Wed.Apr 15, 2020

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YouTube Makes its 'Video Builder' Custom Video Creation Tool Available to More Businesses

Social Media Today

YouTube is expanding access to its 'Video Builder' tool, which enables users to create good-looking video content based on templates, still images and stock music clips.

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Instagram Best Practices: Info-Packed Answers to Your Most Pressing Questions

agora pulse

Get the scoop on Instagram best practices from the marketer who literally wrote the book about this social media platform. You may know Jenn Herman as the mastermind behind Jenn’s Trends or as the author of Instagram for Business for Dummies , and the recently released Instagram for Dummies. During a recent Social Pulse Weekly episode, we tackled a whole bunch of questions, myths , and best practices about Instagram to get to the bottom of what really works—and also which tactics actually have t

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YouTube Tests 'Video Chapters' to Skip Through to Relevant Sections in a Video

Social Media Today

YouTube is testing a new option that would enable creators to specify sections of their videos, with annotated notes, to help viewers skip through to relevant sections.

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How to Use Hashtags: A Quick and Simple Guide for Every Network

Hootsuite

Whichever social media platforms your brand uses as part of its social media strategy , knowing how to use hashtags will help boost your brand’s social media engagement. But if you’re sticking with #ThrowbackThursday posts on Twitter, unsure of how else to use hashtags, stay right here. Your brand can do a lot more. This post breaks down the basics of effectively using hashtags on social media and why you should use them.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Facebook Publishes New Guide on How Advertisers Should Adjust Their Ad Approaches During COVID-19

Social Media Today

Facebook has published a new guide on the key considerations advertisers need to take into account when measuring campaign performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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What to do with your 2020 social strategy now

Sprout Social

2020 kicked off a new decade with an entirely new way of life and set of rules for everyone. As brands planned their strategies, they could not have predicted the way COVID-19 has quickly swept up global markets and conversations. In the wake of the crisis, some brands and social marketers find themselves pivoting away from the social strategies they worked so hard to plan.

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How to Use Instagram’s New Food Delivery & Gift Card Stickers

Later

Supporting the small businesses you love just got easier thanks to Instagram! Today, the company announced that business and creator accounts can now include stickers in their stories that direct people to a website where they can order food delivery or buy gift cards. When a user sees a gift card or food order sticker, they’ll be able to tap to make a purchase through a partner site. .

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Messenger Launches WHO 'Health Alert' Bot to Provide COVID-19 Information

Social Media Today

Facebook has partnered with the World Health Organization on a new chatbot to provide users with timely info about the COVID-19 pandemic.

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7 Top Digital Marketing Strategies in 2020 that Drive Bold Results [video + worksheets]

Pam Moore

? ?. Brands are feeling the weight of competition in a digital world that never shuts off. Old methods are not working like they use to. Even industries that were slow to adopt new digital media are now experimenting with new media formats, digital platforms and technologies to break through the digital noise. How do smart marketers win in 2020? How do they stand out in a sea of digital noise?

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Pinterest Updates Pinterest Shop to Highlight a Selection of SMBs Impacted by COVID-19

Social Media Today

Pinterest has added a new set of SMBs to its Pinterest Shop to help provide extra promotion and align with rising trends on the platform.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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YouTube Restoration Videos: Preserving Or Destroying History

Forbes Social Media

The trend in restoration is very hot on YouTube, especially in the case of historic items where items are stripped bare, repainted and returned to new.

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Facebook Adds New Options to Mute Group Members for Longer Periods of Time

Social Media Today

Facebook is giving group admins the capacity to mute members for up to a month, expanding on the existing mute options.

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How the New Pinterest Shop Tab Drives More Sales for Your Business

Later

Pinterest shopping just got a major new upgrade! . Thanks to the launch of the new Shop tab — a direct response from Pinterest to help during the COVID-19 crisis — users now have a dedicated space to browse and shop in-stock product Pins. . This means retailers and e-commerce brands can seriously boost their sales on Pinterest! . We’re covering how the new feature works, what it means for retailers, and how you can start using the Shop tab to your sales advantage: .

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Facebook Launches New App for Apple Watch to Help Stay in Touch With Close Connections

Social Media Today

Facebook's experimental NPE team has released another new app, this time specifically for the Apple Watch.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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How Fashion Brands Can Use TikTok

Pixlee

Many social media managers are beginning to understand how TikTok works. But fashion brands have already begun to take the lead (along with cosmetics brands) in terms of TikTok content. TikTok’s unique format and highly engaged user base combine to create an exciting new frontier for community engagement for fashion brands. Given the nuances of the channel, here are some unique and interesting ways fashion and apparel brands can rule TikTok. 1.

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The Strange Saga Of The Steak-umm Twitter Account

Forbes Social Media

Marketing has taken a surreal turn.

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“Contact Tracing Apps”! Do You Want These on Your Phone?

Tweaklibrary

The COVID-19 outbreak has shocked the world & even though everyone is staying home, they are scared to death going out. The experts related to public health have tied their shoes & are looking out for best tools to track infected or probable infected people around. One of the best tools the experts are using currently is the detective work that’s apparently necessary.

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The essential guide to YouTube ad campaigns

Sprout Social

With 78.8% of marketers considering YouTube as the most effective platform for video marketing, there’s no doubt that it should be a part of your advertising strategy. But because it’s a video platform, creating ads for YouTube isn’t like creating ads for other social platforms. And it does get a bit intimidating when you’re just getting started.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Get Heard Loud And Clear With These Best Microphone Apps For Android And iOS

Tweaklibrary

You’ve planned a gala Karaoke night with friends but here’s the deal! You don’t have a mic and, the night wouldn’t be that gala without it. How about spicing up your own Android or iOS device with live microphone apps ? Yeah! You heard us right. You don’t have to spend cash on a good quality microphone. Instead, all that you need is a device with a live microphone app installed in it, that’s it.

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Overcome Short Attention Spans with Micro-content

Visually SM

What can your advertising do in 10 seconds? Not a whole lot, you might think. But after a study from University of Hamburg and University of Hannover researchers proved that over 50% of Internet users stay on a webpage for less than 10 seconds, advertisers have focused on micro-content : clever, persuasive, and concise messages to target an audience with barely-there attention spans.

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Jitsi Meet VS Skype – Which is the best Video Calling App

Tweaklibrary

Due to the coronavirus outbreak , the popularity of video calling apps is exploding. Here we bring a quick comparison between Jitsi Meet, a new open-source free video calling app, and Microsoft’s Skype. As COVID-19 hits the nation, video conferencing becomes the normal way of communication. Be it businesses, professionals, housewives, friends, everyone is using video calling apps for chatting and staying connected.

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Social Media Collaboration: Tips and Tools for Effective Team Work

Hootsuite

Are you part of a remote social media management team? Are you new to working from home? Or are you looking for ways to help your team work more efficiently? We’ve got you covered. In this post, we’ll offer our best tips and tools for social media collaboration. The goal? To increase your social media team’s productivity through efficient team work.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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How to Cast Android Screen to A TV without Using Chromecast

Tweaklibrary

When you think about casting to TV from Android , Chromecast is one of the most convenient and widely known options you can opt for. Now, the scene where you don’t want to cast Android screen to TV with Chromecast, there are many options available that are safe & doable. Screen casting from the Android phone to your TV exposes many entertaining options for you that will amaze you literally.

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Pornhub Says Wash Your Hands With Launch Of Porn-Parody Site Scrubhub

Forbes Social Media

The CDC says WASH YOUR HANDS. Pornhub, in partnership with the team behind Amazon Dating is launching Scrubhub, a porn-parody site about washing your hands.

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AirPower May Arrive For Iphone 12: Will It or Not?

Tweaklibrary

Isn’t it something we all have heard of earlier as well? Do you remember that amazing device likely to be launched by Apple that could charge three devices at a time? Yes, we are talking about Apple AirPower. Years back we have heard about the AirPower- a wireless charging pad that was expected to be introduced along with Apple AirPods. Apparently, the things took a U-turn and Apple cancelled its launch by 2019.

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Imagining the Magical

Ari Herzog

What if third party candidates dropped out of the presidential race? I present two pieces of evidence. First, here is a screenshot of the ideologies of the major candidates who received the most popular votes in 2016. Democrat Hillary Clinton received 48.2%, Republican Donald Trump received 46%, Libertarian Gary Johnson received 3.3%, and Green Jill Stein received 1%.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.