10 Outrageous Social Media Predictions for 2014

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2317776/10-Outrageous-Social-Media-Predictions-for-2014

“1. Social Influence (Klout) Gets Monetized and Advocacy Marketing (and Incentives) Take Off

2. Social TV Becomes a Reality and Real-Time Content Becomes the Norm

3. Social Networks Enable In-App Purchases and Introduce Shopping Carts

4. Social Media Automation Emerges

5. Social Media Signals Enter Public Service Industries and Shift the Power Balance

6. The First Vine Web Series Launches with No Success, Yet Signals Beginning of Social Content from the Studios

7. SnapChat Booms and Then Crashes

8. Facebook Gives Up Phone Aspirations and Instead Develops a WhatsApp-Equivalent Service

9. Yahoo Launches a Social Media Publishing Solution to Create/Curate & Publish to All Networks

10. Google Tries to Acquire Twitter, Settles for a Massive Partnership and Gets Blocked by the FTC”

Stephen