Facebook Adds Disputed Alert to Fight Fake News
Facebook’s tool to combat fake news is here. The social network is adding a red warning sign whenever users share disputed content.
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Danny Goodwin is the former Executive Editor of Search Engine Journal. He formerly was managing editor of Momentology and editor of Search Engine Watch.
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Twitter Adds New Filters to Mute Content, Notifications
Twitter has introduced some new features that will let you filter out more notifications and content you don’t want to see. Here’s what’s new.
Facebook Reactions Now More Important Than Likes
Facebook’s algorithm is now rewarding posts that get more Reactions – whether it’s Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, or Angry – with greater News Feed visibility.
YouTube Is Killing an Ad Format Everyone Hates
Unskippable 30-second video ads will fade to black for good on YouTube in 2018. YouTube has officially announced the end of this hated format.
Facebook Turns on Video Sound in News Feed
Facebook is changing the way you watch videos on your smartphone. Most significantly: videos in the News Feed now automatically play with sound.
YouTube Gives Creators Live Streaming, Super Chat
YouTube is launching mobile live streaming and a tool to earn money from those live streams – but only for creators with at least 10,000...
Bing Ads Blocked 130 Million Bad Ads Last Year
Bing Ads blocked 130 million ads and banned 175,000 advertisers last year. That’s according to Bing Ads’ Ad Quality in Review 2016 report.
6 Surprising Stats from the Snapchat IPO Filing
Snap, parent company of Snapchat, is going public. Here are six statistics from Snapchat’s IPO filing that marketers will find interesting.
Facebook Search Now Recognizes Objects in Photos
Facebook’s image search system can detect and segment objects, scenes, animals, places, and clothes that appear in images or videos – and understand them.
Pinterest Expands Search Ads Offering
Pinterest is making its paid search product – which includes keyword and shopping campaigns, targeting, and reporting – available to more advertisers.
Facebook Is Changing How it Ranks Stories in 2 Ways
Facebook is changing the way it ranks stories in the News Feed. The social network is adding a new ranking signal and updating real-time signals.
Facebook Has a New Way to Rank Videos in the News Feed
Attention, marketers: if you want your brand’s videos to appear in the News Feed of Facebook users, then you better have high video completion rates.
3 Changes Coming to Facebook Trending Stories
Facebook today announced three new updates that will alter the way its Trending topics section works. Here’s what Facebook is changing.
6 Major Changes Coming to LinkedIn’s Redesigned Desktop Site
LinkedIn has given its desktop site a much-needed redesign. Here’s what’s changing with LinkedIn’s navigation, messaging, content and feeds, and search.
14 Irresistible Valentine’s Day Search Stats From Bing
Win the love of the most valuable shoppers this year. Here’s who will be shopping, how and when they’ll be searching, and what they’ll be...
6 New Facebook Live Features You Need to Know
Here are the six latest Facebook Live features and tools you need to know about, including Pages going live via the web and appointing Live...
Facebook Tests New Mid-Roll Video Ads
The ads will be triggered after a Facebook user has watched a video for 20 seconds and only appear in videos that have a running...
Facebook Updates How Dynamic Ads Work
To help drive more sales, Facebook will show even more targeted product ads to users based on their browsing activity, Facebook behavior, and demographics.
Pinterest Business Pages Get a Big Update
Pinterest is unveiling a new look to business pages. The big update gives businesses a new way to showcase boards and buyable pins.
Yelp Users Can Now Check-in With Yelfies
Yelp has three new features that lets users check-in with a photo, changes the way business images are displayed, and lets users share bookmark collections.
New on Pinterest: Autoplay Videos, Tried It Pins
Pinterest is testing a new type of Promoted Video that begins playing as soon as Pinterest users discover it. The company has also unveiled “tried...
Twitter Lets Users Block Keywords, Hashtags, Conversations
Twitter has updated its mute feature to allow users stop getting notifications for tweets that contain certain words, usernames, hashtags, and even emojis.
Bing Ads Tests Dynamic Search Ads
Bing Ads is testing Dynamic Search Ads in the U.S. Dynamic search ads let you create ads for relevant search queries based on the content...
Fake News Sites Banned From Facebook Ad Network
Facebook has updated its advertising guidelines in order to prevent fake news sites from generating revenue from the Facebook Audience Network.
New in Instagram Stories: Boomerang, Mentions & Links
Instagram is adding three new features to Stories – a mini-video format called Boomerang, the ability to mention other users, and links.
Instagram Makes it Easier for Users to Shop & Buy
Instagram is about to roll out a pair of new shopping features to make it easier for its 500 million users to shop without leaving...
6 YouTube Tools to Clean Up Your Comments Section
YouTube is rolling out some new features that are designed to improve engagement in your comments section and also filter out the comment trolls.
Facebook’s Q3 Results: 5 Things You Need to Know
Facebook continues to grow its advertising revenue and attract new users. Here are five things marketers need to know about Facebook’s Q3 2016 results.
Twitter Introduces Welcome Messages, Quick Replies
Twitter now lets brands use chatbots to help provide better customer service more quickly with a pair of new features: Welcome Screens and Quick Replies.
Twitter Cuts Off Vine
Twitter has announced that Vine, which is known for its looping 6-second videos, will be discontinued in the “coming months.”