One in three Canadians check their social media feeds daily, accrording to a recent report from the Media Technology Monitor.
More than two thirds of Canadians who use the internet are regular social media users, the report says, up six percent from 2011. And nearly two thirds of social media users in Canada check their feeds daily.
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CBC vice president Kirstine Stewart has left the public broadcaster unexpectedly to head up Twitter Canada, which does not exist yet but will soon.
On Thursday, March 28, the Yaletown Roundhouse community center was host to the first Vancouver Social Media Awards. The first year of any awards show is always an event to behold: precedents are set that future years will either reinforce or subvert, and what was deemed acceptable that night will be the reference point for years to come.
User-generated content drives a lot of new products in today’s tech industry.
A unique new program has been developed that aims to allow Twitter users to continue tweeting long after they're dead.
Your Twitter feed is about to get a lot more obnoxious thanks to a new feature added to the social network today: support for line breaks.
Today, two of the world's biggest social networks updated their apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform.
Twitter and LinkedIn, which appear on the BB10 homescreen as default apps, both added new features and improved existing features.
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You can now buy a box of cereal with a tweet. Welcome to 2013.
Last night, Target Canada threw its first Twitter Party for Canadians during the 85th annual Oscars, winning Twitter nationwide in the process.
As one of Twitter’s initial Ads API partners, Vancouver-based HootSuite Media today launched a new Promoted Products integration with the social network.
If you want to be on the radar of recruiters, an active social (media) life is advisable.
Social network Twitter made short work of its competition during yesterday's 52 Super Bowl commercials. And it didn't even need an ad to do so.
Lady Gaga has held the crown of most-followed person on Twitter since 2010. Justin Bieber, who created his account about a year after Gaga, has been in second for more than a year.
Despite mounting privacy concerns, Google has charmed the vast majority of Canadians.
Most people accept the fact that online advertising is the price they pay for free access to social network and news content. But what if they had the option for pay for an ad-free experience? How much would it cost?
Vancouver-based JunctionYVR decided to find out. The digital marketing agency looked at the user count of social networks, then calculated the company's ad revenue and revenue growth. Turns out, social networks don't actually make much money per user from ads and would be cheap to access ad-free (in theory, of course).
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