
Reddit’s native ads are now available in the Android app
Reddit announced Wednesday that it has rolled out its native ad placements to the Reddit Android app. This follows the initial rollout of...

Facebook continues to refine its app data & ad-targeting safety measures
Facebook continues to shore up its user safety measures on a number of fronts. Yesterday, the site announced several changes to its API...

Facebook now letting users appeal posts that were removed for violating content standards
For the first time ever, Facebook has released the guidelines its internal content review teams use to determine whether or not to remove...

Facebook opens Authorization tab in Page settings for advertisers running political ads
Facebook announced earlier this month that as part of its efforts to make political ads more transparent, it has now added an...

Facebook reopens review process for Instant Games & Messenger apps
After hitting the pause button on app reviews following the Cambridge Analytica firestorm, Facebook has announced that it is reopening...

Snapchat broadens its ad options with new Shoppable AR Lenses for brands
Snapchat is launching a new Shoppable AR Lens that lets advertisers add a “Buy Now,” “Watch” or “Install Now” button to branded Lenses,...

Pinterest redesigns business profile pages with monthly viewer counts
Pinterest is giving the 1 million businesses on its platform refreshed profile pages. The company aims to give brands more control over...

Facebook’s secret ‘Loyalty Prediction’ ad tool anticipates future user behavior & purchases
Facebook’s predictive ad service tool will make it possible for advertisers to build campaigns beyond user demographics and preferences,...

Three brands still killing it on Facebook
In my column last month, I set out a manifesto for social media marketing in 2018, a call to “grow up or get out.” I compared what social...

Snapchat looks to offer new e-commerce options for Discover Publishers
Snapchat is testing an e-commerce option on some of its Discover publisher channels. The feature will allow users to swipe on a product...

Instagram tests scannable Nametags, taking another page from Snapchat’s playbook
It appears Instagram is once again taking a page from Snapchat’s playbook. The Facebook-owned social media site confirmed it is testing...

Grabbr employs blockchain tech to lock-record its social sharing
Social referral marketing platform Grabbr has launched a blockchain-based ledger to transparently track key events. Based in Franklin,...

What marketers need to know about Facebook’s updated Business Tools Terms
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced Senate and House committees in Washington, DC, this week, the platform introduced new terms around...

What Zuckerberg’s testimony may mean for CDA’s Section 230
testified before a joint congressional committee to respond to questions arising from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Russian...

Facebook & Cambridge Analytica: What we know, what they knew & where that leaves us
Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, spent nearly five hours yesterday answering questions from over 40 members of the US Senate...

Facebook confronts class action lawsuit on behalf of 70M users
Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified for more than five hours before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce...

Does Cambridge Analytica have your info? Here’s how to check
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg heads to Washington, D.C., to testify before Congress about Cambridge Analytica exploiting user data, the...

Facebook announces election-based independent research initiative as part of its continuing hearts a
Today, Facebook announced it had initiated a new independent research project seeking to determine social media’s impact on elections....

Facebook & Instagram ads granted accreditation by the Media Rating Council
After more than a year of audits by the Media Rating Council (MRC), Facebook has been granted accreditation for ads on both its platform...