
Twitter fights abuse by making it easier to hide abuse
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Twitter is tackling its harassment concerns by making changes to the user experience. Today, the company...

4 ways for Twitter to stay relevant
Facebook dominates in terms of ad dollars and performance and has the user base and engagement to back up growth that doesn’t seem to be...

A look at Facebook’s carousel ad and the latest pricing trends on the network
Facebook dropped its hard and fast 20 percent text limit for ad images. During that now-lapsed policy, ads with more than 20 percent text...

Pinterest debuts click-to-play, mobile-only video ads
After rolling out a diet version of video ads last year, Pinterest is ready with the real thing, or at least something closer to it. On...

Top tips to consider when it’s time to rebrand on social media
social media, SEO and PPC, content marketing and local and email marketing. However, one area that’s incredibly vital and should never be...

Facebook restricts Messenger bots to 24-hour window, adds subscriptions
Facebook is trying to make Messenger bots more active, but in a reactive way. On Monday, Facebook announced that it’s restricting how...

Twitter turns stickers into ads for brands but won’t say how it’s charging for them
Social advertising used to be about brands inserting themselves in people’s content feeds. It still is. But it’s also become about brands...

How Snapchat is building the future of social media
Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn still have a stranglehold on the social media world in terms of sheer numbers of users, but a handful of...

Pinterest adds impression-based buys to its ad auction
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com If Pinterest wants more brand advertisers to buy its ads — and it appears that it does — then it needs to make...

Instagram’s direct-response ads haven’t totally clicked with advertisers
Instagram’s direct-response advertising business was born a year ago with a silver spoon in its mouth. Its parent company, Facebook, had...

Twitter will open its storytelling product, Moments, to everyone
Twitter wants people stitching together stories on its platform, too. A week after Instagram introduced its almost-identical version of...

Snapchat will air first NBCUniversal show on Discover on August 22
“The Voice on Snapchat” will be the first NBCUniversal program to air on Snapchat as part of the two companies’ deal. The semblance...

A studded sheath dress or a crystal ball? How a tweet from Ivanka Trump illustrates affiliate market
Ivanka Trump is an Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, founder of her self-titled fashion line, a media mogul with her...

Instagram is using an algorithm and Facebook data to sort its new Stories feed
Instagram has brought a ringer to its recently escalated rivalry with Snapchat. To give its new Stories product more than a fighting...

Twitter’s newly incentivized conversational ads could help its pricing problem
If Twitter can get more people tweeting about brands’ ads, then maybe brands will count those free tweets’ audiences as extra impressions...

Official: Facebook launches new layout for Pages
It’s not a test. These new ad-free pages on Facebook are official. In fact, if you’ve navigated to a brand page on Facebook, you may have...

LinkedIn cautiously brings video to its feed
Twin Design / Shutterstock.com LinkedIn is dipping its toes into a content type that’s already been proven wildly popular on Facebook,...

Instagram Stories is latest example of Facebook Inc. copying Snapchat
Instagram Stories are 24-hour collections of photos and videos, just like Snapchat Stories. They didn’t even give it a different name. On...

Twitter will hand out awards to spark advertiser interest, investment
There are two ways to get someone to do something: Encourage them with some kind of carrot or command them with some sort of stick. With...
























