November 11, 2021

Updates:

✔️If you are a Facebook advertiser, get ready to have a lot more targeting options disappear. Click here to learn more.

✔️Instagram is testing a new user wellbeing option called ‘Take a Break’, which will let you set reminders to take some time away from the app after a certain period of activity – either 10-, 20- or 30-minutes. Learn more about this update here.

✔️YouTube has announced that it’s making a change to the way dislikes are displayed on videos, with the dislike count to be made private, in order to limit misuse of the option. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/12/2021:

• Happy Hour day

• Fancy Rat & Mouse Day

• Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day

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November 10, 2021

Updates:

✔️This week, the business marketing team from Meta is hosting a range of video sessions which will feature internal experts offering advice and guidance to help you get your processes in line, and get the most out of the season. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter has announced the first expansion of its Twitter Blue paid subscription offering, with users in the US and New Zealand now able to sign-up, in addition to those in Australia and Canada, while it’s also added more elements to the Blue program to entice more paying tweet customers into the fold. Read here to learn more.

✔️Pinterest is looking to help guide your holiday shopping with some new insights into rising gift trends on the platform, which includes fashion, beauty and gadget searches that are gaining traction in the app. Read Pinterest’s full gift trends overview here.

HOLIDAYS 11/11/2021:

• Origami Day

• Sundae Day

• Social Enterprise Day

• Singles Day

• National Metal Day

• Veterans Day

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November 9, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram has provided some quick tips to help you engage with your audience in the app. Learn more here.

✔️Twitter is rolling out its updated visual customization and editing tools to more users. Click here to learn more about this update.

✔️TikTok has published a new guide to help marketers maximize their holiday campaigns, which outlines key insights into usage trends, critical dates for planning, ad tips, seasonal templates and more. Download TikTok’s 16-page holiday guide here.

✔️Clubhouse has officially launched its new Replays feature, which will provide another way to utilize your Clubhouse chats, and get more value out of your audio sessions. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/10/2021:

• Sesame Street Day

• Top Up Day

• Area Code Day

• Forget-Me-Not Day

• Vanilla Cupcake Day

• Marine Corps Birtthday

• Accounting Day

• World Science Day for Peace and Development

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November 8, 2021

Updates:

✔️With Facebook – or Meta as its parent brand is now known - gradually expanding its catalog of physical products, it makes sense that the company would also be considering physical stores as well, as a means to better showcase its next-level hardware designs. Learn more here.

✔️Twitter continues to build out its audio Spaces offering, this time with the addition of a new way to expand your Spaces audience, even among people who don’t have a Twitter profile. Click here to learn more.

HOLIDAYS:

• World Freedom Day

• Go to An Art Museum Day

• Chaos Never Dies Day

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November 5, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook is hosting its 2021 Communities Summit, where it brings together group admins from across the platform to help them connect, share insights, and learn about upcoming features to help improve group engagement. Learn more here.

✔️Twitter has expanded the rollout of its on-profile search option, which lets you conduct a keyword search of tweets from a specific user, direct from your profile page. Click here to learn more.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

HOLIDAYS:

Saturday is

• Nachos Day

• Saxophone Day

• TeamManagerDay

• PlayOutsideDay

Sunday is

• Daylight Saving Day

• Daylight Saving Ends

• Zero Tasking Day

• Hug a Bear Day

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November 4, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Facebook – now Meta - is still not happy with Apple, and its insistence on taking a 30% cut of fan subscriptions, along with any other in-app purchase. Click here to learn more about this update.

✔️Instagram has announced that IG posts shared in tweets will appear with preview cards once again, helping to improve cross-platform sharing. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Clubhouse is taking the next steps to maximize its audience appeal by adding support for more local languages, opening the door for a broader subset of users, and increased usage options within the app. Learn more here.

HOLIDAYS 11/5/2021:

• Love Your Red Hair Day

• Love Your Lawyer Day

• Fountain Pen

• American Football Day

• Redhead Day

• Jersey Day

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November 3, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Facebook has announced that it’s shutting down its facial recognition program, and that it will also delete all of its facial recognition files, meaning that it’ll no longer be able to identify people in posted images. Learn more about this update here.

✔️ Instagram will host a range of shopping-based broadcasts over the final two months of the year, including weekly interactive live-streams, starting this week. Learn more here.

✔️TikTok is looking to help more brands take the leap into TikTok content creation with a new set of detailed, step-by-step guides on how to create some of the most common, engaging video types on the platform. Click here to read TikTok’s full content overview guide.

HOLIDAYS 11/4/2021:

• Use Your Common Sense Day

• Men Make Dinner Day

• Project Management Day

• Candy Day

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November 2, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook has partnered with several high profile TikTok creators to put a more light-hearted, trending spin on their corporate re-branding effort. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Facebook launched two new certificate courses that can help, with the first focusing on advanced marketing analytics, and the second looking at AR creation and development, helping to advance your skills in these rising areas of demand. Hearn more about Facebook’s various certificate courses here.

✔️Instagram has launched a new ‘Add Yours’ sticker for Stories, which enables users to prompt others to respond to their Stories content, in order to create more engaging reply threads to Stories posts. Click here to learn more.

✔️Pinterest is looking to lean into the rising live-stream commerce trend, which has already gained huge traction in China, with its own series of live shopping events, via a new initiative called ‘Pinterest TV’. Read more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/3/2021:

• Stress Awareness Day

• Sandwich Day

• Smart Home Day

• Housewife’s Day 

• Cliche Day

• Jellyfish Day

• Homemaker Day

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