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  • Weekend Digital Media Round-up: Google Display Ad’s parallel tracking, Twitter’s new desktop experience, Snapchat’s Netflix-Like Homepage and More…

    Weekend Digital Media Round-up: Google Display Ad’s parallel tracking, Twitter’s new desktop experience, Snapchat’s Netflix-Like Homepage and More…

    Logicserve Digital brings to you a curated round-up of important digital marketing updates this week. For further queries, you can write to us at newsbulletin@logicserve.com

    1. Parallel tracking for Google display ads: Mandatory as of July 31

    Google extended parallel tracking to display campaigns. Parallel tracking will soon be the standard method for handling third-party click measurement. It will be coming to video ads later this year. [Source: Marketing Land]

    2. Twitter Announces Full Rollout of the Platform’s New Desktop Experience

    Twitter has announced that it’s now rolling out the updated experience to all users. The new Twitter for desktop includes a range of updated features including direct messages all in one place, make twitter yours, more of what’s happening and more. [Source: Social Media Today]

    3. Snapchat Testing Netflix-Like Homepage for Shows Featuring Stars, Influencers

    Snapchat is testing a new feature to let users binge-watch original content on its app. The short original clips are integrated into the ‘Discover’ section of Snapchat, but the company is now planning to let users swipe over from the Discover page into a dedicated ‘Shows’ section. [Source: Gadgets 360]

    4. Google closes Chrome Incognito Mode loophole to improve privacy

    Google is beefing up Chrome’s Incognito Mode. The company confirmed that it is closing an API-related loophole that made it possible to detect when people were privately browsing in Chrome. [Source: Marketing Land]

    5. Instagram will now warn users close to having their account banned

    Instagram is strengthening its moderation policies today and adding a new alert that will warn people who violate rules when their account is close to being deleted. The alert will show users a history of the posts, comments, and stories that Instagram has had to remove from their account, as well as why they were removed. [Source: THE VERGE]

    6. Heard from Google, the biggest trends impacting PPC are privacy and automation

    Google is working on ways that they can continue to deliver relevant ads while using the least amount of user data. As privacy concerns mount, and search engines take it more seriously, advertisers will find it more challenging to bring their data about what drives their business into the engines. [Source: Search Engine Land]

    7. Twitter launches the ‘Hide Replies’ feature, in hopes of civilizing conversations

    Twitter is beginning its test of a change to its service with the launch of a new “Hide Replies” feature. The feature provides transparency because hidden replies are still available for viewing to anyone who wish to see them. Twitter’s goal with the feature is to encourage more civil conversation on its platform. [Source: Tech Crunch]

    8. 5% of Google My Business Listing Views Result in a Customer Action

    A new study of 45,000 local businesses reveals how customers are finding and interacting with Google My Business listings. The study states that an average business is found over 1000 times per month and conversion rate is 5% for Google My Business listing. [Source: Search Engine Journal]

    9. Twitter Announces New ‘LiveCut’ Video Editing and Publishing Tool, Which Will Replace SnappyTV

    Twitter has announced the end of its SnappyTV live video editing tool, and the addition of LiveCut, it’s replacement option, which is fully integrated into Twitter’s Media Studio. [Source: Social Media Today]

    10. Google may be testing shareable search results snippets

    Google is testing the search results snippets with new search buttons, including the ability to share a search result snippet with everyone. If you’re in this Google test, the three icons will be noticeable, one to share, one to open the cache page and one to open the result in a new window. [Source: Search Engine Land]

  • Weekend Digital Media Round-up: Google’s expanded App Ads distribution, Facebook’s reach estimates, Snapchat’s trending topics report and More…

    Weekend Digital Media Round-up: Google’s expanded App Ads distribution, Facebook’s reach estimates, Snapchat’s trending topics report and More…

    1. Google Expands the Distribution of App Ads

    Google Ads is expanding the distribution of app ads, which will now show up more often on iOS devices. To help advertisers measure the impact of this change, app installs and in-app conversion events from iOS browsers will be included in campaign reporting. [Source: Search Engine Journal]

    2. Facebook brings back reach estimates for Custom Audiences

    Facebook is reinstalling reach estimates for Custom Audiences, a tool that allows advertisers to estimate audience size for their Custom Audience campaigns. [Source: Marketing Land]

    3. Snapchat Releases Latest Update of Trending Topics on the Platform

    Snapchat released the latest version of its “Snap Chatter” audience insights report, which provides all the key trends and topics which saw a significant increase in the volume among the app’s users last month. [Source: Social Media Today]

    4. Google to stop supporting noindex directive in robots.txt

    Google will no longer support robots.txt files with the noindex directive listed within the file. If you are using the noindex directive, you will need to make the changes suggested by the company before September 1. [Source: Search Engine Land]

    5. LinkedIn lifts the hood on its news feed algorithm to show how it ranks posts

    LinkedIn has made multiple changes to its news feed algorithm over the last year and a half. The company is moving away from ranking trending content and, instead, putting more weight on niche-specific professional conversations. [Source: Marketing Land]

    6. Microsoft Advertising Offers Clearer Data on Ad Positions in Search Results

    Microsoft Advertising will now provide clearer insights on where ads are appearing in Bing search results. The company is also introducing some new metrics that will help you further optimize your ads’ performance. [Source: Search Engine Journal]

    7. Google taking Ads API back to beta over performance issues

    Google has decided to send its Ads API back to beta. Feedback from developers about slow response times have caused Google to determine that the API is not ready for production usage. [Source: Search Engine Land]

    8. Facebook warns Pages it is downgrading posts that use exaggerated health claims to promote products

    Facebook announced that it has made ranking updates to its News Feed algorithm, aiming to reduce posts that contain exaggerated or sensation health claims, as well as posts that promote or attempt to sell products or services based on health-related claims. [Source: Marketing Land]

    9. Google Is Moving Away From Search – Here’s How SEOs Can Adapt

    The future of search looks like it will have considerably less search in it, and this isn’t just about the end of the 10 blue links, but about much more fundamental changes. [Source: Search Engine Journal]

    10. Google extends Chrome ad blocking to global markets on July 9

    Now Chrome’s bad-ads filtering is going global, with a rollout to markets beyond North America and Europe on July 8. Google Chrome has a roughly 64% global browser market share. [Source: Marketing Land]

  • New Analytics On Snapchat For Better Audience Insight

    New Analytics On Snapchat For Better Audience Insight

    Snapchat is trying to re-establish the platform’s position among the advertisers and influencers. This is the reason why the social media platform is creating new tools.

    Now, there is a new analytics update available for the Snapchat influencers. The insights provided by the analytics should help content creators with their approach towards Snapchat. The analytics include multiple types of data to help Snapchat influencers and content creators.

    Here are all of them:

    1. Total views of stories

    The data on total views of the stories is now available for the creators. They can see the number of people who have seen their stories. The data will be available for every story. Plus, a creator can filter the data according to the time period. So, it will be possible to see the total number of story views in a year, in a month, and even in the past week.

    With this insight, users will get the opportunity to understand the engagement growth or decline in their stories. As a result, their ability to provide more engaging stories will improve.

    1. Unique viewers

    The new analytics also has the feature to offer data on unique viewers on a daily basis. Which means that the creators can see how many unique viewers have seen their story on a particular day. This data will come along with the watch time and the completion rate. So, the creator can also see the time spent by new viewers and the number of people who have seen complete stories.

    This data should help the creators to understand what attracts viewers. They can learn the content demands and design their strategy accordingly for Snapchat.

    1. Viewing time

    The viewing time includes a list of data related to the watch time of the stories. The creator can see this data for a year, month, past week and minutes as well. Mapping the watch time will help in monitoring the growth in the audience engagement. With that, a creator can push forward the strategy for Snapchat and get better outcomes.

    1. Audiences’ interests

    This is probably the most valuable data that the new analytics has. The insights about the audiences include their interests along with their lifestyle categories. Snapchat will provide this data for the most engaging viewers. With this, a creator will become clearly aware of the likes and dislikes of the audiences. And that will become a key factor in improving engagement with better stories.

    1. Demographic insights

    The demographic insights are now available for the creators too. These insights can show your audiences in multiple demographics such as age, gender, geographic regions and others. The demographic insights are there to help creators understand the groups of audiences they are influencing with their content. This way, a creator can become consistent with his or her content and satisfy the audiences.

    All these insights have the capacity to change the way creators engage with Snapchat. However, it is important to know that these insights are offered to the influencers only. The logic is to provide the tools and information for the influencers who can bring more engagement with their content.

  • Snapchat Wants To Expand Snaps’ Exposure With A Feature To Share Content Outside the App

    Snapchat Wants To Expand Snaps’ Exposure With A Feature To Share Content Outside the App

    Snapchat has been undergoing significant changes to become more and more relevant to what the market needs. According to reports, there is another interesting change coming in Snapchat.

    With the idea of spreading snaps everywhere, Snapchat is trying to launch “Stories Everywhere” option in their platform. The social media platform wants to provide content that can last longer than just a few hours. Though the option called “Memories” is already there, Stories Everywhere would allow the snaps to appear on websites and applications outside the native Snapchat app.

    Snap content shareable on other platforms

    With the new sharing option, Snapchat wants to enhance the exposure of the snap content and let it be discovered by people who aren’t a part of the Snapchat ecosystem. The users would get the ability to share their snaps on their own app or website. With this move, the company wants to increase the reach and improve their revenues.

    The sharable Snaps would allow the creators to have them forever. The content won’t just disappear after a few hours of creation. This comprehensive presence will give more visibility to Snapchat. More ways would become available for the users to come to Snapchat from other platforms.

    Benefits for brands and influencers

    Snapchat has always been questioned by the brands, companies, and influencers regarding the disappearance of the content. The businesses put a lot of effort into their Snap content pieces. But they all last for only a few hours.

    Snapchat has answered these questions by providing ‘Memories’ option that allows the creators to repost their Snaps. Now, with the new ‘Stories everywhere’ option, Snapchat would improve the abilities of the businesses to promote their content. So, it would not be wrong to say that this feature is going to drive positive results for brands and influencers.

    A step further away from the core idea

    The core idea of Snapchat was the disappearing content. But the social media platform has understood the requirement of everlasting content requirement. That is why the company launched the Memories option a year ago. The reposting of the Snaps allows users to have their content available for a longer time.

    The ‘Stories Everywhere’ would allow users to make the content existing outside Snapchat too. It is one step away from the core idea of the social media platform. But it would definitely be for the best. As the feature will help all sorts of users to promote and exist, more users will come to the platform.

    Other platforms shifting towards everlasting content

    It is not just Snapchat; other platforms have understood the importance of everlasting content. Instagram is also moving away from the temporary content with new features.

    Social media is not just about the general users anymore. The influencers and brands have become an important part, and are giving business to social media platforms.

    It is going to be interesting to see how ‘Stories Everywhere’ changes Snapchat for companies and websites. The content creation will definitely obtain a growth for sure. More brands would include Snapchat in their social media and content strategy.