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Facebook Marketers are Already Fumbling News Feed Change

Jon Loomer

It’s been a little over a week since Facebook announced the latest news feed change intended to surface more content from friends and less content from brands. In that time, it’s clear marketers are setting the groundwork for future news feed changes. Facebook will have no choice. Facebook owes you nothing.

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Facebook News Feed Update: Now What?

Jon Loomer

You’ve undoubtedly heard by now about the big Facebook news feed update that was announced recently. The news feed is sorted and customized based on a ranking system. Facebook wants you to see more stuff from people. Posts that get long, thoughtful replies will get priority in your feed. So… Now what?

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Facebook Watchbait: Misleading and Sensational Videos Will Be Down-Ranked

Jon Loomer

Facebook has announced that videos using “watchbait” will be penalized and receive less news feed distribution. “Watchbait” is a made-up word to describe shady tactics used by marketers to game the news feed algorithm — and user engagement — with videos. Even posts recommended by Facebook.

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Facebook Updates News Feed Algorithm

Ignite Social Media

Once again, Facebook is changing the way its News Feed is structured and many people have questions as to what it actually means this time. As this new feature on Facebook rolled out, so did a document titled “News Feed Values” by the company, which is meant to supply clarity around exactly that question.

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Not Everything Has Changed

Jon Loomer

The past several years of Facebook (and then Meta) advertising has been a whirlwind. A 70-page PDF called The Facebook Ads Experiment: 12 Tips to Crazy Engagement from 2016 underscores just how much has changed. But I don’t recognize much of the Facebook ads landscape that I wrote about eight years ago. Ads Manager?

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Boosted Posts vs. Ads: Tips for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

Hootsuite

Except, it will have a “sponsored” or”promoted” label in the viewer’s social media feed. This allows you to take advantage of the ease of creating a boost post vs ad on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn while also building specifically promotional content that might not be effective as an organic post. What’s a social ad?

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Instagram Tests New Chronological Feed with “Latest Posts” Prototype

Later

The Instagram chronological feed could be making a comeback! A new “Latest Posts” feature has been spotted deep in the app’s code and could reveal the return of the Instagram chronological feed. This sounds like the chronological feed people are asking for. Similar, but not the same pic.twitter.com/AUMwlZGtUr.

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