This Week in Social and Digital (Week of March 18)

March 24, 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: Facebook’s Journalism Project Shares Research to Tackle News Deserts, Google Announces Chrome-Powered Gaming Platform Stadia and Instagram Testing In-App Shopping and Buying.

The week’s news quick hits: Snapchat Announcing New Gaming Platform, Advertisers Seek Refunds Following Facebook Outage, Facebook Works to Limit Discrimination in Ad Targeting, LinkedIn Updates Targeting Tools, Snapchat Pays Some Creators, Some Facebook Passwords Stored in Readable Format and Comcast Launching Streaming Service for Internet Subscribers.

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

March 03, 2019 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

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.

This Week in Social and Digital (Week of January 14)

January 27, 2019 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: NBC Announces New Streaming Service, Facebook Working on Meme App for Teens, Facebook Launches Community Actions and Facebook Launching Cross-Messaging Across Platforms.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Tests Feature to Share Events as Stories, Snap CFO Departing Company, Alex Jones Gets a Roku Channel That Gets Taken Away, Facebook Users Unaware their Interests are Collected, YouTube Limits Challenge Videos, FTC May Levy Record Fine on Facebook, Google Receives GDPR Fine, Netflix Lets Users Share to Instagram Stories, WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding, Twitter Updates Website, Viacom Acquires Pluto TV, YouTube TV Goes National, Twitter Tests “Original Tweeter” Tag, Amazon Launches Autonomous Delivery Bot and Facebook Shutting Down Moments.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 300

November 06, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Wow! We did it. 300 episodes of the Brave Ad World Podcast! Just like we do every week, we're hitting the top stories in digital and social media marketing.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Dark Posts Viewable by Anyone, Facebook Launches New Optimization Tools and Snapchat Enables Pixels in Advertising.

The week’s news quick hits: YouTube TV Gets App, LinkedIn Premium Users Get More Company Insights and Facebook Reports Q3 Earnings Under Scrutiny.

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

November 05, 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: Facebook Dark Posts Viewable by Anyone, Facebook Launches New Optimization Tools and Snapchat Enables Pixels in Advertising.

The week’s news quick hits: YouTube TV Gets App, LinkedIn Premium Users Get More Company Insights and Facebook Reports Q3 Earnings Under Scrutiny.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 299

October 30, 2017 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Just in time for Halloween, Episode 299 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here!

This week’s headlines: Facebook Testing Separate Tab for Publisher Content, Twitter Moves Toward MRC Accreditation, Snapchat Allows for Link Sharing from iOS Share Sheet and Instagram Lets Two People Go Live at Once.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Testing Pinterest-Like Sharing Option Called Sets, Twitter Releases Calendar of Safety Policy Changes, Messenger Gets PayPal Payments, Amazon Accepting Takeout Orders, LinkedIn Launches Smart Replies to Help Users Clear Their Inboxes, Gmail Adds New Productivity Tools, Twitter Misreports User Numbers and Amazon Key Launches.

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