YouTube Video Builder
- Create 6 or 15 second video from images text and logos
- Can’t download or use elsewhere
- Making it easier for people to get into ads
- Sign up for Beta: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/videobuilderbeta/
https://www.blog.google/products/ads/youtube-video-builder/
YouTube chapters
- Break a show into named sections
- When you hover over scrub bar title comes up
- Give your chapters timestamps and names
- Makes it easier for people to watch the bit they want
- Also assist Google search?
Extended muting in Facebook groups
- Previously only a week
- Now can do 14 or 28 days
- Useful to cool down conversations particularly at this time
- Easy to get sucked into multiple threads about same thing and tempers are raging
- Avoid muting at random. Give rules and warnings.
Instagram Live Stream View On Desktop
- Was hinted at a couple of weeks ago by Instagram guy
- At last, reach more desk bound people
- Easier for the fat fingered to comment
- Easier to read and respond to comments for creators
- Instagram is no longer a mobile platform
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-live-streams-can-now-be-viewed-on-the-web/575949/
Facebook templates for business during the crisis
- Downloadable posts
- Categorised by ‘Place Orders’ ‘Shop online’ ‘Get support’ ‘Sell Gift Cards’ ‘Express gratitude’
- Not Facebook ad friendly though
- Facebook again showing themselves as helpful during the crisis
- How can we do this as businesses?
https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/stay-connected-through-disruptions
Facebook quiet time
- Schedule or switch on and off as needed
- Stops notifications
- Great for social media managers and marketers who get distracted by notifications during working hours
https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/stay-connected-through-disruptions
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