Instagram launched a new @shop account managed by an internal team that curates shoppable posts from across the app. “Content featured on @shop will be 100% community-trends driven. The team managing @shop will work with the Community Labs team at Instagram to identify trends, brands and creators that are of interest to our community so […]
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Once upon a time, influencer marketing was reserved for brands putting their products in the hands of high-profile public figures and celebrities, but social media — Instagram in particular — has changed the game. Now, the majority of Instagram influencers are “micro-influencers” with fewer than 10,000 followers according, to a new report from Socialbakers. The
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Instagram is rolling out a new Shopping from Creators feature that gives influencers the ability to tag brands they’re wearing in posts that can lead to a checkout page where users can purchase tagged items right within the app. The feature will be available to a small group of individuals, fashion retailers and media brands
Source: Facebook Facebook’s bet on Stories Ads looks like it is paying off. COO Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday during the company’s first quarter earnings call that, while Facebook and Instagram feed ads make up the bulk of Facebook’s ad business, Stories Ads are “an increasingly important growth opportunity.” Facebook announced it now has three million
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Facebook rolled out new brand safety inventory filters for Audience Network, Instant Articles and in-stream videos ads on Wednesday. The new filters — which include “Limited,” “Standard” and “Full” inventory options — will replace Facebook’s five exclusion categories: Debatable Social Issues, Mature, Tragedy and Conflict, Dating and Gambling. (In-stream video ads only had access to
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Lush UK, a cosmetics company known for its bathing products, dropped a major bomb on Tuesday when the company announced it was bidding farewell to some of its social accounts. “Increasingly, social media is making it harder and harder for us to talk to each other directly. We are tired of fighting with algorithms, and
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Facebook added Custom Audience details to the “Why am I seeing this ad?” notification in News Feed ads in February. Users can see if their contact information was included on a Custom Audience list uploaded by the advertiser. Now, users can also see when a Custom Audience list is uploaded and if the advertiser worked
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This article has been updated to reflect changes and include video ad view count information from more platforms. Advertisers allocated a quarter of all digital ad spend — $27.8 billion — to video ads last year, according to eMarketer. video has become big business for social platforms. Twitter attributes more than half of its ad
With Google and Facebook gobbling up more of the internet ad market this year, the rest of the players are left battling for a shrinking slice of the pie, according to research and consulting firm WARC’s latest Global Ad Trends report. Duopoly’s growing share. The report has the duopoly growing its share in 2019 to
Last week, Facebook suffered the longest outage of its 15-year existence. Not only was it down for more than four hours in some areas, but so were the Facebook-owned apps Instagram and WhatsApp. During the downtime, social media managers and advertisers took to Twitter to bemoan the platform’s blackout, many not sure what to do
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