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!
In order to better understand what steps you are already taking to stay secure online, Action Fraud would be grateful if people would please complete the short survey they have created. Your answers will help Action Fraud to determine what areas of online security they need to focus on over the coming months.
Until midnight on Halloween (31st October 2021) we’re offering 10% off on all of our Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) packages. Nice and simple. Just get in touch with Dylan to order your service and he’ll arrange for the discount to be applied to your account.
Due to the rising levels of Covid-19 infections in the Southwest, especially in Swindon, we’ve made the difficult decision to limit meetings to our Swindon, Pembroke Centre, office to essential meetings only for the time being.
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.
