Facebook Announces Renewed Focus on Young Users
Given that Facebook seems to have lost a lot of its youth appeal, with teens preferring Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat instead, this seems like an odd focus for the app moving forward: “As we think about the next 20 years, we’re focused on two big things: building the next generation of social media for young […]
Pinterest Expands Inclusion Fund With Shopify Partnership
Pinterest has announced a new expansion of its Pinterest Inclusion Fund, which provides support for creators from underrepresented communities in order to help them grow and cultivate their business potential in the app. And now, Pinterest will be able to provide even more support on this front, with Shopify coming on board as a partner […]
Google Is Removing Its Chat Option From Business Listings
Google’s announced that it will be shutting down the chat and call history features on Google Business Profiles in July, as it moves to streamline its business tools. “The what?” I hear you ask. Yeah, it’s not a highly used element of the Google Business offering, but right now, users of Google Search, Maps and […]
Instagram Shares More Info on the Distribution of Longer Reels Clips
Okay, I can see how on the surface this may seem confusing. Today, on the Instagram Creators profile on IG, Instagram’s team posted this explainer clip: “Hang on,” I hear you say, “didn’t you just report, like, two weeks ago that posting 90-second Reels is bad for reach?” Yes, yes I did, but these two […]
Instagram Implements More Protection Measures for Teens
Instagram has announced two new updates to help protect younger users in the app, including an expansion of its “Limits” feature, which was originally only available to creator accounts, and new ways to restrict who can engage with your posts. First off, on the expansion of Limits, which Instagram originally rolled out to celebrity users […]
Instagram Rolls Out New Notes Features, Including Likes
You may not use them, or understand why others would. But Instagram says that a heap of people, young people in particular, now use its in-stream Notes feature, which provides another way to spark conversations, in various areas of the app. Which is why IG continues to add more Notes elements, and today, Instagram has […]
LinkedIn Updates Link Previews in Organic Posts With Smaller Images
If you’ve posted any links on LinkedIn recently, you may have noticed that your link preview image is a lot smaller than it once was in stream. But not for all posts in your feed, some posts still seem to have the full-width preview image, right? So what gives? Well, this is actually part of […]
Threads’ TweetDeck-Like Desktop Display Is Coming to All Users
After testing out its new Tweetdeck-style UI for Threads on desktop over the past few weeks, Meta has now announced that it’s rolling out the new threads.net on desktop globally, providing more customization and monitoring options for Threads users. As you can see in this preview image, posted by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, the new Threads […]
TikTok Publishes New Guide to Its Ad Manager Platform
TikTok has published a new guide to its Ad Manager platform, which provides an essential overview of all aspects of creating and launching an effective TikTok ad campaign. And it could be a key resource for your planning. I mean, for now at least, as TikTok may or may not be gone in some regions […]
TikTok’s Testing DM Streaks to Prompt More Engagement
TikTok’s looking to build more even compulsion into the app, this time via DM streaks, which are activated when users maintain daily messaging interaction. As you can see in this image, posted by app researcher Radu Oncescu, TikTok’s now alerting some users that they’ve activated a DM streak in the app, which also sees a […]