
Pro tips for every Facebook visual ad type
The tips in this post include best practices, plus my own personal recommendations to maximize performance for each Facebook ad type....

Instagram Story ads now sold globally as standalone placements through Facebook’s self-serve tools
Two months after Instagram began slotting ads between people’s Stories, the Facebook-owned photo-and-video app has started selling the ad...

Amobee beefs up Singtel’s digital ads division by buying ad tech firm Turn
Singtel’s ad tech division Amobee said Wednesday night it has agreed to buy ad tech firm Turn for $310 million. Amobee, which was...

LinkedIn Ads: How to target your ideal prospect, every time
LinkedIn Ads is the undisputed king of targeting professionals in the world of advertising, and it does it at scale. In an ideal world,...

Facebook opens mid-roll ads to more Live broadcasters, starts non-live test
Facebook is opening up its video ad revenue stream to more publishers and creators, though it’s not giving advertisers any more control...

Instagram’s carousel format can now include more posts, be used outside of ads
Instagram is extending the number of photos and videos that brands can include in their slideshow-like carousel ads and opening up the...

Improving the social shopping experience: Facebook Shoppable Feed ads
Back in 2015, Facebook released Dynamic Product Ads, which enabled advertisers to serve users ads that were dynamically populated with...

Hootsuite buys AdEspresso, adds onboard Facebook/Instagram ad management
From the AdEspresso website Hootsuite stepped up its ad game this week, announcing the acquisition of online ad tool AdEspresso — and the...

Facebook opens itself to measurement audit, gives brands more control over video ad buys
In an effort to rebuild advertisers’ trust following a series of measurement errors last year, Facebook has moved to make its ad...

What marketers should know about Twitter’s Q4 2016 earnings
Twitter’s fourth-quarter earning report wasn’t all bad. It was just a lot of bad, with some good and a bit of ugly. The Good The product...

Twitter’s ad revenue declined in Q4 2016
Twitter released its fourth-quarter earnings results on Thursday morning. Here’s a quick rundown of how the social network’s business is...

Facebook’s ad policies revised to encourage inclusion and diversity
Late last year, Facebook committed to updating its ad targeting practices to prevent discrimination for housing, employment or...

Super Bowl’s politically charged ads, like 84 Lumber’s, spark social buzz
During this year’s Super Bowl, some advertisers had something more substantive to say than “Buy this product.” Instead of shying away...

Snap IPO: With 158M daily users, Snapchat’s parent company made $404.5M in 2016
Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., formally filed to go public on Thursday, offering the first official look at how the mobile app’s...

A bot for Kia Motors is the first to debut a new Super Bowl ad
Bots are growing up. This week, one of their kind becomes the first to premiere a Super Bowl ad. The 60 second ad — a whirlwind comic...

Three paid social features you need to try in 2017
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Hopefully, your social advertising program has been able to hit the ground running in 2017. Now that you’ve...

Instagram won’t fix Facebook’s ad load dilemma yet, but video might
For the past six months or so, Facebook has been warning investors that it will max out the number of ads it can stuff into people’s news...

Facebook’s Q4 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...

Facebook starts opening its black box to keep advertisers from avoiding Audience Network
Late last May, GroupM’s head of paid social, Kieley Taylor, sent an email to the WPP-owned media agency network’s paid social teams in...
























