Episode 273

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 245

This week’s headlines: Facebook Testing Ephemeral Messaging for Messenger and Twitter Opens Up Gnip’s Audience API.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Live Streaming National Conventions and Bloomberg Television, Twitter Increases Supported GIF Size, Sponsored Locations Coming to Pokemon Go, Facebook Messenger Gets 3D Touch Support on iOS and Line Has Biggest Tech IPO of the Year. 

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Episode 154

This week’s headlines: Facebook Looks to Expand Into Mobile Payments, Twitter Acquires Gnip, Twitter Starts Selling Mobile Ads Across Ad Network and Facebook Launches Friends Nearby.

The week’s news quick hits: Google Glass Goes On Sale to Public for One Day, Tumblr Announces Partnership with Curalate and YouTube Promotes Content Creators in Traditional Media.

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