
Facebook turns sound on by default in videos, debuts TV apps
Facebook videos are getting bigger and louder. In the biggest change since December 2013, when Facebook began playing videos...

2017 Hashtag Bowl winners: Congrats To Twitter, Anheuser-Busch & Eggo
An exciting football game. Several very topical and relevant commercials. Some clever tie-ins connecting those ads to digital marketing....

Brands’ Snapchat viewerships have increased despite Instagram’s rise, per Snaplytics
Instagram’s Stories may be stealing attention away from Snapchat’s original version for some users, but not for brands. At the same time...

Report: Facebook activity dwindles in 2016, influencer marketing is up
Influencer marketing platform Mavrck has published a many informative statistics for marketers who are using Facebook to speak to their...

Beyond the Like: Measuring Facebook Reactions
Don’t get me wrong — I love Likes. They continue to serve as a simple way for people to show support for a thought, product offering or...

Hootsuite buys AdEspresso, adds onboard Facebook/Instagram ad management
From the AdEspresso website Hootsuite stepped up its ad game this week, announcing the acquisition of online ad tool AdEspresso — and the...

Facebook opens itself to measurement audit, gives brands more control over video ad buys
In an effort to rebuild advertisers’ trust following a series of measurement errors last year, Facebook has moved to make its ad...

What businesses need to know about the Yelp Elite program
For the past three years, I’ve been a member of one of the most exclusive, most important, most powerful groups on the internet: The Yelp...

Using influencer campaigns for real-time amplification
influencer marketing will continue to be a hot topic in 2017. One of the most common ways to approach influencer marketing is as a...

What marketers should know about Twitter’s Q4 2016 earnings
Twitter’s fourth-quarter earning report wasn’t all bad. It was just a lot of bad, with some good and a bit of ugly. The Good The product...

Twitter’s ad revenue declined in Q4 2016
Twitter released its fourth-quarter earnings results on Thursday morning. Here’s a quick rundown of how the social network’s business is...

Instagram’s web footprint surpassed Twitter’s in 2016
Instagram has become more prevalent on the web than Twitter, according to an analysis by website tool provider SimilarTech of the top 1...

Super Bowl-related social activity was up Sunday on both Facebook & Twitter
Both Facebook and Twitter are reporting increased social activity during Sunday’s Super Bowl after a big drop last year. As you likely...

Top 10 Most Shared Super Bowl LI Ads: Budweiser’s immigration story shared more than any other
This is the fourth time in five years Budweiser has ranked No. 1 on Unruly’s list of the top ten most shared Super Bowl ads. The last...

Super Bowl’s politically charged ads, like 84 Lumber’s, spark social buzz
During this year’s Super Bowl, some advertisers had something more substantive to say than “Buy this product.” Instead of shying away...

Snap IPO: With 158M daily users, Snapchat’s parent company made $404.5M in 2016
Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., formally filed to go public on Thursday, offering the first official look at how the mobile app’s...

2017: The age of social satellites
By 2012, quality content was what got results. At an email marketing company, my team built a robust content program with the blog as the...

A bot for Kia Motors is the first to debut a new Super Bowl ad
Bots are growing up. This week, one of their kind becomes the first to premiere a Super Bowl ad. The 60 second ad — a whirlwind comic...

Three paid social features you need to try in 2017
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Hopefully, your social advertising program has been able to hit the ground running in 2017. Now that you’ve...
























