
Reaching The Right Audience Through Facebook Ads
More than any other element, targeting is what sets Facebook advertising apart from other channels. Anything that a user inputs into his...

Facebook To Businesses: It’s Now Pay-To-Play For Facebook Offers
Facebook Offers has been popular in the small/local business community. In the next few weeks the Offers service will begin to charge a...

Twitter Debuts Interest-Based Ad Targeting, Lowers Min. Bid To One Cent
has announced that advertisers can now target Promoted Tweets and Promoted Accounts based on user interests. At the same time, Twitter...

“Sponsored Results” Officially Launches For Facebook Search
Last month Facebook began testing a “Sponsored Search” ad unit geared towards those searching on Facebook. Today it has been released to...

Page Post Ads Now Being Shown To All (Not Just Fans) In Facebook News Feed
Last December, Facebook began testing page post ads which would display ads directly in users news feeds. The posts look very organic,...

Social Media Metrics: Measuring Business Value When Sales Take Place Offline
Social media marketing can be an effective way to generate exposure among potential new customers. Done right, that exposure can be...

New Facebook Mobile Ads Help Developers Promote App Installs
A new Facebook ad type has been created specifically for those developers who are looking to promote their apps. The new mobile targeting...

Post Targeting For Facebook Pages Gets More Powerful With New Options
The new page targeting options include: Age Gender Interested In Relationship Status Language Education Workplace Location The new...

Twitter Quietly Expands Its Small Business Ad Program Beyond American Express Users
self-serve advertising platform, and has relaxed one of the main requirements to participate: American Express cards are no longer...

Google Nabs Wildfire Social Marketing Platform For Reported $250 Million
Though Google didn’t disclose a purchase price when announcing the acquisition, reports peg the value of the deal at around $250 million....

Firm Claims 80% Of Facebook Ad Clicks Were From Bots
E-co When analyzing the ad clicks Limited Run claimed that a whopping 80% of clicks that they were being charged for came from users who...

Washington Post Triples Engagement Rate With Twitter’s New Targeted Ads
The Washington Post is one of the advertisers that’s been testing Twitter’s new targeting options that were just formally announced last...

Facebook Testing “Sponsored Results” For Facebook Search
There’s no indication that Facebook will stop rolling out more advertising options anytime soon. A TechCrunch article announced that...

TBG Stats: Facebook CPMs And CTRs Grow, While Average US CPCs Reach $1.04
released a report showing that CPMs and clicks have increased on the social network over the past year, though CPCs vary across...

Twitter’s Promoted Tweets Become A Pure Ad Product
announced a pretty substantial change to its Promoted Tweets ad product — it seems subtle, but it fundamentally changes what a Twitter ad...

Designing A Facebook Campaign To Meet Your Marketing Goals
In the last column, we saw that a number of different elements make up an effective Facebook campaign. One of the most important elements...

Survey: Facebook Ads Purchased Mainly For Awareness, Not Leads
A recent AdAge survey posed the question – “What do you use Facebook ads for?” The answer was most certainly not to generate sales...

Google+ Events Lets You Invite All Circles To An Event, Spam Ensues
Yesterday Google announced the promising Google+ Events functionality at Google I/O. However, one feature immediately irked many...

Are We Seeing The Beginning Of Facebook’s Answer To AdSense?
What’s next for the social network that has 900 million users? An ad network like Google’s AdSense, many believe. And today,...