Facebook’s IA is Feeling the Chill
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Many early adopters of Facebook’s Instant Articles are posting less and less; some have stopped entirely. Are publishers turning a cold shoulder to the platform? Instant Articles, the controversial news publishing platform launched by Facebook in May of 2015, has...
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Can Third-Party Verification Help Facebook Save Face?
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The ANA is calling for transparency; maybe this will finally be what tips the scales back toward sanity in the digital ad space.  Facebook, you’ve been called out. In the wake of its video metrics controversy, the social platform is...
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The Risk is Real: How Facebook is Destroying Journalism
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By walling up readers and luring away advertisers, the platform is putting the Fourth Estate in dire straits. Traditional journalism faces a risk so severe that some are calling it the end of the Fourth Estate as we know it....
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Mid-Roll Ads on FB Just Won’t Fly. Here’s Why.
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“Audiences are now accustomed to having control over the content they consume, and you can't put that genie back in the box.” Did Facebook just make a critical error? According to Carrie So writing in Advertising Age, they sure did....
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Shocker: Facebook is Making Money on Your Content…and You’re Not
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“Note to magazine-media executives: Social media clearly is a fabulously innovative 21st Century town square, but it’s not altruistic.” – Tony Silber, Folio:  When Facebook announced yet another change to their publisher policies this month, the indignation was palpable, as...
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FTC Coming Down on Celebrity Endorsements
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Advertisers are facing a new threat as the government calls out paid social influencers for what they are. There is a new way to make a living online. “Social media influencers” with huge audiences are often sought out by brands...
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Digital Ad Burnout? You Betcha
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Digital media is worried that readers are burning out on ads. Ya think? Mass media in catching on to what a lot of us in the industry have known for a long time now: The average consumer is pretty much...
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What Publishers Stand to Lose in the New FB Algorithm
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The platform tightens the lid on publisher content…again. What’s at stake? Facebook tweaks its algorithm, and the business world loses its mind, yet again. And with good reason, if you happen to publish business content on the social channel. “Facebook...
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What Can $50 Million Buy Online These Days?
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Facebook is throwing some major dollars into promoting their Live video platform. Are we falling for it hook, line and Chewie Mask? Zuckerberg really wants his new Facebook Live platform to succeed. In fact, he wants it so badly that...
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Where the Real Ad Money Is (Hint: It Ain’t Video)
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Desperation is rarely a good place from which to make a sound business decision. And yet… Video, video and more video. It’s the current rallying cry of the modern marketer, with dollars being poured into digital video channels at a...
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