All posts by Isaac Maltzer
Teen Media Consumption Trends in 2019
Common Sense Media just released the findings of their 2019 teen media consumption survey, cataloguing teenagers' continuously evolving media usage patterns. The report compares and contrasts 2019 media habits among teenagers aged 13-18, against 2015 teenage media habits. It also includes media habits of tweens (aged 8-12), but for the sake of this post, we'll…
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Exploring Instagram’s Desktop Reporting Dashboard
Facebook recently added an Instagram reporting dashboard to their Creator Studio, which allows account owners to easily view insights on their desktops that were previously only accessible on mobile devices. We took a dive into the new tool to get an understanding of what's available. Here's what we learned. The Instagram dashboard allows users to…
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Social Media’s Privacy Rebuild: Where Users Are Going Next
Facebook is no stranger to controversy. After a maelstrom of bad press ranging from poor data privacy practices to election tampering, public trust in the social media giant—and, let’s face it, social media at large—has been irrevocably damaged. While some might think this is finally the death knell for social media, we at Civilian think it’s…
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How Teens Use Social Media in 2018
The findings of a recent study by Common Sense Media have been released, revealing the social media habits, preferences, and behaviors of American teenagers aged 13 - 17. The latest research completes the second round of a study first conducted in 2012. The result is a measure of how teens' relationship with social media has evolved over a period of exponential growth (2012 -…
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Facebook’s New Ads Transparency Tool
In an effort to rebound from a string of controversies spanning the past two years, Facebook has just introduced a tool that is taking ad transparency to new heights. The “Info and Ads” feature allows users to look through all ads a Business Page is running in a given country. The tool also provides additional page…
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Understanding Privacy and GDPR
Over the course of the past month, you may have noticed an email or notification update like one of these: These are not random. Tech services from Facebook to Soundcloud are all acting in direct response to a recent update, and it may not be the one you're thinking of. Many would initially point to…
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Reader Be Warned
Growing scrutiny over tech companies to better monitor the activity taking place on their platforms has become one of the central hot-button issues of the day. The 2016 Presidential election and alleged activity from foreign agents brought the conversation to the main stage and is calling into question the responsibility big tech has in controlling…
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Too Much To Tweet: SaaS
I've Got A SaaS Problem The SaaS industry is a multi-billion dollar walking stick that grows by incrementally degrading our intellectual capabilities. Many consumer facing and B2B software companies push their products as 'groundbreaking new tools and features' while they are really just providing micro-modifications to our work process; honing in on very specific and…
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Disney Joins the Stream Team
As Bob Dylan so eloquently forecasted some decades ago, "The times, they are a-changin'.” While these sage-like words seemingly derive new meaning every day, they are equally prevalent in the entertainment industry, where changing media consumption behaviors are reshaping the way content is produced and distributed. The biggest headline this month belongs to Walt Disney…
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Too Much To Tweet: Twitter
Subtraction by addition. About a month back, our social media team brainstormed an idea for a new micro-blog series. "Too Much To Tweet" is designed to give our staff a platform to speak our minds on various topics in a format that doesn't justify a full-fledged blog post, but may be a little too…
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