Facebook is shutting down its podcast service next month, barely a year after its launch. After entering the market like a bat out of hell, the Meta bigwigs at the top of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire have decided to pull out of podding and focus on other areas. According to Bloomberg, Facebook will scrap its podcasts […]
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How many hashtags should you add to your Instagram posts to make engagement pop? Four? Fourteen? None? According to Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, hashtags don’t really help with post distribution, so it’s probably not worth losing too much sleep over, either way… Mosseri stated that hashtags are designed to help categorise posts better and
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Meta’s (i.e.Facebook) ad targeting is famously accurate, right? Remember the whole Cambridge Analytica thing? It’s been known to be a powerful election-winning tool, and brands have used it to attract new customers. But hold the phone… New research by North Carolina State University has found that the real accuracy rate of Meta’s targeted ads leaves
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YouTube is not a platform that fails to sniff which way the wind is blowing, and although it’s taken some time, the giant now looks ready to move into the world of podcasts. A presentation leaked to PodNews indicates that YouTube plans to bring podcasts directly to the platform and will monetise them via audio
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Fraud is endemic within social media marketing and perhaps digital marketing more widely. Whether it be influencers buying fake followers, agencies running bots to overinflate engagement rates or unscrupulous adtech vendors gouging advertisers and publishers alike with online ad budgets. Fake reviews are a particular favourite online. However, Meta’s latest lawsuit should make some think
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An industry insider has discovered a huge new update to TikTok ads that could result in better control over campaigns for marketers, more bottom of the funnel options and better ways to identify user interest and intent. David Herrmann spotted that Search ads are being rolled out in the search section of TikTok. These ads
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Facebook is taking a tough stance on something it calls “watchbait”, and listen up, because it’s important to know how and why this approach could impact your video marketing. Watchbait is the visual version of clickbait. Facebook says videos are watchbait if they: Sensationalise content. Withhold key information. Mislead viewers about the true nature of
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Instagram is forever looking at how it can expand and improve its eCommerce offering. Its latest offering will allow all users to tag products in Insta posts, with the option now rolling out first for US users initially. Prior to this update, only creators could tag businesses in posts. But now, any business that is
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As LinkedIn becomes more important for communicators, it has started to add more content marketing tools to the mix. Last year Articles for Pages hit the platform, letting marketers add more long-form content to pages to drive engagement and start conversations on the website. Now LinkedIn has introduced Newsletters to the mix. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions
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Pinterest has announced a raft of new features at its Pinterest Presents global advertiser summit. The new additions include in-stream shopping updates, promoted Idea Pins and a fresh look to its Pinterest Trends tool. For consumer brands already advertising on Pinterest, good job. If not, maybe Pinterest’s latest feature dump might tempt you… Pinterest for
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