Preparing for a "Privacy-Focused" Social Network
2019’s been quite a year for Facebook up until this point, and much of that has been driven by Facebook’s plans around messaging.
Read MoreIs Facebook Capable of Being Privacy-Focused?
The world is starting to wake up from a social media daze it’s been in for the last 15 years, and last week we learned even Facebook may be waking up… a bit. Mark Zuckerberg made quite the statement in regards to the future of the social network. “We’re building a foundation for social communication aligned with the direction people increasingly care about: messaging each other privately…. I believe a privacy-focused communications platform will become even more important than today’s open platforms.”
Read MoreBrave Ad World Podcast - Episode 347
Episode 347 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here!
This week’s headlines: Twitter May Look More Like Messaging Service, Twitter Inks Deal with the NBA and IMDB Launches Freedive.
The week’s news quick hits: Hulu Reports 25 Million Subscribers, Instagram Allows for Multiple Account Posting, Amazon Pilots Sample Program, Zuckerberg Shares 2019 Personal Challenge and Google Assistant Coming to Google Maps.
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Read MoreThis Week in Social and Digital (Week of January 7)
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: Twitter May Look More Like Messaging Service, Twitter Inks Deal with the NBA and IMDB Launches Freedive.
The week’s news quick hits: Hulu Reports 25 Million Subscribers, Instagram Allows for Multiple Account Posting, Amazon Pilots Sample Program, Zuckerberg Shares 2019 Personal Challenge and Google Assistant Coming to Google Maps.
Read MorePreparing for a Post-Feed World
Facebook’s earnings call laid out a vision for the platform’s future that’s very different than its present state. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared an update that Facebook plans to start relying less on the News Feed to generate revenue and plans to encourage users to spend less time there as well. The News Feed has been an albatross, albeit a very profitable one, for Facebook throughout 2018 as its been used by foreign agents to spread misinformation, clickbait websites to generate clicks and governments to spread lies and propagate xenophobia.
Read MoreInstagram Eclipses Facebook
At this point it’s common knowledge that Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have decided to leave Instagram and its parent company, Facebook, almost seven years after being acquired by Facebook.
Most of the conversation surrounding their departure has focused on rumors of tension between the co-founders and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg reportedly had become more involved on the Instagram side of the business to the chagrin of the Instagram founders.
Whether or not tensions between Instagram’s co-founders and Zuckerberg were the reason behind the departure, let’s get one thing out of the way. They stayed with Facebook for a very long time after being acquired, and over the course of that time, they built Instagram into a digital powerhouse that, in many respects, rivals its parent company. So it’s not that surprising that with full bank accounts, a clear mission accomplished for Instagram and more than five years under their belts with the parent company that the two would decide to leave.
The question isn’t why did they leave. The question is what’s next for Instagram?
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