
Report: Facebook activity dwindles in 2016, influencer marketing is up
Influencer marketing platform Mavrck has published a many informative statistics for marketers who are using Facebook to speak to their...

Beyond the Like: Measuring Facebook Reactions
Don’t get me wrong — I love Likes. They continue to serve as a simple way for people to show support for a thought, product offering or...

Google image search lead Randy Keller jumps to Pinterest
In its early days, Pinterest was described as a “social scrapbooking” or photo-sharing site. CEO Ben Silbermann has called it a “catalog...

Facebook opens itself to measurement audit, gives brands more control over video ad buys
In an effort to rebuild advertisers’ trust following a series of measurement errors last year, Facebook has moved to make its ad...

What businesses need to know about the Yelp Elite program
For the past three years, I’ve been a member of one of the most exclusive, most important, most powerful groups on the internet: The Yelp...

Using influencer campaigns for real-time amplification
influencer marketing will continue to be a hot topic in 2017. One of the most common ways to approach influencer marketing is as a...

What marketers should know about Twitter’s Q4 2016 earnings
Twitter’s fourth-quarter earning report wasn’t all bad. It was just a lot of bad, with some good and a bit of ugly. The Good The product...

Twitter’s ad revenue declined in Q4 2016
Twitter released its fourth-quarter earnings results on Thursday morning. Here’s a quick rundown of how the social network’s business is...

Facebook’s ad policies revised to encourage inclusion and diversity
Late last year, Facebook committed to updating its ad targeting practices to prevent discrimination for housing, employment or...

Pinterest’s Lens app turns your phone’s camera into a search bar
Pinterest is bringing search to the real world. On Wednesday, the social-network-slash-search-engine introduced Lens, a mobile app that...

NewsWhip opens up its history to show the social lives of stories
NewsWhip tracks how stories spread on social media, a critical factor for publishers these days. To give publishers and others more...

Twitter’s safety updates address user bans, abuse and safe search
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com With Twitter’s rampant abuse problem, the company has been aggressively trying to find the right way to...

Instagram’s web footprint surpassed Twitter’s in 2016
Instagram has become more prevalent on the web than Twitter, according to an analysis by website tool provider SimilarTech of the top 1...

Super Bowl-related social activity was up Sunday on both Facebook & Twitter
Both Facebook and Twitter are reporting increased social activity during Sunday’s Super Bowl after a big drop last year. As you likely...

Super Bowl’s politically charged ads, like 84 Lumber’s, spark social buzz
During this year’s Super Bowl, some advertisers had something more substantive to say than “Buy this product.” Instead of shying away...

Hashtags in Super Bowl ads slip to 30% in 2017, overtaken by URL use in 39%
The statistics are from our sixth annual Hashtag Bowl count of hashtags, social media mentions and URLs in ads shown during Super Bowl...

#HashtagBowl Live Blog: All the Super Bowl 51 advertising action In real time
Wow, what a game! Big thanks to our insightful guests, to my colleagues and to everyone who joined us for the big game and the big ads!...

Today’s the day: The 2017 Marketing Land #HashtagBowl is here!
We’re just hours away from our biggest event of the year: Marketing Land’s sixth annual #Hashtag Bowl — our look at how advertisers...

Snap IPO: With 158M daily users, Snapchat’s parent company made $404.5M in 2016
Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., formally filed to go public on Thursday, offering the first official look at how the mobile app’s...
























