• YouTube comments tied with Google plus: YouTube recently started asking users to sign up for Google plus before allowing them to comment on videos. It is in a move that is producing an outpouring of criticism. This upgrade has make anger of many long time users. A change.org petition requesting Google, changes the comments section on YouTube back to its original form. It has collected more than one hundred thousand signatures in less than a week. And it is not just online trolls that are upset. The co-founder of YouTube Jawed Karim complained about this policy in a post on his YouTube personal page. With this upgrade, YouTube was apparently attempting to clean up the comment section by linking YouTube accounts to the actual identities. For the shaky rollout, YouTube has apologized and they are for now standing firm on this new change.

• To showcase popular pins, Pinterest launched API: For developers, Pinterest released its first API. This new Application Programming Interface or API will allow third party sites to embed the Pinterest pins and make it simple to post content on Pinterest itself. Fundamentally, a popular widget new feature will even help brands display their items which are most recently pinned and most frequently pinned. The first partners access to this service are retailers and big brands such as Zappos, Whole Foods, Wayfair, Walmart, Target, Snapguide, Random House, Nestle, ModCloth, Mashable, Elle Magazine, BuzzFeed, Better Homes and Garden, and AllRecipes. According to a Pinterest’s blog post, more will be added soon.

• Massive Google plus upgrades: Google plus recently announced a batch of upgrades created to enhance the Google plus experience and in a bid to take on industry leader Facebook. These new upgrades aim to take a lot of work out of photo editing, video calling and messaging. It is in the way of making the process of sharing on Google plus aesthetically pleasing and more streamlined. The eighteen new features will make it easier to conduct HD quality video broadcasts on Hangouts, create movies from video clips and enhance photos. A full list of the upgrades can be found on the Google plus blog.

• Custom Twitter timelines: Now based on specific hashtags or topics in the Twitter with Tweetdeck users are allowed to create custom timelines. These new custom timelines work as a tool to create the information, allowing the users to event specific keywords or group phrases and give them more control on how Tweets organized and delivered. Each timeline have its own permalink page to make them easy to share. These are completely embeddable.

Each social media platform is unique for its own features and to communicate with the followers. These new features helpful to the marketers to make their online campaigns effectively.

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Some of the major sites are Facebook, Twitter and Google+. It can provide a range of facilities like video, audio, content, images, etc. Now we will see some advantages by the social media marketing for auto dealership websites.

• Competitive advantage: Social media provides the competitive advantage to the auto dealership businesses. You can observe what actually is useful to you with the social marketing, how it is reflecting on the business, what are the strategies of competitors in social media, etc. By monitoring the competition and the customers responses, you can change the strategies of your business.

• Build visibility and authority: Social media allows the dealer to maintain the existing people and to attract the new people. The people who are following the dealership in social media, generally the targeted people attracted by the campaigns. So it builds the visibility and authority to the customers.
• Reach target marketing: The social media is highly flooded by the younger people. Even some social media websites (like Facebook) are mostly used by the young people, but all the demographics are there. So there is possibility to get the targeted people. The young generation who are using social media are also earning good income, and looking to invest in purchasing a car.
• Cost effective: The practice of cost effective is not only in the operations of the business, but also in the marketing campaigns. The strategy of Internet marketing with cost effective is a solid marketing plan. When compared to the traditional marketing approaches, social media marketing does not cost much. In many cases some of the social media sites have the facility to advertise freely. It needs some effort on the dealers part, because the people who are integrate and active in the social media communities can only get success in social media.

• Brand loyalty: In many cases social media websites using people are loyal. This can be a real good thing for an auto dealership. You can develop a following that is loyal and passionate, when you successfully use social media marketing plans and want to integrate your dealership into the website’s community. Those followers see you and your dealership firm as an entity and it is happy to come down to their level. When you are trying to develop customers in younger generation, it can be a good thing.

With the help of social media marketing you can interact better with the customers than any other media. It gives you to update the customers on different views, like business promotions and offers, industry updates, etc.

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The survey also revealed that teen girls are more than twice as likely as boys to use the twitter service with 22% whereas the boys stood at 10% of the total populations. Furthermore, blacks are the people who use internet more than three times than the whites and also more than Hispanics. In case of older teens, the teens belonging to the higher income group are using more of internet when compared to the lower income group.

However, instead of these percentages, twitter is far from being called as the teen’s social network of choice since it is overtaken by the popular site facebook with 89% of the people having account in facebook, while only 59% have a twitter account. Also among teens with multiple accounts, 99% have profiles on facebook and in multi-network user group and only 29% had an account on Twitter.

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