
In-stream video ads have arrived on Twitter
As more and more of us consume video on mobile devices, advertisers are looking to capitalize. On Tuesday, Twitter rolled out in-stream...

Facebook now lets businesses match user IDs across Messenger and their own apps, sites
Boring story made interesting: If you contact a brand though Facebook Messenger and also log in to the brand’s mobile app using your...

Facebook’s renamed analytics tool now tracks Pages, in-store purchases
Two years after introducing a rival to Google Analytics, albeit a limited one, Facebook is renaming Analytics for Apps as Facebook...

Watch: Facebook previews its first social VR product, Facebook Spaces
Last year at its annual developer conference, Facebook teased what the social network could look like in virtual reality. On Tuesday at...

Facebook Messenger makes chatbots easier to find and use with new Discover tab, Chat Extensions
There are more than 100,000 chatbots on Facebook Messenger, but most of the 1.2 billion people who use the social network’s messaging...

TapInfluence adds tool to automatically check influencers’ posts for FTC compliance
Influencer marketing — where bloggers, YouTube celebrities and others are paid to wax enthusiastic about a new shampoo or whatever — is a...

What to do if President Trump calls out your brand on Twitter
“Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore 3” by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons. When the leader of the free world spends 140...

Instagram Stories tops 200M daily users, now bigger than Snapchat
Eight months after Instagram copied Snapchat’s Stories, Instagram’s clone is officially bigger than Snapchat. Every day, more than 200...

Snapchat will tell brands how many people saw their ads, then visited their stores, restaurants
In the growing rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc., Facebook’s strategy seems to be copying Snapchat’s...

Twitter’s latest ad format turns Periscope hearts into branded ones
Twitter is ramping up the revenue options for its live-streaming app, Periscope. A couple of weeks after inserting ads before some...

Facebook changes some measurements for Pages’ organic videos
If you’re a brand or publisher who’s finally adjusted to Facebook’s updated organic video metrics following last year’s measurement...

Facebook now has more than 5 million monthly advertisers
Facebook execs continue to caution investors that its advertising revenue growth will soon decelerate. But so far, the social network’s...

Why it’s time to say goodbye to the ‘r’ in influencer
It’s time for advertising and marketing professionals to start talking about influence marketing, not influencer marketing. Let me...

Facebook adds new Estimated Daily Results report, upgrades Delivery Insights
One of the issues plaguing Facebook Ads’ system over the years has been the struggle associated with mining data and insight from the...

Facebook adds email signup & Page Like call-to-action buttons to Instant Articles
Facebook’s fast-loading, proprietary Instant Articles are a way for publishers to get readers within the social network. But given that...

Is Snapchat’s bubble about to burst?
161 million daily active users (DAUs) and become part of popular culture — a part that many young people couldn’t bear to live without....

Twitter officially opens direct messages to chatbots
“Bot” is a tricky word when it comes to Twitter. Maybe that’s why, for all the hype around chatbots on platforms like Facebook Messenger,...

Snapchat ads take closer aim with new retargeting-lite, goal-based bidding options
If advertising were like fishing — and it definitely is — then Snapchat is creating new nets to help advertisers corral the people they...

Twitter Lite launches to serve slow broadband networks and expensive data plans
Twitter Lite, a new experience to address the needs of users who may have limited bandwidth and storage capacity, has launched. If you’re...
























