
Facebook tests removing organic Page posts from News Feed
Facebook’s News Feed has been largely pay-to-play for Pages for years. Now the social network is exploring whether to make it completely...

Snap reportedly lays off 18 employees, will slow hiring in 2018
As Snap tries to keep pace with investors’ growth expectations, Snapchat‘s parent company reportedly expects to slow down its internal...

Facebook will insert ads within Messenger’s Instant Games
Facebook wants to make more money from Messenger, and the company is willing to share some of that money with developers to get them to...

How video makers are programming around Facebook’s ad breaks
Videos on Facebook increasingly resemble TV-style programming — until an ad interrupts the video without a natural break in the action....

Pinterest opens search ads to self-serve advertisers, adds ‘autotargeting’ option
Pinterest is opening up its search ads to all advertisers and broadening the aim of brands’ keyword-based campaigns to relevant queries...

Twitter’s new Video Website Card ad format uses video to push link clicks
Twitter’s rolling out a way for advertisers to use video to get people to visit their websites. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the...

Instagram redesigns call-to-action bar to dynamically mirror ads
For the second time in the two years since rolling out clickable ads, Instagram is updating the look of what people are supposed to...

LinkedIn launches autoplay mobile video ads
LinkedIn has announced a closed beta for testing video ad units as Sponsored Content. This comes just two months after enabling native...

Apple’s anti-tracking tool restricts Facebook’s ability to follow people around the web
Two years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...

With Snap Accelerate, Snapchat pursues mobile startups that built Facebook’s ad biz
A newly public company with mounting concerns over the viability of its advertising business, Snapchat in 2017 resembles Facebook in...

Snapchat rolls out Sponsored 3D World Lenses, bringing its AR format to advertisers
Snapchat debuted its latest augmented-reality ad format on Thursday. Advertisers can now create their own branded versions of Snapchat’s...

Facebook’s 2-year NFL deal for Watch shows includes sharing ad revenue
Facebook’s NFL deal may serve as a playbook for how the social network plans to score TV viewers and advertisers. On Tuesday, Facebook...

Twitter tests doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters
Twitter’s defining feature — the tweet’s 140-character limit — may soon go the way of Instagram’s square posts and Vine’s, well,...

Facebook spins off ‘messages’ as standalone ad objective to boost Messenger bots
Every month, 18 million businesses exchange more than 2 billion messages with people on Messenger, according to David Marcus, head of the...

Pinterest signs visual search & advertising deal with Target to license its Lens technology
People will be able to use Target’s app to scan items in the real world and find similar products sold by the retailer. Pinterest has...

Instagram hits 2 million monthly advertisers, doubling in six months (again)
For the second time in the past year, Instagram’s advertiser base has doubled in six months. Over the past month, more than 2 million...

Facebook will measure how its ads compare against, complement TV campaigns
Facebook is raising its bid for brand advertisers’ TV budgets. Facebook will offer advertisers the option of having the company measure...

Social media ad fatigue: How to combat it without spending all day making new creatives
increased by 30 percent, thanks to people striving to create a content-only environment for themselves online. (Perhaps they’ve never...

Facebook will target ads to people based on store visits, offline purchases, calls to businesses
Facebook is making it easier for brands to retarget people with ads on Facebook based on how those people come into contact with a brand...
























