About Ciaran Blumenfeld

Ciaran Blumenfeld is a serial entrepreneur with a pedigree in marketing & advertising. She's one of the original co-founders of Hashtracking. She enjoys a strong, engaged personal social media presence with footholds in the parenting, lifestyle and travel markets. As a marketer Ciaran can be found overseeing multi-platform digital campaigns from strategy to execution. This is when her geek side shows.

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The Day of #TheDress - Hashtracking Tracks How a Simple Photo Went Viral

  Thursday February 26th, 2015 may go down in history as the day of #TheDress. No matter where you were, or what you were doing, if you had an internet connection, you probably saw it. It was a simple photo, poorly composed and lit, showing a dress. The photo was hardly anything to write home […]

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How Big Brands Leveraged #MardiGras Hashtags on Twitter & Instagram

A Holiday like #MardiGras was made for Instagram and Twitter. The costumes, floats, parades and pageantry are iconic. Not that we needed an excuse to follow along, but we love this event, and it was a perfect tag to put our new Instagram hashtag tracking product thought the paces. We can’t wait to share this […]

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The Five C’s of Cultivating Your Brand’s Visual Voice on Instagram and Beyond

If your brand is on social, you’ve probably already put a significant amount of thought into your brand’s voice. Defining your brand’s voice for social media messaging is standard planning, but as visual platforms gain traction, defining your brand’s “visual voice” is becoming just as important as defining a characteristic verbal tone. Have you paid attention […]

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How Debbie Downer and a Bunch of Girls Won the Big Game

Yesterday I spent the day tracking advertising and brand hashtags for Hashtracking. Weeks of prep went into my big game planning and strategy. I followed brands and agencies involved with the ads. I read articles about and reviewed the ads that were leaked beforehand and made note of each and every leaked campaign hashtag, so […]

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Join Us for a Live #HashChat During the Big Game to Dish on Advertising Hashtags

  We’re excited about the Big Game! We’ve made Free Game Day Hashtag Tracking a tradition around here and this year we’re inviting you into our war room. Our entire Hashtracking Team will be watching the game and tweeting live via our #HashChat hashtag and we hope you will join us! If you’re second screening […]

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Harnessing Hashtags to Grow Your Brand, Biz or Blog at TBEX Athens

Are you harnessing hashtags to help grow your brand, biz or blog? If not, you might want to make hashtag use a part of your strategy, right away! We’re all familiar with big brand campaigns and hashtag use. Hashtags are everywhere and in some ways that makes them ignorable. Every TV show and soda pop […]

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Hashtracking HashChat 6/18 at 7pt/10et: Community Hashtags

When is a hashtag more than a hashtag? When it’s the rallying call of a community! Community hashtags have been around since the dawn of Twitter. Some of them evolved out of weekly special interest chats, some are the result of a compelling cause, and still others have taken root because of a charismatic individual, […]

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#HashChat June 4th 7pt 10et on The Happiest Hashtags on Earth

  Disney is loaded with characters, so no wonder they were so quick to embrace the hashtag. Since their first hashtagged tweet, Disney has been a master at using hashtags - as have Disney fans worldwide. Disney has always been on the leading edge of social media, embracing social celebrities and even hosting events with […]

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Join us for HashChat 3/21 to Discuss “Airing Your Hashtags” in Public

How do you share your hashtags with people who aren’t on Twitter? Whether you need to recap a chat for your company, create a Spam-Filtered live Twitter stream for display at a conference or event, or embed hashtag stats and highlights in a blogpost, Hashtracking has unique and innovative solutions that help you broadcast your […]

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