
Snapchat opens its advertising API to everyone
Snapchat is going all in on automation. More than a year after Snapchat’s parent company Snap officially launched its advertising API for...

Snap sales boss Jeff Lucas steps down as its programmatic sales ramp up
Snap is losing its global sales boss with the big-time traditional media pedigree at a time when Snapchat’s parent company doesn’t...

Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, els
In Snap’s latest earnings report released earlier this week, Snapchat’s parent company showed signs that it’s been able to withstand the...

Twitter’s business is finally growing again, but its audience isn’t. Maybe that’s OK.
Twitter’s business is like a seesaw. One side goes up and, as if by design, the other side goes down. In the fourth quarter of 2017,...

Facebook’s ad placement reports were supposed to roll out to all advertisers last year but have not
Last year, Facebook said it would provide all advertisers with reports listing the publishers on whose sites, apps, Instant Articles and...

Snap back: How Snapchat’s ad automation boosted its business in Q4 2017
The equation is almost too simple: If Snapchat can make it easier for people to use its app, more people will use it. And if more people...

Instagram tests Facebook’s shoppable Collection ads
Instagram is looking to step up its status as a digital showroom for retailers. The Facebook-owned photo-and-video app has begun a test...

Quora adds more contextual & behavioral ad-targeting options
Quora launched its ad platform in 2017 with topic targeting. Now, the question-and-answer network is expanding its ad targeting...

Pepsi takes top honors in Twitter’s inaugural #BrandBowl
Hours after the Philadelphia Eagles were crowned the winners of Super Bowl LII, Twitter announced that Pepsi had won the first-ever...

Snapchat opens in-app shopping section with Snap Store
Snap is going to try to sell people physical goods again, after the boom-then-bust of its video-recording sunglasses, Spectacles. But...

Instagram triples length of Story ads with carousel format
Instagram is looking to make the ads in its Stories feed better equipped for brands to tell stories. Instagram is rolling out a version...

Anthony Noto left Twitter’s ad business in a better place despite revenue declines, say ad buyers
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas each January has become the kickoff event for the advertising industry’s year. Following this...

Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency
Facebook is willing to take a hit to its wallet to make sure its users don’t. Facebook will ban all ads promoting cryptocurrency in an...

Publishers turn to ads, search following Facebook’s News Feed change
Chris Tolles should be freaking out right now. As CEO of news aggregation site Topix, his is one of the media companies that would...

Twitter will host its first-ever #BrandBowl to honor top Super Bowl campaigns
Unlike Boston sports fans, Twitter needs a win. The company has suffered four consecutive quarters of ad revenue declines and the recent...

Twitter starts selling sponsorships of individual publishers’ Moments
Twitter is finally starting to convert Moments into its version of Snapchat’s Publisher Stories within its Discover tab. More than two...

Snapchat will let non-users see Stories outside its app but won’t show them ads (yet)
Snapchat is pulling a Twitter in a bid to accelerate its Twitter-esque user growth. Snapchat will enable people to share and view its...

Snapchat updates app install ads with quicker deep links, deeper analytics
A year ago Snapchat enabled app advertisers to attach deep links to their campaigns, so people could swipe up on an ad and open to a...

How Facebook’s video ads’ watch time compares across formats
A video ad is a video ad is a video ad. Except it’s not, according to Facebook. The social network would argue that video ads — and the...
























