Tag: Facebook
Making the Case For Manual Bidding
Detailed targeting + effective placements + great copy + engaging creative = the perfect social campaign. By working closely with our client’s social teams, PMG effectively manages all of these. But there’s one invisible variable in this equation that is often forgotten: bidding. Budgets are easy to change and understand, but bidding can be much […]
6-Second Video Best Practices
Vine may be dead (R.I.P.), but the 6-second video certainly didn’t die with it. In fact, 6-second videos are becoming an increasingly popular ad format as the world of social media continues to become cluttered with more and more content. Advertisers are being creatively challenged with telling a powerful, engaging brand story in a short […]
A few weeks ago, Facebook quietly introduced a new capability within Custom Audiences from Customer Lists, lifetime-value-based lookalikes. I won’t be going into detail on how to use LTV audiences—rather, I think it’s important to consider what this tells us about the direction of digital media. But if you’re interested in learning how to use […]
Brick and mortar store locations have been feeling the pinch over the last few years in the shadow of e-commerce taking over the globe in response to busier lifestyles. However, with in-store experiences still being a valuable (but smaller) cornerstone of a company’s’ marketing plans, brands are increasingly turning to digital advertisers to unlock opportunities in […]
How Journalists Plan to Shape the Digital Landscape
Much has changed since I wrote my very first PMG blog post two years ago. For one thing, I’ve realized that asterisk citations are pretty lame. For another, the news and social media relationship that I wrote about back then has become increasingly fraught and full of tension. Then, I wrote about how newspapers used social […]
What A Poet Can Teach You About Advertising
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.” If I asked you to guess when this quote was published – would you guess a year in this century? Probably you wouldn’t because you’re picking up on the context clues and know that this is a ridiculously overt trick question – but let’s just say that […]
Earlier this spring, Facebook announced the launch of Facebook Ads Manager for Excel, or FAME. So far, I haven’t seen a lot of conversation about this tool, which is a shame, as the tool itself has a lot to offer almost any social marketing team. FAME is a great starting point for automating routine reports, although it’s […]
Facebook Rolls Out New Ad Format: Collection
Starting today, Facebook is rolling out Collection, a shoppable feed ad that features a collection of products in a mobile shopping experience. Four product images are shown below a multi-product image or video that will drive users to a full-screen takeover. When a user clicks on one of the four product images in the News […]
Facebook Fake News
There’s been some controversy over Facebook’s responsibility in content that is shared within their newsfeed. Do they serve as merely a platform to distribute information or do they have a greater duty in ensuring what is shared is accurate? This conversation has been going on for quite some time but the issue was amplified during […]
Linked Canvas & Other Canvas Enhancements
According to Facebook, the equivalent of 150 years have been spent viewing content in Canvas on Facebook. As more brands use Canvas tell their stories, Facebook has rolled out new capabilities to ease the creation process and make the unit more engaging. One if the hesitations we tend to see from brands is that Canvases appear […]
