Facebook Launches Shopping Tab & Expands Instagram Live Shopping Following on from Facebook’s major eCommerce upgrade in May, Facebook has announced a series of new Shopping features across Facebook and Instagram. Of the flurry announced, the most significant development is perhaps the launch of Facebook Shop, which is a new shopping destination directly within the […]
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Facebook Now Offers End-to-end Online Events Solutions Facebook has announced a significant upgrade for online events, with the introduction of social payments within Facebook. Now Page owners can create an online event, set a price, promote the event, collect payment and host the event, all within Facebook. As if Eventbrite needed more lousy news… Events
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Website Visitors Can Now Use Chat Without Logging Into Facebook Facebook launched its Messenger website plugin, Customer Chat, in November 2017. Much like typical website chat functions, Customer Chat allows customers to talk directly with businesses on their websites using Messenger. With options to either tie the conversation into a chatbot, helping with volume or
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New Page Update Simplifies Mobile UX For Users & Admins Following the recent global rollout of Facebook’s new Page redesign, FB5, Techcrunch reports that Facebook is now testing a new design for Facebook Pages that will both minimise the Like count and button (see image above). For brands included in the test, if your Page
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Facebook has announced a new tweak to how they organise the News Feed. A fresh round of changes to the algorithm aims to prioritise original reporting and will demote content that lacks clear publisher information. Tracing primary sources The new approach is to trace developing news stories to the primary source. Once determined, that primary
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Facebook's Blocking & Banning Users For Sharing Guardian Posts Facebook approvals for content are a challenge at the best of times. However, presently for publishers and marketers alike, producing and scheduling content feels like a daily spin on the roulette wheel. For not only are there issues galore with content approvals, but the pointy end
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Content Producers Rejoice, Creation Comes To Creator Studio App Over the past year or so, Facebook has been building out and developing its Creator Studio. Creator Studio brings together all the tools you need to effectively post, manage, monetise and measure content across all your Facebook Pages and Instagram accounts. Tools which previously were scattered
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Facebook Launches Shops, Insta Shopping Tab, Shoppable Live Streams, & More “Liking” things on social media is alright. Buying tho? That’s hot. If Mark Zuckerberg has his way, that is exactly what Facebook’s 2.6 billion users will begin the new post-lockdown era doing. When they’re not butchering Dalgonas. Facebook’s new e-commerce suite, Facebook Shops, announced recently
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Instagram & Giphy Combine For Improved Story Experience Facebook announced on Friday that it is buying the popular GIF-making and sharing website Giphy for a reported price of $400 million. The deal will see Giphy integrating with Instagram, making its vast GIF library easier to crawl and navigate, injecting even more vava-voom into Instagram Stories
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Facebook Video Niches Down With Live Video Chats Following Facebook's recent mega video release, Facebook has announced an expansion of its new Zoom-like Messenger Rooms feature. Messenger Rooms is Facebook's new video conferencing service. With Messenger Rooms, users can create a Room within Messenger or Facebook, and invite anyone to join the video call, even
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