This Week in Social and Digital (Week of May 16)

May 22, 2016 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: witter to Stop Counting Links and Photos in Character Limit, Google Launches Spaces App, Snapchat Algorithm May Be Coming Soon and Google Announces New Hardware at I/O.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Testing Dedicated Periscope Button on Android, Google to Include Ads in Image Search Results, Tumblr Integrates More GIF Functionality into iOS App, Twitter Beta Testing Ads in Third-Party Apps, Facebook Opens Audience Network for Video Ads, Facebook Testing News Feed Categories and Reddit Posts Can Now Be Embedded.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 226

February 22, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 226 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is locked and loaded!

This week’s headlines: Facebook Expanding Instant Articles to All Publishers, Even More GIFs are Coming to Twitter and Ads May Be Coming to Messenger.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Adds Two-Factor Authentication, Yahoo Phasing Out Seven Digital Magazines, Facebook Updates Video Metrics and Twitter Adds Customer Service Tools to Direct Messages.

You can get this episode and many others in the podcast section, and be sure to subscribe via iTunes.

This Week in Social (Week of February 15)

February 21, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Facebook Expanding Instant Articles to All Publishers, Even More GIFs are Coming to Twitter and Ads May Be Coming to Messenger.

Brave Ad World - Episode 208

August 31, 2015 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

I hope you're ready because episode 208 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Tests GIFs on Select Brand Pages, Twitter Blocks Services that Save Deleted Political Tweets, Google Launches Twitch Competitor, Facebook’s Digital Assistant Gets Closer to Being Real and Instagram Allows for Portrait and Landscape Images.

The week’s news quick hits: Mashable and Vox to Join Snapchat Discover, Google Displays Tweets in Desktop Search Results, Facebook Adds Donate Now CTA to Non-Profit Pages and Facebook Cracks Down on Pirated Video Content.

Check it out, and let us know what you think! You can get this episode and many others in the podcast section, and be sure to subscribe via iTunes.

This Week in Social (Weeks of August 24)

August 30, 2015 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

Brave Ad World - Episode 199

June 08, 2015 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 199 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here!

This week’s headlines: GIFs Come to Facebook, Pew Research Finds Facebook is Primary Political News Source for Millennials, Instagram Adding CTA Buttons to Ads and Pinterest Launching Buyable Pins.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Sets Up Encryption for Notification Emails, Foursquare Users Soon Able to Order Rides from Uber, Facebook Working on Tool to Help Community Managers Respond, SoundHound Launches Hound Personal Assistant App, Ello Launches ‘Love’ Button, Swarm Allows Users to Message Friends of Friends and Facebook Launches Facebook Lite.

Check it out! And after you listen, let us know what you think! You can get this episode and many others in the podcast section, and be sure to subscribe via iTunes.