
Twitter takes aggressive steps to curb spam & bot activity by blocking identical actions across
Twitter made substantial changes today that will greatly impact social media managers who oversee multiple accounts and use automation...

Measuring real-world foot traffic results from 3 quick-service restaurant campaigns
To get a sense of how events like this drive store visits, we set out to evaluate if these campaigns resulted in winning traffic from...

Why hacking social media algorithms is a losing strategy
Thousands of years of evolution have not dulled this impulse, and much good has come of it. The huge leaps in technology, as well as the...

Belgian court to fine Facebook up to $125 million if it doesn’t comply with latest privacy rul
ordered Facebook to stop tracking people without their consent and to delete all the data on non-Facebook users that it said was...

Facebook to use US mail to try and prevent future election meddling
Last week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed the first indictments against Russian nationals and organizations for interference in the...

Snapchat rolls out analytics tool to win back the influencers it has lost to Instagram
Snapchat is finally giving influencers the analytics tool that they have been clamoring for, and that may bring them back to using its...

Facebook’s fight against spam and clickbait and what it means for advertisers
It is no secret Facebook has made many changes over the past few months to eliminate low-quality content from its News Feed. At first,...

Snapchat opens its advertising API to everyone
Snapchat is going all in on automation. More than a year after Snapchat’s parent company Snap officially launched its advertising API for...

Facebook will create a section for ‘hard news video’ within Watch
Since joining Facebook as its head of news partnerships early last year, former CNN anchor Campbell Brown’s two priorities are: (1) to...

Snap sales boss Jeff Lucas steps down as its programmatic sales ramp up
Snap is losing its global sales boss with the big-time traditional media pedigree at a time when Snapchat’s parent company doesn’t...

Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, els
In Snap’s latest earnings report released earlier this week, Snapchat’s parent company showed signs that it’s been able to withstand the...

Twitter’s business is finally growing again, but its audience isn’t. Maybe that’s OK.
Twitter’s business is like a seesaw. One side goes up and, as if by design, the other side goes down. In the fourth quarter of 2017,...

Facebook’s ad placement reports were supposed to roll out to all advertisers last year but have not
Last year, Facebook said it would provide all advertisers with reports listing the publishers on whose sites, apps, Instant Articles and...

Facebook to begin counting viewable-only impressions for Pages’ organic reach next week
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com Brands and publishers have another reason to expect to see their Page posts’ organic reach decline, beyond...

How to respond when customers get sour on social media
For example, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in the giving spirit this holiday season, sending out a Christmastime tweet that thanked...

Going beyond Super Bowl engagement metrics to find what consumers really think
And besides their armchair quarterback comments and their cheers and jeers during fumbles, stumbles and interceptions, Super Bowl fans...

Facebook tests downvoting as it learns how to gauge meaningful engagement on Page posts
Facebook is testing a Reddit-style downvoting option on comments on public Page posts, seemingly as a way to learn what qualifies as...

Pinterest will let people use its image-recognizing Lens feature to augment text searches
A year after its debut, Pinterest’s Lens feature has become so capable of parsing what an image contains and what a person is searching...

Snap back: How Snapchat’s ad automation boosted its business in Q4 2017
The equation is almost too simple: If Snapchat can make it easier for people to use its app, more people will use it. And if more people...
























