
Optimizing your blog for the social and mobile reader
These people aren’t making phone calls. They’re consuming content and interacting with the digital universe from just about anywhere. And...

Facebook Messenger adds buy button, native payments and links bots to Facebook ads
Facebook Messenger bots can now serve as standalone storefronts. On Monday, Facebook Messenger made it easier for companies to sell...

Facebook makes it easier for brands to cross-post videos produced by publishers
Facebook made clear earlier this year that it’s cool with marketers paying publishers to produce branded videos and distribute them for...

Email marketing in the age of social media
highest return on investment of any channel. Both email marketing and social media have their strengths and benefits, and marketers need...

LinkedIn conversion tracking is here! 4 things you need to know
Today, LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions team announced the official release of its native conversion tracking for Sponsored Content and...

LinkedIn’s new conversion tracking will break down purchases, sign-ups by audience segment
scyther5 / Shutterstock.com This could be a really short article. LinkedIn is rolling out a way for advertisers to track when their ads...

eMarketer: Snapchat on track for nearly $1 billion in ad revenues next year
In 2013, Facebook unsuccessfully tried to buy Snapchat for roughly $3 billion in cash. At the time Snapchat’s rejection of Facebook’s...

Influencer marketing: You’re doing it all wrong
At its core, it’s a great idea! Get leaders, celebrities or someone with an audience you want to reach to talk about your brand and...

How social is revealing a new world for the travel industry
But the season passing doesn’t mean the learning stops with the first fall leaves: Social media teams have spent the past few months...

Facebook pressures advertisers to cut mobile page load speeds or it’ll cut their reach
Fotos593 / Shutterstock.com Facebook has sent out a warning to advertisers: Cut down the time it takes to load your webpages, or we’ll...

With pinch-to-zoom, Instagram takes a step towards fixing its photo, video size problem
Instagram is a place to see great photos and videos. It is not a great place to see photos and videos. But it’s becoming a better one....

Pinterest will target ads to people who click on, save brand-related pins
Pinterest wants brands to feel like they already have an attentive audience to advertise to on its platform. So after adding the ability...

Facebook is trying to make its coupon product, Offers, a bigger deal
Facebook will now show offer codes while on a brand’s site and save them to a new Offers tab. When Facebook introduced Offers in February...

3 ways social intelligence shapes hospitality marketing
Social media plays a role in each phase of the travel experience; consumers use social channels to seek advice on locations for a...

Facebook now officially showcases vertical videos in mobile news feeds
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com A little over a year since announcing Facebook would support vertical videos, the social network is making...

Facebook paid $22 billion for WhatsApp’s user data, and now it’s getting it
Facebook didn’t pony up $22 billion for WhatsApp just for its messaging app. Facebook was exchanging one type of currency for another...

Snapchat is pushing for shorter ads between Stories, within Live Stories
Long story short: After pushing for shorter video ads around the time it began to intersperse ads between people’s Stories in June and...

Twitter adds a button for people to direct-message businesses from their sites
Copyright Aaron Durand (@everydaydude) for Twitter, Inc. For years, Twitter and Facebook have been trying to one-up each other as the...

Coca-Cola, Nike top lists of Olympics advertisers earning social buzz
lazyllama / Shutterstock.com When it comes to Olympics advertisers earning social and digital buzz, Coca-Cola and Nike took top honors at...
























