If Merriam-Webster Doesn't Have Content for Instagram, Why Is It All About Peach?

Jesse DeWitt is the digital director of language learning products at Merriam-Webster. And as you may surmise from his title, DeWitt does not devote the lion's share of his time to the dictionary publisher's social marketing—he wears many hats for the New York-based company. In fact, he shares social media responsibilities with a few other colleagues who themselves have full-time jobs at the company, while contributing a tweet here and a post there.  So why is Merriam-Webster pouring time and energy—some 40 posts so far—into Peach, the social app that debuted last Friday, quickly becoming the talk of the Twittersphere? (Even if some are already calling it a techie flash in the pan.) The answered is twofold, but it starts with this fact: Peach is easy to create content with, said DeWitt, whose team has a dearth of visual images at their fingertips and little to no time to create them. For those reasons, Merriam-Webster doesn't even have an account on Instagram or Snapchat.  "Visual storytelling is a real problem for us," DeWitt explained. "Obviously, we are so heavily associated with words. It's not like we have this great library of assets we can draw from like a magazine might have. It's been an impediment in using Instagram or Snapchat. Peach has nice built-in commands that give you a quick and easy way to post something visual." Here's what he's talking about. Peach, created by Vine founder Dom Hofmann, lets users find their friends through their phone contacts and... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'

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