Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 272

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Here it is! Episode 272 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is ready to go.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Potentially Launching “Spotlight Module,” Facebook Updates How Messenger Bots Work, Facebook Provides Advertisers Cross-Platform Stats in New Dashboard, Twitter Allowing Advertisers to Buy Video Like TV and Facebook Launches Messenger Day.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Rolls Out Fake News Callouts on Posts, Facebook Testing Reactions in Messenger, Twitch Launches Content Feed Called Pulse, Instagram Launches Geostickers, Microsoft Shuts Down Socl, Twitter Adds Analytics to Moments, Pinterest Acquires Jelly and Facebook Launches 360 App.

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Brave Ad World - Episode 174

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Episode 174 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is out and ready for download.

This week’s headlines: Attention Focuses on Ello, Facebook Introduces Atlas at Advertising Week, Twitter Working on New Platform for Developers and Facebook Introduces New Research Guidelines.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Introduces New Mobile Ad Units, Hong Kong Protesters Turn to FireChat, Reddit Gets New Round of Funding and Plans to Give Back to Community, LinkedIn Updates Pulse, Facebook Making Changes to Real-Name Policy Following Controversy and LinkedIn Launches Slideshare App.

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A Contracting Social Ecosystem

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The social media acqui-hiring trend is heating up. Last week, Facebook acquired the social conversations start-up Branch, which comes with the social bookmarking service Potluck, to build out what Facebook calls its Conversations Group. The team at Branch was invited by Facebook to do what its always done but with Facebook support and capital behind it to "build Branch at Facebook scale." That kind of invitation would be nearly impossible for any entrepreneur to turn down, and it signals a growing trend.

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Brave Ad World - Episode 139

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The latest episode of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here.

This week’s headlines: YouTube’s Google+ Comments Ignite Controversy, Twitter Launches Custom Timelines, Snapchat Turns Down Facebook Acquisition and Pinterest Launches Its First API. 

The week’s news quick hits: Quora Adds Analytics for Contributors, MySpace Announces Layoffs, Vine Comes to Windows Phone, LinkedIn Fully Integrates Pulse, Amazon Adds Facebook Integration, Spotify Makes Social TV Play with Bravo, Twitter Expands Self-Serve Advertising and Facebook Updates Scheduling Posts.

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.