April 24, 2024 TikTok ban: How stocks for social media rivals Meta and Snap—and partner Oracle—fared on the news Surprise: Despite the ByteDance app’s bad day, its competitors aren’t rallying like you might expect. BY Clint Rainey On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the TikTok ban into law, finally giving owner ByteDance its Choose Your Own … Continue reading TikTok ban: How stocks for social media rivals Meta and Snap—and partner Oracle—fared on the news
Brands claim that ongoing issues with Meta’s algorithm are significantly impacting campaign performance across its platforms. Nicola Agius on April 12, 2024 Meta advertisers say the cost of running campaigns across its platforms has surged due to ongoing issues with its algorithm. Brands report sales and return-on-ad-spend have plummeted, while cost-per-click and cost per … Continue reading Meta advertisers: Glitchy automated system pushing sales down and costs up
Stanford, Meta Find Chatbots Are Ready For People – But Are We Ready For GAI? by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 4, 2024 A study by the Deliberative Democracy Lab (DDL) at Stanford University and Meta suggests that the more people talk about generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and chatbots, the more receptive they are, … Continue reading Stanford, Meta Find Chatbots Are Ready For People – But Are People Ready For GAI?
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
Meta Magic: How Title Tags & Descriptions Help Drive Search Success Ruud Hein | March 7th, 2024 Meta tags, especially the <title> tag and meta descriptions, are an important component of on-page optimization, albeit in different ways. The <title> tag is a heavyweight contender in SEO for a couple of reasons: search engines … Continue reading Meta Magic: How Title Tags & Descriptions Help Drive Search Success
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
Mark Zuckerberg fights personal liability in Meta lawsuits Charlotte Colombo Freelance Journalist Mark Zuckerberg fights personal liability lawsuit In a February 23 court appearance, Meta giant Mark Zuckerberg is set to try to skirt personal liability in dozens of lawsuits, according to Bloomberg. This is despite his being directly named in numerous court … Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg fights personal liability in Meta lawsuits
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
Crunching Numbers: What Google, Meta Owe U.S. Publishers by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 24, 2024 The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Wednesday filed a complaint alleging that Google monopolizes key digital advertising technologies in the ad-tech stack that website publishers depend on to sell ads, and advertisers rely on … Continue reading Crunching Numbers: What Meta And Facebook Owe U.S. Publishers
