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Marshmallow Easter Treat Peeps Gets Social Targets crafty moms

While Peeps has been an Easter treat for six decades, who knew that 30 percent of the iconic marshmallow chicks are bought to make cool creations like dioramas, bonnets and…

March 10, 2013, 11:26 PM EDT

Facebook Denies Google Access to FBX Partners with AOL and Adobe

Facebook and Google aren’t exactly besties, and the social giant’s latest move won’t help matters. In recent weeks Facebook has made two friends through moves that will simultaneously help its…

March 10, 2013, 11:26 PM EDT

Marketers Puzzled Over Lack of Ads in Facebook's New Feeds Company reached out to agencies after Thursday's announcement

Many marketers gleefully anticipated that the content-specific feeds that Facebook was reportedly prepping would improve their ability to target ads. But when Facebook announced the new feeds on Thursday, advertisers…

March 7, 2013, 4:20 PM EST

Facebook's Revamped News Feed Emulates Newspapers, Twitter But Zuckerberg and company say little about ads

As Facebook users’ News Feeds become ever-more flooded with status updates, photos, article links, etc.—leading the average user to only see 16 percent of the content—Facebook has been presented with…

March 7, 2013, 2:48 PM EST

Facebook Plotting Major Video Push Look for Timeline videos, group social production, more pre-rolls

Video is soon going to take center stage at Facebook. As part of Facebook’s redesigned News Feed (which will be announced today), it’s expected that users will be able to segment…

March 7, 2013, 10:30 AM EST

Domino's Thanks 8 Million Facebook Fans by Toppling 50,000 Dominos Another milestone video by CP+B

Domino's doesn't make much use of its namesake domino logo—until now. The pizza chain topples more than 50,000 dominos in the video below from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, as a…

March 5, 2013, 1:25 PM EST

Facebook, Microsoft Execs Discuss Atlas Deal Not about creating an ad network, says Facebook's Brian Boland

Over the past few months, reports that Facebook would acquire the Atlas Solutions ad server from Microsoft has fueled both speculation that the social network was prepping an external ad network…

February 28, 2013, 9:20 PM EST

Facebook Announces Atlas Solutions Acquisition From Microsoft Deal improves social network’s attribution capabilities

Facebook's much-reported plan to acquire Microsoft's Atlas ad server is finally a go. On Thursday the companies announced the acquisition agreement. However, a number of industry veterans have questioned the buy, pointing to…

February 28, 2013, 4:35 PM EST

Facebook Will Let Brands Target Users With Offline Third-Party Data Expansion of Custom Audiences program includes partners Datalogix, Acxiom, Epsilon, BlueKai

Last summer Facebook began letting marketers target ads to their existing customers through Custom Audiences. That program has been limited to Facebook users for whom a brand has an email…

February 27, 2013, 2:37 PM EST

The Courage to Advertise Without Female Stereotypes How brands like Huggies, Tide and Target go beyond the clichés

Quick: picture a “mom.” Fifty years ago, advertisers and their agencies envisioned a domestic dervish spinning through her kitchen, preparing supper with one hand while waxing the floor with the…

February 25, 2013, 12:03 AM EST

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