
B2B vs. B2C: What’s the social strategy?
Social advertising allows for a bevy of ways to effectively reach people on social platforms, both in their personal and their...

Snapchat’s Snap Map plots Stories by location but not ads (yet)
Snapchat is giving people a better look at what’s going on in the world but is not including a place for advertisers (at least not yet)....

Facebook addresses Audience Network, mid-roll ad transparency problem with publisher lists
Buying ads from Facebook doesn’t always mean those ads will run on Facebook. They could appear across Facebook’s Audience Network of...

Instagram debuts tool for celebrities, publishers to label sponsored posts, Stories
Instagram is a popular place for brands to pay celebrities and publishers to piggyback their organic audiences. But if those celebrities...

Facebook brings value metrics to campaigns to help advertisers target the best customers
One of the most important dances that digital advertisers perform is the maximization of revenue on a minimal budget. It is quite...

A guide to Snapchat advertising as self-serve tool officially opens
A month after announcing a self-serve tool for any advertiser to buy its standard vertical video ads like they buy books on Amazon,...

Facebook slots ads in Instant Articles’ Related Articles sections
Facebook’s Instant Articles format is supposed to be a better, faster version of the web’s standard article page. Now it’s adding what...

Instagram’s direct-response Story ads are available for self-serve buys
Publishers have shown that people viewing Instagram Stories are willing to swipe up to visit a site. Now it’s time to see if that’s also...

Facebook adds templates for Canvas ads, extends iAd-like format to Collections
Almost two years after Facebook debuted its fast-loading, iAd-like Canvas ad format, the company continues to make the creation of its...

Pinterest’s first US ad campaign spans Times Square, Facebook, Instagram, Mic and New York Tim
Pinterest will debut its first ad campaign in the US on Tuesday. Called “What If,” the campaign is designed to get people thinking about...

Snap acquires Placed to better measure in-app ads to in-store sales
Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, has acquired location analytics firm Placed, a company spokesperson said on Monday, confirming a...

Finally getting (Linked)In on the retargeting action
Besides offering the chance to connect with your colleagues and wider network, it provided a new array of choices for anyone looking for...

Instagram ads can now link to brands’ Messenger accounts, bots
Facebook continues to find ways for its three major brands — Facebook, Instagram and Messenger — to complement one another. In the latest...

How to make ads less adversarial
Ads on social platforms and sponsored content on media sites are becoming more pervasive and increasingly harder to spot. While there has...

Pinterest adds autoplay video ads to feeds, search results
Consider the video ads that Pinterest debuted last summer a pilot for the type it’s now premiering. Pinterest is rolling out Promoted...

Facebook wants to automate publishers’ direct-sold video ad deals
Already a dominant audience conduit, Facebook is looking to play an even bigger role in publishers’ ad businesses. A year after Facebook...

Twitter adds Direct Message Cards for advertisers to kick-start specific conversations
One of chatbots’ main challenges is kick-starting a conversation. So Twitter is introducing its own kind of ice-breaker. Twitter is...

What you should know about Twitter’s latest privacy policy update
When you visit a site that features a tweet button or an embedded tweet, Twitter is able to recognize that you’re on that site and use...

FAQ: Everything Facebook has admitted about its measurement errors
To paraphrase J. Cole, Facebook messes up on its math one time; shame on Facebook. Facebook messes up on its math a second time; shame on...
























