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Top Five: social networks push new shopping features

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top Five: social networks push new shopping features. This week's top five must-know social media news come from LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Google and Pinterest. New templates for collections ads are designed to deliver the rich experience of print catalogues on mobile. Sherrilynne Starkie. followers . Follow List.

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1/3 of Moviegoers Purchase Tickets Via Mobile Phone

The Realtime Report

Today, mobile plays a huge part in our search to find the right movie and time. A recent report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and InMobi examines how much people rely on smartphones for moviegoing information. Here are some of the highlights: 1/3 of moviegoers buy tickets on mobile phones.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Ad Retargeting, Google ‘+Post Ads,’ Apple Buys Topsy

The Realtime Report

Facebook adds more ‘News’ to News Feed to become more Twitter-like – Facebook is now promoting more ‘real news’ posted by users; the social network’s news-feed algorithm will now expose more links to articles from media organizations — especially on mobile (AdAge). and… Apple?!

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Facebook And Walmart Team Up for Black Friday Mobile-Ad Blitz

The Realtime Report

On Black Friday, Facebook and Walmart launched the social network’s largest mobile advertising campaign ever. Walmart’s “mobile-ad blitz” ran for 72 hours. It consisted of 50 million ads which showed up in the Facebook mobile news feeds of tens millions of people.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook To Buy WhatsApp, LinkedIn Opens Publishing To All Members

The Realtime Report

Facebook to pay $19 billion for WhatsApp – Facebook is acquiring mobile messaging service WhatsApp; the company will continue to operate separately, and co-founder Jan Koum will join Facebook’s board of directors (The Wall Street Journal).

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4 Emerging Social Media Platforms To Watch In 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

And the decision for a brand to invest in a new social media platform is a big one. Launching a social media profile almost always results in the need for more human resources, content creation, and advertising budget. So how is a social media marketer to decide? A Social Media Platform to Embrace Messaging: Kik.

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There Are More Social Media Users Today Than There Were People in 1971

Hootsuite

Here are the top three stats from the report: 321 million new people joined social media in 2019, which brought the total from 3.48 billion social media users (an increase of 9%) in 2020. billion mobile phone users , up 2.4% We spend an average of two hours and 24 minutes per day using social media. billion to 3.8