
Thanks To Social, Advertisers Plan To Spend More Programmatically In 2016 [Report]
More than two-thirds of marketers said they plan to increase their investment in programmatic advertising in 2016, according to AdRoll’s...

Q4 Search Spend Up 8 Percent, While Social Ad Spend Rose 50 Percent [Report]
Global search ad spend rose eight percent year over year in Q4 2015, while social advertising jumped 50 percent year over year among...

Facebook Lead Ads Get More Features & Come To Desktop
Facebook lead ads launched in October to make it easy for users easily fill out lead forms with their Facebook account information with a...

Trump, Women And ISIS: What Marketers Can Learn From The Social Language Of The 2016 Election
Unless you’ve been living under a social media rock, it’s clear that the presidential election season is fully upon us. Between issues,...

Facebook Ad Budgets Rose 11 Percent In Q4 On Higher ROAS [Study]
Retailers continued to increase their ad budgets on Facebook in Q4. Campaign management platform Nanigans released Q4 2015 performance...

Instagram Advertising: What’s Working?
Chukcha / Shutterstock.com My work involves looking into larger trends we (at Nanigans) observe across our base of hundreds of large...

Twitter Launches Conversational Ads To Get People Tweeting About Brands
Twitter’s new Conversational Ads mix polls with custom hashtags and rich media with the aim of getting users to share their responses...

Snapchat Is Reportedly Developing An API For Advertising
Slightly over a year since its first ad, Snapchat is actively developing an application programming interface (API) to...

From Likes To Tweets: Our Top Social Media Marketing Columns Of 2015
Social media marketing is a fussy and ever-evolving beast. New platforms are continually arising, while others lose their luster and fade...

Wins And Losses From The Social Teams Of The NFL
dean bertoncelj / Shutterstock.com Football has always sparked great conversations — whether it’s chatting with your family while...

Twitter Says Promoted Tweets Will Be Served To Logged Out Visitors
growth problem, though ad revenues have shown nice growth. A new ad targeting option test released today gives marketers the ability to...

Honda Hosts #OpenTheCheer Twitter Instant-Win Contest For Holiday Sales Event
Honda is adding a giveaway to its annual “Happy Honda Days” end-of-year integrated campaign in 2015, allowing folks who retweet its...

Maximize The Event Experience: Engage Socially In The Moment
Our job as marketers is to identify (or create) moments that matter to consumers for the brands we represent — and to generate...

2016 Facebook Advertising Preview: 4 Trends To Act On
Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg both hit extensively on the power of video for...

Pinterest’s New Visual Search Results Won’t Have Ads
With Pinterest’s new in-Pin search users can zoom in on a specific element within a Pin to find other Pins that are visually similar to...

TV Producers, Advertisers Need To Leverage The Web’s Largest Focus Group: Social Data
So it’s all done. A season’s worth of episodes are ready to go. Viewers are ready. Networks are abuzz with the possibilities for every...

Toys R Us Unboxes “Awwwesome” Toy Story-Style Christmas Ads In October
Oh, yes, you’ve heard right. The Christmas toy-craving season has already begun, with Toys R Us — with help from BBDO Worldwide —...

Target Debuts Spooky Interactive 360-Degree Video Ads To Showcase Its Halloween Merchandise
It’s always the problem with creative executions online — either you settle for using some reassuringly mainstream technology (aka...

AdStage Labs Launches With Cross-Network Scripts And IFTTT Solutions
Self-management ad platform AdStage has launched AdStage Labs to develop and release creative new tools and products for advertisers that...