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30 Aug 2019

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This week Facebook and Friends are back on the front pages of the marketing news platforms- but Twitter also vies for our attention on this edition of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave.!

Instagram From Facebook Battles Snapchat From Snapchat For Messaging Supremacy, Copies Oversharing

Since its inception Snapchat has positioned itself as the best app to establish connections between close friends. Facebook is now looking to replicate this x10 in their own ecosystem with Threads, a companion app to Instagram that would invite users to share their locations, status, photos, texts and even battery life with their list of “close friends.” Too busy to actively pass all this vital info on to your friends? Engage the “automatic sharing” option that will periodically share breaking news about your battery and where you’re standing (and, admittedly, more).

Sharing is caring here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagram-threads-messaging-app-close-friends-snapchat

Twitter Ad Researchers: “Carousel, But More”

Twitter is leaning hard into the carousel ads format to additional campaign types following testing in recent months. Now, carousel ads can be used in tweet campaigns with a larger image panel and a swipeable carousel stream.

Go big or go home here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitter-tests-new-larger-image-tweet-carousel-ad-format/561712/

Facebook Becomes Most Honest Social Media Network Ever, Achieves “Transparency”

Facebook has completed its ‘fearless moral inventory’ and has emerged to the breathlessly waiting public a new network, free of scandal and impropriety forevermore. Just kidding. Facebook by Facebook has begun a veeeeery slow rollout of new transparency and privacy options. Most critical among these is “Off-Facebook Activity,” a new feature that will allow you to see the information that Facebook has collected about you through external sources, that is, through all the websites you have visited and apps you have used besides Facebook as well as the long-awaited “opt-out” ability: once this new functionality finally reaches your country, you’ll be able to tell Facebook to never again pair the terabytes of data it collects on your online behavior with your account again- the social media giant will have to content itself with adding your usage data to its vast anonymized metadata that it sells for billions a year.

Meet the dawning of the new age here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/technology/facebook-tool-privacy-apps-websites.html

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/off-facebook-activity-feature-clear-history

Ads On Instagram’s Explore Feed

Instagram From Facebook brings ads to Explore, offering advertisers the opportunity to insert themselves into the highly-attended feed of most popular content. Through the automatic placement option, advertisers will be able to extend their campaigns to this feed and get greater reach. This new ad option will not be available immediately, but some ads are already being randomly sprinkled into the Explore Feed as part of testing.

Get ready for this new opportunity here: https://business.instagram.com/blog/bringing-ads-to-explore/?fbclid=IwAR1HIM9KvILI7MFyPk1kyPOiqy2WQ-u6Wdn7h3Rjxw7wd7G3NcUnrJQ_qqM

Facebook Creates More Shiny, Imaginary Prizes To Keep You Interested

Facebook launches a new set of badges to reward users who actively participate in groups and pages and encourage them to continue interacting. This feature gives administrators the ability to better understand their fans and try to build a sense of community through reinforcing behavior that keeps their ecosystem active.

Win fabulous prizes here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-adds-more-page-badges-to-encourage-engagement/561625/

That’s it for this week! Just wait for more news, more controversy and more ads in the next edition of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave.

23 Aug 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On August 23, 2019

News, news and more news on this edition of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave.! Ads and new features were the most featured topics in this week’s marketing news.

Want to know more? Read on!

Protected Markets Now Have Their Own Ad Category

In the US, anti-discrimination laws prohibit targeted advertising on the basis of race, sex, and other categories for employment, housing, and various banking services- a restriction that can bump up against the highly-targeted nature of advertising on Facebook and similar platforms. To keep online advertising in compliance, Facebook has launched new marketing API requirements that assign a new Special Ad Category to advertisers and marketers who manage accounts identified as belonging to one of these protected industries. This update will limit targeting options in this category to prevent discriminatory ads from being launched on the platform.

If your account falls into this or other special categories, click here to learn more:

https://marketingland.com/facebook-marketing-api-to-get-special-ad-category-field-for-housing-employment-credit-advertisers-265640

YouTube Keeps Your Makeup Tutorial From Getting You Sued Into Oblivion

In a new pro-creator move, YouTube has updated its content ID claims policies to protect its creators from excessively aggressive copyright protection. The change prevents copyright owners from using the manual claiming tool to seize ad revenue from YouTubers for small and unintentional “infringements,” defined as “very short or unintentional uses of music.”

Free yourself here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-updates-content-id-claim-policies-to-better-protect-creators/561048/

Instagram Wants YOU… In The Fight Against Fake News

Instagram has empowered standard user accounts to flag content they believe is false. Once reported, Instagram will evaluate the user’s feedback and the behavior of the account to verify if a post needs to be reviewed by third-party fact checkers. This could be a great way to crowdsource the overwhelming job of spotting false claims… or it could empower mob rule to censor unpopular views through mass reporting. Remember, kids, subjective truth isn’t the same as fact!

Fight the good fight here: https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/15/instagram-users-can-now-flag-false-content/

FB Movie Ads Will Include Ticket Sale And Reminders

In alliance with US and UK cinemas and ticketing platforms, Facebook launches two new features for movie ads – users can now receive notifications when a movie is released, look up local showtimes, and buy tickets.

Pass the popcorn here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20805529/facebook-movie-reminder-ads-fandango-atom-tickets-showtime-amc-regal

No More Accelerated Delivery For Google Ads Search and Shopping Campaigns

Beginning September 17th, you’ll no longer be able to put a rush on search, shopping campaigns and shared budgets. Google has determined that accelerated delivery has no impact on the efficacy of such campaigns, which are generally not limited by budget. Campaigns launched before this date may be run with accelerated delivery until October 1st.

Beat the rush here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ads-is-switching-search-shopping-campaigns-to-standard-delivery/321763/#close

Are You Relevant on Facebook? Who Knows?

Facebook is eliminating its Relevance Score evaluation of ads in favor of three new metrics intended to offer more meaningful and granular measures of ad quality. Since Relevance Score directly impacted the cost of ads, and the rate at which Facebook would run them, this change is huge- and largely a good thing. It was never directly explained how Relevance Score was calculated, but it was largely a function of predicted ad performance. These new metrics evaluate your ad based on actual trials in three areas: quality, engagement rate, and conversion rate rankings.

Be the best you can be here: https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2019/03/13/facebook-sunsets-relevance-score

That’s all for a busy week in digital marketing! See you next Friday with more Marketing News With Motion Ave!

19 Jul 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On July 19, 2019

Welcome back to Marketing Updates with Motion Ave! It’s time for more juicy news from the marketing world- this time Google, Youtube, Facebook, Pinterest and Linkedin have all given us something to talk about!

Shoelace: It’s Like Google+, But Less!

Google creeps back onto the social network battlefield with Shoelace, a new platform that allows people to organize events and activities that users can attend. If you’re thinking “Just like Sched or Doodle (which connects through Google), you’d be WRONG because… what’s that over there? To be fair, there are some social features sprinkled in: add your interests and the app will recommend nearby events, for example. For now, Shoelace is in closed beta in New York. We’ll see if Shoelace lasts long enough to go public or if it dies of disappointment.

Learn more about this latest attempt here:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691430/shoelace-google-area-120-event-organizing-new-york-beta

Brace Yourself: You Can Opt Out Of Facebook Targeted Ads

Did you eat a pickle sandwich under your bed with the lights out last night, and now every site is showing you ads for pickles, mayo, and antacid? Don’t answer. Do targeted ads squick yout out? If the answer is yes, you’ll be able to ask FB “how have you so thoroughly invaded my life” with the new option “why am I seeing this”? in all FB ads. Click on it, and you’ll see the specific online actions you took that Facebook told (sold) the advertising company- with the option of disabling all ads from this source! A new section, in Ad Settings will also show you all the different topics and products you’ve been targeted for, and by whom- with the ability to powerfully tweak which of these you want to allow advertisers to use.

While it’ll be difficult to opt out of every single area of Facebook that uses your personal data to target you, probably its biggest value is in becoming better informed about HOW and WHY you get targeted, so you can opt out of the most egregious things.

Free yourself here: https://www.komando.com/happening-now/580478/opt-out-of-facebook-targeted-ads

YouTube Continues To Woo Content Creators With Better Monetization

Platforms are in a mad rush to befriend streamers that drive traffic; between Facebook and YouTube, it’s reached the level of a streetfight, with each platform throwing every incentive it can afford at content creators to keep them right where they are, driving traffic. Youtube launches a fundraising tool, Super Stickers, for their existing $400-a-minute profitable Super Chat, and Learning Playlist. There’s also new merch, premium emojis and badges, you name it.

The update also includes changes to the site’s copyright infringement tools. Creators will be able to easily remove parts of their videos that are associated with copyright claims- without simply getting the whole thing blocked.

Want to know more? Click on the link: https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/11/youtube-is-giving-creators-more-ways-to-make-money/

Commercial Video Gets A Big Break on Insta

Videos are blowing up on Instagram- searches for videos on trending topics have increased thousands of times over in just the past year! Now, Pinterest has launched a suite of new video tools for businesses, allowing them to upload videos and see them all in one tab, get traffic insights, and schedule content. For now, these tools are only available for business accounts.

Learn more about this video feature here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/pinterest-rolls-out-a-suite-of-new-video-tools/316087/

LinkedIn Launches 3 New Campaign Objectives

Since LinkedIn launched its new integration with Google Campaign Manager last year, the platform has been looking to constantly upgrade its ads features. This time it added 3 new ad objectives to its campaign manager: brand awareness, website conversions and job applicants. LinkedIn is taking itself seriously as a social marketing ecosystem just like Facebook, and continues to grow into the role.

Get to know more about these ad objectives and their pricing here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-upgrades-campaign-manager-with-3-new-objectives/558668/

https://www.linkedin.com/help/lms/answer/103969

That’s it for this week! We look forward to seeing you next week in a new issue of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave. See you soon!

12 Jul 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On July 12, 2019

Get all the new updates on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in this new edition of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave.! This week, major social platforms across the Internet step up to greater ethical responsibilities and start polishing their public image:

Facebook Fights Snake Oil Ads

Facebook’s latest news feed algorithm update takes aim at phony health goods, such as weight loss, hair growth, and sexual potency products. No, FB doesn’t want you to be bald, fat, and lonely; these ads are typically from sources selling completely unregulated or outright fraudulent products, often imported with no direct oversight from food or drug agencies. They can be dangerous, even fatal, or just plain expensively useless- Facebook is clearly trying to clean up its image as a refuge for fakes.

Learn more about this fight against misleading ads here: https://bit.ly/2JlMyTM

Instagram AI Protects Your Lunch Money

Instagram is harnessing machine learning to compare outgoing messages to content previously reported by users as abusive. If the AI thinks your message might be bullying, you’ll receive a prompt, “are you sure you want to send this?” This feature intends to reduce abusive behavior by requiring users to pause and check their intentions; since most aggressive behavior online is the result of impulsive outbursts, this might be a subtle but effective weapon against cyberbullying.

Get the full story here: https://bbc.in/2xGu2jL

Facebook Realizes You Can Make Money On It

Facebook hopes to woo content creators from YouTube by offering new ways to quit your real job and spend 14 hours a day in your basement streaming Fortnite and DOTA. Now, in addition to premium subscription options to lock exclusive content behind a paywall, viewers can purchase “Stars,” the token economy that will be used to “tip” content streamers during live streams, which will become real money.

Shocking news: beginning in 2020, Facebook will take a cut (or, if you like, “vig”) of the earnings from the fan subscription. Thank goodness they’re not neglecting themselves!

Get to know more here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/9/20687603/facebook-creators-stars-subscriptions-supporter-groups

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/09/facebook-subscription-revenue-share/

Twitter Joins The Hate Speech Fight

Twitter is expanding their code of conduct to penalize users who submit messages that dehumanize others on the basis of religion. Now more than ever language and its malicious use is the focus of social platforms!

Get to know more about this story here: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/hatefulconductupdate.html

That’s it for today! Want to stay even better informed? Follow us on Instagram! See you next week with another issue of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave!

05 Jul 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On July 5, 2019

Welcome back for more marketing updates with Motion Ave. Not even the short Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp outage can stop us from bringing you the best news of the week!

New Chat Sticker Comes To Instagram

This new addition to the Instagram stickers will allow users to enter a group chat directly from one of your Stories. You’ll be in control of who is allowed in (or not)! There aren’t any immediate applications in marketing- but it’s a great choice for friends who want to start a group conversation on Insta because their moms and grandparents have taken over Facebook.

An ambitious marketer could use this facility in combination with the recent enhanced ad features to provide unparalleled, if labor-intensive, customer service. What do you think?

For more information, click here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/2/20679070/instagram-chat-sticker-stories-group-dm

Twitter Realizes Search Results Should Contain Information

Thanks to a recent update, Twitter user searches will now get you more than a name. Now when you search for a user on the platform, you’ll get more information like recent tweets, mutual follows, and trends to decide if it’s worth following that profile.

Want to know more? https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitter-updates-search-results-with-additional-contextual-info/557911/

Opening A New App Is Hard: Snapchat Brings Us Another Game, “Bitmoji Tennis”

Snapchat’s new multiplayer gaming platform is taking off- needless to say, the platform is thrilled that another user impulse can be indulged without clicking away. They’ve now added “Bitmoji Tennis,” where Snapchat users can compete with friends and randos, with game modes including solo training, one-on-one match challenges, and group challenges. Profanity-laced temper tantrums and public scandals will be available later as premium content.

Prepare yourself for the first match here: https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/01/snapchat-bitmoji-tennis/

WhatsApp Grudgingly Acknowledges Facebook Exists, Instantly Also Becomes A Social Network

The popular Facebook property WhatsApp is giving its parent company a little PDA: a new feature finally lets you share your Whatsapp status on Facebook. Also, the long-awaited fingerprint authentication could finally become a reality on the platform, along with the QR mode that will allow you to easily add contacts by scanning a simple code. These new features make us wonder: is Whatsapp still just a messaging platform, or is it essentially a social media annex of Facebook where more chatting goes on?

Find out more about this news here: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9412231/whatsapp-update-5-exciting-features/

That’s it for today! We look forward to seeing you next week in a new edition of Marketing Updates with Motion Ave.

28 Jun 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On June 28, 2019

We’re back with more marketing news! This week Google, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube gave us plenty to talk about!

Google Tries Social Media Again With Google My Business

Remember Google+? Yeah, most people don’t. The “Facebook for people too old for Facebook” went away last year due to massive security gaps and a general lack of interest, but that doesn’t mean Google still doesn’t want the remaining sliver of that sweet social media marketing pie. New features on Google My Business won’t create a new social platform, but they’ll bring the ability for brands to take social-like actions, such as integrating discounts, stickers, and more customizable images into their Google search presence.

Get the whole story here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-adds-more-social-like-options-to-google-my-business-listings/557314/

It’s Still Instagram, but More And Faster And Alive

In the days of the dinosaurs, before CGI, most cartoons were made with “stop motion”- showing a lot of pictures, each slightly different, very quickly to make things appear to move and change. Instagram is bringing the quirky fun of stop-motion without the tedium to Stories: stop motion story mode. Take several shots of an object, and Instagram will bring them together to create a stop motion video, ready to be used in your account.

Check out this upcoming feature here: https://beebom.com/instagram-stop-motion-story/

Never, Ever, Ever, Ever, Ever Read The Comments. Hey, Stop!

It’s hard to deny that YouTube has created a bustling marketplace of ideas in the comments section of its videos, where millions of users from around the world come together to share positive, healthy, mutually supportive messages of love and well-composed insights.

To help YouTubers remain focused on the extremely important content of their videos and not be distracted by the verbal delights of the comment page, the platform is migrating comments to behind a button, that you’ll have to click to open the scroll. Now you’ll have a few more precious seconds to think about whether you need to share your carefully-worded viewpoints on making 6-figure salaries working from home, just like your cousin.

Read about the first blow struck for world peace here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/21/youtube-confirms-a-test-where-the-comments-are-hidden-by-default/

We Found Another Use For Google Cardboard: Looking At 3D

3D technology comes to Google Ads with its new ad display format, “Swirl”. Marketers can now integrate 3D assets into interactive ads, allowing for more immersive online product experiences than ever, and more people walking down the street waving their hands in the air for no apparent reason.

The future is here: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-introduces-interactive-ads-with-3d-objects/313029/#close

C’mon Guys, Twitter Lists Is Awesome, Just Give It A Chance

Lists are a great way to curate your feed and have an overall more organized and intentional Twitter experience, so it’s no surprise that very few people know about or use it. To bring customizable timelines to the forefront, Twitter’s new positioning of Lists would make it possible from a single swipe, instead of buried behind multiple taps. We know how tiring that can be.

Learn more about the new feed modality here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitters-looking-to-emphasize-lists-with-new-swipeable-custom-feeds/557629/

That’s all, folks! See you next week for more Marketing Updates with Motion Ave!

20 Jun 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On June 20, 2019

News, news and more news today with marketing updates from Motion Ave! Find out the latest trends this week on Spotify, Amazon, and more!

Maybe They Won’t Go Premium Now

Spotify’s the biggest music streaming service in the world, and many of its members get their music free- a proven business model, but one that can benefit hugely from targeting, which hasn’t been Spotify’s style until now. Spotify now allows advertisers to target ads based on podcast listening patterns- but for now, just podcasts. Don’t worry, no one’s going to judge you for still listening to Kanye.

Want to know all the details? Click here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/17/spotify-advertisers-can-now-target-listeners-by-what-podcasts-they-stream/

Spark, We Hardly Knew Ye

Remember how exciting Amazon’s social network was, and how users flocked to the platform with photos of hand towel unboxing? Yeah, us either. “Spark” has gone forever, failing to overtake Instagram in shopping porn innovation. Amazon will have to accept that, for now, it can’t be all things in all areas of members’ online experience- yet.

Learn more about it here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/amazon-shuts-down-its-spark-social-shopping-alternative/557053/

Buy This Too “Complete Your Look” With Pinterest

When you’re buying a $1,500 stereo, it’d be crazy not to get a hand-woven aboriginal art throw blanket to go with it, right? Pinterest finally gets it. This new option allows Pinterest to offer relevant products based on the image the user is viewing. For example, if you are looking for a room design pin, Pinterest will suggest images of objects that usually appear in this context, lamps, furniture and any other decorative element.

Want the whole story? Click on the link: https://marketingland.com/pinterest-broadens-e-commerce-capabilities-with-complete-the-look-tool-262555

Facebook Invents Time Travel Updates Its Post Comments Ranking

Have you noticed that your post comments sometimes don’t appear in chronological order? Blame- or thank- Facebook’s new comment ranking algorithm. The platform is preparing an update to improve relevance by ranking comments based on their likelihood to “generate greater engagement.” We suspect this will lead to some pretty funny-looking “conversations” in the comment threads for a while.

Want to know more about this update? Read the full story here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-announces-updated-ranking-factors-for-post-comments/556944/

Want to know more? Stay tuned to our networks to receive the most current updates on the marketing industry and our latest and greatest digital marketing tips and strategies!

17 May 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On May 17, 2019

…we’re back with marketing updates in a week full of controversy and cool new features! Want to know more? Read on!

#DeleteBreakupFacebook

A chant has been spreading across Big Tech regulation advocates: break up Facebook. Among those calling for the dismantling of the technology giant is Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.

It seems like Facebook’s many missteps in the past year, and a growing concern about the social harm caused by the platform, have finally taken their toll. Politicians have finally entered the fray, branding Facebook a dangerous monopoly in the “attention economy” and a threat to democracy, journalism, bee populations in the southern hemisphere, and waistlines.

What do you think? Should Facebook be split into several independent corporations, governing Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger each separately from the social media platform? Would Facebook’s past sins have been avoidable with more competition and regulation?

How Did Healthy Dishes Happen? Lyrics Sticker Saves Us All

Hold me closer, Tony Danza. Back in dinosaur times, our parents would read the lyrics to songs on these things called “liner notes” on the big, plastic plates that held less music than the cheapest thumb drive on Amazon. Instagram has made adding music to Instagram Stories an even better experience with a new feature: the Lyrics Sticker. This new option displays the lyrics of the song playing in your Story over the video.

Want to know more about this cool feature? Click here: https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/top-story/instagram-stories-testing-lyrics-stickers-feature-facebook/story/345833.html

Retweet With More Than Words

Twitter has made retweeting a lot more functional with one easy addition: the ability to attach not only words but also photos, GIFs and videos. Speechless? Make the most of this option to express your someone else’s vitally important thoughts!

@Shop Account On Instagram

We recently reported on the super-convenient feature letting you make in-app purchases on Instagram. Now there’s a catalog so you can navigate through the different products you can find across the app and buy instantly. This curated shop account showcases product posts of brands and creators that are of interest to the community.

Know more about it here: https://instagram-press.com/blog/2019/05/09/shop/

That’s it for this week, folks! See you next friday for more marketing news!

10 May 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On May 10, 2019

It’s time for your weekly marketing news report with Motion Avenue!

This week, Google and its I/O Conference were filled with announcements about future releases soon and not-so-soon. Not to be outdone, Facebook demands our continued excitement with EVEN MORE CHANGE! Let’s get to the latest updates.

Google Announces Everything will be AI

At the I/O conference, Google showcased a variety of AI-powered products it will launch in the short- to mid-term, as well as yet another Android phone! There were actually some meaningfully new announcements about Google’s continued AI development, including more responsible algorithm development and Project Euphonia, which seeks to assist people with speech impairments.

Learn more about these and others Google announcements here: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/here-is-everything-google-announced-at-its-io-conference

Facebook Will Be Sort Of Completely Different!

Don’t worry, Facebook will fix the thing you’re angry at! Wait, you want more of something? OK. The social media giant has declared that it will redesign its app to emphasize two user favorites: Events and Groups. By “emphasize,” they mean “generally have fewer other features.” The streamlined design and user experience is intended to put “communities data at the center.”

Want to know more? Click here: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523265/facebook-events-groups-redesign-news-feed-features-f8-2019

Instagram “Shop From Creators” Update

Instagram has invested a lot of effort into same-page shopping, but somehow, every photo on the platform doesn’t include an option to purchase. Instagram is handing influencers the shop keys, now: the “shop from creators” option will allow creators to tag a product on their photos so their followers can buy it on the spot!

This also means we can continue hearing theories about influencer markets for at least the next two years- but by then, we’ll all be too old for them anyway.

Learn more about this story here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-f8-2019-new-updates-for-instagram-including-shop-from-creators/553808/

Messenger Makeover

The Facebook experience might start emphasizing fewer features, but Messenger is at the other end of its lifecycle, and still has room to pile on features for people to love and hate. Messenger is getting an update with Project LightSpeed, which seeks to launch Messenger with full features, at less than 30 MB, with a watch together option, which will allow you and your friends to watch videos at the same time in the chat.

Get to know more here: https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/30/facebook-details-messenger-updates-new-desktop-app-social-video-and-project-lightspeed/

That’s it for this week! We look forward to seeing you next week to continue sharing the most relevant news from the marketing industry.

03 May 2019

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Sticky Post By Edgar Guillen On May 3, 2019

Welcome to your digest of the most relevant marketing news of the week! This week, even Mark Zuckerberg gave us something to talk about. Learn more below!

Instagram to Hide its True Feelings?

Invisible likes now could be a reality. According to sources, Instagram would be testing a new feature to hide the number of a post’s likes from followers. The idea is to encourage audiences to focus on the content an account shares, and not on the likes of a publication.

Here’s the rest of the story: https://nypost.com/2019/04/19/instagram-tests-making-likes-invisible-influencers-are-worried/

Some Guy Named Mark Launches Podcast

In his New Year’s resolution, Mark Zuckerberg decided that in 2019 he wanted to address issues related to technology and its place in society, and to reboot Farmville with “corn-focused microtransactions.” One of those statements is (probably) true. As evidence, Zuckerburg’s new podcast “Tech and Society”. Do you think this will begin to mend the reputation of the technology giant? Is it a purely cynical public relations move, or do you think “Tech and Society” has the potential to start meaningful conversations about issues that platforms like Facebook represent?

“Alexa, Watch Your Back.” Facebook Developing AI Digital Voice Assistant

Facebook has confirmed that is working on an artificial intelligence-based digital voice assistant. This new technology would focus specifically on their AR/VR products including Portal and Oculus. Currently, Facebook expressly states that this project, which is still in early development, is not intended to compete directly with smart speakers like Alexa or Google Assistant. However, they said it while the assistant wasn’t listening, so who knows what it’ll ultimately do?

Learn more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18412757/facebook-ai-voice-assistant-portal-oculus-vr-ar-products

Take a Byte Out of Vine (sorry)

Miss Vine? Wow, really? Well, good news..? It’ll be back soon! The video app has been rebooted and would now return with a brand new name: Byte. Although It’s still a short-form video app, Byte now promises to be less alienating to older audiences almost everyone. And not sell children’s personal information.

Read all about it here: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/vine-remake-byte/

That’s this week’s news in social media marketing! Stay tuned for more updates next week!