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Periscope, Twitter's popular live-streaming service, turned one year old on Saturday. The company announced that it has surpassed 200 million broadcasts and that 110 years of video...

Google Redesigns AdWords Interface

As more searches now take place on smartphones than on computers around the world, Google announced it is redesigning the user interface of its fifteen-year-old AdWords product to...

Facebook Video Metrics Get Daily Breakdowns

Facebook is adding new daily breakdowns of metrics for videos to give Page owners a better understanding of how their videos are performing on a specific day. According to the comp...

Customers Spend More When You Respond Faster on Twitter

Wayne Huang is a researcher at Twitter. His role entails proving the value of the service through data, analytics, and experim...

Facebook Pulls BlackBerry Support

Facebook has dealt a major blow to the already struggling BlackBerry. The social media giant recently decided to discontinue support of their APIs for BlackBerry (for Facebook and...

Twitter CEO Says Twitter Will Stay 140 Characters

Earlier this year, reports emerged that Twitter was readying the lau...

Bing Ads Get Social Extensions For Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr

Microsoft announced that Bing Ads is now testing social extensions in the U.S. These are a new type of ad extension that advertisers can place under their copy to direct potential...

AdSense Publishers Can Add Ads to Matched Content

Nearly a year ago, Google announced the launch of Matched Content for AdSense publishers. This is a free content recommendation tool that shows more of your content to users. It ge...

Pinterest Reportedly Testing Video Ads

We heard two months ago that Pinterest was preparing to launch video ads, but haven't...

Twitter’s Algorithmic Timeline Is Now The Default

Twitter announced its new algorithmic timeline in February. With rumors of its launch leading up to its actual release, you would have thought that Twitter was going to virtually m...

Hootsuite Partners with ZeroFOX to Help You Monitor Social Media Threats

Hootsuite announced that it has partnered with ZeroFOX to help its users identify social media threats and risks from within the Hootsuite Dashboard. "The integration is built...

Facebook Makes Lift Measurement More Widely Available

In January 2015, Facebook launched Lift Measurement, which uses test and control g...

Twitter for Windows 10 Goes Mobile

Last summer, Twitter launched a new experience for Windows 10. It included live tiles, multiple photo tweets, animated GIFs, Vine playback, previews for tweets with photos, vine vi...

Instagram Is Changing How Its Feed Works

The Instagram feed is about to change, much like Twitter's recently altered feed (though that one is opt in). They're going more for an algorithmic approach as opposed to the chron...

Medium Teases New Browsing Experience

Medium announced that it is introducing a new browsing and reading experience, which it refers to as Collections. The goal is (of course) to make it easier to find content of inter...

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