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29 Nov 2019

Sticky Post By Ana Cristina Posted in Uncategorized Permalink

3 Fundamental Facebook Ads Strategies For eCommerce You Need To Know

Sticky Post By Ana Cristina On November 29, 2019

This year, the total value of global retail eCommerce is expected to reach $3.45 trillion– and most online retailers are reaching these sales heights with Facebook Ads.

Facebook, a platform with 2.41 billion monthly active users, recently reported that they had 6 million advertisers on its platform in Q4 2019.

If you’re not advertising on Facebook, you’re missing a great opportunity to create brand awareness and boost your sales. Last year, I wrote a blog post with 15 essential Facebook Ads strategies for eCommerce. Since the world’s largest social media platform is continually changing, I’ve decided to update this essential information with the 3 fundamental strategies for eCommerce you need to know to start taking advantage of this money-making machine.

1. Install Conversion Tracking Pixel

Installing a conversion tracking pixel on your website is the very first thing you should do when you start advertising on Facebook.

The Facebook pixel is a piece of code that you copy from Facebook and paste on your website. It tracks the behavior of visitors to your website: product page visits, add to cart, purchases, and more. This data allows you to optimize your campaigns, build better audiences, and retarget people that have interacted with your brand.

To create your Facebook pixel, follow these steps:

Login in to your Business Manager account
Go to your Pixels tab in Events Manager
Click “Create a Pixel”
Click “Create” in the box that appears to finish creating your pixel

Next, add Pixel to your site:

Go to your website’s code and find the header of your website
Copy the entire code that you created on Business Facebook and paste it in the header of your website. Paste the code at the bottom of the header section, just above the closing head tag.
Click “Send Test Traffic” after placing the code on your website to make sure Pixel working properly. If your status says “Active”, your base code has been installed correctly. This can take several minutes to update.

You can also send the instructions to your developer, or if you’re using a partner integration like Google Tag Manager, you can connect your account in Business Manager and follow the onscreen instructions to connect your Pixel to your website.

2. Use Dynamic Ads

This is the highest ROI strategy to use on Facebook Ads for eCommerce.

Instead of individually creating ads for each product, dynamic ads allow you to create an ad template that will use the information you upload to a product catalog with your product’s images and details.

Your campaign will use the information tracked in your Facebook Pixel to show ads to people who have already expressed an interest in your business or a specific product.

The best part? Even though you have a vast catalog of products, the ads will be personalized and relevant to your audience.

Dynamic ads can not only be used to retarget people who have taken actions on your website, but you can also target broad audiences to reach people who haven’t heard from you yet. Facebook calls this “product recommendations.” These recommendations can include products already viewed by a person on your website, popular products on your catalog, and products that similar people to your audience interacted with.

To set up your dynamic ads, follow these steps:

Step 1: Set up your Facebook Pixel and Conversion Events

After installing your Facebook pixel, you need to set up your conversions events, which are specific actions visitors take on your site. You must select the conversion events that best apply to you, for example:

- Add ViewContent events to all product pages.
- Add AddToCart events to either your shopping cart pages and/or buttons that allow people to add items to carts.
- Add Purchase events to purchase or confirmation pages.

Then, select either product IDs or product group IDs on your events to match individual products viewed on a website separately, such as showing an ad for a product that comes in multiple colors in one specific color choice.

Associate your Facebook Pixel or events to your catalog to show products based on customer behavior.

Step 2: Build your catalog

In your Business Manager account, go to Catalog Manager to create your catalog, which is the inventory of products that you want to advertise on Facebook. Keep in mind that you need to keep your catalog up to date and make sure every product has a unique identifier.

Step 3: Create products sets from your catalog

From your inventory, you need to create a group of items that will allow you to control your bids and the items that appear in your ads. The product sets can be organized by product category, price range, markdown, or promotional price or theme.

Now that you’re ready with your dynamic ads, you can use multi-product ads, like carousels, to reach your audience with multiple products in a single ad.

3. Run Retargeting Campaigns

Did you know that on average 72% of online shoppers abandon their carts without buying a product? And only 8% of them will come back. Shocking, right?

For these reasons, one of the most essential strategies for eCommerce on Facebook ads is to run retargeting campaigns. This strategy will help you to show your products to website visitors that view a product or added to cart but didn’t complete a purchase, and also helps you to cross-sell and upsell additional products.

To create retargeting campaigns, yes, you guessed it, you’ll also need your Facebook Pixel. Thanks to the data it collects, you can create custom audiences with segments of people who already have a relationship or interacted with your business: website visitors, video views, consumers who engaged with your Facebook page or Instagram business profile, and much more.

To build these audiences, follow these steps:

Go to Audiences on Business Manager
Select Create Audience and then Custom Audience
Select the source of your audience
Follow the instructions based on the source

To maximize the return of your retargeting campaigns, offer coupons and discounts. This way, you’ll entice your visitors to come back to your website and finish their purchases.

Conclusion:

These three strategies are fundamental to making the most of your eCommerce presence. Using them will increase the probability of visitors completing sales and taking more advantage of your ads, improving your ROI.

We hope you find these strategies helpful! Want a team of Facebook ads experts to take it from here? Drop us a line. We’d love to take the hard work off your hands, and help your eCommerce get on the right track!

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29 Nov 2019

Sticky Post By M. Valentina Villegas Posted in Uncategorized Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By M. Valentina Villegas On November 29, 2019

A new edition of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave is here! Platform changes, new options, and political controversy top the headlines of the biggest social platforms. Read on to find out more!

Twitter Could Allow Scheduling Tweet On Web App

Twitter has jumped on the bandwagon of integrating scheduling features directly on their social platform. Twitter could now let you schedule tweets. Until now it had only been possible to schedule tweets on Twitter through TweetDeck and other third-party services such as Hootsuite, Buffer or SproutSocial. However, in recent days Twitter launched a test in which some users will have the ability to schedule tweets directly in the compose window in the web app.

Are you one of the lucky ones? Find out here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/20/20974686/twitter-test-tweet-scheduling-main-web-app-tweetdeck-buffer

Facebook Launch Options To Better Control Ad Placement

In 2017 YouTube lost millions of dollars in revenue after brands removed their ads from the platform for fear that their ads would appear alongside hate speech content. To prevent this from happening on its platform, Facebook launched new features that will allow advertisers to have more control over where their ads appear across Facebook’s ad delivery networks.

Get to know the new ad options here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-adds-new-options-for-brands-to-control-ad-placements/567748/

Google Also Limits Political Advertising

Google also joins the trend and limits in some way the reach of political ads. Unlike Twitter, Google will not ban political ads, but will limit their targeting capacity, in addition to taking action against “demonstrably false claims” that can influence a voter’s voting decision or generate mistrust in the electoral process. For now, political ad targeting will be limited to age and location.

Get to know more here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/20/google-limits-political-ad-targeting-and-all-demonstrably-false-claims/

Pinterest To Support Small Businesses This Holiday Season

Pinterest has launched a page exclusively populated with shoppable product pins from a curated list of small US businesses, mostly run by women. With this initiative Pinterest seeks to support this type of business that in their own words offer “something you won’t find at every other box store on the block.”

Organize your holiday gift list here: https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2019/11/pinterest-highlightssmall-businesses-for-holiday.html

A new week ends with Marketing Updates With Motion Ave. We look forward to having you here next week to learn more about marketing news and the world of online advertisi

15 Nov 2019

Sticky Post By M. Valentina Villegas Posted in headlines, blog writing, Content Marketing Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By M. Valentina Villegas On November 15, 2019

Welcome to another issue of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave. The features that were released this week could change the marketing game, so don’t miss out on any of these marketing news!

Instagram Tests Hiding Likes In The US

In order for people to focus more on publishing truly quality content, Instagram decided to start testing a new idea: hiding likes from followers. Now users will start following accounts, not because of their popularity but because of their content. This new feature has already been tested in 7 countries and will finally arrive in the US.

Do you want to know if your likes will be hidden? Click on the link: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/11/tech/instagram-likes-going-away/index.html

Google Will Warn Users Of Slow Pages

As a way to encourage publishers to improve the speed of their websites, Google decided to use some small badges that will tell users if a page is slow or not before they decide to click on the link. With this, the company seeks to reward fast websites and provide valuable information for users of the platform.

Know more here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-chrome-speed-badges/335261/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter-auto-publish

Twitter Will Let You Switch Accounts When Tweeting

It will now be possible to switch accounts directly on twitter when replying to tweets. This functionality was already available in TweetDeck, but now finally arrive to the main app. This will give users the opportunity to perform more actions on the app and manage their multiple accounts more easily.

Want to know more? Click here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitters-testing-a-new-option-which-would-enable-you-to-switch-accounts-in/566976/

Google Ads Editor Has Been Updated

In addition to power support app campaigns for engagement and Discovery campaigns, new features were added to the platform such as: shared negative keyword lists, searchable errors, which allows you to search for errors in your campaigns, maximize conversion value for search campaigns and more.

Get to know all the details here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ads-editor-gets-new-features-support-for-new-campaign-types/334501/

Facebook Expands On-Platform Payments

The Facebook Pay tool now arrives in the US. Facebook’s payment tool now arrives in the United States. This new on-platform payment alternative will offer users the opportunity to purchase products more easily on Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Messenger. You’ll be able to add your preferred payment method only once (not every time you make a purchase), get customer support live, view your payment history and more.

Know more about this launch here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-rolls-out-facebook-pay-to-the-us-expanding-on-platform-payments/567164/

That’s it for this week! We hope to see you soon with new Marketing Updates With Motion Ave!

08 Nov 2019

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen Posted in headlines, blog writing, Content Marketing Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On November 8, 2019

Welcome to another issue of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave. This week was all about Facebook- with plenty of controversy at no extra charge! While a little less busy, Twitter also made big headlines with a simple move. Read it all now!

Facebook Wants You To NOTICE THEIR NEW LOGO

Big. Powerful. Changes color. Hanging around everywhere. Capturing and devouring everything it meets. No, it isn’t a giant cuttlefish, though your confusion is understandable. It’s FACEBOOK.

FACEBOOK has updated its logo to represent its new outlook as the company that owns most of the places the world pays attention to. The new logo, already being decried as jarring and off-brand, will be displayed in a different color on each of FACEBOOK’s new holdings: green for WhatsApp From FACEBOOK, Pink for Instagram from FACEBOOK, and blue for FACEBOOK from FACEBOOK.

If there’s one thing we know, it’s that shouting and constantly changing your image is a great way to get people’s attention and show what a nice guy you are.

Embrace change here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/4/20947854/facebook-new-logo-design-change-parent-company-instagram-whatsapp

Twitter Refuses To Take Someone’s Money, Saves Democracy

Arguably some of the biggest news this week was Twitter’s announcement banning all political ads. While political messages, images, and content will continue to exist across 99.380245% of the platform, they must generate reach on their own through following and retweeting, like everything else- no more purchasing mandatory slices of users attention.

The ban applies to all ads featuring candidates in political campaigns as well as those advocating legislation on major issues, such as climate change and healthcare. How “major” an issue? What about ads that don’t directly name candidates?

So. To be clear: Twitter allows no ads containing any political action. FACEBOOK allows any and all political ads. Everyone is outraged at both.

Democracy in action. The system works, you guys!

Join the debate here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitter-bans-all-political-ads-in-response-to-concerns-around-misinformatio/566259/

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/02/twitters-political-ads-ban-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-problem-with-platforms/

FACEBOOK Won’t Judge Your Politics, But It Might Judge Your Grammar

The newest evolution of FACEBOOK’s responsive ads includes the ability to supply several versions of copy, headlines, and post descriptions for a single ad- and, just as it already does for images, FACEBOOK’s algorithm will determine which text combination will bring the best results.

This next step for responsive ads ultimately gives FACEBOOK full control of every element of your ad (though, to be fair, you don’t HAVE to create responsive ads). This illustrates a bigger philosophical point in the FACEBOOK landscape- sure, you’re giving up your ability to make decisions about anything, but someone’s doing your most difficult work for you, and there’s memes to read.

Find out more here: https://marketingland.com/responsive-ads-come-to-facebook-with-multiple-text-optimization-270013

FACEBOOK Changes Video Ad Metrics

No more 10-Second Video Views counts (or related metrics). FACEBOOK has swapped this out for what’s intended to be a more useful measure of activity, ThruPlays: the number of times your video has been played completely or up to 15 seconds.

Oh. And a bunch of metrics have been renamed, like “Video Watches At 25%” is now “Video Plays at 25%” to reflect that people might be clickfarming, I mean distracted.

Go to the tape here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-announces-changes-to-ad-metrics-including-removal-of-10-second-vi/566382/

FACEBOOK Saves Marketers From Themselves With New Ad Limits

Starting mid next year, FACEBOOK will limit the number of ads a page can run. To prepare advertisers for this drastic change, FACEBOOK has launched the new Ad Volume API that allows you to see how many ads are running on a page, and how many are in review.

FACEBOOK assures everyone that having too many ads can harm advertisers’ performance. The logic is that if you have a large volume of ads, fewer come out of the learning phase and a lot of budget is spent before the system updates the ad performance.

It’s very nice of FACEBOOK to be so responsible with our money.

Want to know more? Click here: https://marketingland.com/facebook-to-limit-number-of-ads-pages-can-run-simultaneously-270449

Need a break from hearing about FACEBOOK? Take a week! We’ll be back with more Marketing Updates With Motion Ave featuring news on everyone’s favorite gigantic social media conglomerate!

01 Nov 2019

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen Posted in Uncategorized Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On November 1, 2019

Welcome to another edition of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave! This week is all about Google. Find out what the search giant has for you this week here! Just read on!

Cart metrics For Shopping Campaigns

Google Ads adds a new set of metrics and data to shopping campaigns. Now it will be possible to see a cart data report, where information about purchases will be given. This report will show specific data on sold items, attributed sales metrics, which include total amount of income from transactions attributed to clicks on an ad and offer-level sales metrics showing all products sold.

Go deeper into the subject by clicking here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ads-brings-new-sets-of-data-to-shopping-campaigns/332563/

Google Improves Asset Combination For App Ads

Google Ads announce is working on improving asset combination for app campaigns and giving traffic to specific assets so advertisers can have better information on which assets are performing better. Even though the platform said these improves wouldn’t affect campaign performance, some changes in metrics and in well performing assets could be seen.

Know more here: https://searchengineland.com/as-app-campaign-placements-expand-google-ads-aims-to-improve-asset-combinations-for-app-ads-324088

Google Updates Search Algorithm

It seems that the context will be king with this new update of Google’s search algorithm. According to the platform, it will change results rankings for up to one in 10 queries. Previously Google treated phrases as sets of words with no connection, it only read important words (such as nouns) and displayed the results for that search. With the change, now words that it didn’t take into account, such as prepositions, will have more value so users can get better search results.

Learn what the impact of this change might be here: https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/google-just-announced-a-major-search-algorithm-change-that-users-will-probably-love-and-some-businesses-may-absolutely-hate.html

Twitter Is Labeling Bots

To ensure greater transparency within the platform, Twitter has decided to label bots profiles. This bots have dominated political news streams, and had contributed to amplify and manipulate trends in the past. This proposal serves to identify who is really behind those profiles and to limit the way in which they are used.

Confirm you are not a bot here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitters-considering-a-new-checkmark-to-highlight-bots-on-the-platform/565730/

And that’s it for this issue! Find out what other changes Google might bring and what other transparency fight Twitter would be battling next week in Marketing Updates With Motion Ave.

18 Oct 2019

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen Posted in headlines, blog writing, Content Marketing Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On October 18, 2019

Welcome to another edition of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave! This week Twitter has given us a lot to talk about, and LinkedIn plans to be social media’s premiere event planner. Let’s get to the news!

LinkedIn Company Page Tools Helps Work Be Even More Pervasive

LinkedIn launches a suite of new options for company pages to build internal engagement. Business pages can now deploy employee notifications when an update has been published, with the intention of encouraging employees to share these in their own profiles. Sounds spammy? LinkedIn has put a cap on these notifications to keep it essential.

LinkedIn also introduces company page “kudos” and “team moments,” specific content additions to call out team members, welcome new ones, and share photos of executives playing paintball and doing trust falls in the woods on team-building exercises. (For example.)

Get your copy of the TPS report here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-adds-new-tools-for-company-pages-including-employee-notifications/565079/

Listen, You All Know Who We’re Talking About

Twitter has decided that it will penalize “world leaders” who break its rules – by restricting other users. Since deciding not to block or censor controversial content by major political and public figures, Twitter is instead attempting to turn the heat down by leaving content of public interest untouched, but restricting the ability of users to give like, comment or share such content. The important thing is the right people have been held responsible and everything’s great now.

Fight the power here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/twitter-world-leaders-break-rules/

LinkedIn Launches Events Option for Meet-Ups

LinkedIn competes with Facebook in the event scheduling arena. You’ll have the option to organize event pages with description, date, time and venue. Invitees can be chosen through filters such as location, company, industry, and school, and whether they can invite their own connections.

Go to the reunion here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-launches-events-to-facilitate-professional-meet-ups/565171/

Instagram Will Protect You From Third-Party Apps… Eventually

Instagram is testing a new feature to protect your account from third-party apps you’ve given access to in the past, such as websites for printing photos, dating apps, and tools for making collages by letting you simply remove them from your profile.

Instagram will determine whether to do a full rollout of this functionality after six months. Whether or not this happens, it represents an increasing demand by social media users for increasing direct control over their content and privacy- and increased transparency about all the places your data goes.

Wish for the future here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/16/instagram-will-give-you-more-control-over-your-third-party-apps-in-about-six-months/

“Ephemeral Tweets” – Like Stories, But Twitter, And Less

Twitter is exploring “Ephemeral Tweets,” content that will disappear after a while, like stories.

Since making content impermanent fixes everything (except it doesn’t), it’s a feature with growing popularity.

A more practical privacy tool in the works is a feature that allows you to restrict the audience that will receive a tweet. If implemented as planned, users will have more direct control over who sees and who participates in their conversations.

It’s hard to judge the authenticity, effectiveness, and veracity of the increasing number of community-demanded features the big platforms are bringing- so stay informed. We’ll be waiting for you next week with more Marketing Updates With Motion Ave.

11 Oct 2019

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen Posted in headlines, blog writing, Content Marketing Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On October 11, 2019

This week Marketing Updates With Motion Ave is loaded with new ads on Instagram, new features on Twitter and a self-destructive message on Whatsapp! Read on to find out more!

Instagram Tests New AR Ad

Instagram offers new possibilities for retailers through augmented reality. Users with the proper hardware can harness the “try on” format to see what those sunglasses look like on them. Presently, this feature is only available for cosmetics and eyewear products- but the possibilities of allowing direct experiences of a wide range of products, remotely, are obvious.

Try on the future here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagrams-now-testing-new-ar-try-on-ads-with-selected-advertisers/564349/

WhatsApp Launches Self-Destructing Messages

It’s become a proverb of our times that what you say online haunts you forever, and is never truly gone. WhatsApp aims to let us make our content a little less permanent. Want to communicate a sensitive message for a limited time? A new feature in development lets you give a specific message a 5 second or 1 hour lifespan (just those two choices for now, for some reason), after which it’s gone forever.

This message will self-destruct in 30 seconds – read more here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20893033/whatsapp-disappearing-messages-beta-self-destruct-privacy-security

Instagram Stops Creepin

The ‘gram has finally kicked the Following Tab to the curb. The feature that went from being a tool to detect models, trends and influencers to monitoring your partner’s every move is gone forever. Good riddance, if you ask us- and given its declining usage statistics, we’ve got plenty of company.

Close the curtains here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/07/instagram-is-killing-its-creepy-stalking-feature-the-following-tab/

Twitter Realizes Social Media Needs To Be Faster

Worried you’ll get bored on Twitter? You could go do something healthy while waiting for your feed… nah, just kidding. Twitter’s new “Stream” feature now lets you see tweets as they happen live, updating your timeline in real-time. Thank goodness. We almost had to move over to Facebook for a moment.

Get the whole story here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitters-testing-a-new-option-to-stream-tweets-in-real-time/564341/

That’s all for this week. Next week we’ll be back with more marketing news that won’t be self-destructing in the near future!

20 Sep 2019

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen Posted in headlines, blog writing, Content Marketing Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On September 20, 2019

This week’s marketing news is about “new” features from all the major channels. Intrigued? Read on!

I’m Snapchat, and I Approve This Message

Although Snapchat hasn’t really established itself as a platform for paid political advertising yet, the platform is planning for the future and launching a political ads library with the aim of making its role in political promotions transparent: the library will feature data including who paid (and how much they paid) for political messages featured on Snapchat, clearly acting in repudiation of Facebook’s past status as “the place bad actors go to screw around with democracy consequence-free.”

Prepare yourself:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/15/tech/snapchat-political-ads/

https://www.snap.com/en-US/political-ads/

Google Optimization Scores Now On Mobile App

You probably already knew that the Google Optimization Score, ranging from 0% to 100%, gives a rough measure of how effectively crafted your ad campaign is since it allows you to visualize how well they are optimized. The platform has now updated the mobile ads app, allowing you to track this away from your desktop as well.

Learn more about this feature here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ads-app-now-displays-campaign-optimization-scores/325819/#close

New Tools For Live Broadcast And Video On Facebook

Facebook continues to introduce and boost features as it competes with YouTube for market share of content creators, especially video. They’ve launched new rehearsal and trimming options for Facebook Live, allowing creators to show their videos to admin Pages and editors to test their content first, and trim the beginning and end of Live broadcast replays.

They’ve also updated the Watch Party feature, adding the ability to schedule parties which will generate an announcement post to notify followers when the Watch Party begins.

Join the party here:

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-adds-new-video-publishing-tools-including-live-rehearsals-and-wat/563030/

Google Memory Will Definitely Remind You Of Something

Instagram Stories are pretty popular, huh? Isn’t it weird that other photo-sharing social media isn’t doing the same thing? Not Google, of course- they’re still cool!

In a move that doesn’t remind anyone of Google+ or “Remember This Day,” Google Photos adds the Memory option, creating a Story-like (but private, personal, and tweakable) album of past photos. On a more practical note, Photos is rolling out enhanced sharing and photo printing options after people have had a few months to get used to Memory.

Share the memories here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/12/google-photos-adds-a-time-traveling-version-of-stories-plus-more-sharing-and-printing-options/

Instagram Takes A Clip From…

TikTok clips are really popular, huh? Isn’t it weird that other video-sharing social media isn’t doing the same thing? Not Instagram, of course- they’re still cool!

Instagram changes the video world forever with their new feature, “Clips,” that just like TikTok will allow users to record segments of videos into a single video Story, overlay music on clips and adjust the speed and timer of each video.

The competition is real: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagrams-reportedly-working-on-a-new-tool-which-replicates-tiktoks-key/562726/

It’s going to be interesting to look back on the evolution of all these platforms three years from now, when they’ve basically become identical twins of one another, slowly converging on the same feature and content offerings, isn’t it? Maybe Google Memory will show us today’s article! Look on the bright side of all this homogeneity- eventually it won’t matter which channel you use most!

Want to know more about the world of marketing today and tomorrow? Stay tuned for more Marketing Updates With Motion Ave. next week!

13 Sep 2019

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen Posted in headlines, blog writing, Content Marketing Permalink

Marketing Updates With Motion Ave

Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On September 13, 2019

Welcome to another edition of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave! This week Facebook and Google dominate headlines with changes and new features in their ad platforms and user engagement. Find out more now!

“Don’t Move,” Says Facebook and Instagram Un-Menacingly

Shopping is so freakin’ hard nowadays. Not only do you have to browse ads right in the middle of your social feeds to find things you want, you have to click away to some other site, where you’ll probably have to click two or even three more times before completing a transaction!

The oppression ends now, thanks to your friends at Facebook and Instagram From Facebook. The dynamic duo is testing Dynamic Ads permitting you to complete such transactions clicking directly on the ad in your feed, and check out using the Checkout on Facebook feature- all without leaving the comfortable, reassuring ecosystem of your favorite social media platform.

To leverage the visitor retention this new feature promotes, Instagram is trying something else new, as well: shopping ads can now be transformed into paid promotions. Previously, only organic posts could be given shopping tags- now, powerful buy-on-demand ads can get the same treatment as your marketing campaigns.

Oh, and of course Facebook would love you to use Libra to pay for all of it. Kthanxbai!

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-tests-new-in-app-shopping-ads-for-both-facebook-and-instagram/562550/

New Google Policy Acknowledges Lying Is Bad

A few months ago, we reported that Facebook was stepping up to “snake oil” ads: promotional content for medical products with no scientific basis (or outright lies) for their performance claims. Besides marketplace fraud, these products have life-threatening consequences, as often, they’re simply supplements with dangerously highly concentrated elements- if they even have active ingredients at all.

Google now prohibits ads for “treatments that have no established biomedical or scientific basis,” as well as those with extremely limited or clearly biased testing data.

Read the back of the bottle here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ads-introduces-new-policies-for-certain-types-of-medical-ads/325157/#close

Facebook Makes It So Shakira Totally Can’t Ignore You Now

Facebook and Instagram are also giving some love to interactivity between popular figures on the platform and their flock. Public figures can now interact simultaneously during an event, and can tag Stories with Fan Reply Stickers, encouraging their followers to respond with photos that they can then reshare in-story, creating a running dialogue.

On Facebook, celebrities and influencers can add “swipe-up” links that can redirect fans to products the celebrities are promoting or selling, encouraging content creators to integrate their promotional material with meaningful social interaction and other in-ecosystem activities.

Dance with the stars here: https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/10/facebook-public-figures-creators-fan-reply-stickers-stories-money-safety/

Google Expand Several Features To More Campaigns Types

Google continues its efforts to improve ad services by offering wider options to ad campaigns. Outcome-based bidding, previously only available for CPM (cost per thousand impressions) objectives, will now be available for Display and Video 360 campaigns. Likewise, automated bidding is now available for all non-guaranteed deals, allowing advertisers to access Google’s advanced machine learning to improve their ads results. Other tweaks to the way outcome-based bidding works are included as well, with the overall goal of better enabling marketers to purchase exactly the outcomes they want, and not pay for what they don’t.

Learn more here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-expands-outcome-based-buying-and-automated-bidding-to-more-campaign/562648/

That’s all for this week! See you next week with more Marketing Updates with Motion Ave. Don’t forget to follow us through our social networks to keep up with all the changes in the world of digital marketing!

06 Sep 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On September 6, 2019

Tired of Facebook? We hope not, because this week has been full of changes and new features that are keeping the #1 social media platform center stage! Check out all this news and more in a new edition of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave!

Facebook Messenger: Platform Policies Changes and New Features

Facebook will introduce new changes to its messaging platform, some of which could change the rules of the ads and bots game forever. One of the most relevant is related to chatbots and standard messaging; beginning January 25th, 2020 the +1 message of the 24+1 rule will be eliminated. Also, it was announced that on that date the only pages that will be able to send subscription messages will be those registered in the new News Page Index.

Other changes to the Messenger platform include a lead generation flow template within Facebook Ads Manager, new integrated appointment booking options, and the phase-out of the Discover Tab.

Learn more about these changes here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-announces-new-business-tools-for-messenger-interactions/561989/

Instagram Tests Back-To-Back Ad Stories

According to Adweek, Instagram is performing a small-scale test in which a small number of users see two back-to-back ads from different brands, instead of one brand at a time. This could undoubtedly have a big impact on story advertising, as marketers would have to focus more than ever on the creative element of their ads to compete for audience attention.

Stay updated on this news here: http://bit.ly/BackToBackAdStories

Hidden Likes Now On Facebook

Facebook may remove the like count in its News Feed. In addition to testing this strategy in several countries with Instagram, the technology giant is testing hiding the total number of likes in Facebook posts, only letting you see some names of some friends who reacted to the comment. This decision seeks to dissuade users from self-censorship when they don’t get the same number of likes or reactions in a post as other users.

Want to know more about Facebook’s intentions? Click here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/02/facebook-hidden-likes/

Facebook Page Stories Will Have Their Own Panel

In an attempt to make its stories feature more visible and attractive, Facebook launches a test in which fan page stories are visible in a new, in-Feed panel. In terms of brand exposure, this is a good opportunity for marketers to promote their brands, and for Facebook stories to gain the same relevance that this feature usually has on Instagram.

Learn how to use this new option to your advantage here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-highlights-page-stories-in-feed-separate-panel-expanding-opportun/562095/

Had enough? We hope not! We look forward to seeing you next week with a new batch of marketing news at Marketing Updates With Motion Ave.