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.

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

Read More

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 245

It turned out to be a pretty quiet week. I'm guessing everyone was playing Pokemon Go. But a few things did happen that are definitely worth discussing on the latest episode of the Brave Ad World Podcast.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Testing Ephemeral Messaging for Messenger and Twitter Opens Up Gnip’s Audience API.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Live Streaming National Conventions and Bloomberg Television, Twitter Increases Supported GIF Size, Sponsored Locations Coming to Pokemon Go, Facebook Messenger Gets 3D Touch Support on iOS and Line Has Biggest Tech IPO of the Year. 

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

Read More

This Week in Social (Week of April 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 Looks to Expand Into Mobile Payments, Twitter Acquires Gnip, Twitter Starts Selling Mobile Ads Across Ad Network and Facebook Launches Friends Nearby.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Glass Goes On Sale to Public for One Day, Tumblr Announces Partnership with Curalate and YouTube Promotes Content Creators in Traditional Media.

Read More

Brave Ad World - Episode 154

Episode 154 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is ready for your listening pleasure.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Looks to Expand Into Mobile Payments, Twitter Acquires Gnip, Twitter Starts Selling Mobile Ads Across Ad Network and Facebook Launches Friends Nearby.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Glass Goes On Sale to Public for One Day, Tumblr Announces Partnership with Curalate and YouTube Promotes Content Creators in Traditional Media.

You can get this episode and many others in the podcast section or subscribe via iTunes. However you choose to listen, lease leave a review, contact us on Twitter or send us an email to braveadworld [at] gmail [dot] com.