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

October 07, 2018 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: 50 Million Facebook User Accounts Compromised, Netflix Plans Choose-Your-Own Adventure and Facebook Launches New Brand Safe Video Environment for Brands.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Maps Lets Users Control Music During Navigation, Pinterest Announces New Measurement Partners, YouTube to Encourage Lower Funnel Actions in New TrueView Ad Extensions, Mosseri Announced as New Head of Instagram, Messenger’s New Persona API Goes Into Open Beta, Reddit Sees One Billion Video Views Per Month, All Pages Get Access to Premiere Feature on Facebook Live, Foursquare Secures Additional Funding, More Emoji Coming to iOS, Facebook Marketplace Gets New AI Features and Instagram Launches Nametags.

This Week in Social (Week of September 21)

September 27, 2015 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Facebook Expands Instant Articles, Facebook Launches 360-Degree Videos and Pinterest Gives API Access to Developers.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Hits 400 Million User Mark, Facebook Starts Rolling Out Page Updates and Twitter Experimenting with Polls.

This Week in Social (Weeks of May 18 and May 25)

May 31, 2015 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

This week’s headlines: Google Now Displaying Tweets in Search Results, Pinterest Updates Advertising Products, Twitter Launches Objective-Based Campaigns for All, YouTube Adds Buy Button to Videos and Instagram Looks to Engage Users with Highlight Emails.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Wants Games on Messenger, Reddit Unveils Harassment Policy, YouTube Kids App Serving Questionable Content, LinkedIn Provides Deeper Content Analytics, Spotify Launches New Multimedia Features, Facebook Acquires Tugboat Yards, Facebook Messenger Reminds You Who Senders Are, Periscope Comes to Android, Twitter Makes Amplify Easier for Advertisers and Google Holds Developer Conference.