This Week in Social (Weeks of February 9 and February 16)

February 22, 2015 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 Offers Tools for Group Selling, Twitter Acquires Influencer Network, Facebook Adding Relevance Scores to Ads, Pinterest Removes Affiliate Links and Facebook Launches Product Ads.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Acquires Odysee, Yelp Acquires Eat24, Facebook Launches Legacy Contact Feature, Pinterest May Be Launching ‘Buy’ Button this Year, Pinterest Introduces App Pins, Facebook Relaunches Preferred Marketing Developer Program with New Name, Reddit Lets Community Choose Charity to Receive more than $800,000 and Facebook Lets Users Add Stickers to Photos.

This Week in Social (Week of December 9)

December 14, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Facebook Updates Graph Search and Brings It to Mobile, Twitter Allows Ad Targeting for App Installs, Facebook Rolls Out New Tools for Brands and Publishers and Instagram Reaches 300 Million Users.

The week’s news quick hits: YouTube Warns Users of Copywritten Material, Tumblr Launches Discovery Dashboard, Google Updates Hangouts App, YouTube Offers Contracts for Content, LinkedIn Updates Its Homepage and Vine Adds Double-Tap to Like.

Brave Ad World - Episode 180

December 08, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Well, it's been awhile since the last episode of the Brave Ad World Podcast, and that means there's a lot to cover on this week's episode!

This week’s headlines: Facebook Planning Enterprise Platform, Snapchat Launches Snapcash, Facebook Launches Groups App, Twitter Launches Offers, Twitter Adds Photo Editing Features and Facebook Relaunches Slingshot.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Makes Every Tweet Searchable, Twitter Allows Users to Privately Share Tweets, Snapchat Rolls Out Sponsored “Our Story” Feeds, Tumblr Rolls Out App Install Ads, Google+ Introduces Pinned Posts Feature and Facebook Launches Mobile Autoplay Video Ads to Promote Apps.

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This Week in Social (Week of November 10)

November 16, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Twitter and WAM! Partner to Combat Online Harassment, Facebook Gives Users More Control Over the News Feed, Facebook Messenger Garners 500 Million Users and Twitter Hosts Analysts Day.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Lets Users Edit Captions, YouTube Strikes Deal to Pave Way for Music Service, Facebook Creates Tool to Create Video Thank You Cards, Facebook Clears Up Data Policy Language and Facebook Deemphasizes Promotional Posts in News Feeds.

Brave Ad World - Episode 178

November 10, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

It was a quiet week in the world of digital and social media marketing, but Snapchat was busy. We discussed it on Episode 178 of the Brave Ad World podcast.

This week’s headlines: Snapchat Goes After Social TV and Live Events and Snapchat Works to Establish Content Partnerships.

The week’s news quick hits: Evernote Adds Work Chat and Facebook Allows Access Using Tor Network.

This Week in Social (Week of November 3)

November 09, 2014 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Snapchat Goes After Social TV and Live Events and Snapchat Works to Establish Content Partnerships.

The week’s news quick hits: Evernote Adds Work Chat and Facebook Allows Access Using Tor Network.