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Instagram began notifying users when they’ve seen every post in their feeds from the past two days. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network announced in a blog post that iOS and Android users will begin seeing a message telling them “You’re All Caught Up.” Posts people have already viewed in in the past two days,…

Facebook notified users about another privacy-related bug, this time affecting more than 800,000 people on the social network and its Messenger application who may have had people that they blocked unblocked. Last month, 14 million people were affected by a bug that sprung up during the post-creation process, automatically suggesting that those posts be made…

Alimama, the digital marketing arm of ecommerce platform Alibaba, has released an artificial-intelligence-enabled Chinese language copywriting tool that it says passed the Turing test and can produce 20,000 lines of copy a second. It wasn’t clear if Alimama actually conducted a Turing test–in which humans judged whether copy came from a person or AI–or if…

Two Major League Baseball clubs that are exceeding preseason expectations are also making inroads on the social side, as social marketing firm Unmetric found that the Seattle Mariners posted the highest growth on Facebook and Twitter in June, while the Atlanta Braves did so on Instagram. Preseason favorites, meanwhile, ruled engagement in June, as the…

Though people across the pond won’t be celebrating the Fourth of July on Wednesday, Heathrow still understands the sentiment of a holiday week–as it proved in a new spot that’s all about embracing your vacation days. Havas London, the British-based agency behind Heathrow’s now-famous ads featuring a pair of bears returning home for the holidays,…

All brands want to foster more loyal relationships with their consumers. But when it comes to investing in a loyalty program, many experience what can best be described as a fear of commitment. Their reasons are completely rational; it’s a big step, and the concerns marketers grapple with are strikingly similar to what many people…

Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services. Disclosures are often buried in user agreements.

Ralph Watson, former CCO at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, has filed a second lawsuit that adds his former employer and its parent company to a legal pileup focused on the anonymous Diet Madison Avenue Instagram account. Watson was fired by CP+B in February after several posts by DMA described him as a sexual “predator” who…

The sweeping California privacy law, AB 375, that was rushed onto Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk for his 11th-hour signature last week won’t go into effect until 2020. The new law gives consumers a host of new rights, including the ability to compel companies to share what data has been collected about them, the right to… Continue reading »

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WhatsApp announced a new setting for groups on its messaging platform enabling only administrators to send messages to groups. The new setting is rolling out globally to users with the latest versions of the application. The Facebook-owned messaging app said in a blog post, “One way that people use groups is to receive important announcements…