This Week in Social and Digital (Week of January 14)

January 27, 2019 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: NBC Announces New Streaming Service, Facebook Working on Meme App for Teens, Facebook Launches Community Actions and Facebook Launching Cross-Messaging Across Platforms.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Tests Feature to Share Events as Stories, Snap CFO Departing Company, Alex Jones Gets a Roku Channel That Gets Taken Away, Facebook Users Unaware their Interests are Collected, YouTube Limits Challenge Videos, FTC May Levy Record Fine on Facebook, Google Receives GDPR Fine, Netflix Lets Users Share to Instagram Stories, WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding, Twitter Updates Website, Viacom Acquires Pluto TV, YouTube TV Goes National, Twitter Tests “Original Tweeter” Tag, Amazon Launches Autonomous Delivery Bot and Facebook Shutting Down Moments.

Brave Ad World Podcast - Episode 225

February 15, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Love is in the air on Valentine's Day, and what could be more romantic than some digital and social media marketing news? Episode 225 of the podcast is here.

This week’s headlines: Users Protest for Algorithmic Feed on Twitter, Twitter Launches First View Ads, Twitter Reports Disappointing Earnings, Facebook to Start Automatically Captioning Videos and Instagram to Start Reporting Video View Counts.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Suspends Suspected Extremist Accounts, Instagram Account Switching Rolls Out, Google Launches AMP, Viacom Makes Deal to Sell Snapchat Advertising, Vine Lets Users Edit Posts, Twitter Starts Trust & Safety Council and Facebook Messenger SMS and Multi-Account Support Comes to Android.

You can get this episode and many others in the podcast section, and be sure to subscribe via iTunes.

This Week in Social (Week of February 8)

February 14, 2016 by Taylor Wiegert in This Week in Social

Brave Ad World - Episode 59

February 13, 2012 by Taylor Wiegert in Podcast

Privacy, disclosure, Pinterest, Path and more... Episode 59 of the Brave Ad World podcast is posted for you to catch up on the biggest social media marketing stories of the week.

This week’s headlines: The Incompatibility of Privacy and Social Networks, Mobile Ads Officially Coming to Facebook and Pinterest Makes Money Through Affiliate Links without Disclosing.

The week’s news quick hits cover: The Super Bowl Makes Social Television History, Facebook’s Active User Claims Come Into Question, Amazon and Viacom Make Video Streaming Deal, Facebook Reveals Its Plans for App Development and LinkedIn Reaches 150 Million Users.

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Have a great week.