Snapchat
As was reported in August, advertisements are finally about to come to Snapchat. Evan Spiegel, the company’s co-founder and CEO, made the announcement today at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. “People are going to see the first ads on Snapchat soon,” he told Katie Couric, who moderated a discussion with him and former New Continue Reading →
Startup Entrepreneur
Unlike a traditional VC, accelerator or incubator, startup studios are company builders. Studios usually build many products simultaneously with shared resources in development, marketing, sales and more. Recent entities that fall loosely under this category is Betaworks, Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp and A16Z, which is stocked with teams of marketers, business development execs, recruiters and Continue Reading →
Facebook
Investors and analysts spent years clamoring for Facebook to start up an ad network, and earlier this year it obliged them. And now Facebook is rolling out another one. Caveat — this isn’t an ad network in a formal sense. But it’s going to be viewed as one, because in the big picture, it does Continue Reading →
Facebook
Facebook is set to unveil a new advertising platform to improve effectiveness of online ads, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing people with knowledge of the matter. The product is a redesigned version of Atlas Advertiser Suite, an ad management and measurement platform that Facebook bought from Microsoft Corp last year. It is Continue Reading →
Google
Last night, researchers at Malwarebytes noticed strange behavior on sites like Last.fm, The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post. Ads on the sites were being unusually aggressive, setting off anti-virus warnings and raising flags in a number of Malwarebytes systems. After some digging, researcher Jerome Segura realized the problem was coming from Google’s DoubleClick Continue Reading →
Localization and Globalization
Driving demand, engagement and loyalty with customers around the world is more complex than ever. One thing is simple: speaking a customer’s language is the most fundamental and effective element of personalized communication. How can marketers overcome language barriers to excel at delivering all the right content, to all their audiences, in all the languages Continue Reading →