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State of Social Q4 2016: Facebook Aims For the TV

Shift Communications

The largest social network in the world – and to some people, the entire Internet – released its Q4 2016 and year end earnings. It is a very small leap to understand that Facebook is likely also fueling its ad placement systems with the same AI, using comments and content contextually to provide more advertising relevance.

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GDPR Primer for Marketing and Public Relations

Shift Communications

Marketers, advertisers, and public relations professionals are ill-informed and ill-equipped to manage the largest change in data and privacy in the last 20 years: GDPR. Privacy by design : Rather than be an add-on, companies are expected to design their systems for privacy from the ground up. What is GDPR? GDPR applies to you.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

Finally, with continued remote and hybrid work, PR teams need to invest in systems that will help them collaborate efficiently and build strong relationships. It’s never been more important to have a system of record that everyone on your team can access centrally, no matter where they’re located.”. Fast-vertising.

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Ensure Successful Organizational Transformation By Closing The Digital Literacy Gap

Stern + Associates

He and his co-authors were ahead of their time when they published the 2006 article for Harvard Business Review (HBR), “ Strategies for Two-Sided Markets ,” followed by their bestselling book “ Platform Revolution:How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You ” in 2016.

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Top skills of the 2022 social media professional–as told by the people doing the actual work

Communications Conversations

I wrote a post back in 2016 about the 10 skills the PR pro of the future will need to have. And, they do need to have the ability to manage social content systems. Here are top 5 “skills” that I believe are most valuable for social media managers: * Advertising. However, I LOVE the concept they’re driving at here.

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State of Social Media 3Q 2017: Facebook Nears $5 ARPU

Shift Communications

billion people use Facebook solely on a mobile device, making it one of the largest mobile platforms besides the mobile operating systems themselves: Bear in mind, these are core platform numbers. Entering Q4, Facebook will press hard on advertisers to close out the year with the same or better results as last year’s record-setting Q4.

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State of Social Q4 2017: Twitter Becomes Profitable

Shift Communications

increase in Q3 growth from Q3 of 2016. While it still has a long way to go, their information quality efforts have a side effect of removing accounts from the system, causing flat-line growth as fake and malicious accounts vanish. Only 69 million of those users are in the United States. Let’s turn our eyes towards revenue. Ad Revenue.

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