One in six Americans (16 percent) now own a voice-activated smart speaker, up 128 percent from January 2017. Out of the rising number of people who own a smart speaker, 31 percent said they use it for shopping purposes, adding items to their cart so they can review them later for purchase. Findings come from […]
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Facebook is changing it’s News Feed yet again, and I can hear social media marketers and Facebook Page owners across the world sighing out a big “ugh”. To be completely honest I don’t really see these Facebook News Feed changes as a bad thing – I think it’ll be a creative challenge for us marketers,
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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) receiving a $500,000 donation from a pro-illegal alien group just before the government shutdown vote is fake news. There is no truth to reports that the Democrat Senate Minority Leader took a large donation from a pro-illegal alien group prior to the government shutdown. The federal government is in the midst
This week’s ‘Skim: why marketers and brands should beware of Facebook’s biggest algorithm change in years; LinkedIn fires up an unconventional ad campaign to get people thinking differently about the platform; Facebook unveils major new drive to compete with Amazon Echo devices and Google Home; America’s love-hate relationship with social networks, and which ones they
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Amy Gesenhues is Third Door Media’s General Assignment Reporter, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed
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Mark Zuckerberg buying a “super-yacht” for $150 million is fake news. There is no truth to a report that the Facebook chief executive officer had purchased a lavish “super-yacht.” Rather, the story originated with a Turkish web site where it was published, then deleted, after a Facebook spokesperson denied the story. Where did the fake
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A week after Facebook said that it will reduce the amount of news in people’s News Feeds, the company has announced that it plans to increase the quality of the news that does appear. Facebook will prioritize news posts from publishers that certain users have flagged as trustworthy, the company announced on Friday. Facebook will
Last week Facebook announced that organic post reach for Pages would continue to decline as part of a new effort to focus on person-to-person interactions. Publishers and brands who used to connect to people via their Facebook Pages will need to re-think how they engage with people on the platform going forward. Of course, you
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The biggest social media marketing news of the very new year, thus far, has been Facebook’s announcement that they’ll be implementing changes to their News Feed algorithm which will put increased emphasis on person-to-person interactions over person-to-Page engagement. In other words, the reach of Facebook Page posts is going to go down, even further than
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Facebook has had a tough year. Despite the fact that revenues are soaring, engagement has declined, and there’s less personal content sharing on the site. In addition, the societal discussion around Facebook has turned sharply negative since the election of 2016. Earlier this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his goal for 2018 was to “fix”
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