
Autoplay Is Now The Default For YouTube Videos
Add another platform to the autoplay bandwagon. YouTube, which had been testing the feature since late last year, has now enabled...

“Layout” App From Instagram Makes It Easier For Brands To Build Photo Collages
Chukcha / Shutterstock.com Instagram released a new app today, Layout, that should prove to be a powerful creative tool for brands....

New: Twitter Tests Suggestion Feature “You May Also Like”
Twitter has long struggled with how to make its site more sticky. One of the major criticisms over the years is that new users aren’t...

Twitter Sets Autoplay Video Test In Motion
Twitter is dipping a toe into the autoplay wave. The company today started a limited test of autoplay video for some U.S. users of its...

Pet Food Brand Turns To Social Media To Crowdsource Pet Adoption Advocacy Film
Working with Strawberry Frog to bring attention to the plight of rescue pets, Nature’s Variety Instinct has launched Long Live Pets, an...

Twitter Is Partnering With Foursquare On Location Tagging
Twitter said today that it will partner with Foursquare to pinpoint location tagging in tweets. Twitter announced the news via a tweet...

Why Facebook Buying TheFind Could Be Huge For Retailers, And Facebook
Facebook has long struggled to get an e-commerce hook to work on the platform. Users spend hours a day on Facebook, but the contention...

Fashion Brand Buys 100 Domain Extensions, Creates Customized Site For Each
The .com extension is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. Remember when there was only .com, .edu, .net, .org and a handful of...

Pinterest Explains How “Pinnability” Drives Its Non-Chronological Home Feed
Pinterest isn’t just chronological anymore. Taking a page from Facebook and its News Feed algorithm, Pinterest has started reordering...

Twitter Brings Quick Promote To Android App
Twitter’s ad buying shortcut — Quick Promote — has gone mobile. The feature, which enables advertisers to bypass the ad dashboard to...

Even Brief Video Views Drive Brand Lift, Facebook-Nielsen Study Finds
One of the knocks against Facebook video as a marketing tool is that because of autoplay it’s difficult to measure how your message is...

Facebook To SMB Advertisers: Evolve With Us
Facebook’s relationship with small businesses is … complicated. Enticed since 2007 by the free marketing opportunity of Facebook Pages,...

Viral Content Site Playbuzz Announces $16 Million In New Funding
Playbuzz, the viral content site riding a wave of Facebook fueled success, announced today that it has raised $16 million in venture...

Report: Sprout Social, HootSuite, TweetDeck Are Top-Ranked Social Management Tools
What’s the best social media management platform? That depends on who you ask. So it’s wise to ask a lot of people, which is essentially...

Up Close With Twitter’s New Home Page & Topic Area
Twitter’s efforts to improve its welcome mat for people who aren’t signed into Twitter continue, but they continue to be mostly under...

Marketers Can Now Target Facebook’s 92 Million Expats
Facebook today announced a new advertising targeting feature that gives marketers the ability to reach the 92 million expats on Facebook....

Why Social Media Advertising Is Set To Explode In The Next 3 Years
Social media advertising has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. When Facebook launched its first advertising option in...

A Meaningful Framework For Content Measurement
Content has become pervasive. It fills websites, social media, advertising and collateral. It comprises words, images, audio-visual...

Bitly Gives Brands A Way To Deep Link To Mobile Apps
Bitly is going deeper into mobile. The Internet’s leading link shortener announced today that it’s offering brand marketers a way to...
























