
Twitter’s new Video Website Card ad format uses video to push link clicks
Twitter’s rolling out a way for advertisers to use video to get people to visit their websites. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the...

Instagram redesigns call-to-action bar to dynamically mirror ads
For the second time in the two years since rolling out clickable ads, Instagram is updating the look of what people are supposed to...

Twitter latest to be slammed for deleting Russian fake account data
Facebook, Google and Twitter have all found themselves unwitting players in Russia’s effort to disrupt and influence the 2016 election....

Where some see data suppression, Facebook says it was only following privacy policy
An article appearing in The Washington Post about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election says Facebook “scrubbed”...

Facebook opens up Stories to Pages so that someone will use the feature
Facebook’s Stories feature has been a flop compared to Snapchat’s original and Instagram’s clone. So now the social network is opening up...

The latest social media craze for marketers: Going offline
Understandably, brands have gotten skeptical of that model. Short attention spans and the closed ecosystems of social media giants dilute...

How Facebook is connecting its 2D social network with the VR version
Facebook is bridging the traditional and virtual versions of its social network in new ways. On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled forthcoming...

Twitter announces what’s ‘Happening Now’ for sporting events, and plans for a book
“Happening Now” is launching with sporting events and will make it easier to find tweets about events happening in real time....

Snapchat’s Context Cards turn Snaps into location-based search queries
Snapchat continues to flip location-based search on its head. Earlier this year, Snapchat turned people’s Snaps into a spin on Google...

Apple’s anti-tracking tool restricts Facebook’s ability to follow people around the web
Two years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...

Facebook tests augmenting article links with publisher info from Wikipedia
Facebook is continuing its efforts to give people more context about what they read on the social network as part of an attempt to stem...

With Snap Accelerate, Snapchat pursues mobile startups that built Facebook’s ad biz
A newly public company with mounting concerns over the viability of its advertising business, Snapchat in 2017 resembles Facebook in...

Why your social media audience is critical for content marketing
If you invest time in creating high-quality content, you want it to get shared far and wide. Few things are more rewarding than seeing...

5 metrics to measure the success of Facebook videos
highest-converting medium in the social media space. When it comes to content, it is the king of kings, the best player on the field, the...

Snapchat rolls out Sponsored 3D World Lenses, bringing its AR format to advertisers
Snapchat debuted its latest augmented-reality ad format on Thursday. Advertisers can now create their own branded versions of Snapchat’s...

Twitter tests doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters
Twitter’s defining feature — the tweet’s 140-character limit — may soon go the way of Instagram’s square posts and Vine’s, well,...

Facebook spins off ‘messages’ as standalone ad objective to boost Messenger bots
Every month, 18 million businesses exchange more than 2 billion messages with people on Messenger, according to David Marcus, head of the...

How Valassis used bots on Facebook Messenger to drive offline auto sales
Bots are often discussed as a kind of magic solution for marketers: scalable, customizable and attractive to millennials. Some of that is...

Pinterest signs visual search & advertising deal with Target to license its Lens technology
People will be able to use Target’s app to scan items in the real world and find similar products sold by the retailer. Pinterest has...