We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #138
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Relief organisation Misereor introduces ‘The Social Swipe’
What’s the one thing people always have with them? A credit card.
To encourage donations, Misereor introduced The Social Swipe – an interactive poster that has a slit in the middle where people can insert and swipe down their credit card to make a donation of two Euros.
Swiping a credit card triggers an animation sequence that illustrates what a small donation can do to help the poor and disadvantaged. This clever activation provides people with an easy and engaging way to get involved and illustrates where their donation goes to.
Coca-Cola ‘Happiness Arcade Machine’ makes recycling fun
Coca-Cola has come up with a green initiative to get kids involved with recycling in Bangladesh called ‘The Happiness Arcade‘. In an effort to raise awareness and incentivise recycling, the brand installed six arcade machines in Dhaka that run on empty bottles rather than quarters.
In the mean time, we can all continue to look for ways to make recycling fun!
Facebook launches mobile ads Audience Network
Facebook has launched its mobile ad network, allowing developers to make money without having to sell their own ads, do their own targeting, handle measurement, or route payments.
The program will roll out over the “coming months” and will start with advertisers interested in buying app installs and engagement ads. No surprises here – Facebook will take a cut of what advertisers pay and hand the rest to the publishers.
The ads come in three formats: standard IAB banners, standard IAB interstitials, and native ad units.
YouTube adds three-second clips to all video content
Google announced a new feature for YouTube that will let creators upload a 3-second intro clip that will play before all of their channels’ videos.
To get started, channel managers need to upload the intro as an unlisted video, select “Add a channel branding intro” on the InVideo Programming Page and then choose on which videos the clip should play.
Unfortunately, Google won’t allow these intro videos to serve as ads, sponsorships or product placements.
Foursquare has introduced a new stand-alone app, Swarm
Foursquare is breaking itself to two parts: Foursquare for exploring your location, and a whole new app, called Swarm, for keeping up with friends.
The idea comes out of the two unique experiences that Foursquare users have always valued: the first, was sharing your location and finding out where your friends are; the second category became finding new places in your area, by reading reviews, viewing menus/pictures, then locating them on a map.
Bottom line: Swarm will be a map of all your friends, and Foursquare will be a map of all your places. You can sign up for the Swarm mailing list to be the first to know when it is released.
Twitter is experimenting with a mute feature in its mobile apps
Do you ever feel pressured to follow someone for work or social reasons even though their tweets annoy you? No problem, Twitter is experimenting with a mute feature in its mobile apps.
Some users of the company’s iOS and Android clients are now seeing an option to mute accounts that they follow, preventing another user’s tweets and retweets from appearing in their timeline. The user remains muted until you manually unmute them.
In essence, you won’t be seeing another person’s tweets, but they won’t know that. Everybody wins!
Vine gets a makeover – videos are now viewable to non-users
In addition to the home feed and profile view that featured on the initial version of Vine, users will now find a search bar and a set of discovery features from the mobile apps: including curated content — playlists and featured videos and features users — channels, trending tags and popular now.
Interestingly, the site is now accessible for visitors that are not logged in to the service, which will open it up to all for the first time. Like Instagram, Vine began as a mobile-only service, and it will be interesting to see how the team continues to develop the Web version with a greater focus on consuming content.