Microsoft tempts Pinterest with $51bn buyout Last week, The Financial Times reported that in recent months Microsoft had approached Pinterest about a potential deal to acquire the hugely popular app for $51bn. Since the start of the global health pandemic, soaring consumer usage and advertiser demand has seen Pinterest's market value increase more than 600%. …
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Facebook Trials Topic Exclusions As Advertiser Worries Mount Marketers have had a problem with Facebook Ads for some time, and the tech giant has finally instigated the baby-steps required to fix it. When someone as powerful and influential as Proctor & Gamble chief brand officer Marc Pritchard calls social media ‘5% of P&G’s marketing spending, …
TikTok Monthly Usage Doubled In 2020 One of the most high profile social media product releases of 2020 was Instagram Reels, launched in an attempt from Instagram to sustain market share given the rise of TikTok. However, according to recent reports, it doesn't appear to have done much good, as TikTok usage eclipses Instagram by …
Marketers Bemoan Rising Costs & Glitches Galore Sadly, the Great Facebook ad boycott of 2020, achieved little. Both, in terms of driving meaningful changes from Facebook related to hate speech and secondly scaring advertisers off platform, beyond the original July window. However, according to reports from Digiday, growing frustration from marketers related to buggy interfaces, …
New Tools To Curate, Feature & Measure eCommerce Offering Pinterest has announced five new updates aimed at helping businesses create a storefront, sell their products and better understand results. And, it’s not just Woolies and Countdown, getting the reindeers out early this year. Pinterest reports that users are searching for Christmas ideas earlier than ever …
TikTok Channel Launch On Shopify Opens Door To Easy Ads & Sales TikTok has expanded its social commerce offering through a new partnership with Shopify, now making it easier for Shopify’s massive base of merchants to reach a younger, more engaged audience. Merchants will now be able to use the Shopify dashboard to create, run …
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New Pinterest Consumer Trends & Creative Covid Ideas Coming up with fresh content marketing ideas and campaigns is difficult at the best of times. Week after week, post after post, things can get a bit samey. Throw in the ol’ COVID curveball, and it gets harder still. To help inject some much-needed freshness into idea …
TikTok Is Now Third Biggest Western Social Platform With its U.S. operations up in the air and predatory glances from Microsoft and Oracle, TikTok has recently come out swinging as it sues the U.S. government over its impending ban. In its lawsuit challenging the U.S. government over an effective ban that is set to take …
LinkedIn Adds Engagement Targeting For Video & Lead Ads Recently during Microsoft's quarterly results, CEO, Satya Nadella, spelt out a grim picture of LinkedIn's fortunes. While platform usage surged, marketing investment took a major hit. Satya Nadella, Microsoft Chief Executive, April 2020 "We saw increased demand from work, play and learn-from-home scenarios, benefiting Windows OEM, …
Facebook Launches Shops, Insta Shopping Tab, Shoppable Live Streams, & More “Liking” things on social media is alright. Buying tho? That’s hot. If Mark Zuckerberg has his way, that is exactly what Facebook’s 2.6 billion users will begin the new post-lockdown era doing. When they’re not butchering Dalgonas. Facebook’s new e-commerce suite, Facebook Shops, announced recently …