September 16, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook is taking the next steps in turning WhatsApp into a critical connector for more functions with the addition of a new local business directory in the app. Learn more here.

✔️With Christmas now only less than 100 days away, Instagram launched a new guide to help you maximize your promotional efforts on the platform, specifically focused on the use of Instagram’s Shops and other eCommerce features. Check out Instagram’s ‘Holiday Szn’ mini-site here.

✔️YouTube has published a new overview of how its content recommendations system works, which is one of the central drivers of video reach and views on the platform, and may help YouTube marketers get a better understanding of what guides optimal response. Click here to learn more.

✔️YouTube has launched its first ever podcast called ‘The Upload: The Rise of the Creator Economy’. Subscribe to The Upload on YouTube here.

HOLIDAYS 9/17/2021:

• Time’s Up Day

• Tradesmen Day

• International Country Music Day

• Table Shuffleboard Day

• Monte Cristo Sandwich Day

• Grenache Day

• Apple Dumpling Day

• Constitution Day

• Pet Bird Day

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September 15, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook announced two new initiatives to provide support for SMBs, and help you better manage your cash flow if you need it. If you have a Facebook Business Page you’ll be able to access this new experience by clicking on Business Resources and Small Business Funding.

✔️Instagram has launched a live test of a new feature called ‘Map Search’ in Australia and New Zealand, which lets you discover businesses and locations on the in-app map. Click here to learn more.

✔️Twitter is now inviting more businesses to apply for its Professional Profiles test, which lets you showcase more business information in a dedicated, additional profile space in the app. More about these updates here.

✔️LinkedIn is looking to provide more ways for brands to maximize their content efforts on the platform, and tap into its rising levels of user engagement, with a new feature for Company Pages that it’s calling ‘Articles for Pages’. Read LinkedIn’s latest quarterly platform update here.

HOLIDAYS 9/16/2021:

• Get Ready Day

• Guacamole Day

• Play Doh Day

• Teenager Workout DAy

• Working Parents Day

• Collect Rocks Day

• World Ozone Day

• Stepfamily Day

• Cinnamon-Raisin Bread Day

• Choose Your Chocolate Day

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September 14, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram is developing a new montage feature to convert IG stories to reels. Click here to learn more about this update.

✔️LinkedIn has finally hopped on-board the dark mode train, launching the alternate display option in both its mobile app and on desktop. Learn more here.

HOLIDAYS 9/15/2021:

• Yom Kippur

• Online Learning Day

• World Afro Day

• Cheese Toast Day

• Double Cheeseburger Day

• International Dot Day

• Make A Hat Day

• Greenpeace Day

• Felt Hat Day

• Linguine Day

• National School Backpack Awareness Day

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September 13, 2021

Updates:

✔️It seems that Pinterest is the latest social media app looking to lean into the TikTok-inspired trend of a scrolling, vertical feed of content, with a new ‘Watch’ mode being tested for Pin discovery. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS:

• Cream Filled Donut Day

• Gobstopper Day

• Coloring Day

• Live Creative Day

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September 10, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook is now giving advertisers the option to direct ‘approximately 10%’ of the traffic generated by their conversion ads to their Facebook and Instagram Shops instead. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter announced a live test of its new ‘Communities’ option, which will let you share tweets with selected groups of users in the app, as opposed to publicly broadcasting or sharing all of their tweets with all of their followers, all of the time. Click here to learn more.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

HOLIDAYS:

Saturday is

• Make Your Bed Day

• Drive Your StudeBaker Day

• No New is Good News Day

• Patriot Day

Sunday is

• Video Games Day

• Hug Your Hound Day

• Chocolate Milkshake Day

• Grandparent’s Day

• Pet Memorial Day

• Police Woman Day

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September 9, 2021

Updates:

✔️A Professional Development Business Book: InstaBrain: “The New Rules for Marketing to Generation Z” by Sarah Weise

HOLIDAYS 9/10/2021:

• TV Dinner Day

• Swap Ideas Day

• Alpaca Day

• Swap Ideas Day

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September 8, 2021

Updates:

✔️They may not be fully functioning AR glasses, as such, but Facebook’s preparing to launch its first foray into wearables, with the initial iteration of its smart glasses set to be released, in partnership with Ray Ban, later this week. Sign-up to get a release notification about the Facebook/Ray Ban glasses here.

✔️After testing it out internally over the past couple of months, Twitter has now launched a live test of its new, full-width visual display for tweets in-stream, which will see tweeted images, GIFs and videos take up more of the tweet view, and remove the rounded corners of the current display. Click here to learn more.

✔️As part of its broader focus on providing more control options for users, Twitter has today launched the first live test of its new process to remove specific followers from your audience, eliminating the need to block/unblock for the same. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 9/9/2021:

• Teddy Bear Day

• Wonderful Weirdos Day

• Care Bears Share Your Care Day

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September 7, 2021

Updates:

✔️Learn more how to manage your Alexa Amazon Device here: https://www.amazon.com/alexa-privacy/apd/msp

HOLIDAYS 9/8/2021:

• Star Trek Day

• Pardon Day

• Quiet Day

• Actors’ Day

• World Physical Therapy Day

• Literacy Day

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