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Category: News Feed

YouTube Is Top Video Source On Google News

In 2020, YouTube videos were the top content featured on Google News. 11% of all Google News video content comes from YouTube, another Google property.

Facebook To Launch Facebook News In The UK In January

According to Facebook, the company will be bringing the dedicated News tab into the UK this coming January. This will be the first region outside of the US that will get Facebook’s News content. From Facebook’s post: “[W]e’re announcing new investments focused on journalism in the UK with the launch of Facebook News, a dedicated …

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Why Businesses Are Relying On Facebook Groups To Build Engaged Audiences

When 2018 first started, Facebook Facebook switched up its algorithm in the attempt to “fix” the News Feed by promoting more posts from friends and family, and demoting content from media, brands and businesses. But because of this move, it ended up distancing brands from their followers on the platform by limiting exposure to organic content posted by …

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Facebook Attribution Now Available To All Advertisers

In March 2017, Facebook began bet testing an attribution solution for marketers to analyze the impact of their campaigns both on and off Facebook.  On October 19, company released Facebook Attribution out of beta to all advertisers. It also introduced a new “data-driven attribution model.” The Facebook Pixel powers the free tool and can report on campaigns across Facebook, Instagram, …

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Facebook Ends Trending Section, Removing All Products That Integrated With The Trends API

Facebook’s Trending news topic section is being removed at the beginning of next week, along with products and third-party integrations that rely on the Trending API. Based on Facebook’s researched, people didn’t find it very useful over time.  According to the company, the content in the Trending topics section accounted for fewer than 1.5 percent …

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Facebook Ends The Explore Feed Less Than 4 Months After Its Launch

After a less than stellar run that didn’t even run a full four months, Facebook has chosen to end its Explore Feed. Facebook’s Explore Feed came out last October, and was designed as a separate feed for content from publishers and public figures who are interested in based their own interests.  It came after news feed algorithm …

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Facebook Will No Longer Flag Fake News Link With ‘Disputed’ Label

Facebook has tried, and they seem to be failing. The social network has been making an effort to combat fake news, and simply, it isn’t working. So the company is trying a different tact. About a year ago, Facebook made an announcement that would allow people to flag fake news articles so that third-party fact checkers could evaluate …

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What You Need To Know About Facebook’s New Ad Transparency

A foundation of Facebook advertising is the ability to segment your audience to serve relevant, tailored creative to different users. The ad that is served to one person could be very different to another, specifically because you want to communicate with them in different ways.  If there was one ad that went to a 25 …

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Facebook Debuts Web-Based VR Experiences Within Standard News Feed

Now, when you browse your traditional News Feed, you will now have the ability to enter virtual reality Less a month since Marketing Land reported that Facebook was testing web-based VR within News Feed posts, the social network debuted examples of brands who have developed VR apps that people are able to interact with through Facebook’s standard …

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Google News To Deprecate Old RSS Feed URLs On December 1, 2017

Google News is going to be deprecating their old RSS feed subscription URLs by December 1, 2017.  What this means for you is, if you’ve got a Google News RSS feed subscription from a year or so ago, you’ll have to update them all. According to a Google spokesperson, “We are making some necessary improvements to …

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