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January 2019

Instagram Makes Managing Multiple Marketing Accounts Easier

Instagram Lets Marketers Share Posts Across Multiple Profiles Instagram is rolling out a new feature in iOS providing users running multiple accounts the option to share a post across two or more accounts which they manage. The new native feature will be a godsend for agency folk and in-house marketers, streamlining implementation. Instagram is certainly …

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Snapchatters are happiest, Facebookers not so much

Users Have 7.6 Social Accounts, On Average  A new study released today provides interesting insights for marketers on how different social apps impact users’ moods and the underlying motivations for using. In 2019 few web users are partisan enough to be 'all in' on only one social channel. Except, maybe, Tom on Myspace. Social users …

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Facebook Messenger’s Untapped Organic Message Blasts

Subscription Messages 80%+ Facebook Open Rates Facebook Messenger offers perhaps the best untapped organic opportunity within social media; Messenger Subscriptions. However, outside of small-scale direct marketers, few use them. For most businesses, Messenger is largely reactive; dealing with organic inbound enquiries and complaints. Otherwise, its targeting Messenger placements (often unintentionally) with ads. The base premise …

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Japanese Billionaire ‘Makes It Rain’ To Break Twitter Record

Billionaire shares $925,000 with Twitter users Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has entered the annals of time, posting the most retweeted message in Twitter’s 13-year-history. In a savvy move to promote his online fashion retailer, Zozotown, Maezawa offered to share $925,000 between 100 randomly selected people who shared his tweet. The number of people following Maezawa’s account surged …

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Facebook’s New WhatsApp Ads Expanding

WhatsApp Campaigns Rolling Out Further Facebook announced at the tail-end of 2018 the forthcoming global rollout and expansion of WhatsApp ads in 2019. As the world’s leading messaging service, by size, and with roughly 25% more users than Facebook Messenger, it was inevitable. WhatsApp ads initially launched in August, via the Click-to-message Facebook advertising objective. …

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Instagram’s New Influencer Ads

Instagram Fuses Its Two Fave Things: Ads & Influencers Instagram is in the process of launching its first, dedicated, influencer marketing advertising product, ‘Branded Content Ads’. The new feature will offer a new way for brands to sponsor posts created by celebrities and publishers. The solution was announced last week at a breakfast for advertisers and …

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