Marketing Day: Facebook Updates Its Privacy Policy, Video Shares Worldwide & More

Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Facebook Updates & Simplifies Privacy Policy Facebook is adjusting its privacy policy, aiming to create a document that users actually read. To that end, the company is slashing more than 6,000 words […]

on November 13, 2014 at 5:00 pm | Reading time: 7 minutes
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Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web.

From Marketing Land:

  • Facebook Updates & Simplifies Privacy Policy
    Facebook is adjusting its privacy policy, aiming to create a document that users actually read. To that end, the company is slashing more than 6,000 words from its current policy, according to the Wall Street Journal; the new version is 2,700 words. Furthermore, Facebook has prettied up the presentation of the data policy with an […]
  • Report: Nearly 60% Of Video Shares Worldwide Occur On Facebook
    Taking a look at how the whole world shares video, video metrics company Unruly discovered a large majority of videos shares are happening on Facebook. Based on data derived from Unruly’s Viral Video Chart, the report analyzed more than 521 billion video views and tracked global sharing patterns for videos across social networks in Australia, […]
  • Killer App? Why Not Just Kill The App
    As mobile usage increases, many brands are jumping on the app bandwagon. But columnist Aaron Strout warns this may be an unnecessary waste of time and resources.
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    Marketing Land produces conferences, and we’re always looking to improve them. To help, we’re running a survey asking you, our readers, to give us some feedback on what you’d like to see as part of our conferences. Please help! Below is our survey, which should take only a few minutes to answer. We’ll run it […]
  • Google Analytics Blind Spots That Must Be Corrected
    What do you do when your site analytics aren’t giving you the full picture? Columnist Brian Massey explains how to address common “blind spots” in Google Analytics.

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