The updates aim to help marketers create ads that make consumers feel more confident about making a purchase Nicola Agius on March 13, 2024 Meta unveiled updates to its Advantage+ and Shopping Ads, designed to help brands improve engagement, drive conversions and deliver more personalized ads. The platform claims the updates will help give consumers … Continue reading Meta announces major updates to Advantage+ and Shopping Ads
What the company is calling a “glitch” kept more than 500,000 users across the world from accessing the tech giant’s platforms. Constantine von Hoffman on March 5, 2024 Meta’s online properties were down for about two hours Tuesday, preventing more than half a million Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads users from using their accounts, … Continue reading Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads
Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads Brian-Damien Morgan Features Writer Meta has announced that across its social media platforms artificial intelligence (AI) generated images must be labeled going forward. The labeling system that will be titled “Imagined with AI” seeks to help users navigate the images that are created using … Continue reading Meta makes AI-generated labels a standard across Facebook, Instagram and Threads
Meta Births A More Advanced Llama by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 5, 2024 Facebook, a Meta Platforms company, turned 20 on Sunday, which seems like an eternity for a technology company. Perhaps it is because Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder, continues to invent new types of services to keep the company young. At least … Continue reading Meta Announces A More Advanced Llama
By Associated Press January 18, 2024 Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company. “With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not … Continue reading Why is Sheryl Sandberg leaving Meta’s board?
Mark Zuckerberg sells $185m of Meta stock Deanna Ritchie / Last Updated: Dec 6, 2023 Mark Zuckerberg offloaded Meta shares for the first time in two years, following an impressive 172% increase in the company’s stock value since 2021. The trust of Meta’s co-founder, along with organizations dedicated to his philanthropic and strategic interests, … Continue reading Meta platform thrives amid challenges
Surging digital ad market and layoffs combine to give Facebook parent $11,6 billion in profit, more than twice what it was a year earlier. Constantine von Hoffman on October 26, 2023 Facebook parent Meta’s third-quarter revenue jumped 23% to $ 34.15 billion, the latest indicator of a rebound in digital advertising. The company reported $ … Continue reading Meta third-quarter revenue up by 23%
By Scott Nover October 19, 2023 There’s a truism in tech that goes something like “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” It’s a tired phrase, but until advertising ceases to be the economic engine of the internet, we’re stuck with it. Digital ads have made technology companies like Alphabet, … Continue reading Meta’s plan to charge users for Facebook access is a big “FU” to the E.U.
Meta Expands IAS Partnership With Ad Measurement Tools For Reels by Colin Kirkland , June 20, 2023 Media measurement and optimization platform Integral Ad Science announced on Tuesday that it is rolling out new ad-measurement tools for Reels on Facebook and Instagram, expanding a partnership that began in 2016. The media-measurement company, which has already … Continue reading Meta Expands IAS Partnership With Ad Measurement Tools For Reels
Andrew Tarantola @terrortola Our reverence towards stars and celebrities was not borne of the 19th century’s cinematic revolution, but rather has been a resilient aspect of our culture for millennia. Ancient tales of immortal gods rising again and again after fatal injury, the veneration and deification of social and political leaders, Madame Tussauds’ wax … Continue reading Meta’s Voicebox AI is a Dall-E for text-to-speech
