Monday, December 23, 2013

Will Foursquare find a home at Facebook?

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December 23, 2013
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Facebook increases its big-brand ads for holiday shoppers
Facebook's ad load -- a measure of the percentage of ads in the average user's news feed -- has doubled from 5% in the third quarter to 10% in Q4, according to Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Youssef Squali. That's not altogether unexpected, given marketers' push to grab a piece of holiday spending, but this year Facebook appears to be prioritizing premium ads from bigger brands, Squali says. All Things D (12/23)
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Will Foursquare find a home at Facebook?
Instagram uses Foursquare's location data rather than Facebook's, and that's a vulnerability that Mark Zuckerberg isn't likely to tolerate for long, writes Owen Thomas. If other tech companies -- Apple, say, or Google -- start sniffing around Foursquare, then Facebook might be forced to pay top dollar to buy the location network. That would give Facebook some additional security, along with a valuable array of location and behavioral data that could be baked into many of its other services, Thomas writes. ReadWrite (12/20)
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Twitter complaints are being added to marketers' flu tracking
Marketers of cold remedies and flu-related products are looking at Twitter complaints about coughs, colds and aches to better target their advertising. Marketers prepare ads for quick roll-outs just ahead of an outbreak, hitting the sweet spot when customers start seeing the illness. "We want to market more when people are getting sick, and not when people are well," said ProPhase Labs CEO Ted Karkus. The Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (12/22)
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All the Armageddon that's fit to print
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[Facebook] seems more amplified with bigger brands and a greater mix of higher-priced click-to-play video ads."
-- Youssef Squali, analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, as quoted by All Things D
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