Social Media Facebook Expands ‘Today In’ Local News Section to More Than 6,000 US Cities and Towns Facebook has this week announced that localized versions of the offering, which is designed to promote increased civic engagement, will now be made available to over 6,000 cities and towns across the US. Today In’, which is available […]
Social Media Instagram’s Reportedly Working on a New Tool Which Replicates TikTok’s Key Features This week, reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong has found that Instagram is once again replicating a competitors’ features, this time with TikTok in the firing line. As explained by Wong, Instagram is working on a new, TikTok like tool called […]
Social Media Facebook Adds New Tools for Public Figures, Including Multi-Contributor Stories and Product Tags Facebook has this week announced a new set of updates for public figures – and they provide an interesting glimpse as to where we might see Facebook Stories, in particular, headed in the near future. First off, Facebook is adding […]
Social Media Facebook Tests New In-App Shopping Ads for Both Facebook and Instagram Facebook is testing out two new shopping ad options, both of which are aimed at streamlining the path to purchase, and keeping users in-app, as opposed to filtering them off to other websites. First off, on Facebook – The Social Network is […]
Social Media YouTube Launches New, Dedicated Fashion and Style Content Hub With fashion and beauty content seeing significant increases in viewership across its platform, it makes sense for YouTube to give beauty and style videos their own dedicated focus, in order to better showcase what exactly it has on offer. This week, YouTube is rolling […]
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 […]
