Facebook Math…It Just Doesn’t Add Up
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According to some sketchy metrics from the good folks at Facebook, there are 300,000 invisible Swedes, and about 10 million Americans we can’t find... Let me explain. The Ad Contrarian has uncovered some ridiculousness in how Facebook describes its potential...
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Social Ads Not Really Driving Conversions
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For the most part, those social ads that brands are paying for on social media aren’t moving the needle on sales revenue. A recent survey of U.S. internet users found that Snapchat and Twitter, in particular, had single digit response...
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Vanity Metrics and the Social Sphere
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When it comes to social media, racking up those “likes” is a heady feeling. But are those so-called vanity metrics moving the dial on the bottom line? Turns out, most marketers couldn’t really say. “By far the biggest challenge for...
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Move Over, Fake News…You’ve Got Some Serious Instagram Competition
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Think that deal is too good to be true? It probably is...especially if you saw it on Instagram. “Long gone are the days when Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom vetted every ad on the platform,” writes Shareen Pathak in Digiday. “Now,...
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Facebook’s Getting All Up in Your Messenger
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Well, at least they know they’re annoying. According to Patrick Kulp writing in Mashable, “an exec at the social network said Tuesday that it plans to roll out ads to the Messenger home screen worldwide by the end of the...
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Facebook Sharing Down…with Good Reason
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As Dillon Baker noted in Contently last year, Facebook has altered radically in its short history. “Twelve years ago, Facebook started out as a place for people to post about themselves,” Baker wrote at the time. “But lately, the platform...
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How an Algorithm Might Reverse the Crisis of Trust in the Media
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Fake news. Fakebook. It’s gotten beyond absurd. The damage being done by fake news – “news” that is shared as truth, regardless of the veracity of its contents – is having a massive impact on our society. Businesses, non-governmental organizations,...
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What’s Killing Publisher Reach on Facebook?
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Kurt Gessler has a Facebook problem. The deputy editor for digital news at The Chicago Tribune has seen a stark drop in the publisher’s reach on the platform in recent months. “Starting in January of this year, we at the...
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Dear Social … Are You Okay?
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From Twitter bots to YouTube boycotts to FB confusion, it’s getting pretty weird out there in social land. Um, social, are you okay? Pardon us for saying so, but you seem lost and confused. It seems like brands had just...
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The Ugly Truth About Internet Behavior
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It’s getting ugly out there on the Internet. And it looks like it’s only going to get worse. “A new report by the Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center suggests that technologists widely agree: The bad...
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