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Facebook Releases Major Ad Targeting Update As Privacy Regulations Bite

Post iOS 14, Facebook doubles down on automated targeting features Five months after the launch of Apple's iOS 14.5 update and the effects of Apple's privacy clampdown is beginning to be felt as the social media data hose chokes off. ....

27/09/2021

Google Ads Automation Upgrade

26/09/2021 Russell Hughes

Google Streamlines Display Campaigns  Another day, another marketing automation rollout, with Google’s latest updates for Display ads. Google’s latest update sees it looking to simplify the campaign set-up process for t ....

YouTube Lifts Hood On Video Algorithms

20/09/2021 Russell Hughes

YouTube engineers explain video recommendation rankings YouTube has published an overview of how its recommendation system works, which will help brands and marketers understand how the system ranks videos to users - with that insight, it should ....

Facebook upgrades on-platfrom features due to Apple privacy clampdown Facebook has unveiled new engagement, lead generation and customer acquisition tools in a broad update that includes a whole raft of changes. ....

[NEW REPORT] The Evolution Of Social Apps

19/09/2021 Russell Hughes

Social media accounts for 44% of all time spent on mobile According to the latest App Annie report, people are spending more and more time on social media apps - a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. Users spent 740 billion hours o ....

Twitter’s Community Management Clampdown

16/09/2021 Russell Hughes

Twitter improving brand safety with better community controls Twitter has launched five new features, all designed to help improve community interaction, give users more protection from online abuse and allow them to control their content better ....

Social media legal risks multiply with new ruling  Australia’s High Court has ruled that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments left in response to social media posts. The judgement forms part of the D ....

Facebook explains the mythical blue-tick The coveted social media blue-tick has had social media users in a tailspin since its inception. The ultimate standard of making it, of quality, of legitimacy. However, for many years now ....

iOS 15 Spells Trouble For Email Open Rates & Automation  Apple's war on data trackers has continued as iOS 15 tightens controls around user privacy yet again. If digital marketers thought the iOS 14 update was bad, iOS 15 ha ....

LinkedIn Stories Getting Culled In October

05/09/2021 Russell Hughes

LinkedIn pulls pin on Stories as it refocuses to video  Another Story experience has fallen by the wayside as platforms finally realise that just because it works elsewhere doesn't mean it'll work everywhere (WhatsApp, are you liste ....

TikTok Partners with Canva and Vimeo

02/09/2021 Russell Hughes

TikTok streamlines creative processes with easy design tie-ups TikTok has partnered with Canva and Vimeo to help marketers build better short-form video content. Brands will now be able to build TikTok creative assets in Canva or Vimeo a ....

Instagram Opens Lid On Search Algorithms

31/08/2021 Russell Hughes

Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, explains how to boost Search rankings Following Instagram's recent breakdown of its algorithms for Feed, Stories, Reels and Explore, Instagram has lifted the veil on how its search algorithms work. Th ....