Hudson Valley Influencers: 12 People Making an Impact With Social Media Content
Social media influencers are everywhere, both in the Hudson Valley and in your news feed. We interviewed 12 local ones, and learned how they’re using storytelling, original content and authenticity to make a name for themselves while having a real-world impact, in the worlds of food, travel and exploration, civic engagement, fashion, and cats. They’re…
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Woodstock’s Most-Instagrammed Places
“A decade later, the mystique lingers; the name still draws. Even now, superannuated hippies and flower children, Rolfers, rockers and runaways, bikers, down‐and‐out “skidders,” artists, curiosityseekers and day‐trippers still find some need to make their way to the Ulster County, N.Y., village and art colony that gave its name to a generation.” Ralph Blumenthal from…
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The 51 Most Instagrammed Places in the Hudson Valley
As a creative marketing agency, we use huge amounts of social media and search data every day to do the best possible branding, marketing and website design projects for our clients. It makes creative projects that much more effective. One treasure trove of local data? Instagram. We compiled the last year of Instagram geolocation data (over 200,000 photos!)…
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INFOGRAPHIC: Kingston, NY Pokémon GO Map
Pokemon Go came out on July 6, and everyone in North America lost their minds a little (us included). It’s the perfect mix of childhood nostalgia, urban exploration, progression, friendly competition, exercise, and culturally-approved nerdiness...
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Poughkeepsie’s 15 Most Instagrammed Places
Millennials mean business: they’re the largest generation, have the fastest-rising spending power, and have no problem recommending things to their friends. One of their favorite methods of communication is Instagram, where they make up over 50% of the total users and spend over 10 minutes a day posting and scrolling through photos. Poughkeepsie social media is…
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Ten Midtown Kingston Foods That Are Fueling Our Economy
Although many people are discovering it for the first time, Midtown Kingston wasn’t born yesterday. While Uptown and Downtown Kingston serve as photogenic gateways into our city, Midtown Kingston has been packed with gritty factories and medical buildings for the last 100 years. Although the details about those factories and hospitals have changed (see: Shirt Factory, Pajama…
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Artists are coming together to draw in Midtown Kingston on Monday nights. Here’s what we’re doing.
Creativity. Commerce. Community. We started Kingston Creative last year with a mission of supporting all three at once. While that often means making websites, shareable content, and imagery for clients, it’s also manifested into a weekly figure drawing session at our office in the Shirt Factory in Midtown Kingston, NY. If you don’t know what…
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Hygge Hudson Valley: The Danish Secret to Surviving Upstate Winters
Winters in the Hudson Valley can be brutal, but we’re going to show you ten ways to cope. The days are short, and the nights are dark, and full of terror. Studies link the cold weather and lack of sunlight to Seasonal Affective Disorder, weight gain, migraines, increased flu and heart attacks, dry skin, dangerous…
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Kingstagram: The 14 Most Instagrammed Locations in Kingston, NY
As a Hudson Valley digital marketing company, we create a lot of shareable social media content for our clients. Many people in the business community view social media as a one-way conversation: they blast out messages and hope their audience will connect with it. They’re missing a step: you have to do some research first. It’s…
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