
Facebook to use crowdsourcing, fact-checkers and labels to combat fake news
It’s been roughly five weeks since the US presidential election and the corresponding fake news scandal. After some initial denial of the...

[Podcast] Marketing Land Live #38: Facebook’s measurement mistakes with Jeanne Bright of Digit
Facebook has suffered a significant black eye after three revelations in recent months that the company has been misreporting some of the...

Why influencers are not programmatic
addressed before. Long before influencer marketing became an industry buzzword, consumers were reacting positively to branded messages...

Twitter Live raises questions about Twitter’s other live-streaming product, Periscope
For the second time this week, a company that owns one live-streaming video product has released a second. Twitter, which owns...

IAB begins to address messaging segment with report, standards development
Messaging and messaging apps are now bigger than social networks — and may have more longevity. Messaging has been around for years, and...

Twitter is eliminating its ads that requested people’s personal information
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format that brands could use to request people’s names,...

Facebook Live will spin up 360-degree streaming to match YouTube
National Geographic will air the first 360-degree live stream on Facebook. YouTube added 360-degree live streaming back in April, and...

Reviews: The most ignored, most important part of your social media strategy
It’s fair to say that we live in a review-based economy. To drive that point home, Congress recently passed a bill, the Consumer Review...

NASA has created official accounts on Pinterest and Giphy, and they’re pretty great
NASA’s space channels on Pinterest and Giphy are out of this world. The government agency just announced that it has joined the...

Facebook discloses new measurement errors, continues to hone its math
Math is hard, even for Facebook. And it’s getting harder to trust Facebook’s math, even as the social network fine-tunes its...

Instagram Story links get 15–25% swipe-through rates for brands, publishers
Instagram may have arrived late as a traffic source for brands and publishers, but it’s already showing early signs of success, driving...

4 things that can go wrong in an influencer campaign (and how to fix them)
influencer marketing.” Working with content creators who have large social media followings to promote your brand is enticing and can be...

How Facebook’s measurement errors have eroded marketers’ trust
Facebook’s string of measurement errors disclosed since September has some marketers shook up, even if those marketers weren’t directly...

8 companies doing social media right and what marketers can learn from them
Here are eight companies that are doing social media right, examples of their campaigns along with some takeaways that you can apply to...

User intent: Why organic content trumps social media
Despite the differences, both organizations: wanted to drive more conversations with prospects. were struggling to gain traction through...

Top 10 most shared global ads of 2016: UK’s John Lewis holiday ad ranks #1 with nearly 2M shar
According to the London-based video analytics firm Unruly, the most shared video ad of 2016 is a spot from the UK retailer John Lewis....

Ranked conversations have arrived to the Twitter mobile experience
Does your Twitter timeline look different to you on your mobile device? Don’t be shocked; this is Twitter’s new conversation ranking...

The limitations of Facebook’s anti-discrimination policy and others like it
Under pressure from activists and lawmakers, Facebook moved recently to prohibit using its “Ethnic Affinities” targeting in conjunction...

Facebook removes 4 agencies from Marketing Partners program with media-buying badge elimination
Facebook is returning its Marketing Partners (née Preferred Marketing Developers) program to its roots as a roster of advertising and...
























