The video game movie genre is constantly being tweaked and refined. While there have been a number of successes and failures over the years, it seems as if finally Hollywood is starting to understand how to produce a great movie based on a video game franchise. Although it’s still early for a lot of these movies in terms of their production, there’s plenty to be looking forward to in the future....

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Social listening is one of the most powerful tools at the social media marketer’s disposal. Listening insights can influence your entire organization from product design and competitive analysis to customer engagement and crisis management. Of the nearly infinite ways to use social listening for your business, here are 40 examples to keep in mind. 2 Benchmark your share of voice Traditionally, share of voice (SOV) is usually affiliated with paid advertising, but social listening provides marketers another way to measure their SOV against the entire market....

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Netflix’s latest release is Michael Bay’s action spectacle 6 Underground, a movie that has very confused politics. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Mélanie Laurent, 6 Underground is a film that embraces “Bayhem,” complete with frenetic zooms and pans, settings forever stuck in time during “golden hour,” and many fast cars, sexy ladies, and explosions. 6 Underground focuses on a team of mercenaries’ plot to stage a coup in a fictional Central Asian country, Turgistan....

The latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey reports that 64% of Americans now own at least one Apple product, and that the average U.S. household now owns an average of 2.6 Apple products. CNBC first asked the question back in 2012, when the numbers were 50% and 1.6 products. Even more impressive is the fact that there are very few demographics where Apple product ownership is below 50% … CNBC reports on a few exceptions....

8 Steps to Become a Successful Brand Ambassador: Who and What Are Brand Ambassadors? Brand ambassadors have a passion for your product and promote your brand to family and friends by word-of-mouth. They may be regular customers who have become so in love with your product or product line that they enthusiastically endorse it to others after getting to know your brand so well. What Do They Do? Product “fans” who get tapped to represent the product or service as brand ambassadors have the following responsibilities: Brand awareness...

Are Tania and Syngin from 90 Day Fiancé still married? For viewers who watched the two-part tell-all reunion special, it was plain to see that the couple is very much together. However, Tania and Syngin are not without relationship issues. Fans were alarmed when Tania from 90 Day Fiancé left to spend 30 days in Costa Rica to learn herbalism during her boyfriend Syngin’s 90-day vetting period that is allowed through the K-1 visa....

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Take your best pictures and upload them to your Dreamstime account. Next, enter a title, description and keywords metadata. Then sit back and watch the money roll in. Sound too good to be true? Not necessarily. Like any business, you’ll only get back what you put into it. Here are a few ways to excel in the stock photography business. 1. Get to work Don’t rely on Dreamstime to do all the marketing for you....

Apple is continuing to sign more banks and credit unions up every few weeks to support Apple Pay, and the latest expansion in the United States includes another 40 new partners to back the company’s mobile payment service. Check below to see the latest banks to go live: American Heritage Federal Credit Union Associated Credit Union Bangor Savings Bank Bank of Bourbonnais Bank of Clovis Bank of the Pacific Baton Rouge Telco Federal Credit Union BHCU Cardinal Bank Corning Credit Union First Financial Credit Union (both IL & NM now) First National Bank of Trenton First Nations Bank First Republic Bank Flint Area School Employees Credit Union Glass City Federal Credit Union Guaranty Bank and Trust Company Hawthorn Bank Hills Bank and Trust Company Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union Leader Bank, N....

When you’re a kid, you want to hear scary stories and watch spooky TV shows and movies, but at the same time, it feels like monsters really are hiding under your bed and many things are going bump in the night. As adults, we look back fondly on our childhood pop culture favorites, including Are You Afraid Of The Dark?. The popular children’s anthology series featured friends sharing terrifying horror stories....

It was announced recently that Mean Girls, the musical, was going to be made into a movie, leaving the vast majority of people scratching their heads because the musical was already based on a movie. So now, it looks like we will be living in a world where there exists, Mean Girls the movie, Mean Girls the musical, and Mean Girls the musical movie. This announcement has just reiterated everyone’s assumption that Hollywood is indeed scared of original content and would much rather invest in sure-fire successes....

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People expect the companies they shop with and the organizations they support to take a stand—in fact, 70% of U.S. consumers say it’s important for brands to take a stand on social and political issues. Furthermore, 67% of people believe brands are effective at raising awareness around important public issues when they speak out on social media specifically. As a social media manager, perhaps you’ve created campaigns in the past for Black History Month, Women’s History Month or Pride, or posted about holidays recognizing marginalized groups of people....

And while it’s difficult to predict what the next 10 years of social media marketing holds for brands, the goals for marketers remain more or less the same. Strengthening connections with customers and turning social data into actionable insights will continue to be top priorities for organizations headed into the new year. With a greater understanding of today’s social landscape, enterprise marketers can turn their attention towards elevating social media into the powerful business driver it can be....

Instagram is an amazing marketing tool, and with the right strategies you can grow from infamous to influential, and by using a few key actions each day, we’ll help you grow Instagram engagement rate. Having a solid engagement rate means Instagram acknowledges your work is more ‘sharable’ and more ‘valuable’, making engagement something we care about just as much as our funny captions. Social Media is a long game. You’re not going to be an Instagram influencer demanding thousands per post overnight but here are key actions you can actively do each day to encourage engagement and build your brand....

A new study reveals that 65 percent of adult Americans play video games. The gaming industry is constantly evolving and growing, including the latest technology to deliver games on par with movies and TV. Computers and game consoles have become faster and more powerful, while developers have come up with new techniques to use technology to bring games to life in ways never before thought possible, making the appeal of the industry much wider than it has been in the past....