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Social Media Q4 Earnings Roundup: Holiday Ads + Mystery User Numbers

Forrester IT

Q4 2018 proved yet again that advertisers ramp up their media budgets in Q4 to get consumers to buy those holiday gifts. Ad Revenue “It’s every bit as certain as death and taxes.” Meet Joe Black, 1998). And I’d add “holiday advertising.” Facebook, Inc. inclusive of its family of products: Facebook.com, Instagram, […].

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Network as a Service (NaaS), Sustainability, and the Circular Economy

CIO Business Intelligence

Since the pandemic, NaaS solutions are growing quickly due to the need for a hybrid workforce, the demand for CapEx during off-budget cycles, and the shortage of employees with a networking skill set. . This in turn can reduce a company’s carbon footprint by optimizing energy consumption. recycle, refurbish, or disposal).

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Networking tips for IT leaders: A guide to building connections

CIO Business Intelligence

Networking isn’t just for holiday parties. The two cardinal rules of networking, according to CIOs and career coaches, are to schedule time to do it for at least an hour every month, and to approach it as something you do to help others in addition to yourself. I suffered from a crippling lack of self-worth.”

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Recreating Organizational Architecture Through Network Orchestration

CIO Business Intelligence

For the first time in a century, we continue to live with a mix of restrictions on social interactions, travel, and assembly. Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. .

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Selling the C-suite on preemptive IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day attacks, almost anything having to do with data stewardship, as well as IT training and social engineering audits.

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The state of influence today: increasing marketing budgets and greater influencer professionalism

Trends in the Living Networks

Here are a few of the highlights from the report: Social is still just 10% of total digital marketing budgets, with 83% of that amount on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. By far the biggest increasing segment across digital marketing is mobile, followed by social. Influencer marketing is 0.6% of the total spend.

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TCL’s budget 20S and 20SE phones beat expectations

The Verge

TCL certainly knows a thing or two about manufacturing budget 4K Smart TVs , affordable soundbars , and many other gadgets. Unlike the fancier TCL 20S Pro , neither the 20S nor the 20SE has the latest and greatest processor, nor do they support 5G networking — those aren’t unsurprising omissions at these price points. Its vibrant 6.67-inch

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