LinkedIn Usage & Engagement Up, Ads Down With substantial portions of the global white-collar workforce under lockdown, it should hardly come as a surprise that LinkedIn usage has mushroomed. As per Microsoft’s latest quarterly results, LinkedIn is up to 690 million users, up from 675 million at the end of 2019. Although Microsoft does not …
Google Now Expanding Ad Verification Program To All Advertisers Google has announced a dramatic ramp-up in red tape for advertisers as it struggles to get to grips with scams, fraud and bad actors on its platform. As part of its new initiative, advertisers will be required to complete a verification program in order to buy ads …
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Facebook Video Extravaganza: Messenger, Instagarm, Live, Events & More Facebook has released a bumper set of new video features as it orientates its product roadmap around interactive video experiences. The headline-grabbing part of this vast product update is the Zoom and Houseparty cloning video streaming capabilities within Messenger and beyond. See new Messenger Rooms in …
Google Makes Listing Products On Google Shopping Free In a major boost for organisations struggling with COVID-19, Google has announced from next week that it will begin opening its Shopping search results to unpaid, organic listings. The Google Shopping tab results "will consist primarily of free product listings" starting next week, helping merchants better connect …
New Story Stickers Allow Cash-Strapped SMEs To Cash In Small business represents a sizeable part of Google and Facebook's global turnover. Therefore, over the past month, both have rolled out a variety of features to help support businesses impacted by COVID-19 during this time. While both have ad credits and funding on the table, the …
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Create 6- or 15-Second Videos On The Fly Video performance via social channels can be a bit of a mixed bag, with performance varying from channel to channel. YouTube is a rockstar, but few marketers understand how to make it work. Facebook stripped back video in the News Feed in early 2018. LinkedIn’s only really …
[NEW STUDY] Even Performance Media Is Not COVID-19 Proof Long considered to be “recession-proof”, it appears that search marketing may well be just as fallible as every other marketing channel, in the face of COVID-19. Between now and end of June, eMarketer’s latest search ad forecast sees US ad spending to fall between 20.2% and …
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Facebook Streamlines Ad Testing & Campaign Optimisation The ol' business adage goes, "what gets measured gets improved". No one's quite sure who coined it; Peter Drucker, Lord Kelvin, Dumbledore? But the sentiment is especially true within digital marketing, with online testing and optimisation being the lifeblood of effective activity. However, within social channels, testing is …
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Consumers Spent Record $23.4B Via App Stores In Q1 At the best of times, we spend too long on our phones. Usually with our nose in one app or another. In a month, we use around 40 different apps, and typically spend 3 hours and 40 minutes per day in them. We also spend a …