
Pinterest will let people use its image-recognizing Lens feature to augment text searches
A year after its debut, Pinterest’s Lens feature has become so capable of parsing what an image contains and what a person is searching...

Snap back: How Snapchat’s ad automation boosted its business in Q4 2017
The equation is almost too simple: If Snapchat can make it easier for people to use its app, more people will use it. And if more people...

LinkedIn updates Sales Navigator with redesigned account pages, improved search
LinkedIn plans to begin regularly updating its Sales Navigator platform every quarter, starting with a suite of improvements rolling out...

Instagram tests its version of the retweet but thru Stories
Instagram’s most glaring feature omission is the ability for a person to reshape someone else’s post with everyone they follow a la...

Instagram tests Facebook’s shoppable Collection ads
Instagram is looking to step up its status as a digital showroom for retailers. The Facebook-owned photo-and-video app has begun a test...

Twitter loses its AR, VR head Alessandro Sabatelli
Twitter has lost its head of augmented reality and virtual reality. Twitter’s director of AR and VR, Alessandro Sabatelli, is leaving the...

Quora adds more contextual & behavioral ad-targeting options
Quora launched its ad platform in 2017 with topic targeting. Now, the question-and-answer network is expanding its ad targeting...

Tech executives unite in initiative to push back against technology
Call it an anti-tech startup. The message of the new Center for Human Technology (CHT) is that technology is addictive and destructive...

Pepsi takes top honors in Twitter’s inaugural #BrandBowl
Hours after the Philadelphia Eagles were crowned the winners of Super Bowl LII, Twitter announced that Pepsi had won the first-ever...

Snapchat opens in-app shopping section with Snap Store
Snap is going to try to sell people physical goods again, after the boom-then-bust of its video-recording sunglasses, Spectacles. But...

Instagram triples length of Story ads with carousel format
Instagram is looking to make the ads in its Stories feed better equipped for brands to tell stories. Instagram is rolling out a version...

Anthony Noto left Twitter’s ad business in a better place despite revenue declines, say ad buyers
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January has become the kickoff event for the advertising industry’s year. Following this...

Instagram adds option to schedule posts via new Graph API as old Platform API nears shutdown
Instagram is adding more features to the Graph API it debuted last year to prod businesses and developers to migrate away from its old...

Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency
Facebook is willing to take a hit to its wallet to make sure its users don’t. Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency in an...

Educators, doctors and kid advocates call on Facebook to end ‘Messenger Kids’
Facebook was well-intentioned when it launched its Messenger Kids app for children under 13 last year. It’s ad-free, designed to be...

Facebook will prioritize local news while still de-prioritizing news overall
Weeks after Facebook announced that it would de-prioritize news from publishers in people’s News Feeds, the company continues to announce...

Why top social media experts say Facebook’s News Feed change is no big deal
Facebook announced perhaps its biggest change ever to its News Feed, I was glued to my social media feeds like a Wall Street broker...

Publishers turn to ads, search following Facebook’s News Feed change
Chris Tolles should be freaking out right now. As CEO of news aggregation site Topix, his is one of the media companies that would...

Facebook steps up privacy education, shares ‘privacy principles’ for first time
Amid ongoing scrutiny and ahead of the May 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline in Europe, Facebook is undertaking a...
























