Duolingo and gamification as the key to success

With 37 million active users per month in 2021, Duolingo is one of the most popular apps for learning a new language. The ingredients of its success are ease of use, the possibility to make progress even when we’re short on time and a good dose of gamification. In this article, we analyse what gamification is and how it has been used successfully by Duolingo.

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Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection: What changed for email marketing

Mail Privacy Protection, one of the latest features introduced by Apple to protect the privacy of its users, has had a strong impact on email marketing and on how some performance data are tracked, in particular the open rate (and consequently the CTOR). In this article, we explain what Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection is and how it has revolutionized the rules of email marketing.

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How to create successful Reels

Reels quickly became Instagram’s flagship format, on which Zuckerberg is betting to compete with TikTok. The potential of Reels is very high and knowing how to create them (and be good at it) will be an important skill to have, also in light of Instagram’s intention to create a full-screen scrollable feed, very similar to that of TikTok, which will certainly favour short videos. In this article you will find some tips on how to create successful Reels and what not to do in order to avoid penalties.

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10 things to do to create a successful YouTube video

Video marketing is certainly one of the most effective and easily doable strategies for brands, especially thanks to the many tools that have recently emerged that make it easier for those who are not video makers to create video content. And YouTube is definitely the perfect platform for video marketing. However, breaking through the 500,000+ videos uploaded to YouTube every day may not be an easy feat. In this article, we’ve summarized 10 things you need to do to create a YouTube video that has all it takes to be successful.

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