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Success Snippet: Tune In Ads for WKOW

The team at WKOW-TV in Madison, WI knows what’s hot…and it’s targeting 23,000 people in the station’s “hot zip codes” using the news team’s best content.  Using SND’s Dynamic News Ads, the station is consistently running strategic Facebook-Ad Campaigns to drive TV Tune-In. But these aren’t your regular ‘watch tonight at 6:30pm ads’ – instead,…

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Success Snippet: Village Media’s Winning Acquisition Strategy

Village Media is pushing hard with its acquisition efforts and they’re leaning on SND’s Dynamic News Ads technology to make it happen.  SND’s approach is simple but strategic – we build data-driven ads that leverage existing, high-performing news content to capture new audience and acquire subscriptions.  Our approach is unique because we use a sophisticated set…

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Breaking down the iOS 14 Changes – What Newsrooms need to know about the future of Facebook ads

Apple’s new iOS 14 operating system comes with new privacy settings which make it much more difficult for Facebook to pull data on users. If you’re worried about your data privacy – you may be celebrating this change. But if you’re trying to track the results of ads on Facebook… you probably won’t be too…

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How a digital news network cut email sign-up acquisition costs in HALF using SND’s new Ad Tech.

Social News Desk has pioneered a new way for media companies to use their existing, high-quality content to exponentially increase long-term connections with the local audience. From new subscribers to email acquisition or even TV tune-in… these ads are creating real, critical results for news networks. And SND’s approach is simple … we build automatic,…

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Facebook’s “20% Rule” is No More

For years, Facebook required that images on ads contain less than 20% text – commonly known as the “20% Rule.” But Facebook has quietly removed that requirement. While Facebook hasn’t published any official confirmation that the requirement is no longer in place, they did issue this confirmation to social media consultant Matt Navarra. The current…

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