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 […]
Social Media Zuckerberg Faces US Congress on Libra, Privacy and More This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was put to the test on Libra before the US House Financial Services Committee. And while Zuckerberg’s testimony was primarily focused on Libra, Zuckerberg also faced questions about a range of other issues related to Facebook and its […]
Social Media Instagram Adds IGTV Series Option to Categorize Videos Instagram Adds IGTV Series Option to Categorize Videos Instagram has added a new IGTV ‘Series’ option which will enable creators to segment their videos into dedicated collections. The new Series option will help creators better brand their content, and encourage return viewing, by giving their […]
Social Media Instagram Tests New Following List Categories to Help Manage Your Content Feed Instagram is testing out a new process which would categorize your ‘Following’ list into both topic categories and listings based on your engagement with each, in order to help users better manage what content appears in their main feed. Instagram would […]
Social Media Snapchat Launches ‘Dynamic Ads’ Which Will Create Ads Based on Uploaded Product Catalogs Snap ads in vertical view format. Advertisers will be able to choose from various templates, which will guide Snap’s systems in building the relevant ads. You then select an audience for prospecting or re-engagement, and then enable Snap’s system to […]
Social Media Instagram is Looking to Bring Direct Messaging to its Web App According to a new finding by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, Instagram is looking to bring its Direct messaging functions to its web interface. That would make Instagram’s messaging tools more widely accessible, with specific benefits for those in regions where […]
