
What will happen to influencer marketing if Instagram ‘Likes’ go away?
In April, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered Instagram was testing removing “Like” counts on posts. At the time, an Instagram...

LinkedIn looks to improve ad targeting, attribution capabilities with Drawbridge acquisition
LinkedIn announced on Tuesday it has entered a deal to acquire Drawbridge, an identity resolution platform that uses AI and machine...

Facebook gives game developers new ad options within Audience Network
Facebook is introducing new ad options for mobile gaming advertisers, now making rewarded video and playable ads for game apps available...

Time spent on Facebook, Snapchat remains flat, but Instagram sees growth
Source: eMarketer eMarketer reports the average amount of time people will spend each day on Facebook this year will remain unchanged...

How to maximize social media traffic to your site
How good exactly is social media at generating referral traffic? Let’s look at the facts. As of 2019, there are 4.39 billion Internet...

Facebook Ads Manager issues are causing major headaches for advertisers
Last November, three days before Black Friday, Facebook’s Ads Manager suffered an outage that left many advertisers unable to access...

LinkedIn company Pages now show Sponsored Content ad history
LinkedIn has launched an Ads tab for company Pages on its platform. Similar to Facebook’s Info & Ads tab for Pages, the LinkedIn Ads tab...

Turns out some groups axed by Facebook for content violations were actually hacked
A Reddit thread on Wednesday called attention to many Facebook Groups’ privacy settings being changed to “secret.” The post generated...

Advertisers seeing dwindling results with Facebook’s 1% Lookalike Audiences
Facebook’s Lookalike Audiences have long been a favorite ad targeting tool for advertisers, allowing marketers to use Custom Audience...

Facebook warns advertisers ‘Clear History’ tool may impact ad targeting
Facebook released an announcement Tuesday letting advertisers know that its coming “Clear History” tool — a feature that will allow users...

7 best social media monitoring tools for any business
People have always talked about brands and products. They’ve praised and complained about companies in the dining rooms, by the water...

Instagram launches @shop account to boost interest in shoppable posts
Instagram launched a new @shop account managed by an internal team that curates shoppable posts from across the app. “Content featured on...

Facebook gives small businesses new advertising and engagement tools
Facebook is rolling out a series of new tools aimed at small and mid-sized businesses on Tuesday, three days into Small Business Week: an...

Facebook updates video ranking algorithm to surface content that users routinely seek out
Facebook has updated its video ranking algorithm to surface more video content routinely sought out by users and watched repeatedly,...

Instagram influencers posting 150% more sponsored content than a year ago
Once upon a time, influencer marketing was reserved for brands putting their products in the hands of high-profile public figures and...

Spotify is testing voice-enabled ads that let listeners command engagement
Spotify announced Thursday it’s testing a new voice-enabled ad experience on mobile to give listeners the ability to interact with...

Facebook makes ThruPlay default for video campaigns, begins phasing out 10-second view optimization
Facebook is making ThruPlay the default buying option for video ad campaigns, the company announced Thursday. It will also begin the...

Brands take heed: Facebook is putting Groups at the center of its app
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is making communities on the platform as central as friend connections, putting Groups at the...

Facebook Messenger to get new lead gen templates, appointment booking
Messenger’s new lead gen template. Messenger is rolling out two new features for businesses: lead generation templates and an appointment...
























