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2016 Q1 Facebook Data

The Realtime Report

2016 Q1 Facebook Data By Dr. Hannu Verkasalo. Facebook is one of the biggest digital companies globally. Per our data collection, Facebook has 151m monthly users on smartphones and 75m on tablets in the U.S., users access Facebook’s services on a daily basis giving it a stickiness index of 78%. Minutes. .

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Popular Social Media Topics of 2016

Ignite Social Media

2016 has been a very eventful year, especially in the world of social media marketing. The Ignite Mystery Trip 2016: Destination Revealed , by Jessica Gaylord. What the Elimination of Facebook’s 20% Text Rule Really Means , by Sam Foon. 2016 had a lot going on, and i’m sure next year won’t be any different.

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Not Everything Has Changed

Jon Loomer

The past several years of Facebook (and then Meta) advertising has been a whirlwind. A 70-page PDF called The Facebook Ads Experiment: 12 Tips to Crazy Engagement from 2016 underscores just how much has changed. But I don’t recognize much of the Facebook ads landscape that I wrote about eight years ago. Ads Manager?

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Facebook And Fallout From The 2016 Presidential Election

The Social Media Hat

In 2014, millions of Facebook user profiles were sold to Cambridge Analytica and used to help create detailed profiles on American voters. How did this happen, and what's next for Facebook?

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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. Facebook ad policies don’t specifically call out watchbait, but there are references to sensational content, misinformation, deceitful practices, and misleading claims. Even posts recommended by Facebook.

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#measurePR Recap (July 2016): Smart Reporting

Waxing UnLyrical

Aly Saxe (@Aly_Saxe) July 12, 2016. Aly Saxe (@Aly_Saxe) July 12, 2016. Heather Whaling (@prtini) July 12, 2016. Heather Whaling (@prtini) July 12, 2016. Heather Whaling (@prtini) July 12, 2016. SU Social Commerce (@SocCommSU) July 12, 2016. Aly Saxe (@Aly_Saxe) July 12, 2016. measurePR. —

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RIP: Social Media Networks & Features that Died in 2016

Ignite Social Media

Needless to say, a lot of newsworthy events happened in 2016. We will start with maybe one of the more shocking channels that saw its last updates in 2016, Vine. We will start with maybe one of the more shocking channels that saw its last updates in 2016, Vine. Meerkat was another social platform that went under in 2016.

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