“In an effort to quell the frantic conservative Twitter eggs currently running amok online, Mark Zuckerberg has resorted to a line of recourse that seems almost too good to be true (for everyone who’s not Mark Zuckerberg). Because this coming Wednesday, the Facebook man who struggles to understand ba…”
— Ashley Feinberg, Mark Zuckerberg Has to Sit in a Room With Glenn Beck Now
“Influencers are going to start disappearing. Brands are going to start realizing the amount of followers you have doesn’t mean shit. Just because photos look good and have 200,000 followers means nothing. You can’t rely on content creators all day long.”
— Anonymous, Confessions of a social media exec on influencer marketing: 'We threw too much money at them'
“Ads do more than just help pay for content. By informing consumers of their changing choices, ads also support innovation that is crucial to the growth of brands, the process of competition and the efficient functioning of markets.”
— Mitch Barns, How More Precise Data Science Will Be Advertising's Ultimate Savior
“Brands saw similar gains with Snapchat’s on-demand geofilters. The social messaging app is something of a black box, with many of its offerings delivering few KPIs that digital marketers know and love, but a some adventurous marketers are seeing results. It’s a cycle that’s repeated since the dawn o…”
— Andrea Wilson, Double dare you: Following Birchbox’s leap into untested social platforms
“Millennials' median income is actually lower in real terms than what Gen Xers earned at the same age. And unemployment and student debt are only a couple of reasons among many that young people today face greater economic hardship than did older generations.”
— Josh Weiss, Millennials outspend older generations on this one treat
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.”
— Bianca Sparacino, How To Ruin Your Life (Without Even Noticing That You Are)
“People don’t look at Donald Trump as to whether or not he releases his taxes or what this story was of 30 years ago. People look at Donald Trump and say, ‘Is this person going to cause an earthquake in Washington, D.C. and make something happen?’ That is it. That’s how he is being judged by the Amer…”
— Reince Priebus, RNC Chair: Nobody Cares How Awful Trump Has Been To Women
“We have zero interest in a Facebook photo-op. Moreover, if, as Facebook claims, there has been no effort to suppress conservative media, why the need for a meeting?Despite Facebook’s rampant suppression of conservative media in its Trending News section, Breitbart News has out-hustled Facebook’s bia…”
— Stephen K. Bannon, Alexander Marlow, Breitbart News, #15 Facebook Publisher, to Zuckerberg: Forget the Meeting — We Want Transparency and the Truth - Breitbart
“If the quality and price of the goods are competitive, these products could act as another reason for shoppers to sign up for the $99 per year membership.”
— Fitz Tepper, Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries
“A market economy is beneficial for productivity and economic freedom. But if we let the quest for profits dominate society; if workers become disposable cogs of the financial system; if vast inequalities of power and wealth lead to marginalization of the poor and the powerless; then the common good…”
— Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders' 2016 Speech At The Vatican
“Native advertising, the overladen vehicle upon which so many of publishers hopes now rest, faces the same challenges in an atomized content world. When working as intended, native advertising is commercial content intended to elicit the same user experience as the editorial content that surrounds it…”
— Tony Haile, The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling
“When habit is lost to the platforms, what remains is brand. The argument is that the attributes associated with the publisher create a spooky connection from a distance that causes each piece of content to influence the other. Formerly a comparatively weak force, brand now becomes of central importa…”
— Tony Haile, The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling
“President Obama, who ran as an antiwar candidate, has now been at war longer than any other American president. He has tried to reconcile this by approaching war as a chronic but manageable security challenge rather than as an all-consuming national campaign.”
— Mark Landler, For Obama, an Unexpected Legacy of Two Full Terms at War
“I have faith in your strength, in your ability to rise back up after the fall, in your persistence to fight through the worst days of your life and in your courage to start over. I have faith that you will find your way out of the darkness and slowly let the light back in. I have faith that you will…”
— Rania Naim, Here’s What I’m Going To Tell You Instead Of ‘It Will Get Better’