
Twitter Quietly Adds ZIP Code Targeting For US Advertisers
Twitter advertisers have a new tool for promoting their tweets or accounts to very specific areas: US ZIP code targeting. It’s an...

With @TwitterAdTips, Twitter Now Gives Advertising Advice Via Direct Messages
It’s fascinating to watch Twitter evolve its direct message system into a marketing and engagement tool. The latest example of that is a...

Facebook: 20 Million Small Businesses Have Pages, Small Fraction Are Advertisers
That’s the word from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who shared the data during today’s Q3 earnings call. The company’s report focused, as...

Quantifying The Reach-Efficiency Tradeoff In Facebook Advertising
Any marketer that has tried running paid advertising campaigns on Facebook knows it is one of the most complex auction-based ad...

Facebook Opening Access To Custom Audiences For All Advertisers By End Of November
Custom Audiences ad targeting tool to all advertisers by late November. The feature will begin rolling out today for a limited number of...

Facebook’s First Video Ads Are Coming To Mobile
Facebook’s count, about 70 percent of us do — you’ll soon start seeing video ads in your News Feed. The company announced today that app...

The Value Of Social To TV
For many years, the main question one would hear from people who worked at the major digital publishers and platforms was, “How can we...

Twitter Advertisers Can Now Schedule Promoted & Organic Tweets
launch of Scheduled Tweets. This gives advertisers of all sizes the chance to time their tweets to specific events or related ad...

Pinterest “Promoted Pin” Ads Debut Today
Promoted Pins, the first true ad product on Pinterest, started rolling out today. The company announced it had begun testing Promoted...

Twitter’s S-1 Highlights Strength Of Mobile, International Advertising Opportunities
Twitter’s second quarter advertising revenue per timeline view (which is what the company is reporting instead of revenue per user, and...

Bottlenose Launches “Nerve Center” An Enterprise Trend Intelligence & Discovery Too
last year with a free, powerful social discovery and monitoring tool. This year, they’ve taken it up a notch with their real-time...

Facebook Users Will Soon Have More Control Over The Ads It Displays
Facebook announced it is making changes to the ads algorithm to improve the relevancy of ads in users’ news feeds. The algorithm...

Twitter Deal With NFL Will Bring Instant-Replay & League Highlight Videos Via Sponsored Tweets
Twitter and the NFL have announced a new ad partnership, allowing the social media company to share instant-replay footage from the...

Pinterest Begins Testing Promoted Pins Ad Product
In a post titled “Planning for the Future” on the Pinterest blog, Silbermann sets the tone for the type of monetization the business is...

Facebook Advertiser Banned For Using Photo Of A Teen Who Recently Committed Suicide
Rehtaeh Parsons was a 17-year-old Canadian woman that passed away due to complications of an attempted suicide on April 7th this year....

StumbleUpon Quietly Becomes Profitable As Advertisers Flock To Mobile-Friendly Native Ads
The company shared these stats and more today on Bloomberg, revealing efforts to crack the mobile nut are paying off. StumbleUpon CEO,...

The Keys To A Successful Holiday Season: Data And Retargeting
While some may think it’s too early to be saying, “‘Tis the season,” advertisers disagree, as they are busy gearing up for the holidays....

For Twitter Retargeting, Communication Is Key
This past July, Twitter followed in Facebook’s footsteps with the announcement of retargeting. In a company blog post, Twitter said that...

You Don’t Have To Be Big To Do Social Right!
One of the biggest misconceptions when it comes to social marketing is that it’s only for big brands with big budgets. This fallacy has...