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Facebook Launches New Groups Features, Expands Paid Subscriptions

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Facebook's Latest 'Cash Money' Community Summit Updates  Facebook introduced paid subscriptions for Groups mid-2018, and it has this week announced a further expansion, rolling out the feature to a growing number of partners. The expansion of paid Groups came amidst a raft of new Group features announced at Facebook’s latest Community Summit. Facebook Community Summits …

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What Do Instagrammers Want From Marketers?

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New Report Shows What 'Grammers Like, Loath & Love About Marketing  Instagram, alongside LinkedIn, probably offers the easiest organic (unpaid) social media marketing opportunities for communicators in 2019. With one billion plus users globally, and around 11 million locally, it is a robust media channel. Unlike LinkedIn, Instagram’s daily active usage levels are very high, with …

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LinkedIn Usage Up 30% Year On Year

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Latest Microsoft Results Show LinkedIn Is Flying Once largely the domain of annoying recruiters, ninjas and cheesy business development people, LinkedIn has within the past 24 months finally started to come good. 17 years after launching. According to Microsoft's latest quarterly results, released last week, LinkedIn user sessions are up 30% year on year, fuelled …

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Google My Business Improves Local Search Opportunties

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Google Offers Visibility Boost For Both Search & Google Maps Google has just released an update for Google My Business (GMB) helping businesses that do not have a set, physical location better define their service areas. Boosting their visibility in both Google search, Google Maps and beyond. Google My Business is an essential tool for …

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Instagram Is Not Hiding Marketers Posts

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Instagram Quells 7% Organic Reach Rumours  Marketers can rest easy this long weekend since Instagram has just announced that there hasn’t been a significant algorithm update in recent weeks. Social media marketers will no doubt have noticed the growing chorus of platform influencers sharing posts (like above) citing a new Instagram algorithm update. The alleged …

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Facebook Group Community Management Update

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Facebook Rejigs Group Invites & Analytics   Facebook has just released a new Facebook Group update, impacting how marketers engage, build and report on Groups on the platform. At the start of 2018, Mark Zuckerberg altered the fundamentals of the Facebook algorithm to favour content which drives more active engagement, i.e. commenting, over passive, i.e. liking …

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New LinkedIn Page Features Live

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Expanded LinkedIn Features and Functions Rolling Out LinkedIn’s marketing renaissance continues apace, as the platform rolls out a raft of its new LinkedIn Page updates, announced just before Xmas. LinkedIn’s latest attempt to woo businesses, and in particular, marketers, is a relaunch of LinkedIn Company Pages, subsequently now known as LinkedIn Pages. The refresh and …

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Swipe Right For YouTube’s Storyfication

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YouTube’s New Video Experience To Woo Mobile Viewers YouTube has today announced a new way for users to experience video on the platform, taking a leaf out of Tinder’s book. The update announced today for iOS (sad face for Google’s Android users), sees YouTube rolling out a new horizontal swiping gesture that lets users move …

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Snapchatters are happiest, Facebookers not so much

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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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