October 15, 2021

Updates:

✔️Twitter is now making ticketed Spaces available to all iOS users in the US, while the option is also now being rolled out to Android broadcasters as well, providing another monetization option in the app. Learn more here.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

HOLIDAYS :

Saturday is

• World Food Day

• Dictionary Day

• Repair Day

• Sweetest Day

• Department Store Day

• Feral Cat Day

• Steve Jobs Day

• Bridge Day

Sunday is

• Toy Camera Day

• Spreadsheet Day

• Forgive an Ex Day

• Playing Card Collection Day 

• Mulligan Day

• Wear Something Gaudy Day

• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

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October 14, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram added a new option to schedule upcoming IG Live broadcasts in the app, you will be able to tap through to get a reminder notification on the day of the broadcast. Learn more here.

✔️TikTok is adding a new control option for live broadcasters that will let them mute comments from individual viewers within streams for variable time periods. Click here to learn more.

HOLIDAYS 10/15/2021:

• World Students’Day

• Boss’Day

• Global Handwashing Day

• International Day of Rural Women

• I Love Lucy Day

• Aesthetician Day

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October 13, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook will now allow Reels Ads placements on Instagram Learn more about the latest Instagram Marketing API update here.

✔️Twitter’s testing a new option that will make it easier for you switch across to a reverse-chronological timeline of tweets from the profiles that you follow, which has long been among the top requests from Twitter users. Click here to learn more.

HOLIDAYS 10/14/2021:

• Dessert Day

• Be Bald and Free Day

• International Top Spinning Day

• Sight Day

• World Standards Day

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October 12, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook has announced an expansion of its audio social plans, with live audio rooms being made available to public figures globally, and a new, dedicated space within the Watch tab to help you connect to all of the platform’s various audio options. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Facebook is kicking off the holiday shopping period with a new series of eCommerce-focused events that aim to encourage the use of Facebook and Instagram shops, while it’s also looking to provide more support for SMBs, with a focus on Black-owned businesses. Click here to learn more.

✔️Facebook Workplace is five years old this week, with the company’s professional platform now helping more than 7 million employees, at hundreds of companies, stay connected to key internal updates, and collaborate on projects in new, and evolving ways. Read the article here.

✔️After two significant outages last week, Instagram is moving to provide more insight into ongoing disruptions and issues, while it’s also looking to add more transparency into account-based actions, like Community Standards violations and content removals, directly in-app. Check out this update here.

✔️Twitter is launching a broader roll out of its new Spaces tab in the app, which will help to improve Spaces discovery by highlighting in-progress audio broadcasts in the app. Learn more about this update here.

✔️LinkedIn published a new ‘Inclusive Language’ guide to help improve brand communications. Download LinkedIn’s Inclusive Language Pocket Guide here, and check out their new LinkedIn Learning course on inclusive language here.

HOLIDAYS 10/13/2021:

• Train Your Brain Day

• Take Your Parents to Lunch Day

• No Bra Day

• Emergency Nurses Day

• Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work & School Day

• English Language Day

• Top Spinning Day

• National Fossil Day

• International Day for Disaster Reduction

• M&M Day

• Stop Bullying Day

• Transfer Money to Your Son Day

• Navy Birthday

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October 11, 2021

Updates:

✔️YouTube has announced some new advances in its video captioning tools, which will make it easier for more channels to add caption text to their video clips. Learn more about YouTube’s caption updates here.

✔️Google updates its ‘Frightgeist’ Halloween Trends mini-site for 2021, which outlines key costume trends, based on search volume, from across the US. Click here to check out Google’s ‘Frightgeist’ mini-site.

HOLIDAYS 10/12/2021:

• Farmers Day

• Own Business Day

• Ada Lovelace Day

• Face Your Fears Day

• Pulled Pork Day

• National Savings Da

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October 8, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook has announced the date of its 2021 Communities Summit, with the virtual event set to be held on November 4th, where Facebook will bring together moderators from various Facebook groups, in order to provide insights and tips, and share previews of upcoming tools and features. Click on the links to learn more about the Facebook Communities Summit, and RSVP to the event, while you’ll also be able to tune in to all the Summit events on the Facebook App Facebook Page.

✔️Google is being moved to a first-price auction model ‘in the coming months’, which will bring AdSense into line with Google’s other ad offerings, while also enabling Google to better compete with other ad exchanges. Read more about the coming update here.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

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HOLIDAYS:

Saturday is

• Scrubs Day

• Beer and Pizza Day

• Curious Events Day

• Fire Prevention Day

• World Post Day

• I Love Yarn Day

Sunday is

• Hug a Drummer Day

• SHIFT10 Day

• World Mental Health Day

• Handbag Day

• World Homeless Day

• World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

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October 7, 2021

Updates:

✔️Pinterest is adding a new ‘Slideshow for Collections’ promotion option, which will source products from your uploaded catalog “into an automatically generated, attention-grabbing collections ad”. Read the update here.

✔️ YouTube’s has a very cool new ‘Engagement Graph’, which is currently being tested with a small percentage of mobile and desktop users, and it shows peaks and troughs in engagement activity when you scrub through the clip. So you will be able to see, second by second, when users where engaged and where they drop off. This is going to be really valuable once we have access to it. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Snapchat’ launching ‘Spotlight Challenges’, which will provide cash prizes for users who post the best videos on a specific theme. Click here to learn more.

✔️After launching its new ‘Clips’ option in beta last week, which allows you to share 30-second audio clips from public rooms, Clubhouse has now expanded the option to all users on iOS, while it’s also launching another new sharing feature, in the form of room links for re-distribution outside of the app. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 10/8/2021:

• Bathtub Day

• Frappe Day

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October 6, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram has made it official, with the merging of its long-form IGTV offering into a more general ‘Instagram Video’ format, meaning the end of separate IGTV branding - and ideally, a more streamlined Instagram experience. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Instagram appears to be close to launching a live test of likes on Stories, providing an easy, quick way to engage with a Stories post, without having to clog up the creator’s inbox with reactions. Read the article here.

✔️Twitter has updated its Christmas marketing mini-site, which incorporates a range of case studies, tips, and insights to assist in your process. Twitters also running a new Christmas ads webinar on October 14th, where it will present new insights to further guide your strategy. The virtual event is free to attend, click here to RSVP.

✔️Twitter has announced that it’s removing its video live-stream guests option, which lets you add audio-only guests into your live-stream broadcasts. Learn more here.

HOLIDAYS 10/7/2021:

• Bathtub Day

• Frappe Day

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