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Study Suggests 30-Percent of Facebook Interests Are Inaccurate or Irrelevant

Jon Loomer

According to a recent North Carolina State University study , Facebook doesn’t account for context when assigning a user an interest that is used for ad targeting. The researchers conducted a couple of studies to come to the conclusion that this was happening. The researchers performed another study. That’s a lot!

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Case Study: Blogger Outreach for Oxfam America’s International Women’s Day 2012 Campaign

Waxing UnLyrical

Would you like more case study posts? Case Study: Blogger Outreach for Oxfam America’s International Women’s Day 2012 Campaign. We made sure the latter two were easily accessible via OA’s ACT FAST microsite , so that it was easy for bloggers to do what we asked them to, if they were interested, of course.

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Tips For Creating Your Online Freelance Portfolio

The Realtime Report

Create Some Samples . In order to create a portfolio, you first need to have some samples. If you don’t have any professional samples, don’t sweat it, as you can always create your own. You don’t need dozens and dozens of samples. Three or four quality samples will be plenty.

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Majority of Arab Youth Express Concerns About the Impact of Social Media Addiction on Mental Well-being

Bill Hartzer

” The 15th edition of the Arab Youth Survey was conducted by SixthFactor Consulting, a leading research company, and involved face-to-face interviews with 3,600 Arab citizens aged 18 to 24 in 53 cities across 18 Arab states, making it the largest sample in the survey’s history.

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Success with the Google News Standout Tag: A 90-Day Study

Adam Sherk

I want to emphasize that this study is not comprehensive. This is meant to be a random sampling, not a complete list of every “Featured” article that appeared. Basically most weekdays I’d check Google News once or twice a day. I didn’t check every day or frequently throughout the day.

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New Study Reveals the Lifetime Value of a Blog Post

Convince & Convert

However, despite blogging’s popularity, there hasn’t been an independent study to uncover the power and lifetime value of a blog post—until now. Study: The Lifetime Value of a Blog Post. Carried out by Halverson Group , the study revealed that the lifespan of a post is nearly 24 times the currently accepted measurement of 30 days (e.g.

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New report resurrects AVE measurement for influencer campaigns

Sherrilynne Starkie

According to the report, the top 20 brands mentioned in a sample of more than 900,000 Instagram posts created $659,882,860 of ‘earned media value’ More than 11,000 influencers were paid for their posts. The study looked at the first five months of 2018. It seems to me that if a rose is a rose, then an AVE is an EMV.