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Each month we round up all the Facebook marketing materials that we’ve published in the last 30 days to help marketers keep up with what’s new. Here are the updates and resources that went live in April.

This Sunday kicks off seven days of honoring US small businesses and entrepreneurs. Since it’s start in 1963, National Small Business Week has celebrated small businesses for helping to grow the economy, create jobs and foster innovation.

This year, like years past, we are proud sponsors of National Small Business Week and will be joining the Small Business Administration (SBA) for a few in-person and online events throughout the week. We are looking forward to meeting small businesses from around the country and offering tools, resources and networking opportunities to help grow their businesses. Here’s what we’ll be up to and how you can get involved.

Marketers today are grappling with all kinds of advertising challenges: coming up with original content, preventing ad fatigue from running multiple campaigns and the prospect of low ad relevancy scores. And the proliferation of social channels and media fragmentation has made it more difficult for marketers to keep things consistent and on brand. All of this while budgets and resources are being constrained.

The 2016 Facebook Innovation Spotlight is just one of the ways we recognize and encourage our industry partners who create the technology and services that make it easier, more efficient and more effective for businesses to advertise on Facebook. This year we’ve expanded the competition into three different categories.

Today we’re announcing the three winners for our first category, Creativity. Each of them are companies who use technology and services that help source and deliver quality content and ad creative at scale. Here are the winners: