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New research reveals Facebook click-through rates for publishers

What is the Facebook click-through rate for publishers? 2.5%. That’s according to Echobox, the AI-powered social publishing platform, who undertook an industry-wide survey taking in…

How publishers can make the most of emojis on Facebook

Are emojis a staple of your communication on social media? Or do you find them grating? No matter your personal view of emojis, there’s no…

Facebook Groups and Pages: what’s the difference for publishers?

The difference between Facebook pages and groups is profound, not just in terms of reach but also engagement. If you’re not particularly au fait with…

Facebook to pay publishers for hosting ‘high-quality’ content, on a dedicated news tab

As a part of a series of discussions he is hosting about the future of technology and society, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with…

Podcast: Why we shouldn’t be cheering for Facebook’s downfall, with Axios

From data privacy to fake news to fluctuations in traffic to publishers, Facebook is a complicated topic. From the point of view of publishers, the…

Chasing ghosts: Facebook’s audience figures come under legal challenge

It’s hard to remember a time when Facebook wasn’t the subject of a major controversy, and this week is no different. Facebook has allegedly misled…

Goodbye Facebook? Snapchat poised to take the lead among younger users

The writing was already on the wall. “Facebook is losing younger users at an even faster pace than previously expected,” eMarketer reported earlier this year.…

Snap rises as Facebook falls

For so long, Facebook has been the classroom bully in social media, with Snapchat taking it on the chin when Facebook copied Snapchat’s Stories format…

Google-Facebook duopoly dystopia: Effects on publishers

Google and Facebook’s dominance of the digital advertising market is well documented. Pivotal Research’s Brian Wieser estimated at the end of 2017 that these two companies “accounted…

Facebook accused of deleting independent publisher pages

For quite some time now, and certainly since January’s change to its newsfeed algorithms, publishers have been right to be wary of Facebook and to…

After Facebook, what’s next? Publishers grapple with traffic fragmentation

Just last year, Parse.ly—a technology company that partners with digital publishers to provide web analytics and audience insights— reported on where audiences came from for…

With Facebook usage declining, what next for publishers?

With more than 2.2 billion monthly active users Facebook is the world’s largest online community. And it’s been a major source of traffic for publishers.…

Publishers stop Facebook ad spending over policy that treats publishers as political advertisers

Facebook’s new ad-labeling policy has come under fire from publishers who are concerned that their news articles will be treated as political advocacy ads, and at least…

Facebook’s new influencer marketing search tool: good or bad?

With TechCrunch reporting that Facebook are working on a new search tool that allows brands to connect with social media creators – enabling them to…

New data casts doubt on Facebook’s commitment to quality news

Some recent data on the best-performing news brands on Facebook seems to show that high-quality new sources are getting less engagement on Facebook and lower quality sites…

Facebook has begun to rank news organisations by trust, Zuckerberg says

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that the company has already begun to implement a system that ranks news organizations based on trustworthiness, and promotes…

Key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional appearance that media professionals should know

In the most high profile chapter in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by US lawmakers on Capitol Hill yesterday (April…

Facebook’s data crackdown has two winners: Facebook and Google

Advertising industry worries Facebook response to user-privacy crisis will prop up a digital marketing duopoly. Facebook is putting tighter controls on data flowing through its giant…

Facebook ends experiment to take news out of users’ News Feed

Facebook has ended its Explore News Feed trial which separated publishers’ posts from those of family and friends. The social network ran a test last…

Viral publishers see sharp engagement drops on Facebook

WNIP reported last week how online publisher LittleThings had shut down after Facebook’s algorithm change cut its organic reach by 75 percent. But it’s not the…

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Why your ad inventory could be hurting your Google ranking, and what you can do about it
On June 15, 2021, Google finally started rolling out its latest update to how it tracks and measures user experience (UX) across the web, called Core Web Vitals. Less than a month later, as of July 13, the rollout was effectively complete. In this post, I’ll touch upon what Core Web Vitals are, how exactly …
ClubHouse, Twitter, now Facebook? Publishers need a data strategy to capture audio value
In the last year, publishers jumped at the opportunity to engage with people on Clubhouse. It’s a great way for brand building on a new channel, not just for publishers but for their rising stars, too. Yahoo! Finance reporter Kristin Myers has a regular show called “Black Wealth Wednesdays” that attracts thousands of listeners. Mike …
Publishers: Are you ready for the first-party future?
Last month, Google announced a delay for third-party cookie deprecation on its Chrome browser until the end of 2023. Despite this delay, using cookieless solutions today already shows better performance. Further, new research suggests that the marketing community is eager to embrace the ‘cookieless’ future and is looking towards the publisher community to keep pace …