Marketing Tools: Social Media
Agencies must now confirm client relationships before enabling Facebook Pixel and event sets
Aiming to be more transparent about ad targeting practices, Facebook is updating policies attached to its Pixel and event sets....
Research firm Ipsos buys social listening platform Synthesio
The move is the latest in a series of acquisitions and mergers that are turning social media platforms into larger suites of...
6 of the best social listening tools for 2019
In your personal life, reading people’s minds is a questionable superpower; but the business benefits of being able to listen in on people’s...
Facebook opens Audience Network SDK beta program for developers, publishers
Beta users will be able to give feedback on ways to improve the final tool and have the opportunity to earn Facebook advertising...
Will Facebook’s news aggregation feature increase engagement for local publishers?
Now in more than 100 cities, "Today In" pulls local content into an opt-in daily News Feed digest and a standalone section within its mobile...
Brandwatch, Crimson Hexagon merger gives rise to social-based market intelligence
With Crimson Hex’s strength in machine learning and Brandwatch’s in scale and UI, the CEO says, the newly integrated platform will reach out...
Facebook is giving more Instagram developers access to AR camera features
Spark AR, the newly rebranded Facebook Camera Effects Platform, is now accepting applications from developers to be part of the closed beta...
Twitter adds audio-only broadcasting for iOS app, Periscope
Responding to user demand, Twitter gets in on the rising popularity of...
Facebook bans an app once used by 4M people, suspends 200 more
Facebook says it is notifying those who shared information with the myPersonality app, which was mostly active before 2012....
Facebook clarifies Custom Audience list management terms for agency-advertiser relationships
After receiving questions from advertisers about recent updates to Custom Audience terms, Facebook has updated its policies to be more clear....
Facebook rolls out mobile-first video creation tools for advertisers
Marketers can use the tools to add motion to existing images and videos or to create video ads from company assets like logos or...
Report: Customers are more loyal to companies that are transparent on social media
Consumers expect more transparency from businesses than they do from politicans, friends, or even...
Tweetbot & Twitterrific remove features no longer available as Twitter rolls out API updates
As announced in December 2017, Twitter is ending API access to site streams, users streams and direct messaging features this...
Report: Traditional methods of personalization don’t work for millennials and Gen Z
The report from video platform VidMob also found that despite a waning interest in celebrity tie-ins, influencers still have an effect on Gen...
Twitter loses ability to let users auto-post tweets & retweets to Facebook
Facebook deprecated its Publish actions permission feature yesterday, ending the ability to automatically post content from one platform to the...
Facebook cuts off access to API platform for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive apps
Facebook has removed access to its API platform for inactive apps and is now queueing up active apps to make sure all undergo the new review...
Facebook updates video ad metrics
Advertisers will soon be able to use Moat's measurement platform to verify Facebook's new Video Play...
Twitter tightens access to API platform & restricts number of daily actions an app can perform
Starting September 10, 2018, the default number of Tweets, Retweets, Likes, Follows and Direct Messages an app can perform will be limited...
Clinch launches tool to dynamically generate ads for Instagram stories
The firm says this is the first such tool to automate the creation and optimization of media ads for Instagram Stories at...
New features in the Facebook Ads Manager app make building ads on mobile easier
The ad-creation tool has five new features, including the ability to include overlays, stickers, logos and more....
