Two-Thirds of U.S. Businesses Invest in Online Advertising
U.S. businesses are high on online advertising — 66% invest in it, according to a study by the Manifest. But their spending is spread over several channels, reports Email Marketing…
Facebook and National Urban League Join to Help Small-Business Owners Understand Online Tools
Facebook is working with the National Urban League to bring training programs to several major cities, including D.C., to help small-business owners…
Facebook Expands Support of Local News Publishers
“Trying to make up for spreading fake news, upending the traditional news business and similar sins, Facebook is expanding its support of local news…
Twitter Lost a Million Monthly Active Users in Second Quarter of 2018
Twitter lost a million monthly active users in the second quarter of 2018, indicating that it’s paying a price for implementing an aggressive…
Twitter Eliminates Millions of Suspicious Accounts
Twitter will begin removing tens of millions of suspicious accounts from users’ followers, signaling a major new effort to restore trust on the popular…
YouTube Working to Ensure Its News is “Real News”
Google’s YouTube says it is taking steps to ensure the veracity of news on its service by cracking down on misinformation and supporting…
AARP Launches Weekly Podcast with Bob Edwards
AARP launched “An AARP Take on Today℠,” a weekly podcast hosted by Bob Edwards, the original and longtime host of NPR’s flagship program…
Instagram May Be Worth More Than $100 Billion
Facebook Inc.’s Instagram is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion, if it were a stand-alone company, marking a 100-fold…
Pinterest Adds Creative Marketing Partners
Pinterest announced a new kind of Pinterest Marketing Partner that will make it easier and more efficient for brands to create great Pins. Their…
Survey Finds 40% Deleted Social Media Accounts Due to Privacy Concerns
There is a serious lack of trust in social media such as Facebook and Twitter and consumers expect brands that advertise on such platforms…
Innovative 30-foot Touch Wall, Spurs Thousands of Interactions Onsite and Online
VIVA Creative (www.vivacreative.com), a global experiential marketing agency, located in Rockville Maryland, launched an innovative thirty-foot-wide kinetic touch wall that…
14 Million Facebook Posts May Have Gone Public By Mistake
For a few days last month, FastCompany reported, a software bug caused 14 million Facebook users’ default setting for sharing content to be “public,…
Privacy Issues Heat Up Tensions Between Apple and Facebook
Chief executive Tim Cook is positioning Apple as the face of “responsible tech.” After taking some verbal shots at Facebook, NBC News reports, Apple…
A Single Minute on the Internet: Infographic Captures High Traffic Numbers
People in the U.S. use an average of nearly 2.658 million gigabytes of Internet data every minute, but on what? Data visualization…
Pew Reports 45% of Teens Say Online Use is “Near Constant,” Fewer on Facebook
Until recently, Facebook had dominated the social media landscape among America’s youth – but it is no longer the most popular online platform among…
