YouTube Upgrades Community Posts Google has often tried and failed to launch a social network, could they actually manage it as part of YouTube? Community posts are social media-style posts, which according to YouTube “…connect you to your audience outside of video uploads”. YouTube just announced upgrades to community posts, available to a small group […]

LinkedIn scheduling LinkedIn is finally rolling out its inbuilt scheduling for profiles. But it’s not perfect. One of the reasons social media managers have wanted native scheduling is that third-party tools aren’t able to schedule polls or carousel (PDF) posts. The new scheduling feature does allow carousels but you can’t schedule polls. It’s also not […]

Video Podcasting on Spotify Nearly one in five Americans listen to podcasts, which is huge. But what about watching podcasts? Do people do that? Spotify thinks so. It’s rolling out video podcasting to all regions that support its podcasting platform Anchor.  This is a clear swipe at YouTube which is often considered the home of […]

Double Verification on Twitter Verification on Twitter used to be a badge of honour and legitimacy. For businesses and public figures, it proved that you were the real deal, not someone pretending to be you. But with Elon Musk’s new Twitter offering verification to anyone who pays $8 a month that legitimacy is lost. Some […]

New LinkedIn Stickers for tagging I’m sure there’s a whole bunch of old-school LinkedIn users who are hating the new ‘hip’ updates that we’ve seen appear in the last year. Maybe Stories were a mistake but now we’re seeing story-like features appear in posts. This includes ‘Link Stickers’ which you can add to any image […]

Twitter Pro Dashboard I’ve been waiting for a good reason to get a Twitter Professional account. Could this be it? Now if you have a pro account on Twitter you will get access to a new dashboard to show you how you are doing. Twitter claims “Our new dashboard gives pros around the globe the […]