Social Media Facebook Expands Access to Brand Collabs Manager, Adds New Insights to Creator Studio Facebook has announced some new additions to its publisher tools, including expanded access to its Brand Collabs influencer discovery and connection database, and new metrics within its Creator Studio dashboard. Brand Collabs Manager is a database of potential Facebook and […]
Social Media Facebook Has Discovered Another Data Access Issue, This Time Within Groups This week, on the Facebook Developer blog, the company has revealed that a flaw in its Groups API may have enabled up to 100 app partners to access group member information, like names and profile pictures, in connection with group activity. Facebook […]
Social Media TikTok’s new SDK enables video uploads from other apps, services TikTok released its first-ever software-development kit (SDK) on Monday, which will allow users to upload video content to the TikTok platform through third-party apps. Additionally, TikTok named Adobe Premiere Rush as an initial integration partner, giving users the ability to edit using Adobe’s […]
Social Media Pinterest Officially Announces New Pin Format Release After it was spotted by several users over the last few weeks, Pinterest has now officially confirmed the roll out of its updated Pin format, which includes some minor functional tweaks, and separates each Pin element for more specific focus. The update will increase the size […]
Social Media Facebook Announces Changes to Ad Metrics, Including Removal of 10-Second Video Views Facebook has announced that it’s implementing some updates to its video view metrics as of this month. First off, Facebook is removing its 10-second video view metrics, which includes ’10-Second Video Views’, ‘Cost per 10-Second Video View’ and ‘Unique 10-Second Video […]
Social Media Twitter Bans All Political Ads in Response to Concerns Around Misinformation While the debate around how social platforms should address political speech and misinformation intensifies, Twitter has made the major announcement that it will move to ban all political ads on its platform, in order to distance itself from such concerns. Dorsey says […]
Social Media Facebook Won’t Stop Lies in Political Ads – Here’s What it Should do Instead Facebook has been under fire in recent weeks over its decision to exempt political ads from its fact-checking process and rules, which essentially means that politicians will be able to run ads on the world’s largest social media platform […]
Social Media Facebook Launches New Option Which Enables Advertisers to List Ad Text Variants Facebook has added a new option which will enable advertisers to include multiple text variations for their ad copy, which Facebook’s systems will then be able to choose from when displaying the ad to different users. the new option – called […]
Social Media Facebook Launches Facebook News, a Dedicated Tab for News Content After months of testing, and after reportedly securing multi-million dollar agreements with publishers, Facebook’s new, dedicated – trusted – News tab has arrived. Facebook is adding a new tab to the top navigation bar within the app which will take you through to […]
Social Media LinkedIn Engagement Continues to Rise, as Per Microsoft’s Latest Performance Report This week, as part of Microsoft’s FY20 Q1 report, the company included a brief update on LinkedIn’s current status. 22% growth in user sessions, continuing the trend of ‘record engagement’ levels which Microsoft has reported in its past few updates. That also […]
