
What should you do with all those ‘Likes’? How to spin social followers into gold
Although they might not want to admit it, many marketers find themselves flat-out stuck when it comes to their social followings. We’re...

Facebook will rank links to slow-loading pages lower in people’s news feeds
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook’s latest tweak to its news feed algorithm will penalize links to slow-loading web pages and could...

Video: Amazon Spark is already overrun with #sponsored posts
Amazon Spark, the e-commerce giant’s Instagram/Pinterest mashup, is only a couple of weeks old, but it’s already overrun with ads. During...

Snapchat will let brands measure its ads’ impact on sales, results against rivals
One of the main reasons Snapchat isn’t yet a must-buy for advertisers is ad buyers’ inability to see how their Snapchat campaigns impact...

Facebook will let brands target ads to people who RSVPed to their Pages’ events
Facebook plans to let brands target ads to people who RSVPed to events posted by a brand’s Page. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the...

How to use the power of social media to better market your online store
When you own, run, or look after the marketing for an online store, there are plenty of strategies you can implement to generate...

Report: Customer satisfaction with search drops, in social Google+ beats Facebook
Earlier this week the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released its “e-business” report. The category includes search, social...

Protecting your brand’s ads on Facebook — because there IS such a thing as bad publicity
Caring about how you’re perceived by others is not a new concept. Even cavemen probably had moments of insecurity, pondering whether...

The best ways to use social media for marketing your medical practice
With nearly 2 billion active monthly users, it’s safe to say that Facebook should be a part of your business and marketing strategy. If...

Twitter is testing a subscription-style ad program that costs $99 a month
With its ad revenue in decline, Twitter needs to explore ways to boost its business. And it really is. Twitter is testing a...

Snapchat’s ad biz has matured but is still a shiny new object for advertisers
Like many of its users, Snapchat’s advertising business has grown into its awkward teenage years. Fortunately for Snapchat, it’s still...

European regulators turning up the heat on Facebook, other social sites to modify terms
Google’s recent $2.7 billion antitrust fine in Europe had a material impact on its quarterly earnings. The possibility of additional...

Here’s what performance advertisers are saying about Quora’s new ad platform
When question-and-answer network Quora announced earlier this year that its ad platform was coming out of beta, some 300 advertisers were...

25 promotion tactics to ensure people actually see your content
Now, the team is cutting their content budget by 10 percent. What happened? What went wrong? UBS overlooked the engines of content...

It’s time to embrace new strategies for apparel: Broadening tactics through user intent
With more data on purchase intent, consumers, advertising methods and the shift from big-box retailers to online stores, the apparel...

Video: How Snapchat’s Snap Publisher ad creation tool works
Snapchat has rolled out a tool called Snap Publisher that the company claims brands can use to create vertical video Snap Ads in under...

How to use SEO data in your social media strategy
I’ll start by stating that social media and SEO are heavily tied to each other. SEO data can help improve your social efforts, and social...

Snapchat releases Snap Publisher: self-serve ad creation tool converts horizontal videos, websites i
One of the knocks against advertising on Snapchat is that it’s hard to make ads for Snapchat. The mobile app’s insistence on vertical...

Facebook tests ads in Marketplace, its Craigslist-like shopping section
Newspapers reaped a lot of revenue from their classified sections. Then Craigslist killed that business. Then Facebook cloned Craigslist....
























