March 27, 2020

Updates:

✔️Pinterest announced their 'Verified Merchants' program, you will see a blue checkmark added to brand profiles that meet Pinterest's quality and transparency requirements.

Learn more about Pinterest’s program here.

✔️Instagram is working on a new 'Links' option within its business profile settings that would let you add a new quick link, via a profile button or sticker, to guide visitors to purchase gift cards or make donations.

✔️TikTok launched a new entertainment called “#happyathome” and information initiative to help lighten the mood amid the lockdowns, while also giving you a chance to ask questions to experts and engage with celebrities on the platform.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

Saturday, March 28th

• Something On A Stick Day

• Black Forest Cake Day

• Earth Hour

• Weed Appreciation Day
  

Sunday, March 29th

• Neighbor Day

• Lemon Chiffon Cake Day

• Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day

• PayDay It Forward

• World Piano Day

• Smoke and Mirror Day

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March 26, 2020

Updates:

✔️LinkedIn has provided some tips on how you can make best use of its platform to better connect and engage with your networks.

✔️Pinterest has provided a new set of tips to help brands that are looking to maintain audience connection amid the crisis.

Download Pinterest's tips here.

Holidays:

• International Whisk(ey) Day

• Spanish Paella Day

• World Theater Day

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March 25, 2020

Updates:

✔️Instagram is adding 'Co-Watching' feature lets you search through Instagram and share content with the group.

✔️YouTube has confirmed that they lower the video quality of its streams in all regions, with YouTube videos to load in standard definition by default for at least the next month.

✔️Twitter's Joe Wadlington is back to provide some more great tweet copy lessons that will help you compose more effective, impactful tweets.

✔️Pinterest is launching a new feature called 'Today', which will showcase the latest trending ideas from across the network.

✔️Reddit launched a new Polls option which lets you pose questions to their audiences helping to boost on-platform engagement, and activate the many 'lurkers' within the app.

Holidays:

• Good Hair Day

• Purple Day

• Spinach Day

• Make Up Your Own Holiday Day

• Nougat Day

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March 24, 2020

Updates:

✔️An Awesome Professional Development Book: “Building a StoryBrand” by Donald Miller

✔️New Podcast: Simplify Life at Home with 10+ Easy to Use Alexa Skills

Holidays:

• Waffle Day

• Tolkien Reading Day

• Manatee Appreciation Day

• Pecan Day

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March 23, 2020

Updates:

✔️Instagram has launched a new 'Stay Home' sticker for Instagram Stories in order to encourage you to stay inside during this present situation.

✔️Facebook is reducing the quality of its video streams in Europe, across both Facebook and Instagram.

✔️YouTube has announced a new slate of updates also in line with rising demand and need, as it seeks to address key considerations for its services.

➞They are reducing streaming quality options in response to concerns around choking web traffic.

➞They launched a new Learn@Home website, which compiles a range of educational resources on the platform.

✔️Google launched an updated camera tool, called 'Camera Go', which will let you to take better quality photos via Android Go devices.

Holidays:

• Chocolate Covered Raisins Day

• Flatmate’s Day

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March 20, 2020

Updates:

✔️Facebook has finally announced that all users can now switch over to its new desktop layout.

✔️Facebook launched a new pilot program with make-up brand Sephora which effectively connects a person's existing brand loyalty membership with their Facebook identity.

✔️Instagram has confirmed that it's also working on a new disappearing messages option within its Direct tools.

✔️Instagram is testing out the capability to add up to four hashtags and a location to your Instagram Stories highlights.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

✔️March 21st Webinar: ‘Video Conferencing 101’

Holidays:

Saturday, March 21st

• Quilting Day World

• Poetry Day

• Corn Dog Day

• Healthy Fats Day

• Slytherin Day

• International Day of Forests

• International Fragrance Day

• World Down Syndrome Day

• Memory Day

• Single Parent’s Day

• French Bread Day

• Common Courtesy Day

Sunday, March 22nd

• World Water Day

• Gryffindor Pride Day

• As Young As You Feel Day

• Goof Off Day

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March 19, 2020

Updates:

✔️If you had a lot of posts on Facebook removed telling you that what you are posting is against their community guidelines, the network suffered from a massive bug in its News Feed spam filter.

✔️And keep in mind that like everywhere else, Facebook is shutting down its offices and has drastically reduced remote workforce, which means that they are relying on automated technology and artificial intelligence more than ever and this could mean:

• Delayed review for ads and commerce listings

• An increase in ads being incorrectly disapproved

• Delayed or reduced appeals , and

• More limited availability of Facebook in-stream ads and lower delivery

✔️There’s another new option for your Facebook Stories, it’s a 'Mood' option that lets you create GIF-centric Stories frames to convey a chosen feeling.

✔️Twitter has gathered together a listing of brands that are communicating in effective, positive and responsible ways amid the coronavirus pandemic. See great examples here.

Holidays:

• International Day of Happiness

• Proposal Day

• World Storytelling Day

• Kiss Your Fiance Day

• Hufflepuff Pride Day

• Would You Be My Neighbor Day

• Ravioli Day

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March 18, 2020

Updates:

✔️LinkedIn launched a new 'Conversation Ads' option, which lets you add clickable Call To Action buttons that your email recipients can click on in-stream.

✔️Twitter has updated its real-time video connection feature, adding a new option to add audio guests into your Twitter live-streams before you actually begin your broadcast.

✔️WhatsApp is developing a new option which would let you set your WhatsApp messages to auto-delete after a set time limit.

✔️Google has taken a significant step towards eliminating the language gap, with a new real-time translation feature in Google Translate which can provide rolling text, in your native language, as another person speaks.

Holidays:

• Poultry Day

• Chocolate Caramel Day

• Client’s Day

• International Read To Me Day

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