Social Media Facebook Adds New Booking and Reminder Prompts to Movie Ads Facebook is rolling out two new options for movie ads on its platform – reminder prompts for movies you’ve registered an interest in, and direct booking options to streamline the process. Now, when a movie ad appears in a users’ News Feed, they’ll […]
Social Media LinkedIn Sales Navigator will now surface more content for sales teams to share LinkedIn Sales Navigator released product updates on Wednesday, adding more features for discovering and managing leads, a redesigned Help Center and an integration with its content-sharing app Elevate. LinkedIn first launched Elevate — an app designed to help users curate […]
Social Media YouTube Updated its Algorithm in July, Upsetting Many Creators According to Bloomberg, YouTube updated its algorithm in early July to boost the visibility of “quality” children’s content. As a result, some channels received a spike in viewership while others saw viewership decline. This update is important to be aware of for anyone who […]
Marketing Hotels can now add services, amenities in Google My Business Google My Business added support for hotels to login to Google My Business and update the hotel’s services and amenities details. Google provides a summary of a hotel’s amenities that customers can view from Google Search and/or Google Maps. You can edit this information […]
Social Media Facebook Takes First Steps Towards Building a Dedicated, ‘Trusted’ News Section According to The Wall Street Journal, Facebook is now offering news outlets “millions of dollars” for the rights to put their content in a dedicated news section, which Facebook is looking to launch before the end of the year. The proposed new […]
Social Media Twitter Begins Test of Optional Notifications for Replies to Any Tweet Twitter’s testing out a new option that would enable users to receive notifications about replies to another account’s tweet. Users will be able to select any tweet, from any profile, and be notified as the discussion evolves. The option to subscribe to […]
Social Media Pinterest adds new e-commerce layer with personalized ‘shopping hub’ atop user feed Pinterest continues to push e-commerce initiatives, introducing a personalized “shopping hub” last week that displays at the top of users’ feeds with product recommendations pulled from retailers’ organic Product Pins and Catalog feeds. Pinterest also rolled out an updated shopping section […]
Social Media Facebook Launches First Legal Action Against ‘Click Injection Fraud’ Over the past several months, Facebook has launched legal action against several companies for operating fake Like and engagement services. And now, Facebook’s taking aim at another type of misrepresentation, in the form of ‘click injection’ scams. ‘Click injection’ is essentially building a system […]
Social Media TikTok Adds GIF Integration with Giphy to Add More Creative Capacity As reported by TechCrunch, TikTok has announced a new integration with Giphy which will enable TikTok users to add animated GIFs, including GIF stickers, into their clips. That provides a whole new level of creative capacity. Giphy, it’s worth noting, also has […]
Social Media Pinterest Reaches 300 Million Users, Posts Better Than Expected Profit in Q2 Pinterest has provided an update on its performance, giving investors a look at how it’s tracking towards its broader growth goals. And the company is tracking pretty well – first off, on users, Pinterest is now up to 300 million monthly […]
