
“Power of search” keeps Google #1 with WPP; Facebook poised for #2; Snapchat gaining
Copyright by World Economic Forum/Photo by Michael Wuertenberg What keeps Google at the top of WPP’s media supplier list? “The power of...

Facebook discloses new measurement errors, continues to hone its math
Math is hard, even for Facebook. And it’s getting harder to trust Facebook’s math, even as the social network fine-tunes its...

How Facebook’s measurement errors have eroded marketers’ trust
Facebook’s string of measurement errors disclosed since September has some marketers shook up, even if those marketers weren’t directly...

8 companies doing social media right and what marketers can learn from them
Here are eight companies that are doing social media right, examples of their campaigns along with some takeaways that you can apply to...

The limitations of Facebook’s anti-discrimination policy and others like it
Under pressure from activists and lawmakers, Facebook moved recently to prohibit using its “Ethnic Affinities” targeting in conjunction...

Facebook removes 4 agencies from Marketing Partners program with media-buying badge elimination
Facebook is returning its Marketing Partners (née Preferred Marketing Developers) program to its roots as a roster of advertising and...

Facebook shuts down Atlas ad server because it doesn’t serve ad sales
Facebook’s ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular. Facebook has decided to stop operating its Atlas ad server but will continue to run...

In major measurement update, Facebook overhauls metrics, makes corrections, adds viewability
In a sort of course correction, Facebook made several announcements Wednesday pertaining to audience and ads measurement on the social...

Pinterest queues up autoplay video ads for new Explore tab
A few months after introducing click-to-play video ads, Pinterest is catching up with the times — and competitors like Facebook, Twitter,...

Native advertising, the new marketing workhorse
Native advertising is fast becoming a powerful digital marketing strategy, as traditional display and banner ads become less and less...

Facebook puts some limits on controversial, quasi-racial ad targeting option
No, Facebook isn’t getting rid of its pseudo-racial ad targeting option. No, it hasn’t decided to prevent advertisers from using it to...

The future of Instagram is spam
When I log onto Twitter or Facebook, it’s like a million voices cry out… and never stop talking. It can get tiresome. I don’t see updates...

Pinterest & Snapchat: 12 tips to dial in your visual ads
If you’re not using all the tools in Facebook’s ROI kit in the next few weeks through the busy holiday shopping season, you don’t have...

Twitter’s top biz exec Adam Bain is leaving
The individual who, for six years, has overseen the growth and recent deceleration of Twitter’s advertising business, Adam Bain, has...

Pinterest adds measurement, data vendors to its Marketing Partners program
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com On Wednesday, Pinterest added marketing measurement and data companies to its Marketing Partners (née...

As Facebook Audience Network broadens, what does it mean for your campaigns?
Early this year, mobile web inventory was added on top of in-app placements, and then more recently, Facebook announced the expansion of...

How social ads’ location targeting can side-step electioneering laws
In California — and other states like Texas and New York — you’re not allowed to visibly promote a political candidate within 100 feet of...

Ads in Facebook Messenger are officially here
Today Facebook officially made it possible for marketers to turn their Messenger bots into ad bots. After testing sponsored messages...

The FTC isn’t going to save influencer marketing from itself, but the industry could
online influencer marketing. Rest assured, the FTC’s initial foray into guidance will not be its last, and it is quite evident that it’s...
























