Kirschner breaks down the key to engaging digital content. He says marketers face a big challenge as audiences fall into small pockets. The recent Facebook newsfeed change drives home the fact that to engage an audience, you have to be able to reach people on a direct, micro level, he adds.
Greenfly works with Fortune 100 brands including MLB, which uses the company as a workflow tool to activate the right people to share the brand’s story. Green says that as a player, he always loved tech. The former all-star explains that social media’s impact on the game has been big, and players know they can leverage their brand online.
As a former advisor with the FCC, Kirschner comments on the impact of net neutrality. The decision is a mistake, he says. He adds that one of the key drivers for Greenfly’s success has been equal access to the internet. Kirschner explains that anything enabling internet service providers to dictate winners and losers will negatively impact smaller companies.
A ransomware attack has prompted a health care chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals, while putting certain elective procedures on pause, the company announced.
Online fashion retailer Sheen is reportedly said to go public. Multiple media outlets reported that the Chinese-founded company has filed confidentially for an initial public offering in the U.S.
Under Google’s updated inactive account policy, which the tech giant announced back in May, accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years could be deleted. Accounts deemed inactive could be erased beginning Friday.
