This Week in Social and Digital (Week of April 24)

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: Google Gets Into Programmatic TV, Snapchat Continues to Make Ad Buying Easier with Geofilters, Facebook and Google Continue Push Against Fake News and Twitter Shows It Can Grow Its Users.

The week’s news quick hits: Pinterest Like Button Being Phased Out, LinkedIn Launches Matched Audiences Ad Retargeting Capabilities, LinkedIn Hits Half a Billion Users, Twitch Gives Creators More Ways to Monetize Content, Twitter Planning to Go Live 24/7 in the Future, Facebook Improves Pixel Tracking and Alphabet Reports Strong Earnings.

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Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 243

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day (in the U.S.A.), but we also get the latest in digital and social media marketing news with Episode 243 of the Brave Ad World Podcast. There's so much to discuss!

This week’s headlines: Facebook Events are Getting Human Curation, Twitter Launches Stickers, LinkedIn Launches Programmatic Buying, Pinterest Adds New Shopping Bag Feature for Online Transactions and Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Gets Another Update.

The week’s news quick hits: Foursquare Location Data Integrating into Twitter, Facebook Testing New Page Layout, Facebook Launches New Slideshow Feature, Facebook Launches New Share and Save Chrome Buttons, Twitter Launches Dashboard App for Small Businesses, Twitter Hires VR Director, Facebook Audience Network Advertisers Can Now Block Ads from Running on Certain Sites, Facebook Rolls Out Fundraising Button for Users and Facebook Gives More Updates on Chatbots. 

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