Welcome to the Social Media Roundup, our weekly roundup of the latest social media news, controversies, and new features. Stay tuned each week to find out what’s hot in the social world.
New This Week! November 10-November 14, 2014
- Facebook ‘Say Thanks’ Videos Turn Your Friendships Into Movies: In honour of American Thanksgiving, and to leverage the success of last year’s Look Back videos, Facebook has created the new Say Thanks video project, allowing users to send personalized video cards to their friends and family. Check it out here.
- Facebook Just Made It Super Easy To Kick Junk Out Of Your News Feed: Is your Facebook News Feed clogged up with posts from friends and pages you don’t care to see? Facebook’s new Manage News Feed update now allows users to follow or unfollow updates from people, pages, or groups.’
*Note: this feature does not appear to be available to all users yet
Google+
- Google+ Makes It Easier To See Your Mentions: Checking notifications is so 2013. When accessing Google+ from a desktop, users can now see all page or personal profile mentions through a new Mentions tab.
- You Can Finally Edit Your Instagram Captions And Locations From Within The App: Do you have fast fingers and lots of typos? Or are you a victim of autocorrect? You can now avoid those pesky spelling mistakes in your Instagram posts with Instagram’s new edit feature for captions.
- Facebook Launches Instagram Ads In Canada: Monday marked the official launch of Instagram ads in Canada! The kickoff features ad campaigns from Air Canada, Hudson’s Bay, Mercedes-Benz, Sport Chek, Target and Travel Alberta.
Snapchat
- Snapchat Discussing New Ad Type That’s Similar To Live TV: Snapchat’s proposed move into the ad world allegedly involves utilizing their live-events Our Story product. The timeline for this potential ad model is unknown.
Are you looking forward to seeing ads from Instagram and Snapchat?
