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
Snapchat Updates Stories and Discover Pages: "The Discover page now features a Pinterest-style mason grid of tiles, while the Stories page now combines the two rows of static Discover channels and Live Stories into one scrollable row of non-friend content." TechCrunch reports that this recent update makes "professionally made and community-curated

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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 Announces New Business Tools: Instagram unveiled new business profiles, which feature a Contact button, access to insights, and the ability to turn well-performing posts into ads from within the Instagram app. According to the Instagram for Business blog, these new business tools will "make growing a business on Instagram that much easier."

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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 Enables Continuous Live Video Support and Geogating: "Facebook will now allow non-stop, long-form broadcasting." TechCrunch reports that the only tradeoff for the Continuous Live Video API is that "unlike [the] normal Facebook Live stream, there's no option to let people replay the stream later or rewind to earlier." Facebook also rolled out

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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 Rolls Out Interactive Live Broadcast Map: Facebook introduced an "interactive map that shows you [public Facebook Live] streams that you can tune into in real-time" from all over the world and "who's watching the video you've selected." The Next Web reports that this new feature "has been around for the past month, but it's now easier to

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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
Amazon Targets YouTube With Video Upload Service: Amazon debuted a new video upload service that allows users to "post videos to its website and earn money from advertising, royalties and other sources, putting the company in more direct competition with Google's YouTube." Bloomberg reports that content creators can upload original or licensed videos

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