Welcome to a new issue of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave. The social media giants put fake news in their crosshairs ahead of the 2020 U.S. Census and elections, and new features abound!
IGTV Hopes You’ll Do More If You’re Paid
Instagram is finally proposing monetization of IGTV! To encourage creators to generate higher quality content, the Instagram Partner Program would allow them to earn ad money, with a model similar to Facebook Watch.
Get ready to monetize: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/06/igtv-ads/
Facebook Has That Thing You Wanted
Want to know about price drops, back in stocks, and other ecommerce alerts? Facebook has launched One Time Notification API Messenger, allowing businesses to send a follow-up message to users who have requested to be notified. Merchants can set a variety of notifications- visitors opt in themselves.
Learn more about this new API here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/facebook-adds-one-time-notification-api-to-messenger-for-business/571725/
New Video Trimming Tool For Instagram
Instagram continues to up its game against video content rivals with a potential video trimming tool for Stories. The new feature would allow users to cut and edit videos directly on the platform, speeding up the process of editing and uploading videos to stories.
Want all the details? Click here: https://marketingland.com/social-shorts-instagram-tests-new-stories-trimming-tool-whatsapp-hits-2b-users-pinterest-to-verify-merchants-276108
Twitter Fights Census Misinformation
In order to make it easier for users to find information from reliable and verified sources, Twitter is working on further measures to detect and eliminate misinformation related to the 2020 US Census. Twitter has promised collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau to determine effective measures to reduce misleading information about the survey. Twitter also plans to activate its election integrity policy for this event.
Learn more about Twitter’s measures against misinformation here: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitter-outlines-measures-to-detect-and-remove-misinformation-relating-to-t/572125/
Facebook Partners With Reuters For Fact Checking
As the US presidential elections approach, Reuters has formed an alliance with Facebook to verify the authenticity of photos, videos, news, headlines that are published on the platform. This does not mean that all published content will be directly checked; Reuters’ team will focus specifically on Facebook’s US audience.
The objective of this partnership is to offer Facebook Reuter’s understanding of key fact-checking principles.
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And it’s the end of a week full of great (verified) news and new features. We hope to see you in another edition of Marketing Updates With Motion Ave.