Last year, Facebook began letting a select number of advertisers run ads in Marketplace, the site’s online shopping platform where users can buy and sell items locally. Without making a formal announcement, Facebook opened the ability to run ads in Marketplace to all US advertisers in January and expanded it to Canada in May. This […]
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Facebook is under fire once again for mishandling user data, this time charged with sharing information with at least 60 device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Blackberry, HTC, Microsoft and Samsung. Going all the way back to 2007, the company created partnerships with various device makers that allowed for private data channels between the device-maker companies
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Advertising wasn’t a major focus of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report this year, but the well-known internet analyst pointed out several interesting developments that affect the sector. Here we lay out some of the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the digital advertising ecosystem. Opportunities The time we spend on our connected devices keeps
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Facebook is now enforcing its new policies for political and issue-related ads. Announced last month, the new rules require all advertisers running political or issue ads on the platform to verify their identity and location. US election and issue ads will have to be clearly labeled and will include “Paid for” information to identify the
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Facebook is expanding its reporting options since merging its Ads Manager and Power Editor last September. Advertisers will soon have access to an updated Ads Reporting platform that includes a drag-and-drop feature to customize the report around the metrics they want front and center. “This new Ads Reporting experience will enable you to analyze dimensions
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Facebook is rolling out updates to its dynamic ads for auto dealerships, giving them a lead-gen feature that feeds leads directly into the dealership’s CRM system. The ads — which are created using the dealership’s vehicle catalogue and include a call to action to complete a lead-gen form — will now send the leads directly
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Facebook announced today it is expanding its list of third-party solutions to measure ad effectiveness, while at the same time, it is limiting the capabilities of its view tags feature. The company is onboarding marketing partners in three specific areas: marketing mix modeling (MMM), viewability and mobile app measurement (MMPs). The MMM solutions now available
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We’re less than two months out from Facebook’s infamous announcement that it was suspending Cambridge Analytica for exploiting user data. Since then, news headlines about the company — and its haphazard management of user information — have looked like a PR nightmare from the sidelines, but the company’s Q1 revenue numbers tell a much different
As marketers and brands have seen, the prevalence of digital video has transformed how consumers access media and content. Essentially, video is not the future, it’s the “now”. According to Cisco, global IP video traffic will represent 82 percent of all consumer internet traffic by 2021, up from 73 percent in 2016. Consumers no longer
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The IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) is out with its Q4 and 2017 year-end state of the digital advertising industry report. In a repeat of the past several years, digital advertising revenue is up. There was growth across formats and devices. And while the IAB doesn’t name names, Facebook and Google continue to suck up most
