
Facebook aims for TV ad dollars with household-wide ad targeting
When you watch TV with the people you live with, you see the same ads. Soon that may also be the case when you check Facebook. Facebook...

Facebook now lets advertisers add product videos, prices to Dynamic Ad campaigns
Summer may have just started, but Facebook is already giving advertisers a head start on their fall shopping campaigns. Already a...

Facebook Messenger’s M assistant now suggests saving links, calling people
Messenger’s Siri-like virtual assistant, M, is getting more helpful. Roughly three months after rolling out M Suggestions to facilitate...

B2B vs. B2C: What’s the social strategy?
Social advertising allows for a bevy of ways to effectively reach people on social platforms, both in their personal and their...

Sprout Social releases first non-developer bot-building platform for Twitter
Earlier this week, business messaging platform LivePerson announced a version with a built-in bot powered by IBM’s super-intelligent...

Snapchat’s Snap Map plots Stories by location but not ads (yet)
Snapchat is giving people a better look at what’s going on in the world but is not including a place for advertisers (at least not yet)....

Stackla adds a Co-Pilot to recommend which user content should be published
The good news about user-generated content (UGC) is that there’s so much to choose from. And therein lies the rub. This week, UGC...

Markerly offers white-labeled influencer network
When brands or agencies conduct influencer campaigns, they often utilize the platforms and networks of a provider specializing in getting...

Instagram Stories daily audience hits 250M, adds live Story replays
Every day, more than 250 million people view Instagram Stories, the Facebook-owned photo-and-video sharing app announced on Tuesday....

Twitter rolls out new apps; iOS versions support Apple’s ad blockers
Twitter is cleaning up its look and enabling people to clear out ads on web pages opened within its iOS apps. On Thursday, Twitter began...

Facebook addresses Audience Network, mid-roll ad transparency problem with publisher lists
Buying ads from Facebook doesn’t always mean those ads will run on Facebook. They could appear across Facebook’s Audience Network of...

Instagram debuts tool for celebrities, publishers to label sponsored posts, Stories
Instagram is a popular place for brands to pay celebrities and publishers to piggyback their organic audiences. But if those celebrities...

Twitter gives brands DM buttons for people to open links, post pre-written tweets
Twitter is rolling out buttons that brands can add to direct messages that, when clicked, can direct people to visit the brand’s site,...

Facebook brings value metrics to campaigns to help advertisers target the best customers
One of the most important dances that digital advertisers perform is the maximization of revenue on a minimal budget. It is quite...

A guide to Snapchat advertising as self-serve tool officially opens
A month after announcing a self-serve tool for any advertiser to buy its standard vertical video ads like they buy books on Amazon,...

Brandwatch adds a Reddit ‘mini-firehose’ to its social data
For marketers, the popular Reddit community is a largely untapped reservoir of unvarnished opinions. This week, Brandwatch announced that...

Facebook slots ads in Instant Articles’ Related Articles sections
Facebook’s Instant Articles format is supposed to be a better, faster version of the web’s standard article page. Now it’s adding what...

KLM now offers flight help via Twitter and WeChat bots
It’s not difficult to imagine that, within a few years, many common business tasks and customer service requests that can be handled...

Instagram’s direct-response Story ads are available for self-serve buys
Publishers have shown that people viewing Instagram Stories are willing to swipe up to visit a site. Now it’s time to see if that’s also...
























