The format of choice has been chronological feeds, such as Facebook's News feed and Foursquare's Explore. Through the evolution of local search, one thing Yelp, Facebook, Foursquare and others share is investor pressure to develop the...
You know that moment when you're staring at your Twitter feed, your RSS list or even your Facebook News Feed and everything reads unbelievably boring and unoriginal? If something looks interesting in your feed reader but you're running to a meeting...
Facebook's CFO David Ebersman said the growth in ad revenue was driven by the strong performance of news feed ads. Facebook's precise user profiles, combined with targeting users across devices and off Facebook, will be an absolute gold mine when...
In an online statement, Twitter said it has widened reporting on user engagement with Promoted Tweets – the sponsored tweets that appear at the top of its news feed – to include not just paid media but also earned media, or those that are...
YouTube for iOS gets access to live streams, My Subscriptions feed, video queuing for TV playback, and more – The Next Web Facebook tests Graph Search ads and debuts CPA bidding. Facebook Tests Its First Graph Search Ads, But They Aren’t Targeted...
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook): percent of users' time spent on News Feed million photos uploaded daily billion Likes every day million pages with 10+ Likes million...
If you triangulate Facebook's moves with Nearby/Local Search, Graph Search, and mobile news feed ads, there's an opportunity to connect buyers and sellers in locally relevant ways. With Cover Feed, which gives you News Feed updates on your home...
Digg is taking advantage of Google's decision to close its popular RSS feed reader Google Reader and has announced that it has already started developing its own version. Digg hopes to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader's features...
Bear in mind now, Bing has direct feed access to the entire Facebook database of connections, Likes, and shares. I am not going to dig into that the entirety of that argument today, other than to note that in my recent interview with Bing's Stefan...
As promised, Facebook’s news feed is evolving to feature larger photos and multiple feeds that are designed to reduce clutter. The revamped news feed follows accusations earlier this week from a New York Times writer who claimed Facebook was...
The median reach of a Facebook article is said to be around 16 percent – in other words only 16 percent of your followers will see your average Facebook posts in their news feed. It’s not easy…” So say the multitude of recent Facebook posts that...
Social network Facebook has said it will roll out some major changes to its news feed during a March 7 event. It's unclear yet what features this News Feed update will bring, but as always with Facebook redesigns, expect it to be met with...
The first result is a Bing news aggregation feed featuring posts from Huffington Post (posted just a few minutes prior to search and had 4 shares and zero comments), Search Engine Land (one day prior to search with a total of 1,168 shares and...
Ads are placed in the News Feed of users targeted by the advertiser who are notPage fans or friends of fans. News Feed* News Feed The News Feed report will provide data for ads that are placed in a user’s News Feed.
Local suggestions built from Nearby and locally oriented graph search will create monetizable inventory for advertising within the news feed. Worldwide Facebook mobile users will meanwhile reach 1 billion in 2013 (currently 600 million).
Facebook Ranking Factors: How to Gain an Edge in the News Feed Facebook has shared a few basic tips on how you can improve the visibility of your Facebook Page when users conduct searches. Facebook also provides users with the ability to refine...
It started with a News feed that answered the question "What is going on with people around me? Graph Search, not unlike a traditional search engine, is meant to have its users search for data on more than 1 billion Facebook users.
The brand is featuring related content on a custom microsite with video assets, and has been posting about it on Facebook and its Twitter feed (hashtag #TheLastFriday). In Quebec, Canada, brewery Unibroue is using a custom microsite and Facebook...
We're always working to make our apps faster, and in this update we've rebuilt news feed, notifications and Timeline for speed. Facebook released a native app for Android devices on Thursday, which it claims is "twice as fast" as its previous effort.
Facebook News Feed Ads), most mobile ad formats today fall into the main categories of search, display, SMS, or video. For users, apps have created a warm and fuzzy environment (so search isn't relied upon as heavily).
