October 20, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram’s looking to provide more data for marketers with an update to its Insights element for business and creator profiles, which will give you more specific info on who’s engaging with your content – whether they follow your profile or not – as well as the total reach of your posts. Learn more about Instagram’s new Insights updates here.

✔️Instagram has added a new way for you collaborate on feed posts and Reels, while it’s also adding some new music-focused, AR-aligned features to help encourage music engagement within the IG experience. Click here to learn more.

✔️Instagram announced that it’s adding image and video posting functionality from the desktop version of the platform as of October 21st, providing a more centralized way for social media managers to maintain their IG presence. Click here to read more.

✔️Instagram is testing two new options that would further integrate its various video functions, following the merger of IGTV into its broader Instagram Video offering. Learn more here.

✔️TikTok announced the launch of its inaugural ‘Discover List’, which highlights 50 of the most influential creators in the app, from various communities, and essentially provides a showcase of some of the top voices and trendsetters on the platform. Check out TikTok’s Discover List mini-site here as well as a full listing of the creators involved here.

HOLIDAYS : 10/21/2021

• Apple Day

• Get Smart About Credit Day

• Conflict Resolution Day

• Count Your Buttons Day

• Back to the Future Day

• Celebration of the Mind Day

• Conflict Resolution Day

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October 19, 2021

Updates:

✔️26 Predictions for social media marketing in 2022. Learn more here.

✔️Facebook started testing the new Quick Access tabs, which appear along the top of the Search panel, above your 'Recent Searches'. Learn more about this update here.

✔️ Facebook is taking its next steps towards becoming a ‘metaverse company’ with a new plan to hire 10,000 new staff to work on its metaverse project. Also important, these new staff will all be based in Europe. Read more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS : 10/20/2021

• International Chef Day

• International Sloth Day

• Information Overload Day

• Suspender’s Day

• Hagfish Day

• Office Chocolate Day

• Community Media Day

• Day of Unity

• National Day on Writing

• Medical Assistants Day

• Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day

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October 18, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Advertising Week is being held in New York this week, and Facebook will be taking part, with a range of sessions looking at various aspects of digital marketing, which you can tune into via Facebook’s dedicated Advertising Week mini-site. Learn more here.

✔️Facebook has shared some new insights into the latest Halloween trends based on Facebook Marketplace activity, including costumes, pet costumes, décor ideas and DIY inspiration. Click here to learn more about the update.

✔️ Pinterest shares new insights into emerging travel trends as people look beyond the pandemic. Read Pinterest’s full travel report here.

HOLIDAYS : 10/19/2021

• Evaluate Your Life Day

• International Gin and Tonic Day

• New Friends Day

• LGBT Center Awareness Day

• Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity

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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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