
Facebook Video & Snapchat Drive Nearly Half Of BuzzFeed’s Views
360b / Shutterstock.com BuzzFeed is known as a company pushing the envelope on pushing content well beyond its website. A leader in...

Customers Need To Be Part Of The Advertising Conversation
Some say that sales was the first real profession. I don’t think that’s true. I believe that it was advertising. After all, you can’t...

Periscope Adds Profile Pages For The Web
Periscope today launched Web profiles to give its broadcasters a beachhead on the desktop. Born in March as a mobile video live-streaming...

Snickers Rolls Out New “Hunger Bars” Packaging With Hunger Emergency Hotline Video
Snickers has unveiled the latest iteration of its “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry,” campaign, and this time it’s centered around what...

With #ShareaCoke, Twitter Unleashes First Branded Custom Emoji
It was only a matter of time before brands joined the emoji fun on Twitter. Twitter has been creating custom emojis (also called...

Pinterest Says It Has 100 Million Monthly Active Users
For the first time in its five-year history, Pinterest has released its user total, and it’s a big round one: 100 million monthly active...

Creating Synergy Between Social Media And Search
Social media image copyright rvlsoft In my last exploration of leveraging social media for SEO, I discussed how one can utilize social...

Advertisers’ Spend On Facebook Retargeting Up 31 Percent YoY [Study]
Advertisers continue to increase investment in Facebook retargeting, with average spend per advertiser increasing by 31 percent year over...

Digging into Dads on Facebook: Psychographic Targeting Hot House
Men + Demographics > Parent Targeting Naturally, our first step in dad-targeting is to select Men as the target gender. Next, drop down...

Shopify Opens Door For More Shopping On Facebook
Facebook is making it easier for retailers to set up shop on the social network. And Shopify is helping clear the way. This week the...

Sci-Fi Thriller “The Martian” Gets Immersive In 20th Century Fox/Microsoft Marketing Tie
It’s a movie about an astronaut stranded on Mars, so what better way to promote it to sci-fi-loving techies than via online and mobile...

Topshop & Pinterest Unveil Pinterest Palettes For Fashion Week Fans & Shoppers
Earlier this summer, Pinterest opened its platform to give developers the ability to integrate websites and apps with the popular social...

Lawsuit Accuses Twitter Of Spying On Direct Messages
Twitter’s Direct Messages are not as private as they seem, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco. The...

Dislike Button? Facebook’s Not Getting That — But It May Gain Alternative To The Like Button
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long disliked the idea of a dislike button, but he said today that Facebook will soon be testing an...

Stripe Makes Move To Be The Prime Supplier Of Buy Buttons
Stripe is making a play to be the backbone of the buy button industry. The payments processing startup unveiled a new feature Monday to...

Brands Shifting From YouTube To Native Video On Twitter
Facebook’s native video momentum has been documented widely. The social network sees more than 4 billion video views a day — a number...

Report: Google & Twitter Are Working On Accelerated Mobile Pages For Publishers
Looks like Facebook’s “Instant Articles” and Apple’s News app will have some company. According to Recode, Google and Twitter are working...

Periscope Flips, Now Also Offers Landscape Video
Live-streaming app Periscope no longer plays favorites in the landscape-or-portrait video argument. Today the Twitter-owned network...

Facebook Slightly Loosens Grip On Access To Its Live Streaming Video Feature
Facebook has loosened the reins on its live streaming video feature, today giving access to people with verified profiles. Facebook...
























