Social Media LinkedIn Adds Auto-Generated Alt-Text Tags to Uploaded Images LinkedIn has expanded its alt text capacity with its new automatic alt text generation process. With LinkedIn adding alt text for all images, whether you’ve added them in or not, will give the platform more data points to refer to when displaying relevant content. How […]
Social Media YouTube Announces Changes to Data Collection and Ad Targeting on Videos Aimed at Children YouTube has announced a range of new measures to better protect children using its platform, reducing data collection on content aimed at kids, and the capacity for advertisers to target young viewers through ads on such content. These are […]
Social Media Facebook Updates Face Recognition Permissions to Provide More Control Facebook is looking to provide more control and reassurance to users in regards to how it utilizes your image. In a new update, Facebook has announced that it’s removing its current ‘tag suggestions’ setting, which relates to the prompts it generates based on people […]
Social Media Facebook May Soon Hide Total Like Counts on Posts, Mirroring Instagram’s Test Amid testing of hidden like counts in seven countries on Instagram, Facebook is now also considering the same in its main app, according to reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong. As noted, Instagram began its test of removing total Like post […]
Social Media Facebook Announces New Business Tools for Messenger Interactions Facebook has announced a range of updates for its business tools on Messenger, adding in new lead generation automation options and appointment booking options in-stream. The biggest element of the update is the launch of Messenger lead generation templates, which Facebook first previewed at its […]
Social Media Pinterest Will Limit Search Results for Vaccine-Related Queries to Content from Official Health Outlets After rolling out a ban on anti-vax content in Pins earlier in the year, Pinterest is now taking another step to halt the spread of vaccine misinformation on its platform, limiting its search results for vaccine-related queries to Pins […]
Social Media Facebook is Testing a New Listing of Post Reactions in Your Notifications Stream Facebook is testing out a new way to highlight Reactions to your Facebook posts, with a new notification format within your Notifications listing that would display a small tile of the post, with respective Reactions overlaid. That could help spur […]
Social Media Twitter Tests New, Larger Image Tweet Carousel Ad Format Back in March, Twitter began testing a new carousel ad format for app install campaigns, which would give advertisers the capacity to add multiple, larger images to their collections. Now, Twitter is expanding its new carousel format to additional campaign types, and potentially even […]
Social Media Facebook Brings 3D Photos to Android Devices Late last year, Facebook rolled out its group badges, little images and notes that appear alongside group member names within the comments section of group posts. Facebook has been slowly adding badges into Page interactions also, and expanding the signifiers available in order to highlight more […]
Social Media Google Outlines Proposal for Improved Data Transparency Measures in Online Advertising This week, Google has outlined the next steps its looking to take to improve online ad transparency, including measures to block digital ‘fingerprinting’, a more obscure tracking technique, and a new proposal for improved data transparency measures across the industry. In terms […]
