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YouTube Follows Insta & TikTok With Livestream Shopping Trials

YouTube social commerce comes to influencer livestreams YouTube has upped the ante in the battle to create more revenue from video content. It’s recently announced a pilot test that will allow users to shop directly from livestream videos published by creators and accounts. Matt Madrigal, VP/GM of Merchant Shopping, Google “We’ve been beta-testing an integrated […]

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TikTok’s new “Spark Ads” unlock influencer power

TikTok fuses content marketing, influencers & ads The brain's trust at TikTok keeps on ticking over creative new ad options as it tries to position itself as the global leader in short-form video content. TikTok's newest idea, Spark Ads, will enable brands to sponsor trending organic content that fits their values and offerings. This piggybacking

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YouTube Launches TikTok Challenger “Shorts” Globally

After dominating longer-form video, YouTube turns to short-form Video sharing monolith YouTube has waded into the TikTok vs Instagram vs Snapchat battle with its take on the short-form video format. Titled YouTube Shorts, it's pretty much a direct replica of TikTok. Chris Jaffe, VP of Product Management, YouTube "Shorts is a new short-form video experience

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Instagram Turns Influencers Into Cash Cows

Instagram announces new shopping & affiliate marketing features  As with most marketing tactics, influencer marketing has its fair share of problems. From fake followers to pods, to fraud, to contracting, to being tone-deaf, inappropriate behaviour and everything in between. But, perhaps the biggest issue, from a business perspective, is determining return on investment (ROI). Well,

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Snapchat Unlocks Organic Reach Bounty For Brands

Snapchat launches Public Profiles for brands Another shot has been fired in the short-form video wars as Snapchat announced Public Profiles for Business, giving brands a free place to showcase and publish their Snap content. Since its inception, Snapchat has been a predominantly pay-to-play marketing opportunity, and with organic reach beginning to clam up on

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Instagram Announces ‘Drops’ For Product Launches

Instagram Hopes New Drops Will Help Build Brand Buzz Instagram has announced another buzz-building feature as it continues to arm itself in the social commerce war. The platform has already started to roll out in-app purchases of products, which helps feed the machine and grow revenue while also providing additional sales outlets for brands and

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Instagram Launches New Insights for Reels & Live

As part of Instagram's ongoing efforts to replace TikTok as the big dogs of short-form video, it has launched new insights for Reels and Live that will give creators more valuable data and convince them that Reels are the future. Instagram Business Team "For Reels, we will be showing new metrics including Plays, Accounts Reached,

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Surviving Facebook Ad Reviews

Facebook moves to clarify glitchy ad review processes For many of the 200+ million organisations that operate across the Facebook family of apps, bugs, glitches and unreasonable ad rejections are an all too common daily experience. However, according to reports from Digiday before Christmas, growing frustration from marketers is beginning to tip the balance. With

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Snapchat Joins Facebook, With Creator Marketplace

New Creator Marketplace Will Help Brands Activate Gen Z  Snapchat has announced a new way in which brands can partner with creators to help drive visibility on the platform. Creator Marketplace will make it easier for marketers to leverage the power of prominent Snap stars by providing a platform for businesses to search and find

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