
Facebook’s “Find-a-Friend” Contacts-Invitation Tool Ruled Illegal In Germany
Facebook’s “friend finder” bulk contacts-invitation function has been found to violate Germany’s data protection rules. The country’s...

Which Publishers Are Winning On Facebook? HuffPo & BuzzFeed Take The Lead
A Newswhip report analyzed the top English-speaking Facebook publishers in December, finding a notable change in results from our last...

Trump, Women And ISIS: What Marketers Can Learn From The Social Language Of The 2016 Election
Unless you’ve been living under a social media rock, it’s clear that the presidential election season is fully upon us. Between issues,...

Think Social’s NSFW? Not Any More: How Employee Engagement Really Works
Still think social media isn’t suitable for the workplace? In an increasingly social world, I am so surprised at the number of brand...

Allstate’s Newest @Mayhem Effort Depicts The Dark Side Of DIY, With Stories Unearthed Online
The company’s apparently decided that the imaginary scenarios it’s been depicting thus far aren’t realistic enough, so, in its latest...

Now That Twitter Has Killed Counts, Other Ways To Find Your Shares
tanuha2001 / Shutterstock.com Publishers were in for a disappointment in late 2015 when Twitter announced that it was no longer...

2016: The Year Social Intelligence Makes Its Way To The Boardroom
Now that we’re a couple of weeks into 2016, we can easily draft post after post about what went right or wrong in 2015. Alternatively, we...

Facebook Ad Budgets Rose 11 Percent In Q4 On Higher ROAS [Study]
Retailers continued to increase their ad budgets on Facebook in Q4. Campaign management platform Nanigans released Q4 2015 performance...

Socialbakers Adds Facebook Listening To Its Repertoire
Socialbakers, which prides itself on deep-dive social analytics, has announced it is now offering Facebook Page listening. Last year, it...

The Whole Nine Yards: What The NFL Can Teach Marketers About Brand Engagement
dean bertoncelj / Shutterstock.com The pure unbridled energy that comes from watching your team score the winning touchdown now extends...

Twitter Co-Founder Refocuses Efforts On Q&A Network “Jelly,” Allows For Reservation
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has a new focus… on an old project. In 2013, Stone announced Jelly with little information. Last year, the...

Instagram Ups Its Curation Game, Makes Spotlight Videos Permanent
Evan Lorne / Shutterstock.com Following in the footsteps of Twitter’s Moments and Snapchat’s Live Stories, Instagram is making content...

Instagram Advertising: What’s Working?
Chukcha / Shutterstock.com My work involves looking into larger trends we (at Nanigans) observe across our base of hundreds of large...

Miss Piggy Leads The Way To A New Kind Of Marketing Channel
Earlier this month, a fan of The Muppets’ Miss Piggy chatted with her via Facebook: “Can you get me a job at the network?” She...

Twitter Launches Conversational Ads To Get People Tweeting About Brands
Twitter’s new Conversational Ads mix polls with custom hashtags and rich media with the aim of getting users to share their responses...

Facebook’s Human News Feed Raters Are Now Working Worldwide
Facebook is now using human raters around the world, not just in the US, to help its algorithms decide what should appear in the News...

Twitter (Finally) Updates Its Mac Desktop Client
Call it a late holiday present if you’d like: Twitter has finally released an updated version of its desktop client for Mac users....

Engagement Galore: Marketing Land’s Most Social Stories Of 2015
Welcome back to our annual year-in-review coverage! Over the past few weeks, we have been revisiting popular stories from 2015 as we...

From Likes To Tweets: Our Top Social Media Marketing Columns Of 2015
Social media marketing is a fussy and ever-evolving beast. New platforms are continually arising, while others lose their luster and fade...
























