Snapchat Ramps Up At 2019 Partner Summit During Snap’s inaugural ‘Partner Summit’ last week in Los Angeles Chief Executive, Evan Spiegel, came out swinging for copycats Instagram and Facebook, alongside announcing a series of innovative new features. Snapchat lacks the comprehensive reach of Facebook or YouTube, which both reach approx. 80% of web users in […]
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[New Study] YouTube Obliterates Facebook, Instagram & Netflix YouTube is leaving Facebook, Instagram and the rest of the web in its wake, single-handily responsible for 37% of all mobile web traffic, according to a recent report. YouTube gobbles the largest chunk of all downstream mobile internet traffic worldwide, as per a report from Sandvine (a
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Grammers Can Now Browse & Buy On Instagram Without Ever Leaving Instagram has taken a leaf out of WeChat’s book and is getting into the commerce game, with the launch of 'Checkout on Instagram'. The new feature means that Grammers can shop till they drop without ever leaving Instagram. No click to website. No app
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Facebook Replacing Ad Relevance Score With Three New Metrics Facebook has announced that from the end of April marketers should expect a metric reshuffle, as it kills off a raft of obsolete reports. The most notable being Ad Relevance Score. Relevance score launched in 2015 and has been an important, if not somewhat annoying, key
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Instagram Fuses Its Two Fave Things: Ads & Influencers Instagram is in the process of launching its first, dedicated, influencer marketing advertising product, ‘Branded Content Ads’. The new feature will offer a new way for brands to sponsor posts created by celebrities and publishers. The solution was announced last week at a breakfast for advertisers
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Google Makes Move On Instagram & Pinterest With Shoppable Images On Tuesday, Google revealed two new shoppable ad formats for Google Images at the Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas. The sponsored images highlight products that, when moused over, reveal brand, price and other details. The new Google Images offering is very similar in nature to
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Influencers On Notice As Facebook Gets Legal With Fakers Wannabe Instagram and Facebook influencers who have scammed their follower counts are now on notice… winter is coming. Facebook has just filed a lawsuit in the US against four companies and three people for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers. The lawsuit specifically
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YouTube Turns Off Comments To Protect Children & Ad Revenue YouTube has announced a major change to how users comment and interact with video content on the platform in the wake of its latest scandal. YouTube has disabled comments on millions of videos due to allegations they were being used by paedophiles to communicate with
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Instagram's New IGTV Redesign & ‘Pinteresty’ Features Social media super-sleuths have recently uncovered some interesting new Instagram features being tested, seemingly ‘borrowing’ from Snapchat (again) for IGTV and Pinterest. Instagram is in the process of redesigning its user interface (UI) and business profile UI. Within the new interface, Instagrammers can expect not only more prominence
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Facebook Ads Default To Campaign Budget Optimization From September An important change is rolling out in September related to the way Facebook and Instagram advertisers set campaign budgets. Starting in September, new and **existing** campaigns will be migrated to Facebook’s automated campaign budget allocation system, which optimises campaign budgets across an advertiser’s ad sets. Facebook says
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