- Facebook Shops Service Coming Soon
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, May 22, 2020
Facebook Shops is rolling out over the next few weeks, allowing businesses to sell via their pages and accounts on Facebook and Instagram, City A.M. reveals. ...
- Hakuna Brands Persevered Despite Worries; Fills Calif. Stores With Pints, Novelties
The MediaPost Cases, Nina Lentini - Monday, May 11, 2020
Friends since their days as students at UCLA, Hannah Hong and Mollie Cha have created a thriving CPG based on their shared intolerance for lactose. What began in the mid-2000s ...
- Instagram Adds Guides Feature To Connect With Users
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Creators can direct people to particular posts and videos, along with tips and any type of advice. ...
- Photographer Seeks To Revive Copyright Battle With Mashable
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Mashable may have violated Instagram's policies -- and therefore lost its right to embed a photo from the service -- photographer Stephanie Sinclair argues in a new filing with U.S. ...
- Slumberkins: Coping And Comfort Sell Themselves Now
Brand Insider, Steve Smith - Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Slumberkins was built for this crisis, even if the founders of the emotional learning brand never quite had it in mind. In 2016, best buds Callie Christensen and Kelly Oriard ...
- Mashable Prevails In Battle Over Instagram Photo
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Handing Mashable a victory, a federal judge in New York has dismissed a photojournalist's lawsuit accusing the website of infringing copyright by embedding a photo from her public Instagram acco ...
- Puppo's Unique Strategy Spikes Organic Search By 144%
MediaPost Connect, Nina Lentini - Friday, April 10, 2020
"Our target audience is people who care about personalization for their pets so it was important to target areas where there is a strong density of people with a wide ...
- Infiniti Launches 'Work From Home' Instagram Campaign
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The aim of the campaign is to bring positivity and levity to our current work-from-home situations, said Infiniti's Nick Sparacino. ...
- Lunya D2C Brand Rocks WFH With Nominate A Nurse Campaign
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Lunya temporarily closed its physical locations and put on hold store openings in Atlanta and D.C., then retooled its message with a work-from-home approach. ...
- FTC Extends Comment Deadline For Endorsement Guidelines
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 27, 2020
June 22 is the deadline for comments about questions like whether children can understand social media disclosures. ...
- Instagram Debuts Co-Watching Feature
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
As people around the world are being asked to isolate and distance themselves from others, the feature is designed to help people safely socialize. ...
- Instagram To Sell Ads On IGTV Video App, Take On YouTube
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, March 19, 2020
Facebook Inc., counting on Instagram for growth, will woo top video creators with 55% of ad revenue generated by ads on the IGTV long-form video app. ...
- Tea Purveyor's Influencer Marketing Duped Consumers, FTC Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 6, 2020
Tea purveyor Teami duped consumers by failing to ensure its paid influencers -- including "American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks and celebrity Cardi B. -- disclosed that their posts were actually ...
- TikTok's U.S. Growth Forecast To Drop Rapidly
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, February 27, 2020
Stateside, it looks like TikTok's popularity is coming to an end. The app's U.S. user growth is expected to drop from 97.5% in 2019 to 21.6% this year, per eMarke ...
- Caroline Flack Calls Boyfriend's Injuries 'An Accident' In Unpublished Post
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, February 20, 2020
"The Guardian" has details of a newly released Instagram post from former "Love Island" presenter Caroline Flack. The post claims her boyfriend suffered injuries through "an accident" and that her ...
- Has Influencer Marketing Just Been Busted?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, February 20, 2020
Engagement is down in countries where likes are hidden as well as visible. Has #ad woken up the public to influencers' intent? ...
- Instagram Is Delivering A Larger Audience To Big Brands Than Facebook
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, February 13, 2020
A report from Socialbakers has found large brands are getting more traffic on their Instagram profiles than those on Facebook, "Campaign" reveals. ...
- FTC To Review Influencer Marketing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 12, 2020
The Federal Trade Commission is launching a review of its endorsement guides, which set out recommendations for online testimonials and influencer marketing. ...
- Millennials Favor Facebook, Instagram; TikTok Is Least-Used
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Millennials -- particularly women -- are heavy Instagram users, but like other age groups, Facebook is their most-used platform. Seventy percent use Facebook daily vs. 70% for Instagram and 66% ...
- Child Protection Campaigners Urge Facebook To Rethink Encryption
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, February 7, 2020
Child protection campaigners, led by the NSPCC, have signed an open letter urging Facebook to rethink encrypting messages on Facebook Messenger and Instagram Direct. The BBC reveals that the experts ...
- MRC Completes Audits For Facebook, Instagram, YouTube: Pauses Snapchat's, Twitter's
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Wednesday, February 5, 2020
The Media Rating Council this week announced three big digital platforms' measurement services -- Facebook's, Instagram's, and YouTube's -- have completed their engineering audits and that their accreditation is pending ...
- Half Of Gen Zers Won't Watch Super Bowl, Some Will Use Social Media
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Friday, January 31, 2020
Almost one-third of young adults will use Instagram on Super Bowl Sunday, even if they are not watching the game. ...
- FDA Plans To Study Influencer Marketing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The Food and Drug Administration wants to examine the effectiveness of disclaimers on social media ads. ...
- Select Instagram Users Can Access Messages Via Desktop
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, January 14, 2020
For Facebook, the test appears to be part of a bigger push to connect its messaging services, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct. ...
- Influencers Get #Ad Warning From UK Regulator, Again
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Friday, January 10, 2020
Influencers can no longer rely on disclaimers in bios. It's #ad all the way to be compliant. ...
- Microsoft Bing Pages In Beta Gives Individuals, Brands Prominence In Search
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 8, 2020
The beta program, called Bing Pages, allows individuals to manage their presence on Microsoft products such as Bing and Outlook.com. ...
- Facebook Takes Action, But Is It Too Late To Tackle Deep Fakes?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Facebook needs credit for promising to root out deep fakes in an election year. But can this tech be put back in the box? ...
- Instagram Growth Slows In The UK
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Monday, January 6, 2020
"The Telegraph" is reporting that according to eMarketer, UK growth at Instagram has dropped from 34% to just 7% last year due to the site's inability to appeal to older ...
- Digital Engagement Remains Flat, Despite Ad Innovation Efforts
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, January 6, 2020
The good news is that ad engagement levels appear to be stable across the major digital media platforms, according to the latest annual tracking study from UBS' Evidence Lab. The ...
- Instagram Refines Ecommerce Strategy, Pushes Astrology Products
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Over the next week, @shop will feature small businesses in Feeds and Stories, and the products with be shoppable on Instagram. ...
