Instagram introduces Reels and Shop Tabs in its latest design update | | As there's an incredible amount of online shopping with more and more young people looking to their favorite creators for recommendations on what to buy; Instagram makes it easier now. With its new redesigned version of its app; Instagram is putting its TikTok competitor Reels front-and-center and it replaces the Activity tab (heart icon) with the Shop tab. It is noteworthy that IGTV is not among the Home Page buttons and can only be accessed on the Explore page. | | Facebook and Instagram Messengers add disappearing messages feature This new vanish mode in Messenger lets you send messages that disappear automatically when the recipient has seen them or when they leave the chat. It is now available only in the US and a few other countries. Unlike on Snapchat, Vanish Mode is not a default setting and you'll have to update to the latest version of the app to see if it's available to you. | | | YouTube Rewind, the 10-year tradition, will not be held this year Featuring the most remarkable videos and YouTubers of the year, YouTube Rewind has been canceled by Youtube management for this year due to the fact that 2020 was a year with diseases and disasters. 2019's Rewind video had 108 million views, 3.4 million likes and 9.2 million unlikes. | | | Twitter may slow down users' ability to 'like' tweets containing misinformation Twitter is working on expanding the use of its "misinformation" labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature, not yet live, that would pop up a "misleading information" label when a user tries to "Like" a tweet that's been labeled as misinformation. The addition doesn't prevent a user from continuing to "Like" the tweet, however — it slows you down. | | | How to find social media competitors? Finding your social media competitors helps you analyze their social media strategy efforts and learn from their mistakes and successes. Check this article to learn more. | | | Spotify announced the acquisition of the publishing platform Megaphone As podcasting is growing rapidly on Spotify, with the company announcing that 22% of its total monthly average users engaged with podcasts in Q3 2020 and that podcast advertising revenue is up nearly 100% year over year, this new combination will let brands advertise across Spotify's Original & Exclusive podcasts (a catalogue offering more than 1.9 million titles, featuring storytelling, sports, education, and wellness) and scale their reach through Megaphone's Targeted Marketplace. | | | | | |
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