YouTube Lifts Hood On Video Algorithms
YouTube engineers explain video recommendation rankings YouTube has published an overview of how its recommendation system works, which will help brands and marketers understand how the system ranks videos to users - with that insight, it should ....
20/09/2021
Facebook's New Lead Generation and Customer Acquisition Tools
19/09/2021 Russell Hughes
Facebook upgrades on-platfrom features due to Apple privacy clampdown Facebook has unveiled new engagement, lead generation and customer acquisition tools in a broad update that includes a whole raft of changes. ....
[NEW REPORT] The Evolution Of Social Apps
19/09/2021 Russell Hughes
Social media accounts for 44% of all time spent on mobile According to the latest App Annie report, people are spending more and more time on social media apps - a trend that shows no sign of slowing down. Users spent 740 billion hours o ....
Twitter’s Community Management Clampdown
16/09/2021 Russell Hughes
Twitter improving brand safety with better community controls Twitter has launched five new features, all designed to help improve community interaction, give users more protection from online abuse and allow them to control their content better ....
Facebook Page Comments Liable for Defamation, Court Rules
12/09/2021 Russell Hughes
Social media legal risks multiply with new ruling Australia’s High Court has ruled that media companies can be held responsible for defamatory comments left in response to social media posts. The judgement forms part of the D ....
Facebook Unravels Page Verification for Facebook & Instagram
08/09/2021 Russell Hughes
Facebook explains the mythical blue-tick The coveted social media blue-tick has had social media users in a tailspin since its inception. The ultimate standard of making it, of quality, of legitimacy. However, for many years now ....
Email Marketing gets Squeezed in Apple Privacy Clampdown
07/09/2021 Russell Hughes
iOS 15 Spells Trouble For Email Open Rates & Automation Apple's war on data trackers has continued as iOS 15 tightens controls around user privacy yet again. If digital marketers thought the iOS 14 update was bad, iOS 15 ha ....
LinkedIn Stories Getting Culled In October
05/09/2021 Russell Hughes
LinkedIn pulls pin on Stories as it refocuses to video Another Story experience has fallen by the wayside as platforms finally realise that just because it works elsewhere doesn't mean it'll work everywhere (WhatsApp, are you liste ....
TikTok Partners with Canva and Vimeo
02/09/2021 Russell Hughes
TikTok streamlines creative processes with easy design tie-ups TikTok has partnered with Canva and Vimeo to help marketers build better short-form video content. Brands will now be able to build TikTok creative assets in Canva or Vimeo a ....
Instagram Opens Lid On Search Algorithms
31/08/2021 Russell Hughes
Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, explains how to boost Search rankings Following Instagram's recent breakdown of its algorithms for Feed, Stories, Reels and Explore, Instagram has lifted the veil on how its search algorithms work. Th ....
Instagram kills off "swipe-up" Stories links
26/08/2021 Russell Hughes
New Link Stickers take over the mantle from 30th Aug From the end of August, Instagram will kill off the "swipe-up" link in Stories. As of next week, the swipe-up feature is to be phased out and replaced with Link Stickers inst ....
Facebook Announces Facebook Reels Trial
25/08/2021 Russell Hughes
Facebook joins Instagram in short-from video war with TikTok Facebook's battle with TikTok looks set to continue into 2022. Following in the footsteps of Instagram, Facebook has announced that testing has begun on Facebook Reels. ....