This Week in Social (Week of September 1)

September 07, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This Week in Social is a weekly digest of some of the biggest stories in social media marketing news. These stories are the show notes for the Brave Ad World Podcast. Each story is discussed at a deeper level on the podcast.

This week’s headlines: Netflix Gives Users Greater Control for Facebook Sharing and Hootsuite Acquires Brightkit.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Updates Sign-up Process, Digg Deeper Integrated with Digg Reader App, Twitpic Shutting Down, Facebook Rolling Out Privacy Checkup and Twitter Rolls Out Minor Updates.

Brave Ad World - Episode 159

May 26, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 159 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here, and it's full of the biggest stories digital and social media marketing stories of the week.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Developing Snapchat Competitor, Twitter Backs Out of SoundCloud Acquisition, Pinterest Opens Up Business Platform to Developers, Facebook Launches Update to Mobile Apps that Listens to Surroundings and YouTube Working on Deal to Acquire Twitch.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Releases Hangouts Extension for Outlook, Facebook Introduces 'Ask' Button for Relationship Statuses, Facebook Expands Video Ads Outside the United States, LinkedIn Launches "How You Rank" Feature, Facebook Helps Users with Privacy Settings and Restaurants Can Now Add Menus to Facebook Pages.

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This Week in Social (Week of May 19)

May 25, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

A Contracting Social Ecosystem

January 21, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in Trends

The social media acqui-hiring trend is heating up. Last week, Facebook acquired the social conversations start-up Branch, which comes with the social bookmarking service Potluck, to build out what Facebook calls its Conversations Group. The team at Branch was invited by Facebook to do what its always done but with Facebook support and capital behind it to "build Branch at Facebook scale." That kind of invitation would be nearly impossible for any entrepreneur to turn down, and it signals a growing trend.

Brave Ad World - Episode 139

November 18, 2013 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

The latest episode of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here.

This week’s headlines: YouTube’s Google+ Comments Ignite Controversy, Twitter Launches Custom Timelines, Snapchat Turns Down Facebook Acquisition and Pinterest Launches Its First API.

The week’s news quick hits: Quora Adds Analytics for Contributors, MySpace Announces Layoffs, Vine Comes to Windows Phone, LinkedIn Fully Integrates Pulse, Amazon Adds Facebook Integration, Spotify Makes Social TV Play with Bravo, Twitter Expands Self-Serve Advertising and Facebook Updates Scheduling Posts.

Get this episode and many others in the podcast section or subscribe via iTunes. However you choose to listen, lease leave a review, contact us on Twitter or send us an email to braveadworld [at] gmail [dot] com.

This Week in Social (Week of November 11)

November 17, 2013 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: YouTube’s Google+ Comments Ignite Controversy, Twitter Launches Custom Timelines, Snapchat Turns Down Facebook Acquisition and Pinterest Launches Its First API.