Facebook Will No Longer Estimate Your Audience Reach For Custom Audiences
Facebook is removing the audience reach estimates you see while creating a custom audience. After a week full of scrutiny on the way Facebook uses people’s information, they’re making some major changes to the way publishers and advertisers can create audiences. But for now, the…
Instagram Hears Your Complaints, Prioritizes New Content in Feed
Maybe Instagram is listening? After it moved away from a chronological news feed to one that prioritized “relevance” based on an algorithm, people complained. And complained. And complained. Today, Instagram announced that maybe they were listening after all. We're working every day to improve your…
Facebook’s Rough Week Continues as #DeleteFacebook is Trending
First there was fake news, state-sponsored Russian trolls, and now #DeleteFacebook is trending. The chaos started over the weekend when the NY Times published a piece about Cambridge Analytica, a firm used by both the Trump Campaign and the Brexit Leave Campaign in 2016. Whistleblowers…
AdWords Is Rolling Out Helpful New Features
Google has been slowly rolling out new features on the AdWords interface, and they’re still coming. On Tuesday, in San Jose at SMX West, AdWords Director of Product Management Anthony Chavez revealed some exciting new features to look for in the near future. So what new…
NRA Partnerships Ended as Brands get Political
What happens when brands get “woke?” This question is front and center after the Parkland School Shooting has caused many brands to reevaluate their relationships with the National Rifle Association (NRA), with consumers pressuring them to end discounts that were offered to NRA members. Over…
Twitter Announces New Regulations on Automated Accounts and Posting
Uproar following probable interference with the 2017 Presidential election has forced social media platforms to reassess some of their policies, Twitter being the most recent. Last week, Twitter released a statement about automation and the use of multiple accounts to try and artificially increase the…
What is Vero, and why is Everyone Suddenly Talking About it?
Vero, a social media application founded in 2015 by billionaire businessman Ayman Hariri that would, in his words, allow users “to have a social experience online that is more matching and more familiar and intuitive to their offline social interaction.” He promises there will be…
Facebook Updating Page Insights to Improve Metrics Reporting
In November of last year, Facebook identified a bug in their Page Insights for Organic Reach, in which they were overreporting the number of people reached by a given post organically by not removing duplicate visitors. This bug only affected organic reach insights; paid posts were calculated…
Facebook to Verify IDs of Election ad Buyers With Postcards
With special counsel Robert Mueller having handed down charges to 13 Russian nationals working at 3 different companies, the story of Facebook’s role in how the U.S. runs its elections is not going away anytime soon. Especially not with the 2018 midterm congressional elections kicking into…
How Will Chrome’s New Built-In Ad Blocker Work?
Chrome’s new built-in ad blocker is set to go live February 15, 2018. Should publishers be concerned? The short answer is: yes and no. The ad blocker will realistically only block one percent of all ads, with a focus on detecting ads that go against Coalition…
