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Fashion bloggers paid to post pictures of themselves on Instagram wearing an identical Lord & Taylor dress didn't follow FTC guidelines that require disclosure of material relationships.
The global social advertising market grew 41% to $15.3 billion in 2014; Facebook is maintaining dominance despite lack of presence in the giant China market.
Experiment enables people to swipe through multiple promoted tweets within their Twitter timelines.
Social management software company, which now claims a value of more than $1 billion, enhances platform to enable brands to track consumers across multiple digital channels.
Starting April 7, the URL shortening company will shutter the rarely used feature that enabled sharing of multiple links and replace it with a link-tagging system.
New tool gives publishers the ability to find relevant content from Twitter and Vine and display it on web, mobile, television and other offline media.
Company, touting its utility for markets, announces 66% growth in Pins since last April.
Company will push Google+ photos to its storage product, but still remains mum about plans for its social network.
Facebook video now can be embedded independent of Facebook posts; conversation threads in the Facebook comment plugin will have the option to be mirrored on Facebook Pages.
Continuing its aggressive push for video views, Facebook is testing video that automatically starts playing after you finish watching another.
Brandwatch received the highest customer satisfaction rank from data pulled from 400 reviews by business professionals on the G2 Crowd site.
Facebook is planning to begin testing in the next several months, the New York Times reports. The NYT, BuzzFeed and National Geographic are expected to be the initial partners.
In testing since late last year, YouTube now serves desktop viewers a series of continuously playing videos.
Standalone iOS app enables quick collage creation from camera rolls.
In another effort to boost engagement, Twitter is experimenting with a display of additional tweets in the right-rail of individual tweet pages.
In a limited experiment, some users of Twitter's iOS apps will see video play without pushing the play button.
Feature will be rolled out in the next few weeks in the United States and Canada with other markets to follow.
The visual social network reveals more details about the machine learning algorithms that serve personally relevant Pins on user home feeds.
Now advertisers can promote tweets with a few taps from a mobile device. An iOS version is said to be in the works.
Study shows significant lift in ad recall, brand awareness and purchase intent even among people who view video for zero to three seconds.
Facebook's SMB chief for North America acknowledges that Facebook has "underinvested" in support for small businesses and says to stay tuned for improvement.
The most shared site on Facebook will use money to expand global operations and create more tools for publishers to create "playful" content.
Sprout Social received the highest customer satisfaction score in G2 Crowd's report, aggregated from more than 600 reviews by business professionals.
Twitter is experimenting with more welcoming pages for the 500 million logged out users with visit the site every month.
Facebook's latest ad targeting product homes in on people living away from their native countries.
Link shortening company launches Deep Links to help marketers drive engagement on mobile devices.
Visual bookmarking network raises $367 million and is now one of the most highly valued venture-backed firms in the world.
Facebook says it will use TheFind's technology to make News Feed ads more relevant. TheFind will shut down its search engine in the next few weeks.
The company is experimenting with hubs for live shows; if you tweet about one, you'll be invited to enter a timeline dedicated to conversation about the program.
New live-streaming video app has captured the attention of early adopters; few businesses are using it yet.
To make up for falling organic reach on Facebook, major brands are shifting their allegiance to the photo-sharing app, report by L2 and Olapic finds.
New "account home" gives a overall look at Twitter performance; SMBs will be able to promote tweets more quickly.
Facebook is working with DataSift to give U.S. and U.K. businesses insight into what people are talking about on the social network.
By asking new customers to share Pinterest links, Stitch Fix, Homepolish and Heather Cleveland Design gain insight they couldn't get without the social bookmarking service.
Startup is still in private beta but is reportedly working on a mobile app similar to Meerkat.
Nielsen finds that Twitter activity during television shows highly correlates with neurological reactions of study participants.
Stay tuned, but for now Facebook is running a limited test allowing Fox Sports and the NFL to sell ads against native video.
Messaging app now offers targeting by gender, geography and mobile device for the 60 brands using its Promoted Chat product.
Facebook is removing likes from inactive and memorialized accounts from Pages' counts .
With "partner audiences" provided by Acxiom and Datalogix, advertisers can take aim at Twitter users who have signaled purchase intent off the social network.