The Week in Social
Welcome to ‘The Week in Social’ our team sharing the top stories for you every week on the latest trends, updates and insights in the social-first world! Stories shared by the 1000heads team.
WEEKLY READING LIST 🤓
INSTAGRAM TO FOCUS ON IMAGES
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says that the platform has gone too hard on pushing videos and will look to make photos a focus once again in 2023.
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YOUTUBE SHORTS LOCATION TAGS
YouTube is rolling out a new ‘Location’ field in the Shorts upload process, which will make it easier for users to add locations to their Shorts clips.
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META’S NEW RIGHTS MANAGER
Meta is launching a Rights Manager website to help educate people on copyright infringement and protect lawful expression on Facebook and Instagram.
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TWITTER BLUE AD FREE
Twitter will roll out a new “higher priced” Blue subscription that doesn’t show ads on the platform, unlike the $8 one with only 50% fewer ads.
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YOUTUBE’S STUDY HALL
YouTube’s new ‘Study Hall’ is looking to help more people get into college, via a new program will enable YouTube users to earn college credits via in-app courses.
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INSTAGRAM QUIET MODE
Instagram’s adding a ‘Quiet Mode’, which will switch off all notifications, add a ‘Quiet Mode’ notifier to your profile status, and implement an auto-responder on your DMs.
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INSTAGRAM’S DYNAMIC PROFILE IMAGE
Instagram has launched Dynamic Profile images that allow users to have both their avatar and regular picture, enabling users to flip between them.
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META’S NEW ENCRYPTED CHAT UPDATE
Meta has added a customisation feature to their end-to-end encrypted chats, incorporating themes, custom emojis, reactions, and group profile photos.
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