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Welcome to this week's edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media.

On this week's Social Media Marketing Talk Show with Michael Stelzner, we explore Instagram Stories updates with Sue B. Zimmerman, Pinterest visual search ads with Alisa Meredith, the new Google Lens, and more breaking social media marketing news from the week!
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Welcome to this week's edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media.

On this week's Social Media Marketing Talk Show with Michael Stelzner, we explore Facebook news feed changes, Snapchat updates with Carlos Gil, Facebook group discoveries, and other breaking social media marketing news of the week!
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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
Twitter Announces New Premium Programming Deals for 24/7 Streaming Video Content: Last week, Twitter shared its plans "to air live video 24 hours a day, 7 days a week inside its apps and desktop site." At its Digital Content NewFronts presentation earlier this week, the company debuted over a dozen live-streaming content deals across sports, news,

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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
LinkedIn Rolls Out Matched Audiences: LinkedIn introduced Matched Audiences, "a set of targeting capabilities that give you the unique ability to combine LinkedIn's powerful professional data with your own first-party data." With Matched Audiences, members can engage key accounts, prospects, and audiences "that matter most to [their] business with

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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 Releases Augmented Reality Camera Effects Platform: Facebook officially released the Camera Effects Platform at its annual F8 Conference for developers this week. The new Camera Effect Platform "turns smartphone cameras into the first AR platform" and provides "an opportunity for artists and developers to create effects for the Facebook

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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 Rolls Out Redesigned Direct: Instagram launched a new Instagram Direct that makes it "fast and easy to turn any conversation into a visual conversation with photos and videos." All texts, uploads, and reshares sent in Direct will now appear in the same thread with disappearing photos and videos, which allows users to "seamlessly go back and

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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 Tests Native Split-screen, Two-person Live Broadcasts: This week, Social Media Examiner staff reported that Facebook appears to be slowly rolling out native split-screen, two-person broadcasts in Facebook Live. This new feature is currently limited to personal profiles on Facebook's iOS mobile app for iPhone. It doesn't seem to be available

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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 Facebook Stories and Other Snapchat-like Camera Features Globally: Facebook rolled out a new in-app camera for iOS and Android that's "packed with dozens of effects like masks, frames and interactive filters that you can apply to your photos and videos." These include dynamic objects, artistic filters, and branded masks for some

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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 Ability to Broadcast Live from Desktops and Laptops to All Users: Facebook announced that everyone around the world can now "broadcast live video to Facebook from their desktop or laptop computers."

Facebook also added a new Live feature that "makes it easy to use streaming software or external hardware when going live from a

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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 Testing Video Insights for Personal Profiles: This week, Social Media Examiner staff noted that Facebook appears to be testing video metrics for personal profile users. The video metrics include insights on engagement, views, minutes viewed, and overall performance for the past 7, 30, and 60 days. To learn more about this possible new

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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 Globally Launches Messenger Day: Facebook launched Messenger Day, a new way to share photos and videos "as they happen" in the stand-alone Messenger app. Like with Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories, Messenger Day allows users to customize their photos and videos with thousands of frames, effects, and stickers and each post disappears

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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 Algorithm Ranks Reactions Higher Than Likes: Facebook announced that reactions "will [now] affect post ranking slightly more than Likes" in the news feed algorithm because it has found reactions to be "an even stronger signal" when it comes to indicating what content users would like to see. However, Facebook clarifies that all reactions

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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 Rolls Out Ability to Add Multiple Photos and Videos to One Post: Instagram announced that users can now "combine up to 10 photos and videos in one post and swipe through to see them all." A new icon on the Instagram app allows users to select multiple photos and videos, which can then be reorganized, edited, or layered with a filter one by

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