Branded Content Posts Surge, While Influencers Make It Rain A recent study from UM suggests that only 4% of consumers trust influencer posts on social media. Now, whether this is, in itself, legitimate, and not merely a headline-grabbing PR piece from UM is debatable. However, the implied lack of trust doesn’t seem to be slowing […]
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"A Modern Day Social Network Built Around Messaging" This is the third and final instalment of SMK’s F8 coverage. Today we are exploring Facebook Messenger, following Facebook last week and Instagram on Monday. Much of the Messenger talk at F8 centred on selling the messaging dream. Both to users and businesses alike. Messenger is a
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F8 Changes Galore: Vanity Metrics, Influencers, Camera, Commerce and Stories Last week was Facebook’s F8 Conference, the biggest event in Facebook’s calendar. For the uninitiated, think of one of those Apple events; when they release super, rad features, like a snazzy red version of your current mobile device. F8 is always choc full of new
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Marketers Globally Groan, As Facebook Shreds Social Strategies. Again. It’s that time of the year again: F8. The Facebook F8 developer conference is Big Blue’s biggest event of the year. Mark Zuckerberg practises dad jokes for weeks, listens to ‘eye of the tiger’ on his Discman and then channels his inner Steve Jobs, sans black
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Strong Snap Q1 Sees Usage & Revenue Up After a 2018 to forget, Snapchat is finally rocking and rolling again, with both usage and revenue up for the plucky camera company. Snapchat posted its first daily user growth in over a year. Adding 4 million daily active users (DAUs) in the first quarter of 2019,
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'But How Will We Validate Our Existence', Cry The Instafamous??!?? A leaked Instagram design trial shows the platform is experimenting with obscuring and hiding ‘Like’ counts, as uncovered by reverse-engineering guru Jane Manchu Wong. On the link above, if we view screenshots left to right; you can see on the far left that the Instagram
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Facebook Declunks Ads Manager & Streamlines Business Manager Facebook has announced a series of changes for Ads Manager, with the rollout of a design refresh and improved navigation. The changes form part of a wider update to Business Manager, which is being reworked in 2019. According to Facebook: ‘As digital advertising becomes more complex, we
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Updates Lanch As Part Of Wide-reaching News Feed Changes Facebook has just announced one of its most significant News Feed algorithm updates yet, with the launch of ‘Click-Gap’. Click-Gap borrows heavily from search engine algorithm rankings, in principle, with Facebook now putting a much heavier emphasis on off-social quality signals. As of this week, Facebook
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New Instagram Guidelines Likely To Hit Influencers & Memes Instagram has this week rolled out a slew of new algorithm updates, effective immediately, with the intent of making it a more wholesome experience. The updates form part of a broader community standards push from Big Blue. Despite having community standards, Instagram is known for having
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Snapchat Ramps Up At 2019 Partner Summit During Snap’s inaugural ‘Partner Summit’ last week in Los Angeles Chief Executive, Evan Spiegel, came out swinging for copycats Instagram and Facebook, alongside announcing a series of innovative new features. Snapchat lacks the comprehensive reach of Facebook or YouTube, which both reach approx. 80% of web users in
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