Sentences with phrase «media companies because»

But in today's world they are indeed media companies because that's how people use them.

Any decline in Facebook traffic can have a huge impact on media companies because they rely on that traffic for a large proportion of their advertising revenue.

He added: «You have to take responsibility for this as a media company because you are not a passive, sitting there, digital engineer, tightening the digital pipes, with your digital spanner, and not responsible for the flow - through content... you are responsible and you have to step up and take responsibility.

He said the company he co-founded isn't a media company because «we do not produce any content.»

He denied allegations that the EFCC raided the media company because the acting Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, was fighting the newspaper over a March publication accusing him of corruption.

Not exact matches

For Lululemon, this recall is nowhere near as damaging as the whole sheer pants debacle of 2013, but because the company is still under the microscope after that event, the media has pounced on this story and created a batch of bad headlines.

By April 2010, unnamed insiders disclosed to the media that the company was facing bankruptcy because it «has been unsuccessfully negotiating with some lenders to refinance its crippling debt.»

A number of Facebook watchers including one of its Silicon Valley investors said the company has no real economic incentive to admit it is a media outlet, because it would drag the social network into a legislative morass.

The lofty valuation comes in part because companies like HootSuite, surfing the social media wave, have been getting acquired ravenously of late.

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

Change is critical — even if it means losing top performers — because the world has changed and what happens in the culture of a company affects business metrics, said Huffington, who founded media website HuffPost.

The amount of times I hear that a company only uses social media because they think they ought to has diminished over the years, but there are still some out there who don't get that digital is here to stay, and therefore fail to embed it deeply in their future plans.

To drive engagement, the company enlisted Likeable to launch a #purebarrelife campaign, a contest which asked clients to share personal stories about integrating Pure Barre into their daily lives through text, photos and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for a chance to win prizes.The company enlisted the agency's help because Likeable has the expertise to navigate the challenges involved in running a national social - media contest, such as time demands, possible legal issues, and the unique rules and guidelines of each individual platform.

Vice had not provided updates on its offline intentions until today, but rumours of a takeover attempt by conventional broadcasting companies Time Warner and Fox served to keep the news channel - speculation alive, because being absorbed into a traditional media conglomerate would give Vice easy access to their cable networks and partners.

Tesla's recalls are more intense because the company doesn't stall on doing them, they attract outsized media scrutiny, and, more important, they stress Tesla's service network, which continues to be a work in progress.

The company got its start by scraping news sites, mostly independent outlets and social media because it didn't have the rights to larger publications.

However, the company noted that this could be because media companies are producing more and more content, and therefore the reach of any given post is going to be lower.

(He no longer owns Media General, either, because that company was acquired by Nexstar earlier this year.)

NEW YORK, April 23 - Billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach on Monday said investors should consider betting against Facebook Inc because the prospect of regulation still hangs over the social media company's stock.

His company will now «stay away from» investing in new firms dealing with media and video because «this is a bad scene for innovation in those areas.»

Companies are simultaneously vying for social media shares, because every brand wants to sell a story that visitors retell.

Defenders of the paper, however, have argued that the Sulzbergers have kept the Times from being swept under amid all the turmoil going on in the media world and have preserved the quality and purpose of the newspaper because of their personal commitment to it — and the view that they are merely stewards of the company maintaining it for future generations.

Because these companies don't have a built - in marketing advantage, they companies have to get creative if they want the media to shower them with love.

The case is important not only because Hogan wants $ 100 million, which could ruin Gawker, but also because it highlights how Gawker is alone among new media companies in waging the sort of public interest legal fights that were once second nature for traditional media.

With 78 percent of customers bailing on a transaction or company because of poor customer service, social media is a gateway to improved sentiment.

Social media companies — just like online publishers — have a vested interest in letting bots exist on their platforms because monthly active users are one of their main measurements of success.

Like other social media companies, Facebook devotes massive resources to combating harassment and trolling, not simply out of a sense of duty, but because they want to retain users.

Jeff Hurrle, VP and general manager for Sport Systems (No. 319), an Almonte, Ont. - based company that builds and installs sports equipment like bleachers and nets, knew he needed expert help to evaluate whether the brand's content was engaging enough, particularly because they target the B2B market, a notoriously challenging audience to engage on social media.

Ralf Reichert, CEO at ESL says over the past year they've talked to many potential suitors, including large media companies, but they opted to go with MTG because of the company's understanding of eSports, production background, and distribution network.

Larger companies take more time to make drastic changes, and their weaknesses are easier to find because of the media attention.

Because in a way, social media campaigns can be less expensive than traditional advertising and it can be a great alternative for smaller companies to try and compete with larger brands.

The fact that one man was able to drive it out of business because of a personal vendetta should keep everyone in the media awake at night, regardless of what they think of the company or its legacy.

Some insiders say the ICIJ chose not to work with certain large U.S. media companies like the New York Times because they don't co-operate well on big stories.

Social media's exploitation of the social environment is «particularly nefarious because social media companies influence how people think and behave without them even being aware of it.»

The evidence was unsealed because a group of media companies, including The Associated Press, sued for access and won.

Despite this, they are very interested in working in social media for companies because they are passionate about the tools.

Page managers need to be familiar with your company's social media policies and strategy, as well as your brand image, because they will be broadcasting information regularly to your fans.

Facebook, he says, «wants to have its cake and eat it too: it wants to tweak the news - feed in order to promote content that serves its purposes — whether that's news content or baby pictures — but it also wants to pretend that it isn't a gatekeeper, because then media companies might not play ball.

Even in the absence of explicit expectations that you will check email or monitor social media on weekends, people will «fall into that because of their own desire,» says Dorothy Kudla, founder of a training and development company, Full Circle Connections, who has worked with hundreds of managers at companies from BlackBerry to Cineplex Odeon.

I chose Brian and Dharmesh, founders of HubSpot, to write the first book in the series because they are social media marketing pioneers and have tons of amazing ideas for companies to get found online.

Because Tesla has been willing to push its features farther and faster than other companies, media attention has come down like a hammer whenever Autopilot has been linked to a serious crash.

«If the media continues to hurt us, that's going to be hard because the pride in the company drops when the media do that, I can't mitigate for that,» she said.

Sources inside the company said that discussion would happen, perhaps because social media lit up yesterday after Thiel told the New York Times that he had secretly launched an effort, costing around $ 10 million, to find and help those interested in suing Gawker.

Because every terrible pitch sent to writers is paid for by companies hoping for coverage in the media and instead they are wasting their time and budget on outdated PR techniques.

The ways that companies typically organize — usually around business functions in some way — are not going away; certainly not because of social media.

«Most companies are not shutting down even Facebook because they realize that this is a social - media world and that can actually help their business, as long as their productivity isn't going down.»

The shuffle is worth noting because Mic is one of several digital media startups that grew quickly, raised a lot of venture capital and is now adapting to a world where Google and Facebook dominate digital advertising and the fundraising climate for media companies has become difficult.

The Times investigative team was already exploring social media manipulation, «partly because of the Russia investigation, and reporting into firms like Cambridge Analytica,» said Nicholas Confessore, a reporter for the team, referring to a data company that worked for Donald J. Trump during the presidential campaign and is now under congressional scrutiny.

This omission is particularly unfortunate because the very diversity of the ARF's constituencies — including not only marketers, agencies, media companies, and research vendors, but also data vendors, ad tech and consultancies — puts us in a good position to think about the ethics of research and about data collection in a very broad context.»

The media coverage of the Tumbler Ridge story, which suggested Chinese workers employed by a Chinese company can only be bad news because the company is likely controlled by the Chinese government, begs the question of why we don't see protests about Filipino or Mexican workers.