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Google's India-Pak reunion ad goes viral with over 2.5 mn views
Fp Staff •The ad has gone viral in just over two days when it was posted onto Google India's YouTube channel and has crossed some 2.5 million views on YouTube.
Firstpost Social Media Awards
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The Economist 'likes' Facebook groups to friend larger US audience
Nikhila Natrajan •Reaching the community rather than simply delivering a product is fast becoming the gold standard of news marketing. Bucking the so-called trends on social media content can indeed lead to increase in reader traffic and from there onto revenue gains. A more detailed Q and A with the moderator of the The Economist FB group Democracy in America is at the end of this piece.
Israel based Belive.tv goes pay with successful multi window plug-in for Facebook Live
Nikhila Natrajan •Headquartered in Israel, BeLive.tv was founded in 2016 and has quickly become a major hit in digital broadcasting circles. Still operating on a relatively low key format and relying on organic growth for its signature Facebook page (a community of 10,000 + now), Belive has launched the most efficient multi window video capability on Facebook, a long felt need for Facebook users on the world's largest social media platform that now boasts 2 billion users a month.
Narendra Modi App key tool for Indian PM connect with US audiences
Nikhila Natrajan •Modi’s energetic social media team has stiched together a three course offering - Modi’s radio address Mann Ki Baat will also feature this weekend so that’s Modi playing on loop in multiple formats - audio, video and text during both the morning and evening hours of Sunday IST.
Modi - Trump: Summit of world’s 2 leading social media champs
Nikhila Natrajan •When Modi and Trump meet, it will be more than a first face-to-face between leaders of the world's two largest democracies, it marks the coming together of the world’s 2 leading social media champs with a combined Twitter base of 63 million follows; two men who have smashed political campaigning (and victory) dogmas riding on the heady network effects of free media.
How Humans of Bombay is helping a sex worker's daughter study at New York University
Fp Staff •The Humans of Bombay Facebook page has profiled the inspiring story of Ashwini, a sex worker's daughter who ran away from an abusive environment and is now pursuing her dream of studying at NYU with the help of the NGO Kranti
Mann Ki Baat book adding context to PM's radio show
Nikhila Natrajan •Mann Ki Baat, the book, chronicles history as it is being made. It captures a man popular among Indians overseas as also India's youth and the techno-savvy. Modi's 40 million fans on Facebook (and 30 million follows on Twitter) are force multipliers to the NaMo app where Mann Ki Baat is streamed with video. A book adds to this legacy.
Record breaking April The Giraffe livestream ends this week
Nikhila Natrajan •The world’s first ever celebrity giraffe mommy who gave birth to a calf on a live feed to an internet audience of over a million people over Easter weekend will finally get some privacy. Cameras at the Animal Adventure Park in New York state will come down between Wednesday and Friday this week after becoming the second-most-watched livecam ever in YouTube history, with more than 232 million live views.
Now, do a Facebook Live 2-window chat with your friends !
Nikhila Natrajan •Barely a year after Mark Zuckerberg opened up Facebook Live to the world, BeLive.tv has rolled out an easy-as-pie variant of a Facebook plug-in that lets you do the stuff you always wanted to with your livestream.