
Facebook makes it easier for brands to cross-post videos produced by publishers
Facebook made clear earlier this year that it’s cool with marketers paying publishers to produce branded videos and distribute them for...

LinkedIn conversion tracking is here! 4 things you need to know
Today, LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions team announced the official release of its native conversion tracking for Sponsored Content and...

LinkedIn’s new conversion tracking will break down purchases, sign-ups by audience segment
scyther5 / Shutterstock.com This could be a really short article. LinkedIn is rolling out a way for advertisers to track when their ads...

Snapchat’s Local Stories shift could help it fend off Instagram’s Live Stories clone
Snapchat has decided to stop producing daily Local Stories that curate the photos and videos people publicly post in a given city into a...

eMarketer: Snapchat on track for nearly $1 billion in ad revenues next year
In 2013, Facebook unsuccessfully tried to buy Snapchat for roughly $3 billion in cash. At the time Snapchat’s rejection of Facebook’s...

Influencer marketing: You’re doing it all wrong
At its core, it’s a great idea! Get leaders, celebrities or someone with an audience you want to reach to talk about your brand and...

How social is revealing a new world for the travel industry
But the season passing doesn’t mean the learning stops with the first fall leaves: Social media teams have spent the past few months...

Twitter’s Periscope tests adding pre-recorded video, graphics to live broadcasts
Periscope appears to be stepping up its live streams’ production quality in order to keep step with Facebook Live. On Thursday, popular...

Periscope gets monetized: New Twitter functionality makes brands money
With video being so prevalent in our online interactions, and all brands taking notice, Twitter is giving itself and brands an...

Facebook pressures advertisers to cut mobile page load speeds or it’ll cut their reach
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook has sent out a warning to advertisers: Cut down the time it takes to load your webpages, or we’ll...

With pinch-to-zoom, Instagram takes a step towards fixing its photo, video size problem
Instagram is a place to see great photos and videos. It is not a great place to see photos and videos. But it’s becoming a better one....

Pinterest will target ads to people who click on, save brand-related pins
Pinterest wants brands to feel like they already have an attentive audience to advertise to on its platform. So after adding the ability...

Facebook is trying to make its coupon product, Offers, a bigger deal
Facebook will now show offer codes while on a brand’s site and save them to a new Offers tab. When Facebook introduced Offers in February...

Twitter floats better revenue split for creators’ YouTube, Facebook videos
Twitter wants to attract digital video stars to help build its video business. But it can’t offer them more eyeballs than YouTube or...

3 ways social intelligence shapes hospitality marketing
Social media plays a role in each phase of the travel experience; consumers use social channels to seek advice on locations for a...

Facebook removes story descriptions for Trending Topics & replaces with number of mentions
Facebook is changing the way it displays Trending Topics, removing the story descriptions that were previously listed beside topics, and...

Facebook now officially showcases vertical videos in mobile news feeds
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com A little over a year since announcing Facebook would support vertical videos, the social network is making...

Chatsuite announces new chatbot creation and management features for agencies
In April, shortly after Facebook released the chatbot API for its Messenger app, BetterBrand launched what it described as the first...

Facebook paid $22 billion for WhatsApp’s user data, and now it’s getting it
Facebook didn’t pony up $22 billion for WhatsApp just for its messaging app. Facebook was exchanging one type of currency for another...
























