Facebook announced that brands can now include Instant Forms—formerly known as Lead Forms—in all ad campaigns with brand awareness, reach and traffic objectives. #facebook @digitaladvertising adweek.com/programmatic/inst…

Bing Ads announced Wednesday that advertisers now can target multiple languages at the campaign level. For global advertisers that don’t break out language targeting in separate campaigns, this will be helpful update. #searchadvertising #bing #microsoft searchengineland.com/bing-ad…

"On Wednesday, Google is announcing a redesign of the Assistant that makes the experience on smartphones, especially Android, more touch-friendly and visually interactive. It also paves the way for more transactional interactions and commerce. searchengineland.com/google-…

Now Facebook is testing a significant redesign of Nearby Friends that looks a lot more like Snap Map. It replaces the list view of the neighborhoods and cities friends are in with a map that groups friends together by city. techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/fa…

A seemingly new egg has just been discovered: a playable text adventure game, hidden right within Google Search. #easteregg techcrunch.com/2018/10/01/th…

Research firm eMarketer conducted its first-ever ad revenue forecast for Pinterest, calling for $553.3 million in net U.S. ad revenue this year, up 44 percent from 2017, and pegging it to top the $1 billion mark by 2020. #digitaladvertising adweek.com/digital/emarketer…

Danny Sullivan from Google said on Twitter “We haven’t had a major update of that nature, but we did have a smaller one this week.” #SEO searchengineland.com/google-…

To keep up with the growing sizes of early-stage funding rounds, Y Combinator announced this morning that it will increase the size of its investments to $150,000 for 7 percent equity starting with its winter 2019 batch. #startup techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/y-…

How many times have you called into a company, answered a bunch of preliminary questions about the purpose of your call, then found that those answers didn’t make their way to the CSR who ultimately took your call? techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/sa…

The Oculus Connect 5 conference kicks off tomorrow in San Jose where FB and company will let their latest virtual reality efforts loose and attempt to prove to the world at last that VR is coming and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. techcrunch.com/2018/09/25/wh…

Competition tab, performance insights and location recommendations highlight performance changes and competitive pressures, offering suggestions advertisers can take to improve results. #bing #MachineLearning searchengineland.com/bing-ad…

US digital ad revenues at Amazon will more than double this year, eMarketer estimates, moving it up the ranks past Oath and Microsoft to take the No. 3 position behind Facebook and Google #digitaladvertising emarketer.com/content/amazon…

It’s back to the future time at Twitter, as the social network is bringing back the ability for users to view their timelines in reverse chronological order and populated solely by tweets from people and accounts they follow. adweek.com/digital/twitter-i…

Today, Amazon has launched a new portal it’s calling Storefronts to celebrate mom-and-pop shops and other smaller merchants that sell through the platform. #ecommerce techcrunch.com/2018/09/17/am…

This week, Google announced two new ad formats for retail and brand advertisers ahead of the holiday shopping season that deliver shopping experiences on third-party sites, in Google Image search and in Google Search. #digitaladvertising #ecommerce searchengineland.com/google-…

YouTube Kids announced two significant updates to its application: stronger parental controls and a new experience for its “older” users, or those between the ages of eight and 12. adweek.com/digital/youtube-k…

Globally, more than 70% of YouTube watch time happens on mobile devices. To engage these viewers ..., it’s important to adapt to their viewing behaviors and create a variety of different video ads – including square & vertical videos. support.google.com/google-ad…

Snapchat is teaming with two dozen media partners to let them package together publicly shared user posts into curated segments — and make money from them. #digitaladvertising variety.com/2018/digital/new…