Engagor Monitors Vimeo And Offers Comparative Analysis With Youtube

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Lien Brusselmans

You might (or might not) be aware that Youtube is not the only social video site out there. Vimeo is a very worthy alternative. Both sites allow users to upload and distribute their videos. There are however some differences. Vimeo looks cleaner and more streamlined: the video you’re watching is really the center of attention. Youtube on the other hand shows more ads and recommended videos but it reaches a larger audience. Two similar sites, yet very different at the same time. It’s up to the brands to decide which social video site they want to be present on and, in case they choose both, which type of content to post where.

Vimeo versus Youtube

Both Youtube and Vimeo are used by brands to share fun and interesting video content with their audience. A couple of months ago Engagor already integrated Youtube and thanks to the Vimeo integration, brands can now easily compare their video channels on both platforms. Which type of video content works best on which platform? Where is my brand gathering most followers, most comments, most likes?

Vimeo analytics

The Vimeo analytics Engagor offers are varied. In the Insights you find the traditional analytics like follower growth, Applause and Engagement rate and top stories/users. Thanks to these standard analytics, you can compare Youtube and Vimeo channels in the blink of an eye. There are of course several extra analytics especially designed for Vimeo: number of times you appear in other videos, album growth, group growth and channel growth. All these analytics and comparisons can be exported into reports you can receive automatically in your email inbox.

Vimeo management

Apart from analyzing Vimeo channels you can also use Engagor to manage them. All videos, comments and likes from the channels you are monitoring land in your Engagor Inbox. You can like or comment on videos or other comments on both your own and other people’s Vimeo channels. Engagor also allows you to moderate your own channels and delete comments on your videos if required.

Just looking at the list of social profiles you can link to you Engagor topics makes it very clear: there are so many social networks out there! Obviously not all brands are present on all of these social platforms. However, since Engagor has a very broad range of users we want to offer as many integrations as possible, to meet the needs of all our users.

Life’s a Mess But Pinterest Brings Comfort in Chaos With Rich Pins

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Tess

Along with the rise of Pinterest, my Finder maps became a lot cleaner and my laptop became almost boring with all maybe some day I’ll make this, wow this is beautiful, I’ll save this just in case I never encounter one of the 3 billion pictures of it ever again and other inspiring stuff being moved to an on line Pinterest account. Endless hours of beauty and chaos from any device with an internet connection.

Comfort in pin chaos thanks to rich pins Still, we all need some comfort in that beautiful chaos. Luckily, like every growing kid, Pinterest is learning to organize its stuff. You could already organize your pins in several dashboards and place each of them in existing general categories, but now they’ve also launched rich pins that include more information. This way it will be easier to remember the movie hottie’s name, harder to mess up the recipe for comfort cookies and almost impossible to resist buying those lovely shoes. To start with, Pinterest cooperated with some popular websites to show more information on some pins. This way you can really do something with the pins you see and love. For now, there are three kinds of pins that include this extra information:

Product pins to easily check availability, price and location for things like clothes (yes, my fellow ladies) and furniture and hum, more clothes. Did I mention shoes already? Shoes as well.
Recipe pins to never mistake a teaspoon with a general spoon ever again, to know how high you’ll have to count until it’s done and all serving tips
Movie pins with content ratings, cast members (the talented hotties I told you about!), and more

These rich pins will have a little icon underneath their photo, but will only be visible in the new Pinterest look. Which is already old to us, early adapters, hel-lo.

This should only be the beginning with more types of rich pins coming up the following months. Until then, Pinterest feeds your hunger for organized chaos with the Pin It button that’s now available on some mobile applications, like Etsy, The North Face, etc. Now let’s hope all of our favorite bloggers, brands and shops rush to make rich pins available. So thanks Pinterest. Sleep is a thing of the past.

Track SoundCloud Profiles With Engagor

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Lien Brusselmans

SoundCloud?

SoundCloud is a social sound platform (its name kind of gives it away) where people not only share music but also create it. It was built by a Swedish sound designer and a Swedish artist. They were annoyed at how difficult it was to collaborate on a piece of music. That’s why they created SoundCloud, which started off as a platform where musicians could share their recordings. Pretty soon it became a more public social network musicians use to distribute their music. And that’s what it’s used for today: musicians (both the very famous and the bands performing in the local pubs) distribute their music and “regular” users can follow their favorite artists and discover new favorite artists! To give you an idea of how big SoundCloud has become: it has millions of users all over the world and some of the biggest artists have embraced it: Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg, Rihanna.

Monitor SoundCloud profiles with Engagor

With Engagor you can track all activity on SoundCloud profiles, be it your own or those of other musicians. All new tracks, comments and likes are shown in your Engagor Inbox. We also analyze these SoundCloud profiles: top posts, users most actively interacting with the profile, follower growth, Applause and Engagement rate etc. You can also keep track of the evolution in number of playlists, followings and favorites. Based on all these analytics you can use Engagor to monitor and compare different artists to each other.

Manage your own SoundCloud profiles

On top you can also manage your own SoundCloud profiles from within Engagor. You can like and comment on tracks (on both your own and other profiles) and delete comments from the tracks on your own SoundCloud profile. What’s also pretty cool is that you can play the tracks right there in your Engagor Inbox.

More information on the SoundCloud analytics and the management possibilities can be found in the support articles. After Mixcloud, SoundCloud is the second music site (social network, as you wish) Engagor has integrated. As for video sites Engagor already allows users to track and manage Youtube channels but stay tuned: pretty soon a second video site will be added!

Google Just Wants to Have Fun: Their New ‘Auto Awesome’ Feature

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Jozefien Verhaeghe

Imagine this: Thursday morning (Thursdays are the new Mondays), rainy weather (yes, spring/summer only lasts about 7 days in Belgium) and no more cold Engagor Energy drinks in our fridge. As you can image, this Engagor Ninja wasn’t feeling like doing side kicks this morning.

All that changed when I entered the office. Some of my Engagor homies were talking about the ‘Auto Awesome’-feature. At first I thought it was just another Engagor feature. But then I thought, our features are awesome by default (Duh! Have you seen the Photo Uploads Feature we just released?), so there’s no need to point that out again. But apparently they were talking about the new Google feature.

Introducing: Auto Awesome

Google is currently hosting their annual developers conference in San Francisco: Google I/O 2013 (In case you don’t speak geek, ‘I/O’ stands for Input/Output. Just Saying). Yesterday evening they announced a new photo feature called ‘Auto Awesome’.

Basically, Auto Awesome is a tool to make photos more fun (Uuuhm, yes, because creating photos was a totally horrifying experience before). There are several features included:

HDR: High Dynamic Range. Google takes multiple exposures of the same image and then merges them. This way your photos have a broader range of shadow and light.
Smile: We all know that moment when you take group pictures and each person in the group looks best in a different photo. Result: you can’t decide which one you should upload. Google to the rescue! ‘Smile’ chooses the best pictures of each person, and merges them into one photo. Go ahead girls, a ‘YAY’ is totally appropriate here.
Pano: When you have a series of photos with overlapping landscape views, Auto Awesome stitches them together into one panoramic image.
Mix: This Booth is Made for Snapping, and that’s just what it’ll do. The Sixties are back! When you take several photos with the same background, Google combines them into a Photobooth style grid.

And finally, there’s one extra feature that made all the Engagor colleagues very happy: MOTION. You might not know this, but everyone here is a totally into GIFS. Basically, Google will combine certain different photos into a moving photos. So from now of on, you can easily create your own GIFS!

Engagor is Hiring Account Executives and Web Developers

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Lien Brusselmans

The Engagor energy drinks have proven to be a great success. Thanks to its sugar and caffeine boost, the Engagor team has been working even harder than before. As a result Engagor just keeps growing! Over the last few months, we have had the honor of welcoming several new people to our team: support ninjas, web developers and customer success managers. Currently we are looking for several new Account Executives and Web Developers, both in the US and Belgium.

Account Executives US and EU

Engagor Account Executives are at the heart of Engagor’s growth. They demonstrate Engagor to prospects that are on a free trial. They are in charge of developing and managing the relationship with these prospective clients. As an Account Executive, you will assess the prospect’s needs and help them find the perfect Engagor account plan and setup. Account Executives also represent Engagor at tradeshows and networking events. Apart from these ‘concrete’ responsibilities, we want your input and ideas on what our users need and want. That way Engagor can continue to be an innovative and efficient tool for all medium and large-sized companies.

Sound perfect? Check out the benefits and desired skills and apply to become part of our awesome team!

Account Executive EU Account Executive US

Web developer

Expanding our user base is one thing; but developing our tool further is still the heart of the company! A big part of Engagor’s strength lies in the quality of our tool. We are continually improving Engagor and we have a great team of developers making this happen. Are you interested in social media and web apps? Are you skilled in PHP, MySQL, memcached, HTML5 and Javascript or at least eager to optimize your proficiency in these technologies? Would you like to work with a group of enthusiastic young people and challenge them in a match of table tennis? Have a look at the job description and get in touch if you are interested in further molding the future of social media management! Web Developer