LinkedIn Rolls Out Articles for Pages Microsoft-owned LinkedIn (client) has launched a new feature that gives pages the ability to share long-form content on the professional social platform, an addition that comes amidst an array of other new features including an enhanced LinkedIn Live Events experience for creating more robust virtual events, the company recently announced.
Adweek Instagram is Developing a New 'Montage' Feature to Convert Stories to Reels, New 'Favorites' Listing Facebook-owned Instagram has been testing a new option intended to make it easy for digital marketers to convert existing Instagram Stories content into brief Reels video clips, including automatically synced audio. New tool options for signaling favorite audience selections have also recently undergone testing on the platform — both changes that could eventually enhance how marketers use Instagram.
Social Media Today Study: Podcast Advertising Drives Sales 33 percent of podcast listeners say that podcast advertising is a good way for brands to reach them, a figure that climbs to 42 percent for the most frequent podcast listeners, while 32 percent of podcast listeners say that they have made purchases in the technology category, according to recently-released survey data.
MediaPost YouTube Adds Traffic & Revenue Data to Mobile Analytics Google's YouTube platform has rolled out additional analytics information that can now be found using YouTube’s Studio Mobile app, including monthly and transactional revenue reporting, along with a report showing the performance of various traffic sources, previously only available using the desktop-based dashboard, YouTube recently announced.
Search Engine Journal Reddit Launches New Updates for its Ad Platform, Including Bid Recommendations Social news aggregator and discussion platform Reddit has added several new features to its advertising creation program as it seeks to attract more brands, including upgraded editing capabilities, the addition of ad bidding recommendations, and better bulk ad editing features, Reddit recently announced.
Social Media Today Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding Online communications portal Discord has seen growth that has attracted an increasing number of brands, and $500 million of new financing has raised the value of Discord to some $15 billion, a figure twice that investors gave the firm in 2020 — growth that has spurred more business users and advertisers to explore the emerging platform.
BNN Bloomberg Twitter Expands Access to Professional Profiles and Ticketed Spaces With an expanded Professional Profiles test opening to more brands, Twitter has continued its initiative to provide businesses greater exposure on the platform, a move that has also now given more users access to Twitter's Ticketed Spaces — its Clubhouse-like voice conversation offering, the company recently announced.
Social Media Today Advertising Emerges As Fastest-Growing Source Of Recorded Music Revenues During the first half of 2021 advertising-supported on-demand audio streaming services saw a 54.3 percent increase in revenue over the same period in 2020, a jump that makes it the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. music industry, according to recently-released data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of interest to digital marketers.
MediaPost LinkedIn Launches 'Dark Mode' on Mobile and Desktop Increased accessibility, inclusivity, and reduced eye-strain-inducing blue light are among the aims for LinkedIn’s (client) new dark mode option, being rolled out to the professional platform's users — which numbered over 774 million according to the firm's latest publicly-released figures.
Social Media Today What Are B2B Marketers’ Biggest Challenges with Buyers? 63 percent of B2B marketers have said that understanding the changing needs and requirements of buyers was their top challenge, followed by 57 percent who saw finding the correct time to engage on the right channel their biggest challenge — two of several statistics of interest to online marketers in newly-released survey data.
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