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Exclusive: Facebook said Friday that it will stop showing audience reach estimates in any campaign using Custom Audience targeting. The move comes after a research team from Northeastern University notified the company through Facebook’s Bug Bounty program about a potential privacy vulnerability it identified with Custom Audiences. The research team from Northeastern University and MPI-SWS…
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the world while working as a designer? It might sound like a dream, but all that glitters is not gold, and it might not be the right choice for you. In this article, I’ll share some insights from my four years of travel and…
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Talk in the digital advertising space has traditionally focused on Google and Facebook’s digital duopoly, each fighting for more of your advertising dollars. But for Google, the real competition is coming from elsewhere. Over the last few years, Google has pushed further and further into the retail space. Simultaneously, Amazon expanded its advertising platform. In…
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Facebook has quietly removed an ad filter that enabled advertisers to create campaigns targeting users based on their relationship preferences. The filter allowed advertisers to target people based on information from the “interested in” detail on their user profile. Users can select if they are interested in “women” or “men” — making it possible to…
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“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and, if we can’t, then we don’t deserve to serve you. I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Wednesday, five days after the company triggered a firestorm with…
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Twitter’s chief information security officer is reportedly leaving the company. According to The Verge, sources say Twitter Chief Information Security Officer Michael Coates announced internally about three weeks ago that he was stepping away from his role, but there was no external announcement. The security head is reportedly leaving to start his own company. It’s…
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Many people want to create the best email campaigns possible, and this goal can be realized by following best practices for email design and coding and by implementing advanced techniques correctly. This comprehensive guide, for novices and pros alike, delves deep into the nitty gritty of email marketing. Here’s what you’ll learn: best practices for…
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The “AMP: Do or Die?” session at SMX West covered the hot topic of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). AMP is the Google-backed project designed to speed up web pages on mobile devices. Google has actively been pushing adoption of AMP but due to the many challenges inherent to migrating to AMP, adoption has been slow….
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(This is a sponsored article.) Designing mobile apps means going through different stages: pre-planning, visual concepts, designing, prototyping, development. After defining your project, you need to test how it will work before you begin to develop it. This stage is captured by prototyping. Prototyping allows designers to get a feel for the functionality and flow…
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Following Facebook’s suspension of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics firm charged with exploiting Facebook user data, the social platform’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, is said to be leaving. According to the The New York Times, Stamos said he will be leaving by August of this year and had been clashing with executives since 2016 “over…
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