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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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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 Announces Autoplay Sound, Picture-in-picture View, and Other Updates to Video: Facebook rolled out four major updates "that make watching video on Facebook richer, more engaging and more flexible." These updates include autoplay sound that "fades in and out" and the option to minimize Facebook videos to a "picture-in-picture view" as you

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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
YouTube Expands Mobile Live Streaming and Launches Super Chat: YouTube rolled out mobile live streaming to "every creator with more than 10,000 subscribers" and announced that other creators will have it "soon." YouTube announced that mobile live streaming is built "directly into the YouTube mobile app" and has "all the same features as regular

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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 Search Ads: Pinterest rolled out search ads with "a full suite of features, including Keyword and Shopping Campaigns that are shown in search results... [and] powerful new targeting and reporting options." Pinterest is currently working with digital marketing company Kenshoo to test the new search ads features with a handful of

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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 Facebook Stories in Ireland: Facebook rolled out Facebook Stories in Ireland for the iOS and Android apps, "with plans to bring it to more countries in the coming months." Similar to the Stories features found on Snapchat and Instagram, Facebook Stories allow users to "share ephemeral photos and videos in a slideshow that 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
Twitter Automatically Loops Short Videos: As the Vine app officially shut down and became Vine Camera earlier this week, Twitter announced that it will now "automatically loop all videos shorter than 6.5-seconds" on its timeline. Twitter also confirmed that this capability will extend beyond videos clips posted from Vine Camera and will apply 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
Facebook Rolls Out Ability to Broadcast Live From Desktop: Facebook shared several new tools and improvements that "give publishers more control, customization, and flexibility over their broadcasts." These updates include the ability to go live on a Facebook page through a web browser from a desktop, video metrics for public videos for profiles 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 Extends Automated Video Captioning Tools to Pages: Facebook released an automated captioning tool for video ads last year. Over the past few months, Facebook has been gradually rolling out access to this feature to videos published to Facebook pages. This free tool is powered entirely by voice recognition software and the video captions are

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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
Periscope Rolls Out Support for Live 360 Video: Periscope launched its own Live 360 video experience this week. The new Live 360 broadcasts are marked with a badge and enable viewers to change their point of view "by moving [their] phone or tapping and scrolling around the screen - all while watching live." Although anyone on Twitter or Periscope can

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