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Give into my desires and make cringy fanart of an on-running joke between two uk tv hosts that wasn’t meant to be taken seriously. Your time starts now.

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Know How Instagram Boosts Up Sales?

Milan Kundra rightly said that "Business buy instagram followers uk  has only two functions - marketing and innovation." It is im-portant to understand that why every organisation spends whopping amounts on marketing themselves? Because marketing is all about creating the demand in the market and meeting those demands. The best channel used for marketing is 'content'. Content can be in many forms - audio, video or written articles. Until now, people used to consume content via TV, radio, magazine and newspaper. But if you notice, there is a great shift in consumer behaviour and the organisations' marketing strategies. It is because the time is changing, people are moving more towards digitisation. People spend more time interacting on the internet than doing it on real time basis. They discover news on Facebook, read blogs, watch YouTube and catch up with family & friends on social media sites, one of the main reasons why digital marketing is becoming the next big thing.

India is the second largest internet user in the world after China. It has become important for people to share their opinions and purchasing decisions with their fellow consumers, follow the current trends and looks of their favourite celebrity, they want to share their experience via photos and videos. And for do-ing it they find it easier to use a smartphone than a laptop or a tablet. This shift in consumer behaviour has vastly affected the businesses across the globe. Companies have started focusing on m-commerce and social commerce than on e-commerce. Which answers the mind-boggling question that why Insta-gram and Facebook have become a powerful buy instagram followers uk  platform for selling.

Before we get into the detail, I would want you to review your previous day first. From the time, you got up till you hit the sack. I will tell you why I asked you to do this, it is not the brands or individuals who are boosting up the Instagram sales; it is us, you and me who are helping their businesses grow. In our free time, or when waiting for a cab, or standing in a queue - what do we do? We either check our WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram, it gives us our daily dosage of entertainment, gossip, networking and a good time pass, isn't it? Yes, it does.

As we are focusing on Instagram sales, I would draw your attention to what we do on Instagram. We fol-low celebrities, favourite fashion sites, style bloggers, and the fashion divas of our college. We do it be-cause in some way they have managed to influence our mind with their style or way of life and some of us yearn to imbibe their style to make it our very own. And this is how it all starts, they influence us, so we follow them, like their posts, keep a regular check on their feeds, follow their favourite brands, shop at the stores they check into and so forth.

Companies or Individuals who are making money through Instagram are effectively using the concept of influencer marketing, social shopping and mouth marketing. Before we move on, it is important to know the what's before asking the how's?

What is Influencer Marketing?

The concept of engaging a public buy instagram followers uk  figure or a celebrity to endorse your brand or product is known as influ-encer marketing.

They influence the purchasing behaviour of individuals.

For example, "WROGN" launched by Kohli and Anjana Reddy's Universal Sportsbiz(USPL) has made a brand image of itself with Virat Kohli as its brand icon. Thus, inducing all the Kohli's fans to move into the action of experiencing the brand at least once. Here, Virat Kohli is the influencer. Even a simple tee rec-ommended by him would inspire his fans to buy it. They buy it, experience it and share it with their friends thus doing the mouth marketing for the brand.

Which brings us to the next most powerful medium of marketing, WOMM- Word-of-mouth-marketing. As the name suggests it is the way of marketing where people share their experience, good or bad with family, friends and build the reputation of the brand. And it is said that 92% of people trust the recom-mendations from the people they know directly. The moment your customers gain trust in your brand they will stick around to it forever.

Example, Amazon is one amongst the largest e-commerce websites in the world, it is because they have gained their users trust and that is why the customers prefer to shop with them more often than going on to the new site.

In the above two paragraphs, we have learnt about how the customer is influenced and decides to buy the product. It's a natural emotion that when you buy anything you want to share your happiness with your near and dear ones. Know their comments and views. Which introduced the concept of social com-merce or social shopping Apps like Qwiqq, Jifiti, Swaag and Asaan. These portals allow the users to dis-cover their interests, share the things they like on their platform, influence their followers buy instagram followers uk  and drive them to buy it.

Instagram sales are encouraged by the same concept, while you scroll down the posts you see hundreds of ads and posts your friends and followings share. There might be a post which may be of some interest to you, so you would stop and view it, search for more information and buy if you like. Even if you don't buy, it leaves some imprint on your mind, so next time you want to shop, you'll go the particular page or post to follow the same style.

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Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching. If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV let you hang out with friends on your home’s biggest screen. It’s a fresh product category that could give the social network a unique foothold in the living room where unlike on phones where it’s beholden to Apple and Google, Facebook owns the hardware and operating system.

Today Facebook unveiled a new line of Portal devices that bring its auto-zooming AI camera, in-house voice assistant speaker, Alexa, apps like Spotify and newly added  Amazon Prime Video, Messenger video chat, and now end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp video calls to smaller form factors.

The $149 Portal TV is the star of the show, turning most televisions with an HDMI connection into a video chat smart screen. And if you video call between two Portal TVs, you can use the new Watch Together feature to co-view Facebook Watch videos simultaneously while chilling together over picture-in-picture. The Portal TV is genius way for Facebook to make its hardware both cheaper yet more immersive by co-opting a screen you already own and have given a space in your life, thereby leapfrogging smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home.

There’s also the new pint-size 8-inch Portal Mini for just $129, which makes counter-top video chat exceedingly cheap. The 10-inch Portal that launched a year ago now has a sleeker, minimal bezel look with a price drop for $199 to $179. Both look more like digital picture frames, which they are, and can be stood on their side or end for optimal full-screen chatting. Lastly, the giant 15.6-inch Portal+ swivel screen falls to $279 instead of $349, and you still get $50 off if you buy any two Portal devices.

“The TV has been a staple of living rooms around the world, but to date it’s been primarily about people who are physically interacting with the device” says  Facebook’s VP of consumer hardware Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth. “We see the opportunity for people to use their TVs not just to do that but also to interact with other people.”

The new Portals all go on pre-sale today from Portal.facebook.com, Amazon, and Best Buy in the US and Canada plus new markets like the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, and France (though the Hey Portal assistant only works in English). Portal and Portal Mini ship October 15th and Portal TV ships November 5th.

The whole Portal gang lack essential video apps like Netflix and HBO, and Boz claims he’s not trying to compete directly with Roku, Fire TV etc. Instead, Facebook is trying to compete where it’s strongest, on communication and video chat where rivals lack a scaled social network.

“You’re kind of more hanging out. It isn’t as transactional. It’s not as urgent as when you sacrifice your left arm to the cause” explains Boz. Like how Fortnite created a way for people to just chill together while gaming remotely, Portal TV could do the same for watching television together, apart.

Battling The Creepiness

The original Portal launched a year ago to favorable reviews except for one sticking point: journalists all thought it was too sketchy to bring Facebook surveillance tech inside their homes. Whether the mainstream consumer feels the same way is still a mystery as the company has refused to share sales numbers. Though Boz told me “The engagement, the retention numbers are all really positive”, we haven’t seen developers like Netflix rush to bring their apps to the Portal platform.

To that end, privacy on Portal no longer feels clipped on like the old plastic removeable camera covers. “We have to always do more work to grow the number of people who have that level of comfort, and bring that technology into their home” says Boz. “We’ve done what we can in this latest generation of products, now with integrated camera covers that are hardware, indicator lights when the microphone is off, and form factors that are less obtrusive and blend more into the background of the home.”

One major change stems from a scandal that spread across the tech sector, with Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook all being criticized for quietly sending voice clips to human reviewers to improve speech recognition in what felt like a privacy violation. “Part of the Portal out-of-box experience is going to be a splash screen on data storage and it will literally walk through how . . . when we hear ‘hey Portal’ a voice recording and transcription is sent, it may be reviewed by humans, and people have the ability to opt out.”

But if Portal if battling the perception of creepiness, why make human reviews the default? Boz defended the call from the perspective of accessibility. “We say ‘oh they’re good enough” but for a lot of people that might have a mild speech impedentment, a subtle accent, who might use different words because they’re from a different region, these assistants aren’t inclusive.” He claims more voice data reviewed by humans means better products for everyone, though better sales for Facebook wouldn’t hurt.

Instead, Facebook is leaning on the evolution of the smart screen market in general to help its camera blend in. “The more value we can create, not just any one player but as an entire industry, that allows consumers to feel – ‘yeah, I both am comfortable with how the data is being used and why’.”

Hands-On With The New Portals

If you can get past Facebook’s toxic brand, the new Portals are quite pleasing. They’re remarkably polished products for a company just a year into selling consumer hardware. They all feel sturdy and elegant enough to place in your kitchen or living room. The Portal and Portal Mini work just like last year’s models, but without the big speaker bezel, they can be flipped on their side and look much more like picture frames while running Portal’s Smart Frame showing your Facebook, Instagram, or Camera roll photos.

Portal TV’s flexible form factor is a clever innovation, first spotted as “Codename: Ripley” by Jane Manchun Wong and reported by Alex Heath for Cheddar a year ago. It has an integrated stand for placing on your TV console, but that stand also squeezes onto a front wing to let it clip onto both wide and extremely thin new flatscreen televisions. With just an HDMI connection it brings a 12.5 megapixel, 120-degree camera and 8 mic array to any tube. It also ships with a stubby remote control for basic browsing without having to shout across the room. TechCrunch.

Portal TV includes an integrated smart speaker that can be used even when the TV is off or on a different input, and offers HDMI CEC for control through other remotes. The built-in camera cover gives users piece of mind and a switch conjures a red light to signal that all sensors are disabled. Overall, control felt a tad sluggish but passable.

Portal’s software is largely the same as before with a few key improvements, the addition of WhatsApp, and one big bonus feature for Portal TVs. The AI Smart Camera is the best part, automatically tracking multiple people to keep everyone in frame as zoomed in as possible. Improved adaptive background modeling and human pose estimation lets it keep faces in view without facial recognition, and all video processing is done locally on the device. A sharper Spotlight feature lets you select one person, like a child running around the room so you don’t miss the gymnastics routines.

The Portal app platform that features Spotify and Pandora is gaining Amazon’s suite of apps, starting with Prime Video while Ring doorbell and smart home controls are on the way. Beyond Messenger calls and AR Storytime where you don related AR masks as you read aloud a children’s book, there are new AR games like Cats Catching Donuts With Their Mouths. Designed for kids and casual players, the games had some trouble with motion tracking and felt too thin for more than a few seconds of play. But if Facebook gave Portal TV a real controller or bought a better AR games studio, it could dive deeper into gaming as a selling point.

WhatsApp is the top new feature for all the Portals. Though you can’t use the voice assistant to call people, you can now WhatsApp video chat friends with end-to-end encryption rather than just Messenger’s encryption in transit. The two messaging apps combined give Portal a big advantage over Google and Amazon’s devices since their parents have screwed up or ignored chat over the years. Still, there’s no way to send text messages which would be exceedingly helpful.

Reserved for Portal TV-to-Portal TV Messenger chats is the new Watch Together feature we broke the news of a year ago after Ananay Arora spotted it in Messenger’s code. This lets you do a picture-in-picture video chat with friends while you simultaneously view a Facebook Watch video. It even smartly ducks down the video’s audio while friends are talking so you can share reactions. While it doesn’t work with other content apps like Prime Video, Watch Together shows the potential of Portal: passive hang out time.

“Have you ever thought about how weird bowling is, Josh? Bowling is a weird thing to go do. I enjoy bowling, I don’t enjoy bowling by myself that much. I enjoy going with other people” Boz tells me. “It’s just a pretext, it’s some  reason for us to get together and have some beers and to have time and have conversation. Whether it’s video calling or the AR games . . . those are a pre-text, to have an excuse to go be together.”

This is Portal’s true purpose. Facebook has always been about time spent, getting deeper into your life, and learning more about you. While other companies’ products might feel less creepy or be more entertaining, none have the ubiquitous social connection of Facebook and Portal. When your friends are on screen to, a mediocre game or silly video is elevated into a memorable experience. With Portal TV, Facebook finally has something unique enough to offset its brand tax and earn it a place in your home.

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