A significant subset of social media users are uncomfortable making new social connections online and view online socializing as less "real" than face-to-face interactions. Read the whole story
Appealing directly to e-commerce and gaming firms, Twitter is reportedly readying a new app-promoting ad unit. Once clicked, the units will take users to … Read the whole story
After successfully giving its "Real Housewives" franchise a boost, Bravo Media plans to expand its "social commercials" to other programs in the coming year. … Read the whole story
"People" has struck a deal with WhoSay, which promotes social media content from celebrities, that will bring celebrity social media content from WhoSay members … Read the whole story
Overall, 14% of U.S. broadband homes currently use Internet set-top box devices, like Google's Chromecast, Roku or Apple TV to access video content. Heavy … Read the whole story
Handing Facebook a big win, a federal judge has thrown out a potential class-action lawsuit alleging that the company violated teens' rights by using … Read the whole story
You can now buy media in hundredths of a second, so why not make the ad creative reflective of trending data such as likes … Read the whole story
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter engineering teams have collaborated on an open-source project called WebScaleSQL, a custom open-source project of the MySQL database management … Read the whole story