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We’ve known about it since December, but Facebook appears closer to unveiling 15-second video ads on its site. Bloomberg, citing “two people familiar with the matter,” is now reporting that these TV-style commercials will cost as much as $2.5 million a day to reach the social network’s 1.15 billion monthly active users. On Facebook’s second-quarter […]

Taking a page from Facebook’s playbook, earlier this week LinkedIn introduced Sponsored Updates.

About 1 in 4 Facebook brand pages in the U.S. has an app requiring a social opt-in. But few brands go beyond asking for an email address to opt-in.

Back in February during the company’s fourth-quarter 2012 earnings results, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner mentioned the prospect of serving sponsored content within users’ activity streams, adding that the company had been testing in-steam ads for a few months beforehand. Today LinkedIn has officially unveiled Sponsored Updates, which takes a page from Facebook’s Sponsored Stories playbook. […]

The average human’s attention span is eight seconds; the average goldfish’s attention span is nine seconds. As astounding as that seems, it’s the foundation of the perceived reality marketers and brands are working in today, as social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr have taken hold of the collective, shorter attention of […]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth? Try searching for the answer on your favorite search engine and you’ll likely come across mentions of research from Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research, which found that a one-minute video is the equivalent of 1.8 million words. With Facebook’s […]

The rumors were true: Today Instagram announced the addition of videos to its popular photo-sharing app. On top of being an obvious response to the growing popularity of Twitter’s Vine app, this is another confirmation that the era of video is surging. Here’s the skinny: Users of the Instagram app can tap on the camera […]

On Monday, Facebook took another step toward achieving its goal of simplifying its ad products by rolling out revamped Page post link ads. “Over the past several months, aligned with updates to News Feed, we’ve enlarged images and the clickable area for Page post link ads on both desktop and mobile,” according to the company’s […]

Tumblr recently made headlines when it was acquired by Yahoo for $1.1 billion. This turned the attention of the content marketing community squarely on the platform, which can be described as part microblogging, part social networking and part animated GIFs, among other things. The site boasted 29.3 million unique visitors in March, according to comScore. […]

A combination of mobile and social helps the Syfy network engage with fans of shows like “Defiance” and “Face Off.”