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Facebook Marketers are Already Fumbling News Feed Change

Jon Loomer

It’s been a little over a week since Facebook announced the latest news feed change intended to surface more content from friends and less content from brands. In that time, it’s clear marketers are setting the groundwork for future news feed changes. The History of News Feed Changes. 10, 2014: Cleaning up spam.

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Facebook News Feed Update: Now What?

Jon Loomer

You’ve undoubtedly heard by now about the big Facebook news feed update that was announced recently. The news feed is sorted and customized based on a ranking system. Passive scrolling and low-quality engagement are now bad. Posts that get long, thoughtful replies will get priority in your feed. So… Now what?

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Buh bye Facebook “Explore Feed”

Janet Fouts

Back in October Facebook rolled out an experiment called the “Explore Feed”, moving non-promoted posts from publishers and brands to a tab on the left side of desktop feeds where Facebook said one could find content “automatically customized for each person based on content that might be interesting to them”.

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Facebook Watchbait: Misleading and Sensational Videos Will Be Down-Ranked

Jon Loomer

Facebook has announced that videos using “watchbait” will be penalized and receive less news feed distribution. “Watchbait” is a made-up word to describe shady tactics used by marketers to game the news feed algorithm — and user engagement — with videos. What is watchbait? Why am I skeptical?

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Top B2B Instagram Feeds You Should Follow Today

Visually SM

In the past couple of years, its user base has exploded and now includes well-known brands and companies who use the platform as a way to reach and engage with customers. Here are five of the top B2B Instagram feeds and some tips on how big brands use the image-sharing service as part of their business to business marketing strategy.

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Top B2B Instagram Feeds You Should Follow Today

Visually SM

In the past couple of years, its user base has exploded and now includes well-known brands and companies who use the platform as a way to reach and engage with customers. Here are five of the top B2B Instagram feeds and some tips on how big brands use the image-sharing service as part of their business to business marketing strategy.

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Not Everything Has Changed

Jon Loomer

A 70-page PDF called The Facebook Ads Experiment: 12 Tips to Crazy Engagement from 2016 underscores just how much has changed. Website custom audiences weren’t even a thing until 2014. Test Like Crazy Few things made me happier than running a Facebook ads experiment in 2014 ( see that PDF from 2016 ). Not really.