
Instagram’s e-commerce success is building with Stories
In addition to the big digital money makers like Amazon, Shopify, eBay and Alibaba, social media platforms have become one of the most...

Facebook adds new reporting for Click-to-WhatsApp ads
Facebook has added traffic, conversions and page post engagement objectives for its Click-to-WhatsApp ads — ads that launch a WhatsApp...

Paid social requires sharpening your blade in 2019
Something that never fails to shock me is how much things change from one year to the next in paid social. Things we evangelized a year...

Fake, fake, fake: Epic tweetstorm targets marketing’s metrics house of cards
Aram Zucker-Scharff, ad engineering director for Washington Post’s research, experimentation and development team, lit up a tweetstorm...

Instagram CPCs, CPMs drop as click-throughs continue to climb
Instagram advertisers experienced a drop in cost-per-clicks (CPC) and cost-per-impressions (CPM) in the third quarter compared to the...

Facebook’s year of apologies (to marketers)
To say Facebook has had a tumultuous 2018 would be the understatement of the year. The company has faced a barrage of criticism for its...

Initiative CEO calls out Facebook, says he’s advising clients to pull ads
Mat Baxter, CEO of the ad agency Initiative, used his LinkedIn profile on Wednesday to criticize Facebook over its latest user data...

Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ feature delayed until spring 2019
During Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in May, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was working on a Clear History feature that...

NYT report on Facebook’s data deals won’t sway advertisers, say media buyers
Late Tuesday, the New York Times reported more details on the varying data access deals Facebook had struck with dozens of other large...

Facebook expands Ad Breaks to 14 more countries, launches Watch globally on desktop
Facebook announced Thursday it is rolling out Ad Breaks to 14 more markets, bringing the total number of countries with access to the...

Facebook starts testing ads in search results
Facebook announced Tuesday that it is testing ads in its search results. The test will run in the platform’s primary search results as...

Facebook missteps highlight what happens when you can’t trust platform metrics
Facebook has a history of miscalculating video ad metrics. In 2016, the company admitted it had been overstating the average duration of...

Kenshoo teams up with Experian to offer third-party data for Facebook campaigns
The ad tech platform Kenshoo announced on Monday it has partnered with marketing data and services provider Experian.Kenshoo clients will...

Facebook Ads Manager problems affected many advertisers, days ahead of Black Friday
A number of advertisers were met with errors in Facebook Ads Manager on Tuesday. This story has been updated. Now is not a good time for...

Driving sales and profits with Facebook Ads
Attendees on the second day of SMX East were treated to a double-dose of incredible presentations about Facebook advertising. Veronica...

Office Depot launches first holiday-themed AR ad on Facebook for ‘Elf Yourself’
Office Depot is the first brand to take advantage of Facebook’s holiday-themed AR ads with the launch of its “Elf Yourself” ad campaign...

Facebook Attribution deep dive: Democratizing attribution for digital marketers
Picture this – for a given period, your Google Ads campaigns record 500 conversions and for that same period, Facebook Ads campaigns show...

WhatsApp ads are coming: Will advertisers start buying?
In August, Facebook introduced News Feed ads that launch a chat in WhatsApp, making it possible for consumers to start a chat with a...

Top retailers spent majority of 2017 holiday ad budgets on TV, investing only 6% on Facebook ads
Source: Kantar Based on 2017 holiday ad spend, the top ten retailers in the U.S. spent a combined $1.2 billion on advertising during...
























