
DataSift offers first analysis at scale of how LinkedIn’s members engage with content
Graphic from DataSift As a huge network of professionals, LinkedIn provides 80 percent of all social media leads for B2B marketers. To...

LinkedIn refreshes desktop interface, emphasizing content and conversation
Evan Lorne / Shutterstock.com LinkedIn is about to look different. Starting today, LinkedIn’s interface on desktop browsers will sport a...

Snapchat will target ads based on what people buy off Snapchat
If you want to make a lot of money selling digital ads, you need to win over direct-response advertisers, like Google and Facebook have,...

How IBM’s Watson scores the tone of Trump’s tweets
“Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore 3” by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons. Such a beautiful and important evening! The...

Why influencer marketing trumps influencer advertising
“60 Minutes” segment in October, influencer marketing has crossed over. It’s no longer just a topic of interest to advertisers. It’s a...

Pinterest now offers ad groups to paid campaigns
Pinterest is building out a better advertising product. It’s been announced recently that Pinterest is giving advertisers more control...

What I’ve learned from growing and unfollowing over 250,000 followers on Twitter
Up until recently, I had never unfollowed anyone who followed me. I only unfollowed those who weren’t following me. I’ve always...

Instagram accounted for 70% of GQ’s social revenue last year
Instagram contributed 7 percent of GQ’s total digital revenue in 2016. Instagram may not be sharing with publishers any of the revenue...

3 ways to see the future with social media data
Think about it: With open access to the past and future, you’d have unlimited knowledge within reach. You’d know how decisions play out...

Why marketers should be paying attention to Twitch
Recently, I plopped down on the couch to see what my kids were playing on the family iPad. My kids are huge Minecraft fans, but as it...

Get ready: The 2017 Marketing Land #HashtagBowl is coming soon!
Super Bowl advertising season is underway, and Marketing Land is back with the sixth annual #Hashtag Bowl — our look at how advertisers...

Snapchat’s updated search bar makes it easier to find Discover channels, Live Stories
Snapchat is finally stepping up its search game. On Thursday, Snapchat began rolling out an update to its mobile apps that makes its...

Facebook Journalism Project aims to build stronger ties with news publishers
In the wake of the November election and “fake news” scandals, Facebook has taken several corrective measures and launched new...

Can you prove social media is working?
This Social ROI Template from Tracx will give you advice on goal-driven analysis and which metrics matter, insight on how to tie social...

Facebook will let Pages broadcast live videos from desktop web
If your brand’s New Year’s resolution was to broadcast more live streams on Facebook, then Facebook wants to help you with that. On...

Twitter to shutter Dashboard, an app for businesses to manage accounts
Call it a flop: almost six months since it was launched, Twitter is calling it quits on Dashboard, its all-in-one management suite for...

A marketer’s guide to Facebook’s fake news problem and what is being done to fix it
In late December, the defense minister of Pakistan tweeted an ominous reminder to the leaders of Israel that Pakistan “is a Nuclear state...

Instagram will show ads to the 150 million people viewing Stories daily
Five months after Instagram cloned Snapchat’s Stories product, the Facebook-owned photo-and-video app’s version has accrued a daily...

Facebook’s retargeted ads broadened to include rivals’ sites, Page audiences
Almost two years after Facebook rolled out a way for advertisers to retarget people checking out products on their sites, the social...
























