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Richard Kahn: February 7, 2024
Faux fur never really goes out of style, but it is certainly on trend this year. Something else that never goes out of style: faux Facebook accounts.
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Anura PR Team: November 22, 2023
With more than three billion (with a “b”) monthly active users worldwide, Facebook remains the most popular social media platform. With more than 10 million advertisers, it is one of the most popular social media advertising platforms. Recently,...
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Anura PR Team: November 8, 2023
Advertisers keep spending more and more on digital ads to reach their target audience. And more and more of their digital ad budgets are directed toward mobile ads.It makes sense. In the U.S. alone, there are nearly 310 million smartphone users who,...
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Anura PR Team: October 25, 2023
Overall digital ad spending is projected to grow in 2024. However, as more ad dollars go toward connected TV (CTV) and retail media search, social media advertising is expected to grow at a slower rate.
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Richard Kahn: October 11, 2023
Even with the growing number of users on other platforms, Facebook maintains the top spot with nearly three billion monthly active users, as reported earlier this year. By Facebook’s own estimates, as many as 150 million of those users are fake.
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Anura PR Team: December 10, 2022
From October 31, 2021, to December 31, 2021,Tik Tok removednearly 441 million fake followers. Such a massive quantity indicates that social media numbers don't always tell the truth.
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Richard Kahn: November 22, 2022
Bots and social media seem to go hand-in-hand, and no one made this more public than Elon Musk when he declared war on bots as part of his plans for Twitter, then cited the excess of spam accounts as his primary reason for trying to get out of the...
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Richard Kahn: October 5, 2022
The “court of public opinion” isn’t just a popular colloquialism for how people perceive a given topic—it’s an existential threat to celebrities, businesses, and any individual who finds themselves thrust into the limelight for any reason. Part of...
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Richard Kahn: September 7, 2022
Ad fraud continues to be an enormous problem for online advertising efforts regardless of the specific advertising channel used. Fraudsters will use any means they can on any advertising channel they can affect to take money from your marketing...
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Richard Kahn: June 8, 2022
With the recent news involving Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter being put on hold because of worries about fake accounts on the platform, now may be a good time to talk about the problem of ad fraud on social media, fake social media accounts, and...