
The shifting social landscape of Black Friday & Cyber Monday
holiday season is approaching, and along with it comes the busiest time of the year for retailers around the globe. Black Friday — the...

Facebook shuts down Atlas ad server because it doesn’t serve ad sales
Facebook’s ad-tech strategy grows ever more insular. Facebook has decided to stop operating its Atlas ad server but will continue to run...

What brands should know about shooting with Snap’s Spectacles
Shooting videos with Snap Inc.’s newly released Spectacles seems super-simple. Put the sunglasses/camcorder on your face; tap a button to...

In major measurement update, Facebook overhauls metrics, makes corrections, adds viewability
In a sort of course correction, Facebook made several announcements Wednesday pertaining to audience and ads measurement on the social...

Pinterest queues up autoplay video ads for new Explore tab
A few months after introducing click-to-play video ads, Pinterest is catching up with the times — and competitors like Facebook, Twitter,...

Community Marketing 101
Since the dawn of the internet, people have been drawn to online communities for collaborating and advancing knowledge. Discussions that...

Facebook has created its own analytics tool for Messenger bots
With more than 34,000 Messenger bots on the market since their April 2016 debut, Facebook is rolling out an analytics tool that will...

Facebook puts some limits on controversial, quasi-racial ad targeting option
No, Facebook isn’t getting rid of its pseudo-racial ad targeting option. No, it hasn’t decided to prevent advertisers from using it to...

Instagram Stories get better with new features
Instagram has just released three new features to its Stories that show that the brand is unique enough to stand on its own. The features...

The future of Instagram is spam
When I log onto Twitter or Facebook, it’s like a million voices cry out… and never stop talking. It can get tiresome. I don’t see updates...

Pinterest & Snapchat: 12 tips to dial in your visual ads
If you’re not using all the tools in Facebook’s ROI kit in the next few weeks through the busy holiday shopping season, you don’t have...

Twitter’s top biz exec Adam Bain is leaving
The individual who, for six years, has overseen the growth and recent deceleration of Twitter’s advertising business, Adam Bain, has...

Pinterest adds measurement, data vendors to its Marketing Partners program
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com On Wednesday, Pinterest added marketing measurement and data companies to its Marketing Partners (née...

As Facebook Audience Network broadens, what does it mean for your campaigns?
Early this year, mobile web inventory was added on top of in-app placements, and then more recently, Facebook announced the expansion of...

Snapchat copies two of Instagram’s features, adds World Lenses
It’s Snapchat’s turn to copy Instagram. On Tuesday, Snapchat finally updated its Stories product — the one Instagram copied in August —...

Ads in Facebook Messenger are officially here
Today Facebook officially made it possible for marketers to turn their Messenger bots into ad bots. After testing sponsored messages...

The FTC isn’t going to save influencer marketing from itself, but the industry could
online influencer marketing. Rest assured, the FTC’s initial foray into guidance will not be its last, and it is quite evident that it’s...

Should you be using LinkedIn Ads?
All too often, I hear two complaints about LinkedIn Ads: It’s too expensive. It doesn’t work. Generally, when I hear this feedback, it’s...

Facebook’s Q3 2016 earnings call: Ad load issues, ad-blocker blocking, a video-only feed
A lot of things can be learned from Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. For starters, word choice matters. In July 2016,...
























