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Slowly but inexorably we are entering a post advertising world, or at least one where power is being consolidated into three major players. How do you survive in that environment?

Focusing on the Stories format could be the key to answering the tricky question of retaining the stagnant user base Facebook faces on social media.

A Marketing Companion episode explores the shifting nature of professionalism in the workplace as well as developments from Facebook, Amazon, and Walmart.

Marketers have long enjoyed the high Instagram organic reach and engagement. But given the history of its parent company, Facebook, that may be ending.

Facebook is facing down controversy after controversy but none of it seems to matter. Their profitability and user growth continues to rise. Will Facebook be a permanent fixture in our lives?

Digital advertising is ready for a shake-out. Budgets are high and ad inventory is down. Where is this new wave of money going to be spent?

This annual research into new media trends is chock-full of insights and curiosities. Learn why you might need an audio strategy, the fastest tech segment right now, social media usage trends, wy YouTube means music, and more!

In this revised and expanded version of a marketing classic, Mark Schaefer takes his beloved book Social Media Explained to a new level.

With the possibilities that search engines and social networks offer for micro-audiences, why not use them? Think twice, claims the author.

In this round-up post, Mark Schaefer shares nuggets about marketing, AI, podcasting and more from SXSW. Mastering personalized marketing means becoming a news stream native.

Mark Schaefer provides an outlook of ten big ideas that will be driving the future of social media marketing in the next few years. He stresses the need to embrace the chaos!

New research shows that Facebook has stopped growing, by a lot. What does this Facebook bombshell mean to the company and to social media marketers?
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