Welcome to the O’Brien Media Insider – Your Go-To for Digital Insights and Business Know-How
The O’Brien Media Insider is your behind-the-scenes look at all things digital, creative, and business-focused. From web design trends and SEO tips to small business insights and local Swindon highlights, our blog covers a bit of everything – just like we do at O’Brien Media.
Whether you’re a client, collaborator, or curious visitor, this is the place to catch up on the latest from our team, explore practical advice, and get inspired to grow your digital presence. Dive in and see what’s new!
We have been nominated in The 2021 Techies “Best User Experience category” for ‘Client Connect’. Transparency with our customers is a key value of O’Brien Media and Client Connect allows us to have just that!
The UK Subscription Box Market report from Royal Mail is now out and reveals that consumers in London, West Midlands and Northern Ireland are most likely to be signed up to subscription services.
As you would have seen from our previous Small Business Spotlight posts on our blog, we love shouting about and supporting Wiltshire-based businesses that we love! Bert is actually one of our amazing neighbours in our Pembroke Centre office – so it was a great coincidence that we actually had bought books from Bert before!
In Apple’s new iOS 15 and macOS Monteray releases, they have announced ‘Mail Privacy Protection’. This has been done to protect email data that is used by email marketers – so what does this actually mean for email marketers? This blog post will highlight what changes Apple has introduced and the changes this will bring to the email marketing industry.
Apple has released an emergency security software update for Apple devices. This is a ‘zero-click’ malware, so this means that users do not even need to click on anything for the malware to take effect!
WordPress has announced version 5.8.1 as a new security and maintenance release. It is important to ensure that you update WordPress so that security issues are fixed.
LinkedIn Stories were only introduced last year, but they are already being removed. It did not have the impact that the team at LinkedIn expected. (It follows Twitter also removing the short-lived ‘Fleets’ from their platform too!) This blog post will explain why LinkedIn are removing stories and making this change.
With the Paralympics currently on at the moment, and with our newly confirmed status as a Disability Confident Leader, we feel like it’s an important time to make people aware of the do’s and don’t’s of inclusive language.
Something you may or may not know about us here at O’Brien Media is that we are a lover of all types of plants. We found Kate, from Fern & Ivy on Instagram and fell in love with the pink quills, as they matched our iconic O’Brien Media pink! Little did we know, our obsession with Fern & Ivy would start from there!
Google is rewriting title tags for a limited amount of pages in search results, often replacing the text with a page’s H1 tag. It’s known that Google adjusts titles
