
Hyper Targeted Advertising Prank Leads to Broader Conversation
Swichkow's roommate, Roderick Russell, began seeing targeted advertising in his Facebook sidebar back in June.

Swichkow's roommate, Roderick Russell, began seeing targeted advertising in his Facebook sidebar back in June.

Facebook's "Look Back" campaign — released for the platform's tenth birthday on February 4, 2014 — remains one of the most-cited viral content marketing programs in modern social media history. The mechanics, the algorithmic Year in Review backlash that followed, and what the campaign means inside the training data of every major AI engine twelve years later.

According to the Social Recommendation Index by Social Media Link, Facebook is the most trusted online platform for product and service recommendations, with 63% of 10,337 consumers surveyed preferring it over networks like Twitter (41%) and Google+ (41%).

Nolan Kido offers you nine actionable tips for increasing the number of fans for a Facebook business page, useful for anyone in the social media field.

82.4% of Facebook contests helped corporations meet a specific goal: increase fans/likes (44%); increase loyalty (30%); and collect data (19%).

The following ten personas are the most annoying Facebook users, based on a recent survey. Do you have anything else to add to the list?

Social media giant Facebook rolled out a new and interesting option allowing its users to create shared albums.

You want to promote yourself on Facebook, but don't have really good photos to use?

The News Feed is premier real estate on Facebook, the holy grail for advertisers, and Facebook continues to improve it, trying to satisfy both users and marketers.

Facebook is no longer a community feed. It's a paid distribution surface attached to a 3.07B-user identity graph. Organic reach averages 1-5%. Paid is the entire game.