Keep up to date with social platforms.
The social media landscape is always evolving. It seems like there’s a new feature or different version or a new rule every week. It can be difficult for anyone to keep up with what’s hot and what’s not on social platforms. Here are a couple recent headlines to get you up to date (plus a free tool to help you easily resize images for social media):
The Facebook button is disappearing from websites as consumers demand better privacy
Source: CNBC
Many sites offer the ability to log in using your Facebook credentials to avoid creating a new username and password. Many well-known companies (like Dell, Ford, and Nike) are removing that option over growing concerns for data security and privacy. Keep an eye out for this data privacy trend to continue. Dive deeper into Digital Ethics by reading one of our recent blogs.
Instagram is reportedly removing its shopping page amid a move to drive more direct ad revenue
Source: Business Insider
Due to “shifts in company priorities” Instagram is planning to remove the platform’s Shopping page. Instagram is testing a ‘Tab Lite’ version of its shopping page which is reported to be a less personalized version.
Meta is planning more paid features for Facebook and Instagram
Source: The Verge
Because Meta’s ads business has greatly diminished due to Apple’s ad tracking changes on iOS, it is building paid features across its main social apps; Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. These three apps boast billions of users. The plan is to build new products, features, and experiences that people are willing to pay for – this does not include the ability to turn off ads.
Easily resize images for your social media
Source: Promo.com
Finally, here’s a great tool to help you easily resize images for social media. With this tool from Promo, here are just a few of the images you can resize:
- Stories
- Ads
- Posts
- Cover photos
- Event pages
- Profile pics
- Stories
- Vertical horizontal and square posts
- Video thumbnails
- Ads
- Reels
YouTube
- Profile pics
- Banner Image
- Thumbnail
- Ads
- Logo
- Banner
- Ads
- Profile pics
- Cover photos
- Blog, square and portrait posts