Leandro Palacios

The Shift Open Marketing Cloud welcomed a new application into its suite: the Moontoast Social Rich Media Ad Platform. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Internet radio provider Pandora deepened its integration with Facebook, introducing the ability for its users to automatically publish their activity to the music section on the social network’s redesigned Timeline via Pandora.com or its applications for the iPhone and Android devices. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Facebook has an algorithm (externally known as EdgeRank) that determines who sees which posts at which times. It’s meant to present users the content with which they’ll be most likely to engage. Many users hate it. Even more page administrators despise it. But can it actually help both? Yes. There’s already a site where every post (whether it’s from your best friend or a random brand) is weighted equally, and it’s called Twitter. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Facebook page administrators can now create unpublished posts, also known as dark posts, directly via the social network’s page composer. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Another way to promote brands through videos on Facebook and other social networks was introduced by iNvolved Media, a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer: Video StoryEngine, which iNvolved described as a proprietary interactive video engagement layer that seamlessly operates across social, mobile, and premium Web content. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Facebook has chronicled its efforts to monitor water and energy usage at its data center in Prineville, Ore., and the social network recently focused its energy on wind energy, donating $15,000 toward KidWind Challenge Oregon, a contest in which students contributed designs for wind turbines. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Yes, teenagers use Facebook. Though whether or not they’ll be using Facebook in a few years remains to be seen, the site does have a considerable presence among high school students. The Pew Research Center recently examined how teens use social media, finding that they don’t like drama and having their parents connected to them, but they stay on Facebook because it plays a key part in the social experience. However, Facebook’s youngest users tend to have no problem configuring privacy settings. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

There are movies, and there are Facebook games, and there are even Facebook games based on movies. And now, thanks to Cardiff, U.K.-based filmmaker Mr Dog Films, there may be a feature horror film distributed via a Facebook game. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Likeable Media, a social media marketing provider, announced the launch of LikeableAds.com and its new media and planning department to better serve clients buying advertising for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios

Facebook’s built-in page insights are helpful, but not if you’re looking for minute-to-minute changes. Crowdbabble wants to solve that. The company recently launched a real-time Facebook analytics monitor, so brands can see how their page (and their competitors) are doing instantly. continued… New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. - Leandro Palacios