Sherrilynne Starkie

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Top Five: Research shows that Facebook is successfully tackling fake news

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top 5 must-know social media news for the week includes stories about a new Messenger, Soundcloud’s Instagram integration, YouTube’s changed engagement metrics, the fight against fake news and Snapchat’s power with youth demographics. YouTube now counts ‘engagement’ for YouTube for action ads at 10 seconds, not 30.

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Top Five: Changes to social networks come fast and furious

Sherrilynne Starkie

New features and functions from Facebook, SnapChat, YouTube, Google and Instagram. YouTube continues to chip away at TV ad budgets. YouTube announced several initiatives to help advertisers reach TV screen viewers. The company is now making YouTube TV programming part of Google Preferred, its premium video advertising program.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

YouTube is used by 64 per cent of Canadians and two-thirds of those use it daily. Today Owned Media includes digital content, and the central hub is usually the company website. Company employees as ambassadors, for example. How Canadians use Social Media. Canadians love social media. Almost a third of those use it daily.

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Top five: holiday retail trends to the fore

Sherrilynne Starkie

This means new companies can start communicating with potential customers even before they open for business. Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is bringing a new camera to the desktop. Snap Camera integrates with apps including Twitch, YouTube, Skype, and Zoom. — SS. Now on desktops: Snap Camera. — SS. — SS.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

YouTube is used by 64 per cent of Canadians and two-thirds of those use it daily. Today Owned Media includes digital content, and the central hub is usually the company website. Company employees as ambassadors, for example. For Paid Media , we recognize the company is a not-for-profit enterprise, so budgets are small.

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Reuters, Rogers and social dashboards

Sherrilynne Starkie

Reuters has launched Social Pulse , a social media hub on Reuters.com which highlights social media’s most shared news, companies and influencers. The chart is populated by share-of-voice readings, so depending on which companies are being talked about most that day, it will adapt.

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Top Five: Major Google Ad overhaul and more

Sherrilynne Starkie

These new brands make it easier for advertisers and publishers to choose the right products to connect with the billions of people via Search, on YouTube, on Google Maps and Google Play, and more. QueryClick’s “CMO Performance Report 2018” is a survey of 150 CMOs for large companies and the results could point to a larger trend.

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