Facebook Tests Video Autoplay in Mobile News Feeds
Facebook will begin testing a new mobile feature Thursday that plays videos automatically as users scroll through their News Feeds. The videos will begin playing as they come into view on the screen, and users can preview them within the News Feed without clicking on or opening them. Each video will play silently and can […]
Facebook-Flavored Ice Cream Is a Real Thing – Facebook Marketing
Can you imagine tasting a social network? Two enterprising ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came up with the novel idea. One of the owners, Admir Adil, noticed his 15-year-old daughter was incessantly checking Facebook, so he thought it only appropriate to create a flavor for other […]
Facebook Sells ‘Social Butterfly Blue’ Nail Polish- Facebook Marketing
You can now wear Facebook pride on your fingertips. The company is currently selling a shade of nail polish, “social butterfly blue” at its campus store in Menlo Park, Calif. Although Facebook told Mashable it added the polish to its collection of branded swag at the beginning of the year, its existence was recently brought […]
Can Facebook Rewrite the Industry Standard For User Engagement?
The “monthly active users” figure has long been the industry standard for user engagement in social media. It’s easy to digest, but more importantly, it’s a benchmark capable of comparing the most social of social networks to the new kids on the block. When it comes to Facebook, however, monthly active users have become a […]
7 Top Social Networks Among American Teens – Digital Media Marketing
We heard from one 13-year-old who claims none of her friends use Facebook and a 15-year-old who said all of her friends use Facebook. While the perception of each of these two teens can provide snapshots of their schools and communities, Statista created this chart based on Pew data on American teens’ social media use […]
Researcher: Advertise Your Facebook Post Within 24 Hours or Don’t Bother
If your brand just posted a status on Facebook, don’t waste time waiting to amplify it with an ad buy. If you don’t do so within 24 hours, you will lose a great deal of the engagement and viral impressions that would have been generated by posting earlier. This is the gist of new research […]
Are Paid Facebook Ads Worth the Bucks?
To advertise on Facebook, or not to advertise on Facebook? There’s still plenty of debate about whether advertising on Facebook (or social media in general) is worth it, and whether it’s more useful as a lead generation tactic than a direct driver of sales. But as anyone on Facebook can see from the sheer number […]
Facebook Acquires Mobile Technologies, a Speech Translation Developer
Facebook has acquired Mobile Technologies, a developer of voice recognition and translation tools, the two companies announced late Monday. The terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Mobile Technologies, founded in 2001, built Jibbigo, an app for iPhone and Android that the company describes as “the world’s first speech-to-speech translator on a phone that […]
Analyst Prediction: Facebook Video Ads Will Generate $1 Billion in 2014
Facebook users may not be excited to see video ads hit their News Feeds, but company stockholders should be. A report released by Morgan Stanley on Wednesday predicts that Facebook’s video advertisements will generate more than $1 billion in 2014 — a lofty total considering they don’t exist yet. This total would constitute 1% of […]
8 Creative Ways to Connect With Customers on Facebook
Facebook is a not-so-secret secret weapon for promoting your business. That being said, a lot of companies don’t take full advantage of what this social media platform has to offer when it comes to making deep, lasting connections with their customers. Ads and pleas to “like this” simple don’t quite cut it. That’s why we […]
