
Facebook Reportedly Nearing Deal With Publishers On “Instant Articles”
Facebook is apparently willing to give up advertising revenue to bring news to readers faster. According to a report in the Wall Street...

Report: YouTube Still Trumps Facebook Video For Brands Over The Long Haul
YouTube or Facebook? Judging from recent headlines, marketers could be excused for thinking that they need to make that call when...

Signs Of Social Life At Google+? Network Sends Out Its First Tweet
In all the chatter and headlines about the fate of Google+ — dead, not dead yet, feeling much better after pivoting — we haven’t heard...

LinkedIn Reports $638 Million In Revenue For Q1 2015, Up 35% YoY
LinkedIn released its Q1 2015 earnings yesterday, reporting a 35 percent year-over-year increase in overall revenue at $638 million. The...

Report: Facebook Pulls In 84% Of Social Shares For Publishers
Bloomua / Shutterstock.com There’s no shortage of measures that show Facebook’s dominance of the social media landscape, but here’s...

Earth Day Efforts Encouraged Californians To Share “Acts of Green” On Social Media
For Earth Day, several ad agencies, including Lowe Campbell Ewald, Lowe Profero, Ogilvy and Momentum, created a campaign for a California...

How Twitter’s Changing Promoted Tweets To Look More Like Regular Ones
Promoted Tweets are getting more subtle. Twitter has quietly removed the yellow badge from its main ad unit, hoping to to make its native...

Storage Company’s Parenting Advice Video Goes Viral
The jaded, overly critical side of me wants to scream, “Really? Really? Another brand leveraging babies and overwrought emotion to sell...

Facebook Now Has 40M Active Small Business Pages
Facebook continues to roll out the red carpet for small businesses. And they continue to create Facebook Pages. Today, the social network...

5 Things Marketers Need To Know From Twitter’s Earnings Call
Twitter had a tough day on the earnings beat Tuesday. Not only were the company’s first quarter financial results disappointing, they...

Twitter Partners With DoubleClick, Acquires Martech Firm TellApart
Twitter tucked some advertising news into its lackluster earnings report today, announcing a partnership and acquisition both aimed at...

Minute Maid Celebrates Parents With #DoinGood Video, Blogger Partnership & Contest
It’s always interesting when a brand attempts to both pull at the heartstrings and insert itself into a current topic of conversation in...

Facebook Adding Video Option For Desktop App Install Ads
Facebook announced today that it’s giving advertisers the option to include video in desktop app install ads. Previously, video was only...

How To Convert Subscribers Into Salespeople
Social media spending is at an all-time high. But most marketers still struggle to nail down the quantitative impact of their brand’s...

Durex Teams Up With Popular Vlogger Hannah Witton To Give Sex Advice In #DurexHannah Campaign
Increasingly, brands are teaming with popular social media figures and, for the most part, those hook ups have been quite successful. The...

Google Plus Is Small, But Still Not Dead Yet
This is the column I never wanted to have to write again. Almost a year ago I published here “Why Google Plus Will Not Die (But May...

Pinterest Launches “Marketing Developer Partners” Program
Pinterest today announced a partnership with marketing technology companies to give businesses more tools and services for marketing on...

Plum Organics’ #ParentingUnfiltered Campaign Eschews Unrealistic Portrayal Of Parenthood For B
Like a feminine hygiene brand shying away from women in white flowing dresses frolicking through a field of tall grass, organic baby food...

Polyvore Adds Promoted Trends To Ad Suite
Social commerce site, Polyvore, is expanding its native ad product offerings to include Promoted Trends. Promoted Trends give brands and...
























