Key Posting Tips for LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook [Infographic]

Looking for ways to refine your social media posting strategy? This will help. The team from Giraffe Social Media recently put together this overview of some of the key best practices for posting on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. And while all of this type of guidance is relative, as it depends on your audience, their […]
YouTube Expands Testing of its AI-Powered ‘Jump Ahead’ Option

YouTube has expanded the test of its new, AI-powered “Jump Ahead” option, which enables viewers to skip ahead to the most engaging part of any clip. As you can see in this example, with “Jump Ahead”, viewers can simply tap on the prompt to get to the next most relevant part of any video. The […]
Does Generative AI Content Have a Place in Social Media?

While generative AI is the trend of the moment, and every tech-related company is trying to catch the AI wave, I remain unconvinced that the current slew of gen AI offerings being foisted upon us are beneficial, useful, or even that interesting, in a social media context. For example, Meta recently added its latest AI […]
Instagram Adds Four Interactive Sticker Options

Instagram’s added four new interactive stickers, which it’s hoping will encourage more engagement and interaction in-stream. Which is important, because over time, more and more sharing activity is switching to private DMs, which is why Instagram’s looking to provide more options, and lean into content trends, in order to maintain in-stream interactivity. The first new […]
X Launches Grok AI Chatbot in the UK

X has announced that X Premium subscribers in the U.K. can now access its Grok AI chatbot, making it the first country in the European region to gain access to X’s AI interface. Welcome to the UK @grok! We’re so glad you’re here to share your wit, knowledge, and a some advice with our friends […]
YouTube Launches Live Test of AI Ideas Generator for Clips

YouTube’s launched a live test of its latest generative AI feature, with its content inspiration tool now available to some YouTube Studio users. As explained by YouTube: “To make it easier for creators to decide what to dream up and share next, we’re experimenting with a tool that uses AI to surface content inspiration. If […]
Threads Enables All Users to Control Who Can Quote Their Posts

Threads has officially rolled out the capacity to control who can quote your posts in the app, providing another level of control over your in-app experience. As you can see in this example, now, in the options menu for each individual Threads post (the three dots menu at the top right), there’s a new “Who […]
YouTube Launches Live Test of AI Ideas Generator for Clips

YouTube’s launched a live test of its latest generative AI feature, with its content “inspiration” tool now available to some YouTube Studio users. As explained by YouTube: “To make it easier for creators to decide what to dream up and share next, we’re experimenting with a tool that uses AI to surface content inspiration. If […]
Threads Enables All Users to Control Who Can Quote Their Posts

Threads has officially rolled out the capacity to control who can quote your posts in the app, providing another level of control over your in-app experience. As you can see in this example, now, in the options menu for each individual Threads post (the three dots menu at the top right), there’s a new “Who […]
X Adds AI-Generated News Summaries for Premium Subscribers

Not sure if this is a great innovation or a gateway to chaos, though that’s also been the case with most of Elon Musk’s updates at the platform formerly known as Twitter thus far, so… This week, X has launched new news summaries, powered by its Grok AI engine, which will use X posts to […]