This past Tuesday evening, our CEO Brent  Payne was a featured speaker at Entrepreneurs Unpluggd, an intimate monthly event series featuring various business leaders from the Chicago area. Tuesday’s topic was ‘Secrets of SEO for Startups’ and also featured two local SEO veterans – Dan Olson, CEO of UpCity (formerly DIYSEO), and Rod Holmes, Partner [...]

Google Glass will be released to the public in 2014 and has already been slated to be the “must-have” gadget of the year. In anticipation that Google Glass could become popular, Loud Interactive has broken down some of the implications the product may have on SEO and social media. 1. Limit Search Results Without a [...]

A new form of social media communication is taking the mobile world by storm: SnapChat. SnapChat allows users to send their friends short videos or images, or “snaps,” that last anywhere between one and ten seconds before deleting themselves. The application has increased over threefold in 2013 with 150 million images being processed per day. [...]

Images are an important part of website development and social media strategy. Visual media is appealing and easy on the eyes, and social media posts that have images receive more shares and links than those without images. Social media networks like Facebook and Pinterest rely on image based posts and apps like Instagram have expedited [...]

Recent stats show that cell phones- especially smart phones- are increasing in number rapidly. Of the 93% of Americans owning cell phones, 50% own ‘smart’ phones. That number is expected to rise as almost all of the Gen Y generation (those between the ages of 24-32) ages, own mobile phones and an impressive 72% own [...]

It’s Earth Day! The Loud Interactive team is celebrating today by planting some orange flowers for the office. We are also doing our part for the planet by decreasing the amount of plastic and paper ware we use in the office and improving our recycling efforts. Of course, we have also begun to think about [...]

Everyone here at Loud Interactive was deeply saddened by the terrorism that occurred at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15th 2013. These attacks were very painful for me personally, as I graduated from Emerson College (located on Boylston St., just blocks from the site of the explosions) two years ago. After the initial shock [...]

It wasn’t that long ago (June 2011) that Google hit the billion unique visitors a month mark, proving that a strong SEO strategy rewards sites with leads and higher returns. Now the YouTube team just announced via their blog that they are now getting more than a billion unique visitors a month. So then how can you [...]

As you may recall, Loud Interactive held its first office event on March 21st to the theme of ‘Thrift Shop Party.’ The turnout was great, with no shortage of laughable vintage get-ups and a runway contest to top it all off. We’ve compiled some of our favorite photos into a video slideshow for your enjoyment. [...]

Facebook newsfeeds have gone red. You may have noticed a sea of red squares with pink equal signs when you logged onto Facebook last week. The original picture was posted on the Human Right Campaign’s Facebook page on March 26th, 2013 as a way of showing support for same-sex marriage. As the Supreme Court decides [...]