Facebook is rolling out a series of new tools aimed at small and mid-sized businesses on Tuesday, three days into Small Business Week: an Automated Ads platform, video editing features and appointment booking capabilities. “With over 90 million small businesses on Facebook, we’re proud to play a role in helping business of all sizes grow […]...

Facebook has updated its video ranking algorithm to surface more video content routinely sought out by users and watched repeatedly, along with videos that keep people engaged for a longer amount of time. “We will add more weight in ranking to videos that keep people engaged, especially on videos that are at least three minutes […]...

Once upon a time, influencer marketing was reserved for brands putting their products in the hands of high-profile public figures and celebrities, but social media — Instagram in particular — has changed the game. Now, the majority of Instagram influencers are “micro-influencers” with fewer than 10,000 followers according, to a new report from Socialbakers. The […]...

Google is planning to announce new tools for Chrome that offer users more control over third party tracking cookies, according to the Wall Street Journal. The controls and default settings would be somewhat less “severe” than the anti-cookie tracking moves made by Safari and Firefox, which adopted default tracking protection. Browser announcement to come at […]...

Inertia. Momentum. Mojo. We try to build and capitalize on these powerful forces every day to change and accelerate the initiatives that matter. Individuals thrive on it, teams crave it, markets rely on it, businesses require it, and CMOs are demanding it…again. B2B marketing has been notorious for having a stop-start-stop-start mentality. For the last […]...

Today’s consumers operate in real time. With hundreds of options available and purchases being made in seconds, the need to be in front of these consumers at the moment of decision is more critical than ever. You need to know who your consumers are at the moment of both inbound and outbound engagement to provide […]...

As expected, Google introduced a new 10-inch screen smart display at Google I/O. Google smart displays and speakers have now been rebranded under the Nest moniker. The rationale involves bringing the Google Home and Nest smart-home products together in the same group under the same brand, which makes complete sense. Cool hardware, clumsy branding. All […]...

App Actions, first previewed at last year’s Google I/O, is expanding with built-in intents for four new App Action categories: health and fitness, finance and banking, food ordering and ridesharing. These new intents are aimed at enabling developers to integrate their apps with Google Assistant. Here’s an example of it in action: Users can execute […]...

U.S. digital ad revenues topped $100 billion for the first time last year, reaching at $107.5 billion in 2018, a growth rate of 22% from $88.3 billion in 2017, according to the IAB’s annual Internet Advertising Revenue Report released Tuesday. Trends driving growth Digital ad giants. Large-scale ad companies are steering a large bulk of […]...

Digital video ad spend continues to climb, with advertisers reporting that they expect to spend, on average, $18 million in 2019, up from $14.2 million in 2018, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Research indicated that more than half of digital video ad spend will be driven by video ads […]...