Facebook is exploring the creation of its own cryptocurrency, a virtual token that would allow its billions of users around the world to make electronic payments, according to people familiar with Facebook’s plans. “They are very serious about it,” said one of the people, who asked not to be identified discussing unannounced plans. Facebook started […]
Facebook is adding a dating layer to its main mobile app, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s F8 developer conference keynote in San Jose, California. The features are a long time coming for the 14-year-old social network, which has allowed users to broadcast whether they’re single or in a relationship since it first went […]
Facebook posted $11.8 billion in advertising revenue for Q1 2018, a 50% increase over the same period last year, according to its earnings report for the quarter. Mobile ad revenue represented about 91% of ad revenue in Q1, up from 85% a year ago. The number of daily active users on the platform increased 13% […]
Two thirds (62%) of B2B marketers polled by LinkedIn believe that video should be the primary platform of any creators. 202 B2B digital marketers were polled in the UK and Ireland between February and March 2018 by Microsoft’s professional social network. 62% saw video as the most important content format. This was followed by email, […]
Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest retail bookseller, has announced the launch of Browsery —the first mobile app to talk about books the way readers do. Browsery is available for Android and iOS users. It blends technology with the Barnes & Noble experience of community, conversation and peer-to-peer recommendations to deliver a new kind of […]
Retailers will soon find a wider selection of ads available to them on Pinterest. The visual search company is expanding its “Shopping Ads” feature, which was tested with a handful of retailers last year. The ads, which consumers see in their Pinterest search feeds, will now be available to hundreds of other brands after a […]
Instagram‘s shopping service is expanding into the UK, letting retailers tag their products in images to sell directly to people on the the social network. The launch in the UK follows a small-scale beta trial with Marks & Spencer, Heidi Klein and Mahabis. Amy Cole, head of product development at Instagram, says the shopping tool […]
Formula 1 and Snap have announced a multi-year extension to the global partnership the two firms agreed to in the middle of the 2017 season. The deal will run for multiple years, and increase Snapchat’s coverage of Grand Prix events from just seven in 2017 to at least 10 in 2018 and beyond. The 2017 […]
Twitter’s spam bot issue isn’t new, but it came to a head when it was revealed that thousands of Russian troll accounts used the platform to influence the 2016 Presidential elections. Now, the company has announced a set of changes and new developer guidelines meant to fight off automated actions and to make it harder […]
Facebook has announced that views on it’s newsfeed won’t be counted in organic reach. Furthermore, the number of times a post appears on the screen of a user will determine the number of views it has generated and not simply the times it has appeared in the newsfeed, which means the measurement is now consistent […]