In 2015 Facebook initiated Local Awareness Ads, an advertising tool that allows businesses to specifically target Facebook users in close proximity to their location. This function ensures that small companies and local businesses are reaching the audience they need to access most – the consumers right in their neighborhood. This year Facebook is taking things a step further with the introduction of a tool that will not only facilitate the reach of Facebook advertisements to local consumers, but actually track the success of the advertisement in real time. Continue reading “Closing the Loop: Facebook Launches Tool to Measure Success of Local Advertising in Real Time”
Genius brands are exceptional. They are creative and original. But unlike Lady Gaga, they were not born this way. According to Homa Zaryouni, L2 conducted an extensive research study ranking 1,481 brands across 25 Digital IQ Index® studies and came up with distinct traits that make brands stand apart from the rest. Continue reading “Highly Effective Habits of Genius Brands”
Ad blocking started as a means of protecting personal information and reducing the amount of disruptive ad clutter while online. Now, it’s all a big scam. Continue reading “How to Make Ad Blocking Scams Irrelevant”
Twitter users are in an uproar since the company announced that it’s launching a new timeline algorithm that will sort users newsfeeds by relevance. But is Twitter’s new timeline really the beginning of the end, as many loyal Twitter users would have us believe? Continue reading “Twitter’s Timeline Maze”
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