
[Podcast] Marketing Land Live #38: Facebook’s measurement mistakes with Jeanne Bright of Digit
Facebook has suffered a significant black eye after three revelations in recent months that the company has been misreporting some of the...

Twitter is eliminating its ads that requested people’s personal information
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format that brands could use to request people’s names,...

“Power of search” keeps Google #1 with WPP; Facebook poised for #2; Snapchat gaining
Copyright by World Economic Forum/Photo by Michael Wuertenberg What keeps Google at the top of WPP’s media supplier list? “The power of...

Facebook discloses new measurement errors, continues to hone its math
Math is hard, even for Facebook. And it’s getting harder to trust Facebook’s math, even as the social network fine-tunes its...

How Facebook’s measurement errors have eroded marketers’ trust
Facebook’s string of measurement errors disclosed since September has some marketers shook up, even if those marketers weren’t directly...

Report: 2.5 million US businesses buying Facebook ads, spending $1,500 per year
According to a new report from Borrell Associates, nearly 80 percent of local businesses have a Facebook page, and 62 percent are buying...

Report: Facebook develops content suppression tool for China reentry
Do no evil. Make the world more open and connected. These have been Google and Facebook’s respective tag lines or mantras, if you will;...

The limitations of Facebook’s anti-discrimination policy and others like it
Under pressure from activists and lawmakers, Facebook moved recently to prohibit using its “Ethnic Affinities” targeting in conjunction...

Facebook removes 4 agencies from Marketing Partners program with media-buying badge elimination
Facebook is returning its Marketing Partners (née Preferred Marketing Developers) program to its roots as a roster of advertising and...

Facebook shuts down Atlas ad server because it doesn’t serve ad sales
Facebook’s ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular. Facebook has decided to stop operating its Atlas ad server but will continue to run...

In major measurement update, Facebook overhauls metrics, makes corrections, adds viewability
In a sort of course correction, Facebook made several announcements Wednesday pertaining to audience and ads measurement on the social...

Getting a clearer picture of local marketing attribution
There’s a reason many brands don’t track in-store attribution for local marketing: it’s hard. Really hard. I’m reminded of the old adage...

Facebook has created its own analytics tool for Messenger bots
With more than 34,000 Messenger bots on the market since their April 2016 debut, Facebook is rolling out an analytics tool that will...

Facebook puts some limits on controversial, quasi-racial ad targeting option
No, Facebook isn’t getting rid of its pseudo-racial ad targeting option. No, it hasn’t decided to prevent advertisers from using it to...

As Facebook Audience Network broadens, what does it mean for your campaigns?
Early this year, mobile web inventory was added on top of in-app placements, and then more recently, Facebook announced the expansion of...

Ads in Facebook Messenger are officially here
Today Facebook officially made it possible for marketers to turn their Messenger bots into ad bots. After testing sponsored messages...

Facebook will try selling ads on TV screens next week
Facebook wants to see if it can bring its big ad business to the big screen. Next week Facebook plans to start a test that will have its...

Facebook’s Q3 2016 earnings call: Ad load issues, ad-blocker blocking, a video-only feed
A lot of things can be learned from Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. For starters, word choice matters. In July 2016,...

Facebook’s Q3 2016 earnings report in 7 charts
Facebook makes a lot of money… … and the money it makes from advertising keeps growing at a steady pace… … because a lot of people use...
























