Episode 273

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This week’s headlines: YouTube Takes Steps to Protect Advertisers from Offensive Placements, YouTube Simplifies Ad Metrics, Reddit Launches Profiles, Instagram Expands Shopping Tags to More Businesses and Live Streaming Gets More Competitive.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Launches New Troll-Prevention Tools, Google Launches Hangouts Business Products, Facebook Strikes Deal with MLS to Stream Games, Twitter Updates Gnip Firehose to Provide Like Data, Facebook Explicitly Prohibits Use of Data for Surveillance, YouTube Annotations Editor Shutting Down, Instagram Lets Users Save Live Videos, Instagram Reaches 1 Million Advertisers Milestone, Apple Launches Clips, Facebook Audience Network Can Now Be Leveraged with Header Bidding, Google Maps Users Can Share Their Locations with Others, LinkedIn Rolls Out Trending Storylines, Instagram Testing Offline Mode and Foursquare Analytics Opens Up to More Brands.

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Episode 272

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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.

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Episode 182

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Removes Bing Search Results, Facebook’s Redesigned Right-Hand Ads Show Potential, Instagram Adds New Filters and Facebook Auto-Enhances Images, Leaked Emails Reveal Snapchat Plans, Vessel Launches to Compete with YouTube and Pinterest Launches Full Rollout of Ads.

The week’s news quick hits: Foursquare Launches iPad App, Twitter Introduces New Mobile Targeting Options, Pinterest Allows Users to Edit Multiple Pins, Twitter Updates Digits API, Facebook’s Rooms App Gets Explore Button, Facebook Testing “Sell Something” Button for Groups, Reddit Announces Reddit Notes, Facebook Releases Stickered, Twitter Analytics Come to iOS, Facebook Testing Featured Videos on Pages and Twitter Launches While You Were Away Recap.

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Episode 170

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This week’s headlines: Twitter Buy Button Coming This Year, Amazon Acquires Twitch, Facebook Cracks Down on Clickbait Content with Algorithm Update, Pinterest Rolls Out Deeper Analytics for Brands and Faceboook Brings Post Search to Mobile.

The week’s news quick hits: Yahoo Rolls Out Content Recommendation Box, Secret Works to Improve User Behavior, Snapchat Reaches $10 Billion Valuation, Facebook Ads Can Now Be Targeted Based on Cell PHone Signal, Twitter Opens Access to Analytics Dashboard to All Users, Google Removes Authorship from Search Results, Quora Launches Its First iPad App and Facebook Updates Event Ads and Pages.

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Hosts: Taylor Wiegert (www.twitter.com/twiegert) and Kevin Dugan (www.twitter.com/prblog)

This week’s headlines: Facebook Ups Ad Frequency Caps, Snapchat Launching Content Service, Vine Allows Users to Upload from Camera Roll, Uber Opens Up Software Platform and Instagram Launches Analytics Tools.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Tests Displaying Tweets Favorited by Others in Timelines, Facebook Testing Stickers in Comments, Twitter Says It Will Remove Images of Deceased, Slideshare Makes Premium Features Free and SoundCloud Launches Advertising.

Download or subscribe to this podcast at www.braveadworld.com/podcast.

Find more social media marketing insights on the Brave Ad World blog at www.braveadworld.com.

You can contact Brave Ad World at BraveAdWorld [at] gmail.com, or connect with Taylor on Twitter @twiegert and Kevin at @prblog. 

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This week’s headlines: Twitter Upgrades Analytics Dashboard, LinkedIn Acquires Newsle, Google+ Removes Real Name Requirement, Snapchat Introduces Geofilters, Facebook Tests Buy Button and Twitter Acquires Payments Platform.

The week’s news quick hits: Secret Launches Collections and Facebook Friend Integration, Line Files for IPO, Facebook Launches Out-App Purchase Ads, Facebook Ads Manager Goes Mobile and Pinterest Allows Users to Follow their Interests.

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Hosts: Taylor Wiegert (www.twitter.com/twiegert) and Kevin Dugan (www.twitter.com/prblog)

This week’s headlines: Facebook Addresses Lingering Facebook Page Redesign Questions, Facebook Acquires Oculus Rift, LinkedIn Continues Content Push with New Tools for Marketers, Facebook Updates Lookalike Audiences, Twitter Adds Photo Tagging and Foursquare's New Ad Feature Integrates Twitter.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Investigates Disappearing Tweets, DIsney Acquires Maker Studios, Twitter #Music Shutting Down, Lithium Moves Forward with Klout Acquisition, Instagram Reaches 200 Million Users and Twitter Launching App-Install Ads.

Download or subscribe to this podcast at www.braveadworld.com/podcast.

Find more social media marketing insights on the Brave Ad World blog at www.braveadworld.com.

You can contact Brave Ad World at BraveAdWorld [at] gmail.com, or connect with Taylor on Twitter @twiegert and Kevin at @prblog.