
Pinterest opens search ads to self-serve advertisers, adds ‘autotargeting’ option
Pinterest is opening up its search ads to all advertisers and broadening the aim of brands’ keyword-based campaigns to relevant queries...

Facebook acquires teen-centric polling app tbh and all its valuable data
Facebook continues to grapple with its teen problem. Four years ago, Facebook’s then-CFO David Ebersman admitted that the social network...

Why engagement trumps reach when measuring influencer marketing impact
Many are predicting that “the influencer bubble” is primed to burst in 2018, and in my book, it’s about time. Not that I’m opposed to...

Twitter’s new Video Website Card ad format uses video to push link clicks
Twitter’s rolling out a way for advertisers to use video to get people to visit their websites. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the...

Instagram redesigns call-to-action bar to dynamically mirror ads
For the second time in the two years since rolling out clickable ads, Instagram is updating the look of what people are supposed to...

Twitter latest to be slammed for deleting Russian fake account data
Facebook, Google and Twitter have all found themselves unwitting players in Russia’s effort to disrupt and influence the 2016 election....

Where some see data suppression, Facebook says it was only following privacy policy
An article appearing in The Washington Post about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election says Facebook “scrubbed”...

LinkedIn launches autoplay mobile video ads
LinkedIn has announced a closed beta for testing video ad units as Sponsored Content. This comes just two months after enabling native...

Facebook opens up Stories to Pages so that someone will use the feature
Facebook’s Stories feature has been a flop compared to Snapchat’s original and Instagram’s clone. So now the social network is opening up...

Live from Facebook-owned Oculus’s annual VR conference: Day 2
Welcome to the second day of Oculus Connect, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company’s annual developer conference. During yesterday’s...

The latest social media craze for marketers: Going offline
Understandably, brands have gotten skeptical of that model. Short attention spans and the closed ecosystems of social media giants dilute...

How Facebook is connecting its 2D social network with the VR version
Facebook is bridging the traditional and virtual versions of its social network in new ways. On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled forthcoming...

Live from Facebook-owned Oculus’s annual VR conference: Day 1
Virtual reality has largely remained stuck in the future, posing a dilemma for marketers. But Facebook-owned VR company Oculus is...

Twitter announces what’s ‘Happening Now’ for sporting events, and plans for a book
“Happening Now” is launching with sporting events and will make it easier to find tweets about events happening in real time....

Snapchat’s Context Cards turn Snaps into location-based search queries
Snapchat continues to flip location-based search on its head. Earlier this year, Snapchat turned people’s Snaps into a spin on Google...

4 myths about video social media marketing, debunked
Today, we’re watching four times more Facebook Live content and 80 percent more video content on Instagram than we did a year ago....

Apple’s anti-tracking tool restricts Facebook’s ability to follow people around the web
Two years ago, Facebook began using the ubiquitous “like” buttons that publishers put on their sites to track people’s web browsing and...

Are you a marketer? You need to be marketing yourself
It’s becoming a huge problem. Executive leaders are constantly looking for new talent with fresh ideas to innovate. In other words,...

With Snap Accelerate, Snapchat pursues mobile startups that built Facebook’s ad biz
A newly public company with mounting concerns over the viability of its advertising business, Snapchat in 2017 resembles Facebook in...
























