Shortly after CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the EU Parliament, Facebook shared multiple announcements outlining its safety and security efforts. Amy Gesenhues on May 24, 2018 Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the EU Parliament on Tuesday to address the company’s mishandling of user data, Facebook published three separate announcements covering its current … Continue reading Facebook’s latest on fake news, misinformation campaigns & user privacy
News Titles Are Taking On The Duopoly With Profit And Engagement by Sean Hargrave , Staff Writer, May 14, 2018 It’s good to see Newsworks taking the fight back to the duopoly of Facebook and Google. The trade body for news titles’ Planning for Profit claimed that the country’s big brands are missing out on GBP3bn of … Continue reading News Titles Are Taking On The Duopoly With Profit And Engagement
Matt Harris — May 12, 2018 Follow @mrmch — May 12, 2018 For some, May 25, 2018, will mark a turning point in their email marketing outreach, for others, an abrupt shift from what was once the Wild West of email marketing. The impetus for these changes — the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) … Continue reading GDPR is Good News for Email Marketers – Really
News Media Alliance Tells Google, Facebook to Take Responsibility For Fake News by Melynda Fuller , April 30, 2018 After some muddled testimony, during which Mark Zuckerburg insisted Facebook is a tech company not a publisher, Facebook’s stock soared — despite some calls to delete the app. In addition to a major user-data scandal, the … Continue reading News Media Alliance Tells Google, Facebook to Take Responsibility For Fake News
Google’s And Other April Fool’s Foolery, Fake News by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 2, 2018 Where’s Waldo? Hiding in Google Maps, of course. The whimsical favorite character, Waldo, and friends Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw and Woof the dog began hiding in Google Maps for a week beginning last Saturday. The game, based on … Continue reading Google’s And Other April Fool’s Foolery, Fake News
YouTube’s Plan To Fight Fake News by Alex Weprin , March 21, 2018 YouTube is rolling out a strategy to try and fight fake news and misinformation in videos published to the site. For starters, the Google-owned video platform plans to elevate authoritative news sources and de-emphasize channels deemed to be less credible. While Google … Continue reading YouTube’s Plan To Fight Fake News
CNN Brings VR News To Oculus Rift by Chuck Martin , March 16, 2018 CNN is launching a new virtual reality experience for Oculus Rift. CNN VR has been available on Android and iOS for Samsung Gear headsets and Google Daydream. Adding the Oculus Rift headset brings the VR experience to the desktop, at high … Continue reading CNN Brings VR News To Oculus Rift
Why new data doesn’t indicate whether people are spending less time on Facebook now. And what it does show. Ginny Marvin on March 9, 2018 It’s a frustrating truth: Sometimes a data set just can’t tell the story you want or think you should be hearing. On Thursday, a story in Recode relied on … Continue reading No, we can’t say Facebook CPMs are up because of the News Feed change
Pam Moore — March 2, 2018 Follow @pammktgnut — March 2, 2018 There is no doubt 2018 is going to be a year of massive fear, shock, change and wasted time for even the smartest business and marketing leaders. By now we should know that when it comes to social media and digital marketing, the … Continue reading Don’t Sell Your Brand’s Soul to the Facebook News Feed Algorithm and Vanity Metrics
Sahail Ashraf — February 23, 2018 — February 23, 2018 While millions of people around the world wailed and gnashed their teeth over the recent Facebook news feed changes (okay, maybe we’re being a little dramatic there), Facebook got down to business. It recently held a closed-door webinar about the newsfeed, and what the priorities … Continue reading 18 Lessons From Facebook’s Private Webinar On The News Feed Algorithm
