What Real-life Gen Z Children Kids are Saying about Social Media
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Is it possible that Gen Z kids have had it with social media? According to Lesley Bielby writing in The Drum, this could very well be the case. Bielby, chief strategy officer at Hill Holliday and HHBrandable (and self-described Gen...
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How FB’s New Rules Might Actually Increase Polarizing Content
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Meaningful engagement – it’s the new standard by which posts will be evaluated for inclusion in your news feed. For brands, this means organic reach will continue to drop, while FB shifts to featuring “meaningful” content – ostensibly one’s family...
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Wait, I thought Facebook was a business
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It’s no secret we aren’t Facebook fans around here. After seeing the writing on the wall three years ago, we walked away (and didn’t miss them). Meanwhile, fake news happened, Russia happened, and so many people started to find Facebook...
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The News Bubble Just Burst; What’s Next?
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How quickly things change. It was only three years ago that The New York Times broke the story that Facebook was officially courting publishers to post native content on their site. At the time, Dillon Baker of The Content Strategist...
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Big Glitch at Google Dumps Publishers from “News” Section
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Late last Sunday, a good number of publishers found themselves out in the cold. And it had nothing to do with the frigid winter weather attacking the U.S. and Europe. “Our news website was removed from Google News and our...
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Feeding the Beast; a Former Facebook VP Speaks Out
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Seems like the Kool-Aid didn’t go down to well with Chamath Palihapitiya. The former VP for user growth at Facebook believes that social media is “eroding the core foundations of how people behave,” and he had tremendous guilt about helping...
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Former Twitter Engineer Exposes the Massive Problem of Fake Accounts
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Seems the façade is starting to crumble all around us. I’m not being apocalyptic, but the news is filled with stories of icons of media, publishing, politics and finance being exposed for what they really are. The latest is Twitter,...
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Why Publishers Need to Stop Caring So Much About FB Reach
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A newly released report out of the UK this week provides an interesting twist on the trust bump conversation. For a while now, we’ve been sharing the stats that most consumers trust what they read in magazines over what they...
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The Digital Ad Duopoly and the Frightening Changes to the Publisher News Feed
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If you’re a publisher and you’re not concerned about the looming changes to the FB News Feed, I’d love to know why not. Facebook, to recap, is testing out algorithm changes that change how publisher content appears in users’ News...
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Facebook Masters the Art of Tone Deaf Word Salad
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Facebook wants to help publishers get better at what they do. <insert eye roll here> “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...
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