Twitter’s COO Exits, With CFO to Fill Role
Twitter Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain, who built the company’s business model, is leaving just as the company works to address slowing revenue growth. Chief...
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U.S. Soccer taps Facebook, Instagram to hype USA-Mexico rivalry game
U.S. Soccer is taking to Facebook and Instagram to feed fans with live and social videos ahead of the men’s national team’s World Cup qualifying...
Marketers Making Hay with Social Data, Unless Resources Restrict Efforts
Using social data to connect with potential customers is considered standard operating procedure for marketers today. In fact, more than 50 percent of marketers in...
Global Media Brands Make Strategic Investment in Social Video Creation Platform Wochit
$13M funding from ProSieben, SPH, Carlo de Benedetti and existing investors reinforce value of video to publishers worldwide London: Social video creation platform Wochit announced receipt...
mParticle Raises Millions to Advance Multi-Screen Customer Data Platform
Ahead of the weekend, MMW learned that mParticle — a multi-screen customer data platform — has closed a Series B funding round of $17.5M led...
Top 5 Conversation Volume States for Each Vice Presidential Candidate
The following is a guest contributed post from Amit Avner, Founder and CEO of Taykey. This past Tuesday marked the first and last Vice Presidential...
What would a Twitter acquisition mean for marketers?
If a deal does finally materialize, Twitter’s future could be very different than the one it currently faces as an independent entity. Here are some...
Where Will Facebook’s Ad Reinsertion Move Leave GroupM?
AdExchanger | “Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is...
Watching People Eat Is Big in Korea; Now It’s Supposedly Coming to America
Twitch Interactive, the video-game streaming service Amazon acquired for almost $1 billion two years ago, hinted at what could be the next sensation in internet...
The internet hates Apple iOS 10’s new font and emojis
It’s barely been a couple of hours since Apple’s iOS 10 update came out, but the internet is already having a collective meltdown over a...
Facebook Stands Up To Clickbait, Day 2: The Media Responds
The media industry responded predictably to an announcement from Facebook Thursday that articles using so-called “clickbait” headline tropes will get lower billing in the social...
Marketer MVPs of Social Media: Tumblr Eagerly Awaits the Return of My Chemical Romance
NBC nabbed first place on this week’s list of Social Media MVPs using the tried and true technique of posting beautiful music for an audience...
Why Sonos is following Apple’s footsteps with an experiential store
This is ThinkTank, a series in which we quiz brand chiefs and CMOs on where the industry is heading. Sonos faces a marketing challenge: Many...
IRS Takes Facebook to Court, Showing Tougher Stance on IP-Driven Companies
Signaling a shift in enforcement tactics against big companies that make money from intellectual property, federal tax officials have sought a court order demanding internal...
The NCAA Goes Full-Court Press On Its Social Strategy
AdExchanger | The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has no trouble getting people interested in March Madness, when the fans are rabid. It’s the rest...
Snapchat’s user base is getting older: How should marketers respond?
According to comScore data, in May 38% of US mobile users aged 25 to 35 and 14% of those older than 35 used Snapchat, a...
