NPR is producing several live Facebook videos per day. It has a team of 12 overseeing the effort, with some working full-time on Facebook Live. Since going “all out” in May, the publisher has confirmed a few key things: have a real reason to go live; there is an appetite for news and explainer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A man died Wednesday night after being shot by police in Falcon Heights, the aftermath of which was recorded in a video widely shared on Facebook in which the man’s girlfriend says the “police shot him for no apparent reason, no reason at all.” Friends at the scene identified the man as Philando... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Lad Bible has been experimenting with Facebook Live for the past two months across its portfolio and is ramping up output to four a week, plus putting in place a dedicated Facebook Live team. The videos are getting views in the millions, outreaching many publishers that weren’t born on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The social network is a fact of life for any company that creates content. And the new reality will require lots of adjustment.The day many marketers and publishers have dreaded has arrived: Facebook is changing its algorithm to send less traffic to content sites.Read Full Story Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
For Business Insider, Facebook Live means more live news and events coverage. The publisher is now doing six live streams per day across its Business Insider, Business Insider UK, Tech Insider and Insider pages. The content, which is overseen by a four-person team, focuses on covering big news... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
At Gawker Media, co-founder Nick Denton has made commenting a particular obsession, even building an in-house online commenting system, Kinja. The quality of that discussion doesn’t always carry over to Facebook, though. So Gawker built a tool to pull in comment threads to run at the end of its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Would you rather get your news directly from publishers or from your Facebook friends?If you've been feeling like Facebook is clogging up your News Feed with too many dispiriting news stories and not enough cute baby pictures, this one's for you: The social network is tweaking its algorithm yet... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Even as Facebook plans on de-emphasizing publisher-posted content in users' news feeds in favor of posts from friends and family, video seems to be on the way up. According to data compiled by SocialFlow, a social analytics company used by many major publishers, video content posted by... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ever since Facebook introduced its Instant Articles feature last year, publishers have been wondering how the move would play out.The lure is clear: Facebook provides exposure and traffic despite the fact that Instant Articles do not link to the publishers' sites. For Facebook, A-list content... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook will make changes to its news feed rankings, highlighting posts from friends and family over those from publishers and brand pages that users have "liked". Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The modified algorithm will place higher value on posts by friends, family, and colleagues — at the expense of media brands. The post Facebook’s Latest News Feed Change Sounds Like Bad News for Publishers appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is to give posts by users' friends and family greater prominence - a move that may challenge professional publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
With its latest algorithm tweak, Facebook said it will favor posts from friends and families over publishers. That's generally bad for publishers, which have been increasingly building their distribution strategies around the social behemoth. Within them, the ones with the most shareable content... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Expect to see more pictures of your friends' pets and wedding announcements from extended family members in your Facebook news feed in the coming weeks. And expect to see less news. In yet another blow to publishers that have spent years building audiences to build traffic and revenue, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has published for the first time a list of “News Feed Values,” Facebook’s secret sauce of what makes the algorithm tick. The social network is adjusting the recipe with a heavy helping of content from friends and family, likely an attempt to get people to share more, given that there... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's a fact: Most publishers rely on Facebook for a significant portion of their referral traffic. As such, they watch carefully as Facebook makes decisions about what kind of content to prioritize in the all-important News Feed product that is at the center of the social network.On Wednesday,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Windows 10 is a great desktop operating system, and for the most part, OEMs have manufactured some solid hardware to showcase it. Respectable companies like HP and Dell have done Microsoft proud with some truly satisfying touch-friendly laptops. Unfortunately, Microsoft has been a bit deficient... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2016-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
As Facebook, Google, Apple and Snapchat compete for audiences and advertising, they're providing new outlets for publishers to distribute their news content, but some publishers have been bigger beneficiaries than others. BuzzFeed, CNN and The New York Times are three whose resources, scale and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Company signs over $50 million in deals with 140 companies and celebrities for Facebook Live content. The post Facebook Pays Publishers Over $50 Million to Start Using Live Video appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2016-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ticketmaster isn't the only site giving you freebies this week. Thanks to a class-action lawsuit, Apple is paying for Amazon account credit for people who bought certain ebooks between April 2010 and May 2012. You can check here to see if you've got any settlement money in your account. Amazon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]