Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 294

Episode 294 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here!

This week’s headlines: Instagram Revisits Approach to Auto-Play Videos with Sound, Pandora Rewards Users for Viewing Ads, Facebook Gives Ad Targeting More Human Oversight and Facebook Allows Targeting for Store Visits.

The week’s news quick hits: Airbnb Lets Users Book Tables, Pinterest Makes Pin Collective Self Serve, Spotify Launches Ad Studio, Twitter Launches Popular Articles and Instagram Adds Stickers to Live Broadcasts.

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Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 258

Episode 258 of the Brave Ad Podcast is here!

This week’s headlines: Facebook Acquires CrowdTangle, Snapchat and Foursquare Ink Deal, Pinterest Launches Autoplay Video and Explore Hub, Twitter Implements Moderation Controls and Facebook Updating Measurement.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook and Google Restrict Fake News Sites, Facebook Launches Unified Messages App, Facebook Testing Objective-Based Status Update Feature,  WhatsApp Launches Video Calling, Twitter Monetizes NBA Live Shows, Snap Secretly Files for IPO, Twitter Launches QR Codes for Accounts, Facebook Adds New Custom Audience Targeting Parameters, Atlas Discontinues Serving Ads, Facebook Rolls Out Bot Analytics and Airbnb Launches More Robust Travel Services. 

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This Week in Social and Digital (Week of November 14)

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: Facebook Acquires CrowdTangle, Snapchat and Foursquare Ink Deal, Pinterest Launches Autoplay Video and Explore Hub, Twitter Implements Moderation Controls andFacebook Updating Measurement.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook and Google Restrict Fake News Sites, Facebook Launches Unified Messages App, Facebook Testing Objective-Based Status Update Feature,  WhatsApp Launches Video Calling, Twitter Monetizes NBA Live Shows, Snap Secretly Files for IPO, Twitter Launches QR Codes for Accounts, Facebook Adds New Custom Audience Targeting Parameters, Atlas Discontinues Serving Ads, Facebook Rolls Out Bot Analytics and Airbnb Launches More Robust Travel Services. 

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What Facebook Can Teach Brands About Disruption

The Internet has brought about an age of disruption. That’s no secret. From Tesla to Uber to Airbnb to one start-up after another, disruption is all around us, but there is perhaps no greater disruptor that is also a target from fellow disruptors than Facebook. It’s upended the Internet as we know it (with fellow co-conspirators like, most notably, Google), while at the same time being threatened on all sides by the competition (like… Google).

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