TrackMaven recently released their 2017 Facebook Advertising Index: Budgets and Benchmarks where the company found that boosted posts are more effective than dark posts.  They also found that the average spend per dark post was higher than a boosted post. Facebook Dark Posts and Boosted Posts Explained A Facebook “dark” post (also referred to as  Read More

As of March 9, 2017 Facebook has begun to slowly roll out a new feature called Messenger Day to all iOS and Android Facebook Messenger apps. Messenger Day is similar to Snapchat Stories, WhatsApp Status and Instagram Stories as it allows users to share photos and video messages featuring filters, text, drawings and emojis with  Read More

During Google’s Cloud Next conference in San Francisco yesterday, the company announced that it was launching a new machine learning API known as Cloud Video Intelligence that will be able to automatically recognize objects in videos.  This technology will also make items in videos searchable online. The “World of Pixels” Going Beyond Images Prior to  Read More