Category: Weekly News

Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Pinterest Introduces Promoted Video: Pinterest rolled out Promoted Video, a new way for businesses to "share their ideas with the people who are looking for them and make it easy for them to give these ideas a try." Promoted Video builds on the growing popularity of video on Pinterest and "brings together some of the best elements of Pinterest,"

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Expands User Control Over Ad Preferences and Combats Ad-Blocking: In addition to developing new ad formats "that complement, rather than detract from, people's experience online," Facebook expanded its Ad Preference tools "to give people even more control over... the ads they see" in their news feed. Users can now add or remove interests

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Instagram Introduces Instagram Stories: Instagram debuted Instagram Stories, a new feature that lets you "share multiple photos and videos... in a slideshow format: your story." With Instagram Stories, "you can bring your story to life in new ways with text and drawing tools" and "the photos and videos will disappear after 24 hours and won't appear

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Reddit Announces New Ad Offering: Reddit introduced Promoted User Posts, a new ad offering that gives marketers the ability to sponsor user-generated posts on Reddit's platform. According to the announcement from Reddit, this new ad offering "will essentially let an advertiser identify an organic post that they find especially relevant to their brand

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Adds Audience Restrictions to Facebook Live: Facebook rolled out "the ability to target live videos to only stream to certain ages, genders, languages or locations of viewers" with its Graph API v2.7 update. This capability makes "live streaming more accurate and relevant," but is currently limited to users who post Live videos to Facebook

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