This Week in Social and Digital (Week of April 3)

April 09, 2017 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: Snapchat Launches Search for Stories, Amazon Inks Deal to Stream Thursday Night NFL Games While Twitter Focuses on Its TV Future, Facebook Rolls out More Features for Digital Assistant M, Facebook Updated Delivery Insights Dashboard and Snapchat Makes Moves to Court Advertisers.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Removes Default Egg Profile Pic, Google Partners with Ad Verification Companies to Protect Brands, YouTube Updates “Sensitive Subject Exclusions” List, Amazon Launches Amazon Cash, Twitch Selling Games in Streams, Twitter Allows Customer Service Teams to Get Customer Locations, Reddit Updates Self-Serve Ad Platform, Facebook Works to Curb Revenge Porn, YouTube TV Goes Live, Twitter Launches Twitter Lite, Facebook Launches Freemium Version of Workplace and Pinterest Hits Another User Milestone.

This Week in Social and Digital (Week of March 6)

March 12, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

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.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 264

January 16, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

What a week! Episode 264 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here

This week’s headlines: Facebook Rolling Out Mid-Roll Video Ads, Instagram Testing Ads Within Stories, Snapchat Introduces New Ad Products, Facebook Extends Dynamic Ads to User Web Activity and Facebook Launches Journalism Project.

The week’s news quick hits: Atlassian Acquires Trello, Twitter Shutting Down Dashboard, Facebook Adds New Live Features, Facebook Audience Network Delivers Ads to 1 Billion People Per Month, Pinterest Applying Deep Learning to Related Pins, YouTube Launches Super Chat to Pay Creators and Snapchat Launches Major Redesign.

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This Week in Social and Digital (Week of January 9)

January 15, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

Brave Ad World - Episode 166

July 21, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

What a week! A lot happened in the world of digital and social media marketing. Catch up with Episode 166 of the Brave Ad World Podcast.

This week’s headlines: Twitter Upgrades Analytics Dashboard, LinkedIn Acquires Newsle, Google+ Removes Real Name Requirement, Snapchat Introduces Geofilters, Facebook Tests Buy Button and Twitter Acquires Payments Platform.

The week’s news quick hits: Secret Launches Collections and Facebook Friend Integration, Line Files for IPO, Facebook Launches Out-App Purchase Ads, Facebook Ads Manager Goes Mobile and Pinterest Allows Users to Follow their Interests.

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This Week in Social (Weeks of July14)

July 20, 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.