This Week in Social and Digital (Week of February 25)

March 03, 2019 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: TikTok Surpasses One Billion Downloads

The week’s news quick hits: Pinterest and YouTube Go After Anti-Vaccination Propaganda, Instagram May Soon Enable Public Collections, Foursquare Launches New Offline Attribution Offering, Snapchat Android App Coming in 2019, Time Warner Acquisition Gets Closer to Reality, Facebook’s Clear History Feature Confirmed for 2019, LinkedIn Adds Raise Insight to LinkedIn Jobs, Facebook Woos TV Ad Buyers to Watch with Showcase and YouTube Disables Comments on Videos with Minors.

Our Obsession with Location

October 10, 2018 by Taylor Wiegert in Data

The year the theme around digital platforms can almost be summed up in a single word: privacy. Last week a Facebook hack exposed the data of 50 million users. This week we learned that a Google flaw had the potential to expose the personal information of 500,000 users. The year that kicked off with Cambridge Analytica, saw the rollout of GDPR and even had murmurs of regulation for tech platforms in the U.S. is also the same year that the drumbeat of consumer data keeps going strong with one data point in particular getting more attention.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 290

August 14, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 290 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here!

This week’s headlines: Instagram Testing Live Video Collaboration, Pinterest Adds Third Party Verification to Video, Facebook Launches Video Tab and Snapchat’s Quarterly Earnings Not Encouraging.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Aims to Minimize Accidental Clicks, YouTube Introduces Video Sharing, Disney Sets Sights on Live Video Streaming, Google Notifies Publishers that they Need to Remove Certain Ads and Foursquare Emphasizes Personal Logging in Latest Update.

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This Week in Social and Digital (Week of August 7)

August 13, 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: Instagram Testing Live Video Collaboration, Pinterest Adds Third Party Verification to Video and Facebook Launches Video Tab.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 282

June 05, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

After a brief holiday break, Brave Ad World is back with episode 282 of the podcast.

This week’s headlines: Instagram Launches Stories Search and Archive, Twitter Now Has Direct Message Ads, Pinterest Improves Food Search Capabilities, Google Takes Aim at Last-Click Attribution, Instagram Testing Direct Response Ads in Stories, Pinterest Rolls Out Auto-Play Video and Google Chrome Coming with Ad Blocking Technology.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Testing Order Food Button, Facebook Watch and Scroll Videos Rollout on Desktop and Mobile, YouTube Ads Can Now Include Location Info, Facebook Launches Audience Direct for Video Campaigns on Publisher Sites, Snapchat Launches Custom Stories for Collaboration with Friends, Facebook Launches New Live Features, Google Enables AMP for Ads, Facebook Tests Carousel of Stories from Multiple News Outlets, Instagram Allows Link Sharing in Direct Messaging, Foursquare Powers Location Tagging in Reddit Posts, Twitter Tests Reminder Button for Live Video Streams, Vimeo Gets Cards and End Screens and Skype Gets Snapchat-Inspired Update.

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Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 273

March 27, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

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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