Digital marketing news highlights curated by the 3x1 team.

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[su_column size="3/4" center="no" class=""]Facebook gives more than 50 publishers access to ‘Breaking News’

Facebook is making another attempt to fine-tune the way its users consume news articles. Last November, the site gave a small group of local and national publishers the ability to include a “Breaking News” label on their stories, starting today.

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[su_column size="3/4" center="no" class=""]Google AMP team launches ‘Render on Idle’ to load ads faster when browsers sit idle

Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) team has launched a new feature called Render on Idle that is designed to increase ad impressions per page by speeding up ad load when a user isn’t taking any action in a browser.

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[su_column size="3/4" center="no" class=""]YouTube Studio moving out of beta with 3 new metrics & redesigned dashboard

After limiting the amount of analytics in its demographic data report last week, YouTube announced it is giving creators three new metrics to help measure how videos are performing. The site is also launching a redesigned reporting dashboard and will be moving its YouTube Studio out of beta to be the default hub for creators.

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[su_column size="3/4" center="no" class=""]UK watchdog wants disclosure rules for political ads on social media

The UK’s data protection agency will push for increased transparency into how personal data flows between digital platforms to ensure people being targeted for political advertising are able to understand why and how it is happening.

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[su_column size="3/4" center="no" class=""]Google is Developing Web Standards for Instant Loading Non-AMP Content

Google is taking what it learned from AMP and developing web standards that will allow non-AMP content to load instantly. Content developed using this new set of web standards will appear in certain areas of Google Search, such as the Top Stories carousel.

Read more at:Search Engine Journal [/su_column][/su_row]

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