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Tuesday Tune-Up #336

Facebook banks on blockchain Last week, Facebook reorganised its entire leadership team in a move that led to the creation of a new department dedicated to tackling blockchain technology. The new team is headed up by David Marcus, who was former president of PayPal before moving to Facebook working on the dedicated Messenger app. The move […]

Wednesday Wrap-Up #335

Facebook puts privacy at the heart of its 2018 F8 Conference At Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference last week, CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the two-day session by addressing the data privacy elephant in the room – dishing out a series of apologies and detailing initiatives and product adjustments to help the platform better protect user data. […]

TUESDAY TUNE UP #334

You can now download your history on Instagram Ever wished you could unsend a DM? Probably yes. Ever wished it could be accessed forever from some dark unforgiving corner of the internet? Definitely not. Well now, thanks to Facebook’s recent data privacy scandal, it’s now easier for any of us to store, track, and restore […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #333

Tencent Launches Online Document Tool To Rival Google Docs Not a fan of Google Docs? Well, Tencent, the mega Chinese social media giant – best known for the super app WeChat – has released their own version of the collaborative online tool as an alternative. Tencent Document automatically syncs any real-time edits to your #wanderlust-worthy blog posts […]

Social media use jumps in Q1 despite privacy fears

This post was written by We Are Social’s Global Consultant, Simon Kemp, and published on TheNextWeb. They were generous enough to let us repurpose it here. The latest in my ongoing series of Global Digital reports for We Are Social and Hootsuite shows that the number of people around the world using social media grew […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #332

It’s been a long, dark year in social media, hasn’t it? This week, we’ve made a concerted effort to open the Tune-Up with something a little lighter. Museum Twitter goes on Ram-page The Museum Of English Rural Life’s usually subdued Twitter account caught everyone’s attention this week. The account (normally known for its content such as […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #331

Continued focus on data protection at Facebook Facebook has announced an overhaul of its data practices, including a key focus on data protection. It was revealed that the personal data of 87 million users was caught up in the Cambridge Analytica scandal – far higher than the 50 million originally reported. Facebook has also admitted to a […]

Wednesday Wrap-Up #330

Social media ad spends are set to overtake television Despite the fact it now costs upwards of $5 million to air a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl, new statistics from eMarketer show that television ad spends will continue to diminish as the spend across social media rises. The report predicts that ad spend will […]

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

In light of the recent scandal, we worked with our global team to delve into the issue and its potential impact on the industry. For further reading, our Managing Director @SuzSha spoke to AdNews about the debacle. If you have questions or would like to chat further, reach out to us here or on Twitter […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #329

Facebook tries to make amends in wake of scandal The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook controversy continues to make headlines. It’s been revealed that Facebook is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, examining whether Facebook violated its terms by giving Cambridge Analytica data without users’ knowledge. Facebook is trying to repair the damage. CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]

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