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Facebook Stories prepares for the Ads

Following the milestone of Facebook Stories reaching 150 million daily viewers, the feature is about to do the same as Instagram and Snapchat and focus on Stories adverts. Daily active users With the continued increase in story driven social engagement and sharing, Facebook Stories plans to commence ad testing in the US, Mexico, and Brazil. …

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Embed Stories in posts with new Instagram feature

Capitalising on the popularity of posts and Stories, Instagram is bring a new form of cross-posting to how you publish Stories…in posts. Post while you Story Users will find they can embed previous posts from their Instagram feed directly into Stories as a part of the latest update. What’s interesting? The idea wasn’t lifted from …

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Instagram and WhatsApp plan Video Calling Service

As a part of the recent F8 conference, Facebook outlined its planned integration of live video chat which can run simultaneously while navigating within Instagram or WhatsApp. View, chat, call A new camera icon will start appearing in Direct message conversations that will initiate a real-time video call that can be held between individual contacts, or in …

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Instagram’s new Payment Feature

Instagram has quietly launched a native payment feature for in app purchases. Nice one. Debit or Credit Instagram Payments allows users to register a debit or credit card to their profile along with a corresponding security pin and purchase without ever leaving Instagram. Instagram is already rolling out a precursory feature allowing for ticket and …

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