This Week in Social and Digital (Week of April 10)

April 16, 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 Steps Up Push Against Fake News by Paying Fact Checkers, YouTube Restricts Paid Creators to Those with 10,000 or More Views, Instagram Direct Gets Snapchat-Inspired Upgrade and Snapchat Launches Snap to Store.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Tests Groups Feature on Pages, Google Displays Fact-Checking Tags on Search Results, Facebook Puts CTA Units on Instant Articles, Periscope Lets Brands Create Custom Hearts, Messenger Hits Another User Milestone and Instagram Stories Hits 200 Million Users.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 252

October 10, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Episode 152 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here! Check it out.

This week’s headlines: Facebook Testing Messenger Day to Compete with Snapchat Stories, Facebook Launches Marketplace, Search Ads Start in Apple’s App Store, Twitch Added to Amazon Prime and Snapchat Unrolls Ads API.

The week’s news quick hits: Messenger Lite Launches for Areas with Poor Internet Connections, Twitter Adds Periscope Links to Profiles, YouTube Allows Creators to Add Disclosure Callouts, WhatsApp Gets New Camera Features, Facebook Introduces VR Web Browser and Google Makes Big Push into Hardware.

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Thanks for Copying Snapchat, Instagram

August 16, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Instagram, Snapchat

Instagram Stories are here, and you may not be that excited for them because they kind of already existed on Snapchat as Snapchat Stories. Just like Snapchat Stories, Instagram Stories allow users to create video and photo slideshows that disappear after 24 hours. And again much like Snapchat, users can add emojis, text and even drawings to the images in their stories. It’s a blatant copy and paste from Snapchat to Instagram, which Instagram’s Kevin Systrom freely admits. That doesn’t really matter though, especially when you consider the implications for marketers.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 248

August 08, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

As I mentioned on the last podcast, episodes are going to be intermittent over the next few weeks, but this week was just too good to pass up. Episode 248 of the Brave Ad World Podcast is here, and it's full of things to talk about.

This week’s headlines: Interstitials Come to Facebook Live, Google AMP Pages Get More Prominence in Search Results, Instagram Launches Stories to Combat Snapchat, Facebook Pages Get New Layout and Capabilities and Facebook Algorithm Cuts Back on Clickbait.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Ads Manger Getting New Features, LinkedIn Launches Videos for Influencers, Snapchat Rolls Out Geostickers, Snapchat and NFL Expand Discover Plans, Twitter Adds Tweet to Unlock to Conversational Ads and Native Video Player Coming to Pinterest.

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This Week in Social and Digital (Week of August 1)

August 07, 2016 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.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 247

August 01, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

This week we had big acquisitions, quarterly earnings and more to discuss on Episode 247 of the Brave Ad World Podcast.

This week’s headlines: Verizon Acquires Yahoo, Reddit Shares Plans to Go Mass and New Ad Offering, Twitter Disappoints in Q2 Earnings, Tumblr to Run Ads on all Blogs, Video Propels Facebook Into Dominant Q2 and Alphabet Reports Excellent Earnings Despite Facebook.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Testing Quick Updates, Attribution Powered by Foursquare Gets Real-Time Dashboard, Instagram Testing Tools for Celebrities to Combat Trolls, Pinterest Hires New Head of Measurement, LinkedIn Acquires PointDrive, Facebook Updates Custom Audiences for Time Spent on Site, Facebook Testing New Video Features, Facebook Launches Birthday Recap Videos and Twitter Stickers Available to All.

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