube has successfully adapted to the ever-changing digital landscape and found ways to stay relevant all while continuing to dominate the internet. We could all follow their lead when it comes to rolling with the punches, so here are six things you should keep top of mind in your YouTube strategy to get more eyes on your content and brand.   YouTube rolled out this feature in 2021, and it’s already …

Are you ready?   Back in October 2020, Google announced Google Analytics 4 (GA4), the next iteration of its website and app analytics tool. Google has kept its existing analytics tool, Universal Analytics (UA), functional to date, but it will stop collecting new data as of July 1. That means you’ll lose important website analytics information like traffic, goal tracking, ecommerce and user journeys unless you migrate to GA4 before the deadline.  Migrating to GA4 is the only way to continue to have analytics data available going forward, but once the switch is made there are benefits. It allows for more …

How will natural language processing AI like ChatGPT impact marketing?  As a marketing agency, it’s important to stay up to date on the latest technologies and tools that can help us better serve our clients. That being said, it’s also important to recognize the limitations of these technologies and to understand that they will never fully replace the human element of our work.  One technology that has garnered a lot of attention in recent years is ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool that uses machine learning to generate human-like text. While ChatGPT has the ability to produce impressive results in …

When I was a kid, like most of you I’m sure, we had what we called an everything drawer in our house. Usually in the kitchen, this drawer lived up to its name by housing everything from scissors to batteries and even included the occasional koozie. As time has passed, and technology has improved, we’ve created other drawers. One glance at my phone proves that. I can unlock it to check my email only to find that I’ve done everything but that after 30 minutes.   It turns out that the data world has an everything drawer too, and if C-Suite …

During my time at MP&F, I learned a lot about working on a larger team, not to mention staying on top of projects in a fast-paced environment. Here are some of my top tips for a successful agency internship:  Write it down  The notes app on my phone got me only so far once I began my time as an intern. I’ve never been a planner or Post-it Note person, but I found myself benefiting a lot from writing out my to-do lists. I even developed my own system of organizing tasks and projects depending on the due dates. I …

Pew Research Center recently released the findings from its every-once-in-a-while (previously in 2015 and 2018) survey of American teenagers and their social media habits. Spoiler alert: Kids like TikTok, and they’re online a lot. But there’s more here. My top 5 takeaways:  TikTok and Snapchat are Gen Z platforms, with their built-in photo and video editing tools and comparatively lower numbers of old people. A quarter of teens who use Snapchat or TikTok say they use these apps almost constantly. TikTok, which broke into North America in 2018, now has a billion users worldwide. Only one of three U.S. teens is not on TikTok. They …

It’s *Reely* no surprise that short-form videos are dominating Instagram engagement, but many of our clients are wondering how to get started.   Without an understanding of how to make Instagram Reels feel authentic for your brand (or influencers starring in your content), they can be intimidating.   Luckily, we gathered seven ✨magic✨ tips from working with clients to help you build momentum for your brand on Reels.  Pick a niche.  A niche can be anything from health and wellness to fashion, to education or travel – the options are endless. Consider what content you can draft most naturally in your day-to-day …