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Audit Season
ModSquad | 04/26/2023
What comes after tax season? Audit season.   No, not that kind of audit. This audit doesn’t involve...
CX Trends To Watch For in 2023
Izzy Neis | 01/24/2023
2023 hath arrived! Happy January. Now that we’re fully on board with this bright and shiny new year, it’s...
Data Privacy Predictions for 2022
Stephen Kline | 01/25/2022
ModSquad’s Vice President, Privacy and Legal Affairs, Stephen Kline offers insights into the latest...
ModSquad’s 2021 Digital Predictions — How’d We Do?
ModSquad | 01/11/2022
As is our January tradition here on the ModSquad Blog, we like to take a look back at the predictions for the...
Our Take: ModSquad’s 2022 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 12/16/2021
At the end of each year, we pull together our predictions for the digital landscape in the year ahead. We...
How to Diversify Your Digital Marketing Portfolio
ModSquad | 10/26/2021
Did you know that, on average, Americans spent upwards of three and a half hours every day on social media...
Starve the Cookie Monster: How to Leverage Zero-Party Data in Your Digital Strategy
ModSquad | 05/18/2021
GDPR. CCPA. IDFA. These small abbreviations have big repercussions for marketers and web publishers. The...
Games as a Service: An Evolutionary Tale
Linda Carlson | 02/18/2021
If you enjoy downloading updates to your favorite game and appreciate how your gameplay continues to evolve...
ModSquad’s 2020 Digital Predictions – How’d We Do?
ModSquad | 01/19/2021
Every January, our tradition is to look back at the predictions we made for the digital space last year. A few...
Our Take: ModSquad’s 2021 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 12/17/2020
2020 was anything but ordinary, and we’re all eagerly awaiting the new year. Will it bring as much change to...
ModSquad’s 2019 Digital Predictions – How’d We Do?
ModSquad | 01/21/2020
Every January, it’s become tradition here on the ModSquad Blog to look back at the predictions for the...
Our Take: ModSquad’s 2020 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 12/19/2019
This year’s digital transformation and the ever-changing playing field of social media has us looking to 2020...
Emotional Connections in a Digital Age
ModSquad | 02/19/2019
The first thing consumers experience after an interaction with a brand representative is usually an emotion,...
Our Take: ModSquad’s 2019 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 01/10/2019
It’s that time of year again! Time to break out the crystal ball in order to add our voice to the growing...
ModSquad’s 2018 Digital Predictions — How’d We Do?
ModSquad | 01/03/2019
At the passing of each year, we here at ModSquad like to take a moment to review our predictions for the...
Mobile Dominates Black Friday and Cyber Monday
ModSquad | 12/04/2018
Now that the dust has settled from the official kick-off of the North American holiday shopping season, it’s...
Mod Passions: Your Brand is Our Way of Life
ModSquad | 08/23/2018
We recently kicked off an engagement to support a nationally recognized ice cream manufacturer with their...
3 Tips to Improve your Net Promoter Score
ModSquad | 08/02/2018
We’ve reported extensively on the importance to brands of consumer trust and superior customer support, and...
Infographic: Consumers’ Trust in Brands is Fading — And How It Can Be Saved
ModSquad | 07/17/2018
We just released the results of our newest ModSquad survey, conducted by Harris Interactive, which examines the...
Initialisms FTW: Internet Shorthand YSK
ModSquad | 07/10/2018
Tweet length has doubled and voice-to-text is available on any smartphone, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s...
Bridging the Gender Gap in the Game Industry
ModSquad | 07/05/2018
Holism is the idea that systems and their properties should be viewed as wholes rather than as a collection of...
Public Displays of Affection: How to Leverage Customer Feedback
ModSquad | 05/15/2018
Gone are the days when a brand can define its own public story. In the past, the combination of marketing...
You’re the Perfect Candidate for a Digital Cleanse. Yes, You.
ModSquad | 01/25/2018
It’s January, and there are messages abound about taking time to reset different aspects of your life. We’d...
Your Family’s Smart Life
ModSquad | 01/16/2018
It’s 2018, and if you’ve had a moment to look at the news, conversations around smart tech seem to have...
Our Take: ModSquad’s 2018 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 01/08/2018
In what’s become an annual tradition here at ModSquad, our savvy team of fearless forecasters gathered...
ModSquad’s 2017 Digital Predictions — How’d We Do?
ModSquad | 12/19/2017
As we close the books on 2017, let’s take a moment to reflect on what’s transpired over the last 12 months....
Think Outside the [Toy] Box
ModSquad | 10/12/2017
Digital Kids Media has been producing events focused on kids, youth, games, technology, and interactive media...
The Live Stream is Now Mainstream
ModSquad | 01/19/2017
If you read our 2017 Digital Predictions earlier this month, you know live video is expected to grow this year...
Our Take: ModSquad’s 2017 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 01/06/2017
Here it is, the first week of 2017 not even finished and we’re ready to make our predictions for the digital...
ModSquad’s 2016 Digital Predictions – How’d We Do?
ModSquad | 12/22/2016
Can you believe 2016 is just about over? It’s been a whirlwind year, to be sure, with an endless array of...
The Future of Work in the World of Co-Creation
ModSquad | 11/16/2016
In September, Amy was invited to Bangalore, India to give a talk at Crowdsourcing Week about the future of work...
Yelp Reviews Continue to Dominate Search – Why Don’t Business Owners Listen?
ModSquad | 08/23/2016
Ah, Yelp. The love it/hate it relationship with this site continues to be top of mind for many business owners....
Infographic: The Call Center — Vital to Your Business
ModSquad | 07/19/2016
It’s not the idea of traditional phone-based customer support that’s old-fashioned. It’s the model by...
We Are Your Community
ModSquad | 04/19/2016
When it comes to treating your customers right, you might first think about implementing a strong support...
2015: ModSquad’s Year in Review
ModSquad | 03/29/2016
With so many of us bogged down with tax preparation and reviewing the past year, we can’t help but reflect on...
To the Future: Virtual Reality
ModSquad | 03/08/2016
Virtual reality (VR) is about to make a huge comeback this year, and in the coming years, VR stands to change...
Alumni Spotlight: Chase Straight
ModSquad | 12/17/2015
In this Alumni Spotlight, we catch up with Chase Straight, a former member of ModSquad who’s now a community...
Our Take: 2016 Digital Predictions
ModSquad | 12/08/2015
2016. Wow. 2016. I started working with websites in 1996, marking 20 years of my life spent immersing myself in...
What’s the Key to On-Demand Success? It’s All About How You’re Using Technology
ModSquad | 11/19/2015
Instant gratification. This is what the on-demand economy is all about. It’s what’s bringing great success...
The Wild Release of Carbine Studios WildStar F2P
ModSquad | 11/11/2015
When I first heard about the critically-acclaimed MMORPG WildStar going free-to-play, I was fascinated. As a...
When’s the Best Time to Wow Your Audience?
ModSquad | 09/22/2015
For the tech market, September is one continuous progressive party of product, start-up, and user conferences,...
The Play of Passion
ModSquad | 08/28/2015
Our head of People Operations recently shared how we assess individuals to become a Mod. This is such an...
What Will It Be, Boon or Bust? 5 Planning Tips for Seasonal Spikes
ModSquad | 08/25/2015
Summer is still characterized as the slow time for business. Yet for many companies — particularly those in...
The Language of Games
ModSquad | 08/20/2015
(Ready Player One… Uno… Un… Eins!) After meeting and greeting gamers and game-industry professionals from...
Social customer service is no longer a fad – it’s a necessity
ModSquad | 08/18/2015
In some organizations, the idea of merging social media and customer service doesn’t sit too well. You may...
HOW WILL USER-GENERATED CONTENT AFFECT THE FUTURE OF VIDEO GAMES?
ModSquad | 08/05/2015
For those of us in the moderation business, when someone says their new game will have user-generated content,...
Revolt? What Eight Seconds Means for Your Customer Engagement Success
ModSquad | 07/29/2015
At eight seconds, humans now have shorter attention spans than goldfish. That’s according to a recent...
A Warm Welcome to our New Vice President of Interactive Services!
ModSquad | 07/16/2015
The Metaverse revolution continues! Our exciting summer of growth and expansion, which has already seen the...
A Summer Privacy Reminder: Be Secure Out There!
ModSquad | 07/14/2015
It’s glorious summer, a perfect time to check e-mail from our phones while taking sunshine breaks, post...
Game Trends & Insights from E3 (#E32015)
ModSquad | 06/26/2015
Last week our resident gamer extraordinaire, Matt Hostler, and one of our amazing LA-based mods, Jasmine...