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Community Managers: Actors, but for the Internet
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Platform Update: YouTube Introduces Responsive Video

What is it? YouTube just announced multiple new updates to the site experience at VidCon, including responsive videos. Good news: the YouTube mobile app will now display videos filmed in vertical, square, 16:9, and 4:3…

Strategy

Platform Update: Snapchat Rolls Out Snap Map

What is it? Snapchat launched Snap Map, an in-app tool for you to share your location, see what your friends are up to, and explore what’s happening in your area and around the world. Within…

Mr. Robot and The Field Trip To Mars Campaigns Take Home 20 Cannes Lions!

Two of our recent campaigns were just recognized with some serious hardware at The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, taking home a total of 6 Gold Lions, 8 Silver Lions, and 6 Bronze Lions between them (full breakdown below!). First, our Mr. Robot campaign took home a Bronze Cyber…

7 Ways UX Can Actually Influence Success on Social Media

User Experience design—or, UX—is the process of designing a product around the end-user’s every expectation, need, and desire. UX combines scientific and creative methodologies to produce an intuitive end product that not only delights its users, but anticipates and caters to their every move. This practice…

Three Major Reasons We Decided To Ditch AngularJS

For the past several years, ISL has been almost exclusively an AngularJS shop. Back when we made the choice to utilize AngularJS as our go-to front end framework it made sense — our clients wanted a lot of real-time data flows with tons of state on the client. AngularJS provided…

Marketing

Community Managers: Actors, but for the Internet

What Is Community Management? By now you’ve seen brands like Wendy’s and Taco Bell engaging in clever and (at times) even witty exchanges with the fans (and trolls) who engage with them on…

Strategy

Platform Update: Share a Replay of Instagram Live Videos to Stories

What’s new? Instagram Stories is having quite a day. The platform feature now has 250 million daily active users – a 50 million daily active user increase since April and a significant jump from…

Strategy

Platform Update: Instagram Introduces Archive

What’s new? Have you ever looked back in your Instagram feed and thought, “hm, this Instagram photo just doesn’t work with the aesthetic anymore?” Today is your lucky day. Instagram just introduced Archive, a new feature…

Design

2017 Facebook Award Winner: Mr Robot by ISL and USA Network

We’re proud to announce that our Mr Robot Season 2 Digital Launch for NBC Universal / USA Network has been named a winner in the 2017 Facebook Awards. Each year, Facebook highlights the best campaigns…

Marketing

Content Strategy for Thought Leaders: How to Amplify Your Best Ideas

Let’s get meta for a minute and blog about blogs. There are thousands of articles out there telling you where to put your content. Many are redundant, most are outdated. Some…

Design

7 Ways UX Can Actually Influence Success on Social Media

User Experience design—or, UX—is the process of designing a product around the end-user’s every expectation, need, and desire. UX combines scientific and creative methodologies to produce an intuitive end product that not…

Management

How to Effectively Manage and Avoid “SaaS Pollution”

Introduction These days there’s a tool for everything, and it’s especially true in the digital agency world. You can communicate with Slack or Yammer
Marketing

The Old Ad Agency Model Can’t Last In the Age of Digital

This year, digital advertising surpassed TV advertising for the first time ever in the US, and the trend is only projected to continue. Interestingly, digital media buying today…