YouTube stars offer financial tips to inspire young people
- Halifax has signed up three YouTube stars for a campaign targeting 11-15 year olds to help them get a basic understanding of money
- Vloggers Ambi, Evie and Oscar speak directly to the young audience in a series of short videos which focus on spending, saving and online safety
- Research carried out for Halifax showed that children post on social networks 26 times a day, but despite spending 15 hours online, less than half regularly use online banking
In other social media news…
The legality of user generated content on Instagram
- The Instagram marketing tool, Later, have put together an interesting guide to sharing user generated content (UGC) on Instagram which mentions one social user who charges $25 for his picture to be re-posted om the site
- Admittedly, this is about the rules in America, but we are sure it won’t be long until this is something that social media managers need to be aware of in the UK
- The idea behind it is that you should ask permission from the user before sharing the image on a company page
Google+ is ranked as the most satisfying social network in the US (Apparently)
- The social media network, which was launched in 2011, now has an estimated 111 million users, although this is around a third of the amount of people on Twitter and a sixth of the number of Facebook users
- According to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index 2017, a survey of 4,978 people responded over to say that the site was top of the social media sites
And finally…
We are loving this amazing collection of relatable animal GIFs from BBC’s Wild Alaska Live on Twitter…..
