Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 273

Oh man... There is so much to talk about when it comes to digital and social media marketing. A ton happened over the past couple weeks, and we hit it all on Episode 273 of the Brave Ad World Podcast.

This week’s headlines: YouTube Takes Steps to Protect Advertisers from Offensive Placements, YouTube Simplifies Ad Metrics, Reddit Launches Profiles, Instagram Expands Shopping Tags to More Businesses and Live Streaming Gets More Competitive.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Launches New Troll-Prevention Tools, Google Launches Hangouts Business Products, Facebook Strikes Deal with MLS to Stream Games, Twitter Updates Gnip Firehose to Provide Like Data, Facebook Explicitly Prohibits Use of Data for Surveillance, YouTube Annotations Editor Shutting Down, Instagram Lets Users Save Live Videos, Instagram Reaches 1 Million Advertisers Milestone, Apple Launches Clips, Facebook Audience Network Can Now Be Leveraged with Header Bidding, Google Maps Users Can Share Their Locations with Others, LinkedIn Rolls Out Trending Storylines, Instagram Testing Offline Mode and Foursquare Analytics Opens Up to More Brands.

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Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 272

Here it is! Episode 272 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is ready to go.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Potentially Launching “Spotlight Module,” Facebook Updates How Messenger Bots Work, Facebook Provides Advertisers Cross-Platform Stats in New Dashboard, Twitter Allowing Advertisers to Buy Video Like TV and Facebook Launches Messenger Day.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Rolls Out Fake News Callouts on Posts, Facebook Testing Reactions in Messenger, Twitch Launches Content Feed Called Pulse, Instagram Launches Geostickers, Microsoft Shuts Down Socl, Twitter Adds Analytics to Moments, Pinterest Acquires Jelly and Facebook Launches 360 App.

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This Week in Social and Digital (Week of May 30)

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: Instagram Business Profiles are Official, Periscope Adds Comment Moderation, Instagram’s Algorithm is Here, Pinterest Changes Pin Button to Save and Twitter Brings User Tweets into Ad Carousels.

The week’s news quick hits: MSQRD Launches Filters for Copa America, Instagram Considering Revenue Sharing Deal with Content Creators, Facebook Adds 100 New Emojis to Messenger, Facebook Messenger May Soon Get End-to-End Encryption, Snapchat has 150 Million Daily Users, Facebook Testing New Font, LinkedIn Gives Premium Insights to Users, LinkedIn Launches ProFinder, 72 New Emojis Announced and Facebook Shutting Down Notify. 

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