Episode 247

This week’s headlines: Verizon Acquires Yahoo, Reddit Shares Plans to Go Mass and New Ad Offering, Twitter Disappoints in Q2 Earnings, Tumblr to Run Ads on all Blogs, Video Propels Facebook Into Dominant Q2 and Alphabet Reports Excellent Earnings Despite Facebook.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Testing Quick Updates, Attribution Powered by Foursquare Gets Real-Time Dashboard, Instagram Testing Tools for Celebrities to Combat Trolls, Pinterest Hires New Head of Measurement, LinkedIn Acquires PointDrive, Facebook Updates Custom Audiences for Time Spent on Site, Facebook Testing New Video Features, Facebook Launches Birthday Recap Videos and Twitter Stickers Available to All.

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Episode 227

This week’s headlines: App-Install Ads Coming to Snapchat, Snapchat Lets Users Create Their Own Geofilters, Google Removing Right Rail Ads for Desktop and Facebook Launches Reactions.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Announces VR Team, Facebook Launches Birthday Videos, Foursquare Launches Attribution Powered by Foursquare, Instagram has 200,000 Advertisers, Facebook Canvas Launches and Nielsen to Measure Snapchat Video Ads.

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