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! April 28-May 2, 2014
- Facebook Unveils New Mobile Ad Network: Audience Network, the new ad network was created to make it easier for mobile developers to pick the best ad formats for their apps.
- Facebook Launches Business Manager: Working with Spark to manage your Facebook marketing efforts will soon be seamless with its new Business Manager, designed to help businesses and agencies manage their Facebook page(s), apps and ads all from one tool.
- Facebook Has New Login Features: Users will soon be able to control exactly which permissions they grant to apps and will even have the option to log in anonymously.
Snapchat
- Snapchat Launches Real-time Chat Feature: Snapchat is adding a real-time text and video messaging feature that, of course in keeping with tradition, automatically deletes when the users exit the chat session.
Vine
- Vine Launches Its Own Mini Version of YouTube: Vine has created a website that functions as a six-second YouTube, where anyone browsing the web can go to watch and search for videos.
YouTube
- YouTube Announces New Intro Clip Feature: Channel managers can now upload a 3-second intro clip that will play before all of their channels’ videos.
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