Month: August 2020

Facebook introduced a new tool that enables Black-owned businesses to identify themselves as such for easier discovery through the social network’s Businesses Nearby feature. The social network said that when a business opts for diverse business category labeling, that information will not appear publicly on their page or profile, adding, “This new tool helps amplify…

Instagram’s new Reels feature allow users to record 15-second videos that contain one or more clips. After you record a clip, you have the option to use an “Align” tool to make sure your device’s camera is in the same position before recording your next clip (this will make the transition from one clip to…

Video-calling devices by Portal From Facebook now work with videoconferencing applications BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Webex, Workplace From Facebook and Zoom. The Portal From Facebook team also shared other ways for people to use the devices to enhance their work-from-home experience during the pandemic: Portal’s artificial intelligence-powered Smart Camera keeps users in the frame and its Smart…

Beauty products brand Sally Hansen became the first brand to roll out sponsored nail try-on Snapchat lenses in the U.S. using the SnapML technology that was unveiled at the Snap Partner Summit in June. SnapML enables developers to power try-on technology in lenses via their own machine learning models. The Sally Hansen nail try-on lens…

Ten networks aired the event — ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, CNN en Espanol, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Newsy. MSNBC posted the best results with 5.2 million total viewers, followed by CNN,
ABC, Fox and CBS. Four years ago, when the Democrats nominated Hillary Clinton, seven networks posted a collective 25.95 million Nielsen-measured viewers.

“With Audi Goals Drive Progress, we literally put ‘our money where our mouth is,'” Audi’s Shawna Burtscher tells “Marketing Daily.”

As CEO North America at GroupM, McDonald will report to Global CEO Christian Juhl. At Xandr, Welch will report to WarnerMedia CTO Richard Tom, whereas McDonald was reporting to WarnerMedia’s CRO and
International President, Gerhard Zeiler.

Home improvement is particularly important to AARP’s target demographic. Most 50+ adults want to remain in their homes as they age.

A group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sued Facebook and fact-checkers, including the journalism school Poynter Institute, for allegedly disparaging and “censoring” posts about vaccines.

Many of us get our news through a social media channel. Paradox is, over 70% of us don’t trust the news we see on our social media feeds.