Facebook audio points to company willing to ‘to the mat’ to prevent Warren...
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will fight any effort to break it up; the Senator responded bysaying Facebook ‘repeatedly fumble their responsibility to protect our democracy’ Even as Donald Trump...
View ArticleFacebook attempts to counter calls for greater regulation with new ‘Supreme...
The Oversight Board will be made up of a minimum of 11 members, and will have final say in decisions regarding accounts and content, possibly shielding management from future controversial decisions...
View ArticleFacebook’s “Explore Feed” creates new challenges for publishers
Guest column: David Speer, Industry Consultant of Media and Publishing, North America, of MPP Global, says the main problem is Facebook’s control of readership data Competing for the best possible...
View ArticleSocial Shopping and the Holidays
Guest Column: Grace Moshfegh, the CEO and Partner of Superdigital, a digital agency specializing in social, offers advice for retailers who might be newcomers to social media Recent research shows that...
View ArticleTime Inc.’s PeopleTV expands to stream select real-time video programming on...
NEW YORK, NY — November 6, 2017 — Time Inc.’s PeopleTV, the company’s ad-supported OTT network announced today that it will expand its live content and distribution. The next generation global...
View ArticlePublishers moving from reliance on print to digital ads may be impacted by...
Unless publishers can convince ad buyers that their inventory is worth more than that of the social media companies, ad rates will continue to fall for everyone The performance of the social media...
View ArticleTwitter revenue falls 4% in Q3, reports net loss of $21M
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – October 26, 2017 — Twitter, Inc. today announced financial results for its third quarter 2017. “This quarter we made progress in three key areas of our business: we grew our...
View ArticleFacebook rolls out News Feed Publisher Guidelines, meant to instruct...
The social network Facebook today posted a set of News Feed Publisher Guidelines which tell publishers what kind of content to post and even how to create it. It is, well, incredibly tone deaf....
View ArticleRoy Moore gets temporary boost in followers as Russian bots join race for...
Morning Brief: Madrid judge jails two Catalan separatist leaders, drawing new protests and calls for strikes, as regional leaders refuses to answer prime ministers call to clarify declaration of...
View ArticleNYT posts social media guidelines online for their newsroom accounts
Despite social media being such an important part of the media landscape, it is amazing how many magazine and newspaper companies have yet to put their guidelines down in writing, often leading to...
View ArticleLocal Media Consortium to partner with Facebook-owned CrowdTangle
The content discovery and social monitoring platform will provide LMC members with access to tools for real-time social media monitoring and tracking in newsrooms SARASOTA, Fla. – October 4, 2017 – The...
View ArticleFacebook, Twitter, Google face backlash as each in turn fails to address real...
Between promoting fake news, allowing fake accounts, and allowing bots and trolls to promulgate, the big social media companies have failed to be honest with their customers, their advertisers, and...
View ArticleANA Report: Social media now a key component in supporting sponsorship...
NEW YORK, NY — September 25, 2017 — Social media — particularly Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram — has emerged as a key component in supporting sponsorship activations among a great majority of...
View ArticleTime Inc. launches new video series ‘Homemade vs. The Internet’ for...
NEW YORK, NY — September 8, 2017 — Time Inc. today announced that it launched a new video series for Watch, Facebook’s new platform for shows and videos. “Homemade vs. The Internet” is now available on...
View ArticleFacebook reports ad revenue grew 47% in second quarter of this year, net...
The social network Facebook reported Q2 earnings after the bell on Wednesday, and like Google, reported impressive revenue gains. In fact, its 47 percent gain in advertising likely will represent the...
View ArticleTime Inc. launches new social video brand, THE PRETTY
NEW YORK, NY — June 15, 2017 — Time Inc. announced today that it has launched THE PRETTY, a social video brand for a millennial and Gen Z audience hungry for beauty content. The brand combines...
View ArticleThe Hollywood Reporter partners with MVPindex to launch menu of social...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – June 6, 2017 – The Hollywood Reporter, the entertainment industry’s flagship media brand, today announced a partnership with leading real-time social media intelligence platform...
View ArticleTwitter suffers outages, first in UK and Japan, then elsewhere
Two waves of outages appear to have brought down the popular social media website, with many journalists put out that they cannot use their favorite way to quickly confirm news It is a testament to...
View ArticleFacebook says it grew advertising 51% in first quarter of 2017
The day today has been spent looking at earnings reports from newspaper companies, some of whom were rather proud to report that their advertising only fell 6 or 7 percent. This afternoon, after the...
View ArticleGroupon revenue falls modestly, trims losses through lower costs
Company’s stock is falling this morning after rising earlier this year due to a stock repurchase initiative; the Chicago-based company has exited 11 markets in an effort to scale back to profitable...
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