
Which Super Bowl advertisers won the digital game? Verizon, Bud Light, Pepsi
The Patriots may have walked away with another Super Bowl win, but the for marketers, the real competition was focused on Super Bowl...

Why clients in-house and what agencies can (and can’t) do about it
Client in-housing has always been a factor for agencies, but the availability of ad tech and martech, the rise of automation and data...

Facebook ad revenue tops $16.6 billion, driven by Instagram, Stories
After more than a year of criticism over its mismanagement of user data and privacy concerns, Facebook’s 2018 fourth-quarter earnings...

NYTimes Report: Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making it a priority this year to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, according to a...

Facebook launches rebranded ‘auto inventory ads,’ expands retargeting
Facebook announced on Friday the next iteration of its dynamic ads for auto. The ads have been rebranded as “auto inventory ads” and will...

Salesforce Marketing Cloud launches new analytics tools powered by Datorama
Salesforce’s new Datorama Marketing Cloud Social Studio connector. Salesforce announced on Wednesday three new tools for marketers, all...

Facebook launches brand safety certification program with DoubleVerify, OpenSlate as launch recipien
Facebook announced Thursday it is launching a brand safety certification program for Facebook Marketing Partners. The first companies to...

Gillette sparks emotions, controversy, possibly gold with ‘We Believe: The Best A Man Can Be&#
Gillette has accomplished what many advertisers strive to achieve, sparking emotions with its now viral “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be”...

Instagram lets marketers share posts across multiple accounts
Screenshot of Instagram’s new feature shared by Matt McGee. Instagram rolled out a new feature that gives iOS users managing multiple...

Reddit hires former Twitter ad team director as VP of ad products, engineering
Reddit announced on Wednesday it has named Shariq Rizvi as its vice president of ad products and engineering. Rizvi will lead Reddit’s...

Quora advertisers can now retarget users who looked at specific questions
Quora advertisers can now retarget users that have visited specific question pages, the question-and-answer platform announced Tuesday....

Social media 2018 put the spotlight on data, video, Stories
After suspending Cambridge Analytica from its platform in March, Facebook’s data management issues remained the lead social media news...

Facebook’s year of apologies (to marketers)
To say Facebook has had a tumultuous 2018 would be the understatement of the year. The company has faced a barrage of criticism for its...

Initiative CEO calls out Facebook, says he’s advising clients to pull ads
Mat Baxter, CEO of the ad agency Initiative, used his LinkedIn profile on Wednesday to criticize Facebook over its latest user data...

Why every multi-store brand needs a ‘localized social marketing’ strategy
Most commerce happens offline. Beyond the roughly 90 percent of retail spending that occurs in stores, offline commerce includes...

Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ feature delayed until spring 2019
During Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference in May, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was working on a Clear History feature that...

NYT report on Facebook’s data deals won’t sway advertisers, say media buyers
Late Tuesday, the New York Times reported more details on the varying data access deals Facebook had struck with dozens of other large...

Twitter recognizes Heinz Ketchup, Budweiser, NBA and more in its ‘Best of 2018’ list
According to Twitter, KFC was the best brand voice on its platform this year. As a year-end wrap up, Twitter’s brand strategy team...

Agencies looking to win over new CMOs should connect within 3 to 12 mos. of their start dates
The average tenure for a CMO is just over three and a half years, according to new research from Winmo, a sales intelligence platform....
























