Instagram has added ‘Giving Tuesday’ Features to Highlight How People Can Assist Nonprofits and SMBs

Giving Tuesday

Instagram’s looking to highlight how people can provide assistance on Giving Tuesday with a new collaborative Story at the top of user feeds which will highlight publicly posted Story frames that include a dedicated donation sticker. As you can see in the first image above, until Tuesday, users will see a ‘Giving Tuesday’ story at the start … Read more

Facebook Will Launch its Facebook News in the UK in January

Facebook News

It remains somewhat controversial, but Facebook has announced that it will expand its dedicated News tab into the UK in January, the first region to get Facebook’s ‘trusted’ feed of news content outside the US. As you can see in this image of the US version, the News tab highlights key news updates from a listing of … Read more

Instagram Added a New Option Which Enables Users to Opt-Out of Third-Party Data Usage

Instagram

Instagram has added a new setting that will enable users to choose whether they can be targeted with more personalized ads in the app via the usage of supplementary data sourced from third-party platforms and providers. As you can see here, the new “Data From Partners” settings will enable users to opt-out of the use … Read more

TikTok has Updated its Parental Control Tools to Better Protect Young Users

TikTok

With TikTok on track to become the next billion-user platform, there are significant concerns around how content posted in the app can impact young kids, with various regions even implementing bans on the app over indecent and offensive material that can be accessed by youngsters through random discovery. Of course, such concerns are present across the … Read more

5 Top Smart Tools to Boost Your Digital Marketing in 2021

Marketing

With 2020, and its various challenges, now almost behind us, it’s high time that we start thinking about 2021, and how to optimize your marketing approach for the year ahead. One of the main reasons that I love our industry so much is that we have so many creative developers and entrepreneurs that keep coming … Read more

LinkedIn has Published its Annual Top Voices Listing in 2020

LinkedIn

LinkedIn has published its annual Top Voices listing, which looks at the LinkedIn members that generated the most engagement and interaction with their posts on the platform throughout the year. No, we’re not talking about the LinkedIn L.I.O.N.s here, nor are we highlighting those posting ‘double-tap for a surprise’ posts, or stories about how they gave the job to … Read more

After All Said and Done, Facebook Remains a Prominent Facilitator of Election Misinformation

Facebook

Over the last four years, Facebook has implemented a range of measures to stamp out misinformation, tackle election interference and ensure that its users are kept accurately informed, despite various efforts, by various groups, to use the company’s massive network in order to influence public opinion and sway election results in their own favor. Facebook’s … Read more

Twitter is Testing Out a New Clubhouse-Style Audio ‘Spaces’ Feature

Twitter

Twitter is testing out a new, audio-only virtual meeting room option which will be built on top of its new Fleets, a Stories-like tool, providing yet another way to interact within the app. As you can see in these screenshots, the new audio ‘space’ option will enable users to create an audio-only room that their … Read more

Instagram Shares ‘Guides’ Content Display Option to All Users

Instagram

Instagram is giving all users access to its new ‘Guides’ content display option, which adds a new way to share themed content on your Instagram profile. As you can see in the above sequence, users will now be able to add a new tab to their profiles, in addition to ‘Posts’, ‘Mentions’, and ‘IGTV’, which … Read more