I just sent the following email to an Austin, Texas-based colleague: Hey ______, Are you aware that an ad for your company, with your name on it, appears on Breitbart’s home page? Screen shot attached. Best, Rebecca I also tweeted out the alert, copying Sleeping Giants, a coalition “trying to stop racist websites by stopping their […]
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When Facebook announced last week that it will soon become more difficult for brands’ page posts to appear in the news feeds of their friends, fans, and followers, the outcry was predictable. This was the latest move, many brands asserted, in Facebook “forcing” them to buy ads to reach their rightful audiences. After all, the
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The written word seems to be on the decline, at least in the online space. Articles and white papers have morphed into blog posts and status updates. Hashtags, acronyms and emoticons stand in for sentences. OTP, BRB, LMK, OK? How low can you go? In a year or two, 140 characters — a miserly
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As the company recently strongly hinted it would, Instagram today announced it will debut advertising on the platform early next month – native advertising, that is. Aligned with the definition of the term in the research I recently published, the ad creative will be photos from the advertisers’ own Instagram accounts that appear in the feed,
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Not since the legislative debate over spam back in the early part of the millennium has a digital marketing term been so riddled by obfuscation and misunderstanding as native advertising. A quick search of the term on Google returns an impressive 219 million results, yet to date there’s been no real definition of what marketers,
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Three related, clustered events constitute a trend. So, what have we here? February 25: Mindshare appoints a content chief February 27: Edelman names (a new, digital-focused) chief content officer February 27: Facebook announces a content strategy fellowship March 25: Sequoia Capital appoints a head of content March 26: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt names its first chief
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Search is the de facto way in which consumers navigate content platforms. Not just the Web via traditional search engines, but all types of platforms, from television to radio to music libraries. The fact that search has always been lacking from Facebook has long been a source of criticism and frustration. Facebook Search Graph There’s
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Breaking: everything you see and read on the internet isn’t true. Hope you were sitting down for that surprising revelation. I know, I know, it’s not that big a surprise, but that’s why it’s constantly surprising that people are…surprised by it. A reporter from one of this country’s leading metropolitan dailies contacted me recently about
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Those brands that are still ‘just’ advertising have it relatively easy. They partner with advertising agencies that are tasked with coming up with the creative idea for advertising campaigns. In fact, they have a dedicated staff of “creatives” tasked with doing just that. Not to denigrate agencies, or creatives, or the vast amount of strategy,
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Attention is being retargeted to…retargeting. Last week, Facebook announced Facebook Exchange, a new real-time bidding platform that will replace the marketplace ads on the site with inventory that will be both more profitable for Facebook and presumably more targeted to the interests of its users. Facebook will be able to target ads to users based
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