RJI Futures Lab update #61

Social media marketing via Tagkast and Inside Social

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PART 1: Branding photos with Tagkast
Tagkast is a social media marketing company that helps advertisers turn photo sharing on social media into branded content. The result: People share photos of themselves stamped with company messaging. Futures Lab reporter Tatiana Darie visited the Tagkast office to find out how it works.

PART 2: Tracking influencers with Inside Social
Social media success often relies on "likes" or "follows," but Seattle-based Inside Social helps companies identify influencers and track the way their messages move across social networks, in particular linking what happens in the social space back to a company's presence on the Web. Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Brewster Stanislaw explains how Inside Social goes about measuring things differently.

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