Social Media Facebook’s Working on a New, TV-Connected Streaming and Video Call Device According to a new report from The Information, Facebook has approached Netflix, Disney and other media companies in regards to porting their streaming services onto a new, TV-connected Facebook device. Facebook released its Portal video calling device last year, but thus far, […]
Social Media Pinterest Adds New Personalized Recommendations, New Related Product Listings on Pins Pinterest continues its shift away from social media, and towards eCommerce, with the addition of two new product showcase tools which aim to prompt user purchases based on their on-platform behaviors. The first is a new ‘Picked for You’ Pin collection which […]
Social Media LinkedIn Provides New Tips on Choosing Ad Campaign Objectives Late last year, LinkedIn began initial testing of its objective-based advertising approach, which has been gradually rolling out to all businesses over the last few months. The update aims to make it easier for advertisers to select the right targeting options to maximize their […]
Social Media Facebook is Letting More Advertisers Place Ads in Search Results More advertisers can now place ads in Facebook’s search results, a placement that has been in testing since last year. Facebook’s search ads were first rolled out to a select number of businesses in the US in December. Now, it appears a greater […]
Social Media Pinterest Unveiled a Set of Mobile Ad Tools Brands on Pinterest can now more easily create and manage ad campaigns on the network via their mobile devices and set up their Promoted Pins following Thursday’s introduction of mobile ad tools. The new tools are available to all business accounts in the U.S., and […]
Social Media Instagram is Testing a New Listing of Stories Mentions to Notify Users Given the rise of Instagram Stories, it’s no surprise to see that Instagram is now looking to add new notification tools and options to help boost user engagement, and to ensure that people are aware of relevant mentions. The latest tool […]
Social Media Twitter Will Now Allow Users to Both Retweet and Retweet with Comment on the Same Tweet This week, Twitter has announced that users can now both retweet and retweet with comment on the same tweet, which up till now has been limited to either one or the other option. The option will provide […]
Social Media Pinterest Adds New Self-Help Tool to Assist Users Dealing with Mental Stress and Fatigue Pinterest is rolling out a new set of self-help tools which are designed to assist users who are dealing with mental health issues by offering quick exercises that they can follow along with, right from the app. Pinterest says […]
Social Media Instagram Adds New Warnings for Accounts Which Are Close to Being Banned Instagram is taking a more active role in stamping out anti-social and concerning behavior on its platform, introducing new tools – and even removing post like counts – in order to focus on user well-being. The latest measure on this front […]
Social Media Twitter’s Trying Out New Icons to Add More Clarity to Reply Streams Last September, Twitter revealed that it was working on a set of radical changes to how tweet replies were presented, adding in new signals which highlighted replies from the original tweeter, identified responses from connections, and so on. And now, Twitter’s […]
