Facebook’s F8: Everything you need to know [Podcast]

Our crew is back from F8, and we talk about the biggest news, the most under-the-radar news and more from Facebook's annual developer event.

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So much Facebook news last week, right? Where do you begin trying to figure out what happened at its annual developer conference, F8, and what it means to you, your brand and/or your clients?

You begin with the latest episode of our weekly podcast, Marketing Land Live. Tim Peterson and Greg Sterling were at F8 last week, and they join me for a wide-ranging podcast discussion covering, among other topics:

  • the most important things they saw and heard at F8.
  • the most under-the-radar — but still important — things they saw and heard.
  • Facebook’s latest updates to Messenger, chatbots, virtual reality and so on — and what it all means for marketers and publishers.

This episode runs just over 33 minutes. You can listen here or use the link below to subscribe via your favorite podcast service.

We invite you to subscribe via iTunes or Google Play Podcasts.

https://soundcloud.com/marketingland/ml-live-53

Show Notes

Facebook launches Facebook Spaces, Camera Effects Platform, Messenger bot discovery at F8

Facebook Messenger makes chatbots easier to find and use with new Discover tab, Chat Extensions

Watch: Facebook previews its first social VR product, Facebook Spaces

Facebook’s Places Graph makes 140 million locations available to developers for free

Facebook’s renamed analytics tool now tracks Pages, in-store purchases

Facebook now lets businesses match user IDs across Messenger and their own apps, sites

Hands on with Facebook’s AR Studio to create Snapchat-like camera effects

Live blog: Facebook F8 second day opening keynote

Inside chatbots’ year of growing pains: ‘We’re at an inflection point’

MindMeld Launches Voice Assistant 2.0, Says Voice Search Growing Dramatically

Thanks for listening! We’ll be back next week with another episode of Marketing Land Live.

[This article originally appeared on Marketing Land.]


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Matt McGee
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Matt McGee joined Third Door Media as a writer/reporter/editor in September 2008. He served as Editor-In-Chief from January 2013 until his departure in July 2017. He can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee.

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