Episode 248

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This week’s headlines: Interstitials Come to Facebook Live, Google AMP Pages Get More Prominence in Search Results, Instagram Launches Stories to Combat Snapchat, Facebook Pages Get New Layout and Capabilities and Facebook Algorithm Cuts Back on Clickbait.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Ads Manger Getting New Features, LinkedIn Launches Videos for Influencers, Snapchat Rolls Out Geostickers, Snapchat and NFL Expand Discover Plans, Twitter Adds Tweet to Unlock to Conversational Ads and Native Video Player Coming to Pinterest.

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Episode 243

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Events are Getting Human Curation, Twitter Launches Stickers, LinkedIn Launches Programmatic Buying, Pinterest Adds New Shopping Bag Feature for Online Transactions and Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Gets Another Update.

The week’s news quick hits: Foursquare Location Data Integrating into Twitter, Facebook Testing New Page Layout, Facebook Launches New Slideshow Feature, Facebook Launches New Share and Save Chrome Buttons, Twitter Launches Dashboard App for Small Businesses, Twitter Hires VR Director, Facebook Audience Network Advertisers Can Now Block Ads from Running on Certain Sites, Facebook Rolls Out Fundraising Button for Users and Facebook Gives More Updates on Chatbots. 

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Episode 219

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Shuts Down Creative Labs, Facebook Updates Customer Communication Tools on Pages, Twitter Testing New Timeline and Twitter Targeting Ads to Users Not Logged In.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Uncropping Images on Web Version Timelines, Pinterest Makes New Acquisitions, Tumblr Allows Users to Send Posts in Messages and Facebook Updates Instant Articles Policies for Publishers. 

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Episode 206

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Launches Event Live Streams, Facebook Giving Page Managers More Options to Message Fans, Video Streaming Comes to Facebook and Instagram Launches Ads API Partner Program.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Testing Buy and Sell Button, Facebook Tweaks News Feed for Serial Hiders, Reddit Makes Updates to Content Policy and Twitter Expanding Launch of Buy Buttons.

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Episode 159

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Developing Snapchat Competitor, Twitter Backs Out of SoundCloud Acquisition, Pinterest Opens Up Business Platform to Developers, Facebook Launches Update to Mobile Apps that Listens to Surroundings and YouTube Working on Deal to Acquire Twitch.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Releases Hangouts Extension for Outlook, Facebook Introduces 'Ask' Button for Relationship Statuses, Facebook Expands Video Ads Outside the United States, LinkedIn Launches "How You Rank" Feature, Facebook Helps Users with Privacy Settings and Restaurants Can Now Add Menus to Facebook Pages.

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This week’s headlines: Tumblr Mobile Ads Go Live, AP Twitter Account Hacked, Tumblr iOS Update Signals Focus on Sharing and Saving, and LinkedIn Launches Address Book and Calendar Management App.

The week’s news quick hits cover: Twitter Finalizes Video Agreement with BBC, Twitter Reaches Major Agreement with Starcom, Facebook Redesigns Mobile Brand Pages, Foursquare Showcases Local Search on Home Page, Twitter Collaborates with Fuse on Conversation-Powered Music Show, Twitter and PeopleBrowsr Reach Settlement and Facebook Acquires Parse.