by Benedict Nicholson | Oct 8, 2015 | Product Announcements, NewsWhip Announcements
Spike’s latest language upgrade incorporates support for Arabic, allowing users to track Arabic-language content from over 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. الشرق الأوسط مكان ولادة الديانات السماوية ومهد الحضارات القديمة ومركز إنتاج النفط في...
by Benedict Nicholson | Sep 14, 2015 | NewsWhip Announcements
Observant Spike users may notice an interface change recently as we introduce a new way to browse and create panels. Every day, Spike’s users at newsrooms like the BBC, USA Today, BuzzFeed, as well as communications professionals and marketers, check in...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jun 4, 2015 | Digital Journalism
One Spike user, Irish radio station SPIN103.8, show us how they jump on trending stories that are perfect for their audience. When you have an endless amount of air time to fill, how do you find those nuggets of news first for your listeners? And how do you...
by Benedict Nicholson | Feb 19, 2015 | Brands
We look at four good examples of brand publishers using social media to get their content shared, and their products and services to potential customers. The biggest question facing any organisation that commits resources to content creation is a simple one. Is anyone...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jan 29, 2015 | Brands
We look at five straightforward ways of priming your content to get shared and read more on LinkedIn. In our last blog post, we looked at the four facts every marketer should know about popular content on LinkedIn. We analysed six months’ worth of data to find...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jan 28, 2015 | Brands
We look at how content creators and marketers can make the most of LinkedIn’s newly launched blogging feature, with exclusive data. Ever wondered what the ‘one sign you will be rich’ might be? What about the ‘one simple dress code rule to...
by Benedict Nicholson | Dec 22, 2014 | Other
Could 2014 be the end of the reign of cats online – heralding the dawn of dogs in 2015? This week at NewsWhip HQ we learned that ‘dog’ was the most searched term of the year within Spike, our content discovery platform. This surprised us, as we’d always...
by Benedict Nicholson | Aug 19, 2014 | Digital Journalism
Sharing of published content is exploding. How do you turn all those bursts of social traffic into readers and subscribers? Our recent posts on how to convert followers to subscribers (parts one and two) got a great reception on Twitter and coverage from the American...
by Benedict Nicholson | Jun 5, 2014 | NewsWhip Announcements, Product Announcements
Spike’s new video filtering system is the easiest way to find the best trending video in a digital landscape that’s creating and consuming more footage than ever. If a picture is worth a thousand words then one minute of video is reportedly equivalent to...