May 9, 2018
Post Live Videos Across Multiple Facebook Pages
Facebook has announced three interesting additions to their suite of tools for Live video.
May 8, 2018
Google AdWords testing Machine Learning Responsive Ads
Google AdWords is testing Responsive Search Ads
May 7, 2018
It Is Time To Reset Your Twitter Password
Twitter is strongly recommending that all 330 million of its users reset their password after they found a bug had…
April 29, 2018
Marketing Nation Summit
Things will be quiet on the site this week as I attend the Marketing Nation Summit in San Francisco.
April 27, 2018
Reddit Promoted Posts Now In Both Mobile Apps
Reddit has announced they are rolling out the feature to their Android version also.
April 26, 2018
According To Facebook, Users Are Not The Product
Facebook is on the defensive. In a recent blog post entitled "Hard Questions: What Information Do Facebook Advertisers…
April 25, 2018
Instagram Now Lets You Export All Pics And User Info
The social platform has now released a tool that enables users to download most of their info
April 24, 2018
Facebook Test New Video Format
The format is called 'Premieres and is essentially the ability for publishers and video creators to post pre-recorded…
April 23, 2018
Facebook Moving Data of 1.5 Billion Users
Facebook has decided to make a small change to their terms and conditions and to move the data of 1.5 billion users
April 22, 2018
More Brand Safety Issues For YouTube
CNN has discovered that ads from well know brands have been shown alongside channels that have very questionable…
April 21, 2018
Google Confirms Another Broad Core Algorithm Update
Google released yet another broad core algorithm update on Monday, April 16th
April 20, 2018
Google Launches New Format – Outstream Ads
Good news, you just got a brand spanking new option for video ads
April 19, 2018
US Senators Push GDPR Type Bill Of Rights
The bill is called the Customer Online Notification for Stopping Edge-provider Network Transgressions (CONSENT)
April 18, 2018
Facebook Partner With Boom To Fact Check Indian News
Facebook has just announced they are piloting a third-party fact-checking partnership with the independent journalism…
April 17, 2018
New Filter For Google Search Console – Search Appearance
Google has added the Search Appearance Filter which gives you the ability to filter and compare
April 16, 2018
Have 9% Of Americans Deleted Their Facebook Accounts?
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and concern of the privacy of our data, the #DeleteFacebook movement…
April 15, 2018
YouTube Will No Longer Support Third-Party Ad Serving In EU
This is big news! Google has announced that it is shutting off access to third-party ad serving and pixel tracking for…
April 13, 2018
Google Roll Out ‘More Results’ On Mobile
It's official! Google has released its "More results" button for mobile search.
April 11, 2018
Google Launches Reach Planner
Just released in beta testing is the new tool from Google. It is called Reach Planner and helps you plan for video…
April 10, 2018
Have You Been Hit By Cambridge Analytica?
Sometime today, Facebook users will see one of two posts at the top of their feed
April 9, 2018
Surprise – More People Were Hit By Cambridge Analytica Breach Than First Thought
Facebook put out a new blog post announcing that the initial estimate of 50 million people that they thought were…
April 7, 2018
Facebook Updating Terms And Data Collection Policy
In the latest effort to curb the Facebook backlash, the media giant is updating their Terms and Conditions and their…
April 6, 2018
Google My Business Now Let You Add A Business Description
Google is now letting businesses add a business description that will show up in the local knowledge panel in search…
April 5, 2018
Facebook Testing New Features For News Feed
Facebook, the media giant is trialling new features in its news feed.
April 3, 2018
YouTube Introduce TrueView For Reach
YouTube has introduced a new skippable short-form ad format. Called TrueView for Reach, it is based on the success of…
April 1, 2018
Bing Launch Price Extensions
Bing has just announced they are rolling out price extensions to Bing Ads.
March 29, 2018
Outbrain To Offer Video Ads
Outbrain has reached an exclusive partnership with Telaria to offer video ads on the content discovery platform.
March 27, 2018
Google AdWords Deactivating Accounts With No Spend
Google AdWords is deactivating accounts that have no ad spend within the past 15 months
March 15, 2018
Google Add Page Title Tag As Image Captions
Google has now added a caption below each image
March 14, 2018
Google Confirm New Search Algorithm Change
Google has now confirmed that a new "broad core algorithm update" has been released.
March 14, 2018
AdWords Adding Notes
Google has announced that over the next few weeks, they are rolling out a new 'notes' feature to AdWords.
March 13, 2018
Google Custom Intent Audiences Now On YouTube
Google has announced they are rolling out Custom Intent Audiences (previously available on Google Display Network…
March 12, 2018
Twitter Verification For All
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey mentioned in a live stream that Twitter is ultimately wanting to open up Twitter verifications…
February 28, 2018
The 2018 Mobile and New Technology Priorities for Marketers Report Released
Forrester has released their report entitled "The 2018 Mobile and New Technology Priorities for Marketers: Why…
February 26, 2018
Time Spent Downloading A Page – Bug Confirmed In Search Console
If you saw a massive dip in your "time spent downloading a page" report in Google Search Console, you are not alone.
February 23, 2018
In Case You Missed It – Google Drop News Meta Tag
Google has confirmed they have dropped the 'news' meta keyword tag.
February 22, 2018
Google AdSense Launch Auto Ads
Auto Ads are a brand new ad format that is designed to increase revenue for publishers
February 21, 2018
Facebook To Face $125M Fine If It Doesn’t Comply With Belgian Court Ruling
A Belgian court has ordered Facebook to cease tracking users without their consent (and delete all held data on…
February 20, 2018
Google Finally Disclose Recrawl Limits
Google has finally updated their help documentation to outline what changes have been made with recrawl limits and…
February 19, 2018
Twitter Live Streaming During Breaking News Events
Twitter has announced that they are going to partner with local news stations to stream their broadcasts during these…
February 18, 2018
Google Helping WordPress Address Page Speed Issues
Google has formally announced they are working with WordPress to address page speed issues.
February 16, 2018
Come See Us At Webstock Wellington
For any New Zealand based readers, if you are in Wellington for Webstock, look out for me.
February 15, 2018
Instagram To Tell You When Someone Screenshots Your Story
Instagram has confirmed that they are testing a new feature that will tell a user when someone has taken a screenshot…
February 14, 2018
Facebook Attempt Romance
Facebook has released a few new features for when you confirm you are in a relationship with someone
February 13, 2018
Google Partners With Getty To Make Copyright Disclaimers More Prominent
Getty Images has announced a multi-year global licensing partnership with Google
February 13, 2018
Copy Or Copy Not – There Is No Try
Instagram users will be able to share other people stories, the same way people can re-tweet
February 12, 2018
Login To Bing With Google Or Facebook
Bing Webmaster Tools now let you log in using your Google or Facebook account.
February 9, 2018
Facebook Are Testing A Downvoting Option
Facebook are testing an option to downvote a public page post
February 8, 2018
The New Ad-venger – Google Chrome Ad Block
Google will update a set of guidelines due to go into effect on 15 February 2018 with the launch of the Google Chrome…
February 7, 2018
Google Make SEO Addition To Lighthouse Extension
Google announced they are adding an "SEO Audits" category
February 6, 2018
Google Search Console Now Available For All
Google has just announced that the new Google Search Console is now out of beta and available to all users.
February 2, 2018
Bing Rolls Out Multi User Access
Bing has announced that it is rolling out Multi-User Access so that digital marketers can manage multiple accounts with…
January 31, 2018
Twitter Planning On Making Video Sharing Easy
Twitter is working on a new tool to enable sharing of video (including live broadcasts) a lot easier.
January 30, 2018
Copy It Until You Make It – Instagram Add New Features
Instagram just announced 3 major changes
January 29, 2018
Permanently Mute Websites In Google Chrome
Chrome is rolling out a new feature that can silence the dodgy practice of autoplay.
January 26, 2018
Facebook and Twitter To Investigate Another Russian Bot Issue
it would appear that the Russians are up to their tricks again.
January 25, 2018
Facebook Update Branded Content Policy
Facebook has just updated it's branded content policy to ensure that creators and publishers do not profit from posting…
January 24, 2018
Snapchat Now Let You Share Stories Outside Of Snapchat
Snapchat has rolled out a new feature to share your Snapchat Stories via a link that you can share or text to…
January 24, 2018
Most Of You Should Now Have Access To Ne Google Search Console
It would seem that Google is just rounding off the global release of the new Search Console
January 23, 2018
Brace Yourself – Facebook’s New Algorithm Is Coming
Facebook has announced that it will soon only promote genuine and organic reach from reliable sources.
January 22, 2018
Facebook Testing Ability To Assign Message To Team
Facebook has been seen testing a feature to allow you to assign your Facebook page's private messages to team members
January 19, 2018
Google Ramps Up Reviews Of YouTube Premium Content
YouTube is putting tighter controls in place for brands in the Google Preferred video program.
January 18, 2018
Page Speed As A Ranking Factor In Mobile Search
Google has announced that they have a new algorithm for ranking pages for mobile search.
January 17, 2018
Google Now Use Chrome Data To Calculate Page Speed Insights
Google rolls-out a change to the PageSpeed Insight tool, allowing the speed results to come from actual data from…
January 16, 2018
Google Reverse Image Search Bug
Google has confirmed that it is going to fix a bug that is currently happening with the tool.
January 15, 2018
Commercial Content To Be De-emphasized in Facebook
Facebook looking to prioritize content from family and friends over businesses and media publishers
January 12, 2018
Google Temp Bans Addiction Center Ads Around The World
Google has placed a temporary ban on all advertising for addiction centres while they work out what to do
January 11, 2018
Say Goodbye To Review Extensions In Google AdWords
Google has announced that it is sunsetting Review Extensions later this month and deleting entirely out of AdWords in…
January 10, 2018
New Google Search Console Finally Coming To All
Google is now rolling out the new Search Console to the wider world over the next few weeks.
January 9, 2018
Google Temporarily Remove Publishers From News
Now, this is embarrassing. Google accidentally removed a number of publishers from Google News.
January 8, 2018
Twitter Is The Best Social Network For Lame Excuses
Oh, Twitter, I try to love you, but you make it really really hard to do so!
January 7, 2018
Zuckerberg’s New Year Challenge May Surprise You
Mark has two new focusses and they partially restore my faith in the social network and the future of cryptocurrency.
January 6, 2018
Spotify Hit New Milestone
So it is now official, Spotify now has over 70 million subscribers.
January 5, 2018
Are They Bringing Back Video For Google My Business?
According to some business owners, Google has been spotted testing the return of video in your local listings within…
January 4, 2018
Big Changes For Adwords Buyers That Use Grant Money
In an effort to encourage (or force) grant money spenders to act responsibly, there are some sweeping changes that have…
January 3, 2018
New Tool From Google Tests Your Rich Results Readiness
Google has introduced a super useful tool called Rich Results Test.
January 2, 2018
Google Tests Related Searches For Images
Google has added a related search field to any image searches we perform.
January 1, 2018
Happy New Year
I just want to take a moment to thank you all for an awesome 2017 and to wish you all a wonderful and prosperous New…
December 31, 2017
Instagram’s Recommended Posts For All
The brand new "recommended for all" feature on Instagram is now being rolled out to all users.
November 24, 2017
Did You Fall For Russian Propaganda On Facebook?
Facebook is introducing a new portal/tool to show you if you had engaged with pages that were linked to the Russian…
November 24, 2017
Facebook Introducing Streaks?
It seems Facebook is testing out another rip off of a Snapchat feature.
November 23, 2017
4K Photos in Facebook Messenger
Facebook has announced they have just released the ability to share photos up to 4K resolution within Facebook…
November 22, 2017
Google Roll Out Custom Intent Audiences For GDN
Google is rolling out Custom Intent Audiences for the Google Display Network
November 22, 2017
New Version Of AdWords Editor Brings New Features
Google is rolling out a brand spanking new AdWords Editor (version 12.2).
November 21, 2017
Google Give You A New Way To Test Ad Variations
The latest release is a new way for us to test ad variations across thousands of ads in only a few clicks
November 21, 2017
Google AdWords Promotion Extensions Roll Out To The Masses
Promotion Extensions allow you to display offers in your text ads without having to create all new ads
November 20, 2017
Christmas coming early this year with YouTube… Or not…
YouTube is getting rid of these annoying ads that pop up halfway through the videos.
November 20, 2017
Google Is Introducing New Ways To Gain Your Trust
Google is rolling out eight different trust indicators to you to decide if a piece of content is credible or not.
November 19, 2017
No Week In Digital Marketing New Video This Week
Apologies everyone, we had some technical difficulties that meant we cannot get the video to you this week.
November 19, 2017
Facebook Launch Creators App And Education Site
Facebook is doubling down on trying to lure video creators over to Facebook from YouTube.
November 18, 2017
Twitter Changes Rules For Blue Tick Verification
Twitter has made some changes to the way their blue tick verification works.
November 17, 2017
Snapchat brings you Audience Filter
Enabling brands to target their audience based on the time of day, age, gender, language, type of device etc.
November 16, 2017
We Are Up At Ad:Tech Auckland Today
Ad:tech Auckland is on today and the AllTheGeek team will be there.
November 15, 2017
New Facebook Changes Make It Easier To Target Internationals
Facebook as just rolled out some changes that make life a lot easier to advertise around the world
November 14, 2017
Amazon About To Launch In Australia?
Some clever sods over at Reddit have seen the early signs that a full launch of Amazon in Australia could happen in…
November 13, 2017
Facebook Killing Like Button For Third-Party Apps
As of February 6th, 2018, the native Like button that is embedded in third-party apps will no longer function.
November 12, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 11 November 2017
In this episode: Facebook Kill the Like button in third-party apps, Adobe launch 'Launch', How to know if your local…
November 11, 2017
Instagram Stories Now Accept Content Over 24hrs Old
Instagram Stories will now accept any content regardless whether it was created in the last 24hrs or not.
November 10, 2017
Twitter Increases Display Name To 50 Chars
Twitter have just announced that the character limit for display names is not increasing from 20 to 50.
November 9, 2017
Twitter Enables 280 Char Limit For All – Kind Of
That's right, 280 character limits will now be the norm for all Twitter users.
November 8, 2017
Resource – Micro Learning
You would have seen in the latest Week In Digital Marketing Video our latest tech find is a micro-learning platform…
November 8, 2017
Facebook Refund Advertisers For Yet Another Blunder
Facebook has just announced that they have discovered two new measurement errors that resulted in advertisers paying…
November 7, 2017
Did Twitter Censor The Term Bisexual?
Twitter users discovered if you search for the term 'bisexual' under standard Twitter search, it works fine, but then,…
November 6, 2017
Google Launch AR/VR Object Library
Google has launched their new library called 'Poly'.
November 6, 2017
Google Roll Out New Look For Mobile Search
Spotted out in the wild is a new look for mobile search that includes a wider search bar and more 'white space'....oh,…
November 5, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 4 November 2017
In this episode: just how many Americans did the Russian 'Election Scandal' reach, Bing announce some interesting new…
November 4, 2017
You Can Now Conduct Polls On Facebook Pages
Well, this is an exciting development. Facebook has just rolled out polls for Facebook pages.
November 3, 2017
Rogue Twitter Employee Silences Trump for 5-11 Mins
In a story that will be told to their grandkids, a rogue customer support employee at Twitter decided to go out with…
November 3, 2017
Snapchat Add Snap Pixel To Track Vert-Video Ad Conversions
It has been a while coming, but Snapchat is slowly releasing their Snap Pixel.
November 2, 2017
Facebook Are Not Going Anywhere – Q3 Results
The Q3 earnings were released today and things are looking great for the social media giant.
October 30, 2017
Adobe Showcase Their New AI Tools And Blow Us Away
Adobe showcased some impressive prototypes that use A.I. to do all the heavy lifting for you.
October 30, 2017
You Can No Longer Use A URL To Change Which Google You Are Using
Google is no longer going to be using URLs (or ccTLDs) as a way to determine which Google country you are using.
October 29, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 28 October 2017
In this episode: the death or Organic Facebook, AI that can edit photos and videos for you, Apple deliberately hobbling…
October 28, 2017
You Can Now Delete Embarrassing WhatsApp Messages
WhatsApp has announced they are rolling out the ability to delete WhatsApp messages as long as they are deleted within…
October 27, 2017
Twitter Ban Media With Russian Government Links
Twitter has announced that they have banned two media outlets that have Russian government links.
October 25, 2017
Facebook Could Be Removing Organic Page Posts From News Feed
Facebook announce they are testing limiting organic page posts to only appear in the explore feed and not in users…
October 25, 2017
Facebook To Boost Organic Reach With New Explore Feed
Facebook has just launched a new feed for desktop Facebook called Explore Feed
October 24, 2017
Self-Serve Ads On Pinterest
It has been only eight months since Pinterest released search ads. Now the pin-board service has added a self-service…
October 23, 2017
A Near Real-Time Social Ad Benchmark
Thanks to Socialbaker, you can now compare your 'near real-time' ad performance against anonymized data from over 2,000…
October 22, 2017
Google Tag Manager Adds Scroll Depth Trigger
Google has just released a native Scroll Depth Trigger to Tag Manager. Now you no longer need to rely on third-party…
October 19, 2017
WhatsApp Allow You To Share Real Time Locations
WhatsApp has borrowed heavily from its parent company Facebook and released a feature called Live Location.
October 19, 2017
All Bing Ads Content Network Data To Be Deleted
Bing has now sent out emails to any account that has either run or is running a content network campaign. The email…
October 18, 2017
New Ad Format For Twitter Sounds Interesting
Twitter has just rolled out the new Video Website Card ad format. This new format is designed to use video to push…
October 17, 2017
Facebook Entering Recruitment Space?
Things could potentially be hotting up in the recruitment space as some very observant punters have noticed a small…
October 17, 2017
AI Lets You Search Images Based On Composition
Shutterstock is testing an A.I. that allows you to search images based on the composition of the photo
October 12, 2017
New Bookmark For Later Option Coming For Twitter
Most of us would have had a similar experience on Twitter. You saw a Tweet, but cannot remember who tweeted it and no…
October 11, 2017
Confirm Your Facebook Login With Your Face?
Facebook is testing using facial recognition as a form of authentication (alongside their two-factor authentication).
October 9, 2017
Channel Update
A number of you have been asking what has happened to the weekly video updates
October 9, 2017
‘Algorithm’ Backlash From Facebook Security Chief
Alex Stamos from Facebook explains the difficulty of trying to use machine learning to essentially work out which…
October 8, 2017
AdWords Campaigns Can Spend Up To 2x Ave Daily Budget
As of the 4th October, your AdWord campaigns will be able to spend up to two times the ave daily budget.
October 6, 2017
Check Out ATG Learn
We have finally got around to adding courses to the ATG Learn page.
October 6, 2017
New Research Finds A Shift From Organic To Paid Clicks
Brian Wood from the Wayfair SEO team has seen a distinctive shift over the past two years from organic click-throughs…
October 5, 2017
You Can Soon Add Polls To Instagram Stories
Instagram is going to add the ability to add polls to Instagram Stories
October 5, 2017
Instagram Takes First Step To In App Purchases
Merchants selected by Instagram and Shopify will be able to start tagging their posts with products in Instagram’s apps…
October 4, 2017
Tweetdeck Now Allows Video Uploads And Sends
Tweetdeck has a newly added ability to upload and send a video via a tweet through the tool
October 4, 2017
No External Links On YouTube Channels Under 10K Subs
YouTube has added new requirements for external links in YouTube videos
October 2, 2017
Getty Images Banning Photo-shopped Models
Getty Images has officially announced that is banning all photos with touched up images of models bodies
September 30, 2017
Google Upgrades Two-Factor Authentication
Google is apparently rolling out a new service called Advanced Protection Program
September 28, 2017
Instagram Hit Another Major Milestone
Only six months after announcing that they had hit the 1 million advertiser mark, Instagram has announced that they…
September 28, 2017
Twitter Tests Doubling The Tweet Length
Twitter has announced it is doing open-ended testing of the new 280 character limit in all languages except for…
September 27, 2017
Messages As Standalone Ad Objectives In Facebook?
Yep, you heard right. Facebook has spun off 'messages' as a stand-alone campaign objective in Ads Manager.
September 25, 2017
Facebook Adding Human Review For Ad Targeting Options
According to COO Sheryl Sandberg, they are instituting "more manual review of new ad targeting options". Facebook has…
September 25, 2017
Schedule Videos In New YouTube Studio App Feature
There are two welcome changes to the YouTube Studio app as of today. You can now schedule posts as well as see your…
September 19, 2017
Facebook Remove Dodgy Free Text Targeting
Facebook was left red-faced this week after ProPublica reported that you could target audience categories such as…
September 15, 2017
Facebook Ads Manager And Power Editor Become One
Facebook has announced that the two tools will be rolled into one mega tool.
September 12, 2017
Twitter Building A Tweetstorm?
It seems Twitter are actively testing their own built in tweetstorm feature.
September 11, 2017
Twitter Rolls Out Teams For Mobile Apps
Twitter has announced they are rolling out the teams feature to their iOS and Android apps.
September 8, 2017
YouTube Streaming Faster Than Ever
Live Streamers rejoice! YouTube has announced an 'Ultra-Low Latency' mode for live streaming that will speed up your…
September 6, 2017
Business App Coming For WhatsApp
Messaging service WhatsApp has just announced they are currently building and testing a number of tools that will form…
September 5, 2017
Judge Rules Against Yahoo In Data Breach Case
Yahoo has been trying to dismiss a number of class action lawsuits for two mass data breahces claiming that the victims…
September 5, 2017
What Are The Most Searched ‘How To’ Searches?
Google has now created an interactive report/website to showcase the top 100 'how to' searches are around the world.…
September 4, 2017
Instagram Now Support Multiple Formats In Galleries
Instagram has announced they are now allowing photos and videos that were taken in portrait and landscape mode to be…
September 4, 2017
Amazon Allowing Headline Search Ads For Third Party Sellers
In late August, Amazon started allowing third-party sellers to start to use the Headline Search Ad format
September 3, 2017
Is Google Testing Infinite Scroll?
Users have started to report they are seeing Google testing an infinite scroll in search results pages on mobile…
September 2, 2017
No Video Again This Week
Apologies everyone, but we will be taking a break for a second week in a row from the week in digital marketing videos…
September 2, 2017
Notice Something Different About Your Like Button?
Facebook has been slowly rolling out a freshly designed button which uses a grey outline rather than the old school…
September 1, 2017
Facebook Pages That Share Fake News Will Be Banned From Buying Ads
Facebook has just announced that any Facebook Page that has posts repeatedly flagged as fake news, will be banned from…
September 1, 2017
Facebook Watch Rolling Out To All Of USA
Facebook has announced they are rolling out Facebook Watch to all users in the US in the next few days.
August 31, 2017
WhatsApp Adding Verified Accounts For Businesses
WhatsApp has started to give business accounts the ability to become 'Verified' if they verify their contact details.…
August 31, 2017
Have You Noticed A Decline In Facebook Page Reach?
According to some new research from BuzzSumo, Facebook posts that brands and publishers have created has seen a 20%…
August 30, 2017
YouTube Release A Whole Heap Of Changes
The new release rolled out today has a number of key changes and we are here to break down the ones you need to know.
August 29, 2017
Add Videos To Google Maps Local Listings
Google has announced that they are starting to roll out support for local guides (among others) to upload videos to…
August 28, 2017
Facebook Making Certain Post Types Ineligible For Promotion
You may or may not be aware, but if you manage a Facebook page, up until now, you have had the ability to boost any…
August 28, 2017
Google Double The Amount Of Sitelinks On Search Ads For Mobile
Well, how about that, not long after Google change up the Sitelinks to the less obvious carousel tappable format, they…
August 27, 2017
No Video This Week
Apologies everyone, but we will be taking another break from the week in digital marketing videos this week due to a…
August 26, 2017
Google Roll Out Landing Page Mobile Assessment Tool
Earlier this year, Google announced at Google Marketing Next that they would be rolling out a new landing page tool.
August 25, 2017
Sharpen Up Your Facebook Profile Cover With A 360 Photo
You can now use a 360-degree photo as your cover image.
August 25, 2017
Publishers Can Now Add Logos to Links In Facebook Search Results
As part of their move to combat 'fake news', Facebook is now allowing publishers to add their logos to article links…
August 24, 2017
Happy Tenth Birthday Hashtag
Wow, that escalated quickly. Twitter has announced that it is now 10 years since the first use of the # Hashtag.
August 24, 2017
Snapchat To Have Scripted Original Content By Year End
According to Snapchat's content lead, Nick Bell, Snapchat could start sowing original scripted content before the end…
August 23, 2017
WhatsApp Add Colour
WhatsApp has essentially copied the Facebook coloured background posts for their WhatsApp Status feature. If you…
August 23, 2017
Dedicated Safety Check Tab For Facebook
Facebook has made checking that you loved ones safe during a catastrophe a lot easier with the roll out of a dedicated…
August 22, 2017
Chat With Friends In YouTube In-App Messaging
YouTube has added a mobile-only feature that allows you to share a video with your contacts and then discuss it, all…
August 22, 2017
Video Creation In Your LinkedIn App
LinkedIn has announced they are releasing a video creation tool in LinkedIn's mobile app.
August 21, 2017
Don’t Ignore Bing, They Are Bigger Than You Think
Bing has announced they now have 9% of the worlds search market. With the number even more significant in certain…
August 21, 2017
Facebook To Penalise Fake Videos And Photos
During the coming weeks Facebook will begin demoting stories that feature fake video play buttons and static images…
August 21, 2017
Instagram Turn Photo Replies Into Stickers
Instagram has announced they are rolling out a new feature for its iOS and Android apps. Basically, it is a way to…
August 21, 2017
YouTube TV Is Growing
Google has announced they are expanding YouTube TV to cover 50% of US households. That's an additional 17 markets in…
August 20, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 19 August 2017
In this episode, LinkedIn makes it a lot easier for stalkers, Apple to spend $1 billion on original content, Elon…
August 19, 2017
Chrome To Auto Warn People About HTTP Pages
Google has announced that as of October 2017, Chrome will be warning visitors that go to non-https pages with forms on.
August 18, 2017
Bing Ads’ Dynamic Search Ads Now Available To All US Advertisers
It seems that Bing's pilot test of their Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) must be going well. The pilot is now rolling out to…
August 17, 2017
Facebook Clean Up Design Of Mobile News Feed
Facebook has rolled out some cosmetic changes to its mobile news feed design
August 17, 2017
Bing Ads Roll Out New Labels Feature
Bing Ads has announced they are rolling out customisable, colour coded labels.
August 17, 2017
Your LinkedIn Stalkers Can Now Tell When You Are Online
A new addition to LinkedIn messaging called 'Active Status' allows the ability for your LinkedIn followers to see when…
August 16, 2017
Facebook Now Let You Post Influencer Posts As Ads
You can now use Facebook targeting and custom audiences on the influencer post.
August 16, 2017
Instagram Start Sorting Comments Into Threads
Instagram has announced that comments will now be sorted into threads.
August 15, 2017
Google Add 30 Languages To Cloud Speech API
Google has announced it is adding 30 languages to the already impressive 89 (if you count the multiple variations on…
August 15, 2017
YouTube Testing New Feature – How Many Watching Now
YouTube appears to be testing a new feature that, to be honest, I am surprised wasn't rolled out long ago. According to…
August 14, 2017
UK SEO Firm Shut Down By Regulators
UK regulators have shut down UK SEO firm Movette for "deceptive sales practices".
August 14, 2017
Google Blacklist Advertisers For Exploiting AdSense
Google has confirmed they have dealt with the situation and have blacklisted the ad buyers that were responsible.
August 14, 2017
Snapchat’s Dancing Hot Dog Hits 1.5 Billion Views
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has announced that the Snapchat animated hot dog has been watched over 1.5 billion times.
August 14, 2017
AI Beats Worlds Best Dota 2 Players
Elon Musk's OpenAI trained a bot to play the ridiculously popular (and fiercely competitive) video game Dota 2
August 13, 2017
Facebook Acquire Video Startup With a Difference
Facebook has acquired German video startup Fayteq.
August 12, 2017
No Video This Week
Apologies everyone, but we will be taking a break from the week in digital marketing videos this week due to a family…
August 11, 2017
Google Outline Which Ads Are The Most Annoying With New Report
Google has released a new report they commissioned with the Coalition for Better Ads. The report's goal is to highlight…
August 11, 2017
Facebook TV Is Here – And It’s Called Watch
Yes, the long talked about Facebook TV is being launched today and they have named it Facebook Watch.
August 10, 2017
Google Roll Out Brand Safety Updates For GDN Campaigns
Google is simplifying the site category exclusions part of a campaign setup. They have rolled together some similar…
August 10, 2017
Facebook Shutting Down Groups App
Facebook has announced they are discontinuing their Groups app. As on September 1st, users will no longer be able to…
August 9, 2017
Add A Friend To Your Live Instagram Stream
Instagram has been testing the ability for you to broadcast a live stream while adding a friend to the broadcast.
August 9, 2017
Chatbots Revolt Against Chinese Government
Two chatbots: BabyQ and Microsoft created XiaoBing have had to be removed from Chinese messaging app QQ after responses…
August 9, 2017
Bing Introduce New System Quality Policy
As part of Bing's Relevance and Quality Policy, they are rolling out a new System Quality Policy.
August 9, 2017
No More Paying For Accidental Clicks On Facebook
Facebook has announced they are addressing the impact of accidental clicks in Facebooks Audience Network (this is where…
August 8, 2017
New UK Data Protection Law – A Snapshot Of The Changes
The UK government is updating its data protection policy. The Data Protection Bill builds on the Data Protection Act of…
August 8, 2017
New Social Media Milestone – Over 3 Billion Users
According to a report published on The Next Web, there are now 3.028 Billion social media users around the world.
August 7, 2017
Are Google Building Competitor To Snapchat Discover?
Google is building a new technology that allows publishers (primarily news publishers) to build Snapchat like stories…
August 7, 2017
Does Snapchat’s New Ads Power Editor Seem Familiar?
Snapchat is now launching the "Snapchat Ads Manager - Advanced Mode". Essentially, it is a suite of advanced features…
August 6, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 5 August 2017
In this episode, we look at Chatbots revolting against the Chinese Government, Apple smashing expectations, YouTube…
August 5, 2017
YouTube Addressing Advertising Concerns
YouTube is taking brand safety issues seriously as it pushes to get its video player on publishers sites.
August 4, 2017
Facebook Penalising Links To Slow Loading Pages
Facebook has announced they are making an update to the News Feed over the coming months that will demote stories that…
August 4, 2017
ICYMI – LinedIn Now Let You Use Images In Replies
LinkedIn rolled out a new feature just over a month ago, but it seems not many people noticed.
August 3, 2017
Could We Be Getting Facebook Smart Speaker AND Facebook Video Device?
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Facebook is not only working on the rumored 'Smart Speaker', but also a…
August 3, 2017
Facebook To Launch Ability To Target Ads At RSVPers
A new Facebook feature that will allow us to create a custom audience from people that have RSVP'd to a Facebook event.
August 3, 2017
New LinkedIn Tool Gives You Insight Into Your Web Visitors
LinkedIn is continuing to impress with the release of another tool that looks genuinely useful.
August 2, 2017
GitHub Crashes – Developers Venturing Into The Real World
Development Code Repository GitHub went down yesterday and productivity in the development community ground to a halt…
August 2, 2017
Are Sticky Footers Ok? Google Says Yes – Kind Of
In a recent twitter conversation with Gary Illyes from Google, it was asked if sticky footers are seen as an issue from…
August 2, 2017
Rise Of The Chatbots – Skynet is Coming
The internet has gone crazy with the announcement that Facebook had to switch off some AI chatbots for fear that they…
August 2, 2017
Google Badges – A New Way To Identify Image Types
Google has launched a new feature call badges which help you to categorise the content behind the image thumbnail.
August 2, 2017
Chrome’s Built-in Ad Blocker Seen In The Wild
Google sent shock waves around the digital marketing community early this year when they announced they would be…
August 1, 2017
Facebook Working On Shorter Video Ad Lengths
Facebook's Cheif Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg has confirmed the rumour that Facebook is going to release the…
August 1, 2017
Share Your Facebook Stories With The Public
Facebook have sneakily added a new privacy setting to Facebook Stories. The new setting gives users the option to open…
July 31, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 29 July 2017
In this episode, we look at a real life Minority Report, an Apple ban in China, the Q2 Financial results for all our…
July 31, 2017
Twitter Releases Event Calendar
Twitter has released their "Monthly Major Event Calendars" which highlight key events and dates we should all be aware…
July 30, 2017
Facebook Announce New Messenger Tools and Features
Facebook has just announced three major updates to Messenger (actually two, with the third being slightly…
July 29, 2017
Twitter Testing Subscription Based Ad Program
a number of Twitter users have reported that there is a closed beta test of a new subscription based ad program.
July 28, 2017
Is Facebook TV Going to Launch in August?
The rumour mill is buzzing with Bloomberg reporting that Facebook will be launching the long awaited Facebook TV in…
July 28, 2017
WhatsApp Hit 1 Billion Users Per Day
Facebook owned WhatsApp has just announced some pretty impressive figures at their Q2 2017 earnings announcement.
July 28, 2017
Outbrain Respond To Google Adsense Announcement With DSP Acquisition
Content Discovery platform Outbrain strengthened their position in the Content Marketing space with their recent…
July 27, 2017
Facebook Serious About Content Creators With New Purchase
To help creators protect their content (and obviously, to lure them into using Facebook as a platform for their…
July 27, 2017
Google Change Design For Sitelinks
Thanks to the awesome team over at Search Engine Land, Google has confirmed they are rolling out a design change for…
July 27, 2017
If You Have Ever Doubted The Importance Of A Brand’s Social Presence
We use social media to help inform us of potential leads, their behaviors, and insights. However, according to…
July 27, 2017
Marketo Saved By Good Smaraitan
Marketing tech giant Marketo was left very red faced yesterday after it was discovered that their site-wide failure was…
July 26, 2017
Facebook Enhance Their Live 360 Platform
Facebook has just announced a number of improvements to Live 360 that are sure to please.
July 26, 2017
Instagram Finally Allowing API Access To Third Party Platforms
Announced today, Instagram is going to allow API access to approved third party Social Management Platforms.
July 25, 2017
YouTube Fighting Comment Spam
Google has had enough and are now allowing YouTube channel owners partial protection by blocking spam comments.
July 25, 2017
Google’s New Anti Phishing Protection
Google has announced they are targeting these third party plugins to make it harder for the dodgier ones to get…
July 24, 2017
All Facebook Pages Can Now Create Linked Groups
Facebook has been quietly rolling out the ability for Facebook Pages to create a linked Group. Essentially building a…
July 24, 2017
Google Add New Job Listing Filters To Search Reports
Google announced (via Twitter) that they have added new filters to the search appearance tab in Google Analytics for…
July 24, 2017
Amazon Spark – A Sort Of Social Media Network
Amazon is doing everything to help us discover new products (and subsequently buy them off Amazon). The latest tool in…
July 24, 2017
Google Enable Re-targeting Of Video Viewers In Search
You can now use YouTube audience lists with remarketing lists for search ads (RSLA).
July 22, 2017
Digital Marketing News – 22 July 2017
In this episode, we look at video behavior on Facebook and Instagram, YouTube fighting terrorism, Google Analytics…
July 21, 2017
Google Homepage Is About To Change – Is This The Apocalypse?
Google is rolling out a new version of the homepage. It will be a personalised news feed similar to the Google mobile…
July 21, 2017
The New Home Of Apple Machine Learning
Apple has officially launched the Apple Machine Learning Journal. A platform where the geekiest of Apple engineers get…
July 20, 2017
Apple Let You Respond To Your App Store Reviews
Apple has announced that developers will now be able to respond to critics and reviews in the App Store.
July 20, 2017
Update On The Google Search Console Bug
Google has just updated their data anomalies page to clarify that the earlier reported bug that had affected the…
July 19, 2017
WhatsApp Being Blocked In China
Users in China have started reporting that they are having trouble sending photos, videos and even some texts.
July 19, 2017
Google Testing New Search Console Design
Search Engine Land is reporting that a new design and user interface for Google Search Console is currently being beta…
July 18, 2017
Voice Queries In Google Analytics
Google has announced that they are rolling out a new (and very welcomed) feature to Google Analytics.
July 18, 2017
Gender Stereotype Ads Being Banned In The UK
The UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is proposing a new legislation to ban any ads containing gender…
July 18, 2017
New Bug In Google Search Console?
**UPDATED** Rumours are surfacing that Google Search Console may have a bug in the average position metric.
July 17, 2017
Adverts In Your HTC Keyboard – No Way
The internet is buzzing with people noticing ads appearing just above the on screen keyboard as they try to message…
July 17, 2017
LinkedIn Notifications On Your Win 10 PC
Thanks to a new LinkedIn app for Windows 10, you can now receive LinkedIn notifications directly in your Windows Action…
July 16, 2017
The Week In Digital Marketing News – 16th July 2017
In this episode, we look at who is suing Trump now, the best use of Artificial Intelligence yet, the next big social…
July 16, 2017
Google Loses 20 Days Worth Of Data
Google has announced that users who have signed up for Google Search Console between the dates of June 21 and July 10…
July 13, 2017
Update To AdSense Policy Bans Pop-unders
Google has updated the ad policies in AdSense to disallow the use of ads that use pop-under pages.
July 13, 2017
Google Roll Out Suggested Clips Feature
Google has rolled out a new feature called Suggested Clips and it essentially displays a suggested video at the top of…
July 12, 2017
Instagram Add Retargeting Options
Facebook has announced you can also set up an Engagement Objective for your Instagram Business Profile.
July 12, 2017
Facebook Extend Messenger News Feed Ads To All Markets
Facebook has been running a beta test in Thailand and Australia that allows advertisers to place newsfeed like ads…
July 11, 2017
Twitter Adding New Features To Help Deal With Trolls
Twitter are now allowing you to mute accounts that are new, that you don't follow or that do not follow you.
July 11, 2017
New Roll-out of Google Forms Adds Intelligent Response Validation
Google today announced it is adding some much-needed features to its online form and survey builder - Google Forms.
July 10, 2017
Microsoft To Launch Email Marketing Tool
Microsoft has announced they are launching new tools as part of their 360 suite. The first of these is called Microsoft…
July 9, 2017
You Can Now Video Reply on Instagram Stories
Instagram has now gone beyond just copying and into adding features that Snapchat would have wished they came up with
July 8, 2017
Bing Ad’s Campaign Planner To Be Shut Down
Bing Ad's campaign planner to be shut down and replacing it will be newly developed Keyword Planner
July 6, 2017
Twitter Linking To Accelerated Mobile Pages
Twitter has started linking directly to AMPs from within their native apps (on both iOS and Android).
July 5, 2017
Twitter Wants To Help Connect Offline Purchases With Promoted Tweets
Twitter has announced they are working with Dunnhumby Sales Impact solution, to help FMCG brands identify the key…
July 5, 2017
New Features in AdWords Editor 12
A brand spanking new version of Google's AdWords Editor has been rolled out worldwide. AdWords Editor 12 has a number…
July 3, 2017
New Update to Panda Causing Minor Tremors
The SEO world is abuzz with reports of a new update to Panda causing Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) to fluctuate…
July 2, 2017
New Facebook Ad and Page Data Metrics
Facebook is rolling out a new metric in the next few weeks called "Landing Page Views". This will show advertisers how…
July 1, 2017
Facebook Limits Number of Daily Links
As part of their ever increasing efforts, Facebook has just announced a minor change that will affect a very small…
June 30, 2017
Instagram’s New ‘Toxic Comments’ Machine Learning
This is an interesting and much-needed development by Instagram. In a release on the Instagram blog, they announced…
June 29, 2017
Twitter Reveals New Buttons
So Twitter is rolling out 4 new buttons to allow people to engage with brands through opening links, posting…
June 28, 2017
Facebook Hits A Major Milestone
This is crazy, Facebook has just announced they have passed the 2 Billion Monthly Active Users milestone.