This Week in Social and Digital (Week of March 6)

March 12, 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 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.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 221

January 11, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

2016 is in full swing, and so is the Brave Ad World Podcast.

This week’s headlines: Snapchat Building Ads API, Twitter Launches Conversational Ads, Twitter Laying Groundwork for Longer Tweets and Instagram Expanding Spotlight.

The week’s news quick hits: Yahoo Shuts Down Yahoo Screen, Snapchat Closing Lens Store, Facebook Shutting Down LiveRail, Jelly is Coming Back, Facebook Messenger Hits 800 Million Users and Yahoo Planning Layoffs.

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This Week in Social (Week of January 4)

January 10, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Snapchat Building Ads API, Twitter Launches Conversational Ads, Twitter Laying Groundwork for Longer Tweets and Instagram Expanding Spotlight.