Tag Archives: Advertising

Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Instagram and facebook remove posts offering abortion pills Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure. Such social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect on Friday. That’s when the high court overruled Roe v. Wade, its 1973 decision that declared access to abortion a constitutional right. Memes […]

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Beacon Media + Marketing Releases Guide on Tips for Mental Health Facebook Advertising

RENO, NEVADA, UNITED STATES, June 10, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Beacon Media + Marketing has released a guide on tips for mental health Facebook advertising. There are many ways to help market a mental health practice, but Facebook ads are one of the best tools that can be used. Many mental health clinics have seen a significant increase in client conversions from advertising on platforms such as Google and Facebook. It’s a great way to have many impressions for a relatively low cost. Mental health practices should utilize […]

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Meta unfriends FB ticker in final farewell to Facebook era, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Meta unfriends FB ticker in final farewell to Facebook era After a decade of trading as Facebook, the social media giant is shedding the last vestige of its old corporate avatar as it begins trading under the ticker symbol ‘META‘ on Thursday. Meta Platforms Inc rebranded from its eponymous social networking platform in October 2021, betting that the metaverse, a shared virtual realm, will succeed mobile internet. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s co-founder and CEO, established Facebook in 2004 from his Harvard dorm as a way for students to […]

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Marketing Briefing: Why marketers, pivoting to brand awareness, are rethinking their advertising on Facebook and Instagram

Some marketers are retooling the way they think about ads on Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram, aiming for brand awareness rather than immediate sales.  In recent years, marketers have been aiming to diversify their social media ad budgets to be less reliant on Facebook and Instagram amid privacy shifts, performance difficulties, misinformation and hate-based content and other various issues with the platforms. Often that move for diversification came from direct-to-consumer brands that had relied too heavily on performance marketing and direct response advertising on the platforms to hit […]

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Meta Beats Facebook Users’ Scam Ad Class Action – Advertising, Marketing & Branding

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Last month, a California federal judge held that Facebook is not responsible for allegedly deceptive advertisements that appeared on its platform, even if Facebook solicited the ads and failed to enforce its own advertising policies.  California Facebook users sued Facebook’s parent company Meta, asserting false advertising, negligence, and other claims under California law.  The plaintiffs claimed that they had been deceived by various fraudulent ads that had appeared on Facebook.  The […]

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Court adjourns Facebook parent Meta’s Giphy tie-up appeal, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Facebook announced the purchase of Giphy in May 2020 for $315 million. A British court on Thursday adjourned an appeal by Facebook‘s owner Meta against a competition regulator ruling that it should be forced to sell online GIF creator Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in November found Meta’s purchase of Giphy — which supplies animated GIFs or mini videos to major social networks — would give the US behemoth too much market share. Adjourning the case at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal after four days of […]

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Apple’s privacy features to cost Facebook $12.8 bn in 2022, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Picture for representative purpose Months after tech giant Apple launched App Tracking Transparency (ATT), a new analysis has predicted its second year will still see major disruption to advertisers, with Facebook, YouTube and more collectively losing around $16 billion. According to AppleInsider, the tech giant released its feature in iOS 14 on April 26, last year, and it immediately had an impact on companies relying on advertising revenue. By July, it was estimated to be causing a 15 per cent to 20 per cent revenue drop for […]

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Internal bug promoted problematic content on Facebook, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Representative image Content identified as misleading or problematic were mistakenly prioritized in users’ Facebook feeds recently, thanks to a software bug that took six months to fix, according to tech site The Verge. Facebook disputed the report, which was published Thursday, saying that it “vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately it had no meaningful, long-term impact on problematic content,” according to Joe Osborne, a spokesman for parent company Meta. But the bug was serious enough for a group of Facebook employees to draft an internal […]

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How threatened are you, Facebook?, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Did Facebook play a dirty trick against one of its biggest competitors? Considering the rate at which this big tech makes headlines almost every week, I’d assume it won’t be much of a surprise to most. Anyway, I’ll still set a bit of a context here. “Facebook’s parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok,” The Washington Post reported on March 27. The campaign was basically to promote […]

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Facebook worried as TikTok set to eclipse Twitter, Snapchat ad share, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Facebook has been losing users for quite some time while TikTok’s usage is rising in the US. TikTok‘s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The Guardian. “Last year, it overtook the global ad take of Snapchat,” the report said on Saturday. TikTok, which […]

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