Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Nixing Sponsored Stories | Vine App Changes

[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook to Sunset Sponsored Stories April 9 (AllFacebook) Facebook’s sponsored stories have seen their highs and lows, with the lowest low occurring when the ad unit became the subject of a class action lawsuit, but they will be history after April 9, according to a list of breaking changes to Facebook’s ads application programming interface published on the social network’s platform roadmap. Facebook first mentioned the elimination of sponsored stories when it announced in June that it was streamlining its advertising offerings. Mashable Sponsored stories show when a user's Facebook friend interacts with a sponsored page, app or event. For example, if one of your Facebook friends liked Nike's brand page, and Nike chose to promote that interaction, you would see it as a sponsored story within your News Feed. Inside Facebook Advertisers will no longer be able to create domain sponsored stories (such as Amazon sponsoring a link a user posted to a product page) or open graph sponsored stories (such as Spotify advertising that a user is listening to a certain artist). Existing domain and open graph sponsored stories will end permanently after April 9. VentureBeat “Our social advertising honors the audience that people choose, so nobody will see information in social context for an ad that they couldn’t already see,” a Facebook representative said in a statement on Thursday. Still, don’t be surprised when you hear that Tanya and Joe like Dunkin’ Donuts, day after day — unless you decide to block Facebook ads entirely. CNET Interestingly, the very program Facebook is shutting down is similar to the one Google+ is just beginning to ramp up. In October, Google's fledgling social network announced changes to its terms of service that explained how a user's name and profile picture might appear in "Google products," including display ads. Twitter’s Vine App Now Includes Option to Lock Focus and Exposure When Capturing Video (The Next Web) Twitter has released an update for Vine that allows users to lock focus and exposure. Initially available for iOS, this new feature will enable anyone to capture better six-second videos without viewers trying to decipher what they’re seeing because the lighting is terrible or the subjects are too overexposed. Tumblr Sponsored Posts are Now Powered By Yahoo Advertising (SocialTimes) Before the Yahoo! acquisition, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp was quoted saying he and his team were “pretty opposed to advertising.” Karp has since changed his tune, admitting that ads could make Tumblr better and at CES this week, he announced that Tumblr sponsored posts will be powered by Yahoo! Advertising. [emailonly]{{{ jodslot01 }}}[/emailonly] Google Will Let Any Google+ User Land in Your Gmail Inbox (The Wall Street Journal/Digits) Gmail users will soon be able to send each other email – without knowing the other person’s email address. Under the new system, a Gmail user will only need to add another Gmail user to a “Circle” of contacts on Google+, the company’s social network. U.S. Social Advertising Spend Expected to Increase to $11 Billion By 2017 [Stats] (AllTwitter) Independent market research company BIA/Kelsey has forecasted U.S. social advertising revenues to grow from $4.7 billion in 2012 to $11 billion in 2017. That’s a compound annual growth rate of 18.6 percent, which means every year over the next few years social ads are only going to grow (way) more prevalent. Facebook Suspends Woman’s Account Because of Home Birth Photos (BetaBeat) Facebook has temporarily suspended a California woman’s account after deciding photos of her home birth were in violation of its policies. In December 2013, Venice Beach resident Ruth Fowler used Instagram, Facebook and Twitter to live-blog the home birth of her son, Nye. [emailonly]{{{ sbox01 }}}[/emailonly] A Treasury of Twitter Humor on Chris Christie's Press Conference (BBC) How do political reporters and commentators survive a nearly two-hour press conference by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on a scandal involving a bridge, traffic studies and political vendettas? By taking to Twitter and letting the puns, Sopranos references, Springsteen lyrics and other snark fly. Snapchat Finally Apologizes, More Than a Week After Hack (The Huffington Post) More than a week after 4.6 million Snapchat accounts were hacked, the company has decided to apologize. "We are sorry for any problems this issue may have caused you and we really appreciate your patience and support," "Team Snapchat" wrote in a company blog post Thursday. Golden Globes Getting Social (LostRemote) Sunday night is the Golden Globes (8pmET on NBC), and Hollywood Foreign Press president Theo Kingma is eager about bringing social media into the show. Elected six months ago, Kingma tells L.A. Biz to expect second screen integration. [emailonly]{{{ sbox02 }}}[/emailonly]

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Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook Nixing Sponsored Stories | Vine App Changes

Facebook to eliminate sponsored stories effective April 9. Twitter ads focus feature to Vine app. These stories, and more, in today's Morning Social Media Newsfeed.

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