
Facebook tests targeting ads to people who visited brands’ brick-and-mortar stores
Over the past couple of years, Facebook has rolled out ways for retailers to push people from Facebook to their brick-and-mortar stores....

6 critical components of Facebook ad management
With the proliferation of ad types, goals and things you can actually achieve on Facebook, the options and best practices can get...

Facebook bans advertisers, Pages that disguise links violating its rules
Facebook continues to crack down on the shady side of its social network. On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it has started fighting...

Salesforce’s Social Studio can now see
This week, Salesforce is giving eyesight to its Social Studio. Social Studio is the social management tool in the company’s Marketing...

Influencer marketing and ad tech collide: ‘It’s hard to make people programmatic’
It has never been easier for brands to find celebrities, or so-called influencers, to promote their products. And it has never been more...

Snapchat’s Snapcodes decline in getting brands new followers, eclipsed by deep links
Marketers regularly harrumph over Snapchat’s indifference to their unpaid presences. Unlike Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, Snapchat...

Pinterest opens up autoplay video ads to self-serve advertisers
Pinterest is officially pressing play on its autoplay video ad business. A few months after it began testing autoplay video ads,...

Facebook looks to clean up Audience Network with higher standard for counting clicks
Facebook continues to try to ease advertisers’ concerns with ads running across its Audience Network ad network. After appraising...

Measuring social traffic effectiveness when conversion is not the goal
In many cases, your content and landing pages that get social traffic have a clear success metric: conversion. You want to know if...

Facebook extends dynamic ad retargeting to real estate listings
A couple of years ago, Facebook rolled out an ad format tailored to retailers looking to retarget people browsing their e-commerce sites....

Snapchat launches Advanced Mode for its self-serve Ads Manager
It’s no secret that Snap Inc has struggled in the eyes of investors since their IPO earlier this year. While the stock price has dropped,...

What Facebook’s (reported) video chat device could mean for its ad business
Following a Bloomberg report, we reported Tuesday that Facebook is working on a couple of consumer hardware devices that could have a...

What should you do with all those ‘Likes’? How to spin social followers into gold
Although they might not want to admit it, many marketers find themselves flat-out stuck when it comes to their social followings. We’re...

Facebook will rank links to slow-loading pages lower in people’s news feeds
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook’s latest tweak to its news feed algorithm will penalize links to slow-loading web pages and could...

Video: Amazon Spark is already overrun with #sponsored posts
Amazon Spark, the e-commerce giant’s Instagram/Pinterest mashup, is only a couple of weeks old, but it’s already overrun with ads. During...

Snapchat will let brands measure its ads’ impact on sales, results against rivals
One of the main reasons Snapchat isn’t yet a must-buy for advertisers is ad buyers’ inability to see how their Snapchat campaigns impact...

Facebook will let brands target ads to people who RSVPed to their Pages’ events
Facebook plans to let brands target ads to people who RSVPed to events posted by a brand’s Page. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the...

Report: Customer satisfaction with search drops, in social Google+ beats Facebook
Earlier this week the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released its “e-business” report. The category includes search, social...

Protecting your brand’s ads on Facebook — because there IS such a thing as bad publicity
Caring about how you’re perceived by others is not a new concept. Even cavemen probably had moments of insecurity, pondering whether...