
E-commerce brands boost Facebook ad spend as CPMs, CPCs rise but CTRs dip
If the third quarter is a warmup exercise for e-commerce advertisers plotting their fourth-quarter spending spree, then it should be a...

Facebook opens Collection ad format to Dynamic Ads for Travel campaigns
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Ahead of the holiday travel season, Facebook is giving airline and hotel brands new tools to catch people’s...

Facebook’s dynamic creative can generate up to 6,250 versions of an ad
Facebook is rolling out a way for brands to automatically create thousands of different versions of an ad that will vary in content based...

Rothy’s uses Twitter Ads to drive brand awareness
Creating an impactful social strategy can be a difficult task. How do you ensure your content is on brand? How can you leverage social to...

Facebook will show all the ads a Page is running & archive US federal election ads
Twitter isn’t the only social network making its ads more transparent in the wake of the Russian election ads controversy. Facebook will...

Marketers plan to test out Facebook Stories because why not
Facebook Stories could be a serious opportunity for brands. Don’t laugh; marketers aren’t. Facebook’s copy of Instagram’s clone of...

Survey: Most consumers unaware that paid influencer posts are #ads
A new influencer marketing study from Open Influence shows that celebrities on social media are effective in getting consumers to buy...

Q&A: Twitter’s Stacy Minero details its new branded-content program, #Fuel
Copyright Aaron Durand (@everydaydude) for Twitter, Inc. Last week Twitter unveiled a new program called #Fuel to offer advertisers...

Twitter will make its ads more transparent to brands, everyone else
As the spotlight hits the murky side of digital advertising — from election-related controversies to viewability concerns — Twitter is...

4 steps to enhancing the customer experience with social media
You need to use social media to enhance your customers’ experiences with your brand. It’s time to delight. Set the stage: Engage your...

Facebook tests removing organic Page posts from News Feed
Facebook’s News Feed has been largely pay-to-play for Pages for years. Now the social network is exploring whether to make it completely...

Snap reportedly lays off 18 employees, will slow hiring in 2018
As Snap tries to keep pace with investors’ growth expectations, Snapchat‘s parent company reportedly expects to slow down its internal...

Facebook tests web-based VR within News Feed posts
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Facebook is bringing 3D virtual reality experiences into its 2D News Feed. The social network is testing a...

Facebook details Instant Article subscription program as test launch nears
Facebook confirmed earlier this year that it planned to start testing a subscription program for Instant Articles as soon as October. On...

Facebook will insert ads within Messenger’s Instant Games
Facebook wants to make more money from Messenger, and the company is willing to share some of that money with developers to get them to...

Facebook officially launches Explore Feed on desktop to boost Pages’ posts
Facebook has made it hard for Pages to get their posts in people’s News Feeds, from cutting organic reach in favor of paid distribution...

Should you connect with your clients across social platforms?
I’ve found that my strongest client relationships over the years have come when we solely see each other as the vendor (myself) and the...

Pinterest opens search ads to self-serve advertisers, adds ‘autotargeting’ option
Pinterest is opening up its search ads to all advertisers and broadening the aim of brands’ keyword-based campaigns to relevant queries...

Facebook acquires teen-centric polling app tbh and all its valuable data
Facebook continues to grapple with its teen problem. Four years ago, Facebook’s then-CFO David Ebersman admitted that the social network...