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March 8, 2018 — Published by: Drew

Battenhall turns five

A lot of people, it turns out, have a five-year plan. I’ve been asking around and I can confirm these plans are almost always incredibly exciting. To travel the world. To buy a home. To swim with dolphins. To start up a business. Some people just plan for health and happiness, which is sensible I think. But five years ago, my plan was to build a business myself, around something I felt I could do well, and for it to succeed. When I say succeed, I meant still exist in five years… that’s all really. And now here we are five years later.

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March 6, 2018 — Published by: Andrew McClenaghan

How online influencers helped Jaguar launch the new I-Pace with a bang

The Geneva International Motor Show gets under way later this week (March 8-18), and it’s safe to say the automotive world has gone into overdrive.

From Lamborghini to Lexus, every major player will be there with a new model, special edition or concept, but one of the most highly anticipated vehicles, the Jaguar I-Pace, has already been making noise with a little help from social media.   

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February 1, 2018 — Published by: Drew

Facebook hits 2.14bn users, WhatsApp 1.5bn

Facebook announced its quarterly numbers overnight, with mostly ups and some downs. The social network reached new heights in terms of user numbers, revenue and profit, but share prices dipped with reactions to the slowing user number growth in general, and a dip in the US and Canada.

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January 12, 2018 — Published by: Drew

Facebook has announced major changes to the News Feed: what does it mean for brands?

Facebook has announced some major changes to the News Feed. In an announcement made directly by Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg himself, the planned changes have been described as a way of giving us better connections to one another. Of late, the News Feed has become congested with random videos, company posts, news headlines, and sometimes less savoury content too. Zuckerberg has made it clear he would like the News Feed to become front and centre in our personal social media lives once again.

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January 10, 2018 — Published by: Drew

Swipe left to like me on… Ripple. Move over LinkedIn

The world of professional social networking hasn't changed that much in the last 10 years. LinkedIn for contacts and companies, Twitter for chat and content, then blogs and forums for niches. Whereas the social media sphere as a whole has constantly evolved, we've seen relatively few newcomers to try to topple LinkedIn in the business space.

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December 22, 2017 — Published by: Drew

Battenhall’s 2017 in review

With Christmas rapidly approaching, and our agency's 5th birthday right around the corner, it is time to look back over the year gone by and reflect on how it all panned out.

Considering only four years ago we were a company of just one person in an empty co-space hub in Shoreditch, the last 12 months have without doubt been the most formative we've experienced to date. We've invested heavily into our infrastructure in a way that will help us to scale up in 2018, from our new and expanded Battenhall HQ, to new HR and finance systems, and two new technology products developed entirely in-house and used on almost all our clients now. We also took on 12 new team members, and many more have joined our extended team of photographers, linguists, developers and videographers. We said goodbye to some old faces too, inevitably, but that's the way things go.

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December 21, 2017 — Published by: Robert Haslam

Facebook is improving the feed. Like if you agree.

To end 2017, Facebook is making some changes that will impact the strategy some publishers use to drive engagement. Facebook, as with the other social networks, is constantly tweaking its algorithms to try and improve the experience of using the network. Done right, the algorithms help ensure that you, the user, see content that will interest you the most.

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