Industry News & Updates from Legit Click Media
Snapchat, a social networking site that also provides for direct messaging between users, caught the eye of many this week with news about its unique audience. In a study of Snapchat users, App Annie found that a majority of Snap’s
Mozilla released its new browser this week: Firefox Quantum. With this release came a statement from Mozilla that it has decided to step away from its partnership with Yahoo! Instead, Firefox opted to rejoin efforts with Google as its preferred
This week, Twitter rolled out two character-limit increases. The first increase came in the form of status updates (or “tweets”), which went from 140 characters up to 280. The second increase followed shortly thereafter. Display names can now be up
This week, Facebook sent Page publishers into complete panic after running a News Feed test. This test moved all Page posts to a separate feed. This led Facebook to publish guidelines that help publishers better understand and use their Pages
According to Google, over 40% of product searches are still for broad-based topics like “women’s athletic clothing.” To attract the attention of these curious customers, Google AdWords introduced expansions to its Showcase Shopping ads. AdWords’ expansions are also meant to
BigCommerce, an ecommerce platform, published stats recently that showed an uptick in early holiday planning for many online retailers. In its holiday sales survey, BigCommerce reached out to more than 1,000 retailers, asking about previous years’ efforts, as well as
On October 4, Google announced suddenly that it will be spending up to as much as twice the advertising budget for campaigns. Google stated this as its reasoning behind the big change: On days with lots of high quality traffic,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his legal team have been working steadily to address the fake news and targeted ads coming from Russian entities over the past couple of years. And on October 2, Facebook published a press release speaking
Pinterest, a popular image-based social networking site, announced earlier this week that hashtags now work on its platform. Users interested in joining a feed about a particular topic can now add hashtags to their image descriptions. Users can also search
Earlier this week, Google staff took to Twitter in response to chatter about the top three ranking factors for content in search results. In response to a query from a follower asking which top-ranking factors Google uses for all results.
