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Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

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Welcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources all about social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

This week Instagram Updates Logo and Its Fan Lose It Once Again. Entrepreneur reported that after Instagram changed its logo to a more basic and symbolic look, people were a bit unhappy. According to the company, they wanted to showcase the fact that Instagram is now a global phenomenon that includes everyone. Every time a logo evolves, users tend to get upset, but people eventually get used to it and don’t even remember what they were so upset about.

YouTube In-App Messaging Coming to IOS and Android so you can chat and share videos with no additional help from any other platform. Digital Trends reported that YouTube is working to move towards changing its platform into a community where people can connect with each other through messaging. Also, by keeping everything in-house, YouTube can keep people engaging with their site longer as they don’t have to go elsewhere to share video content.

Watch out YouTube because Amazon is looking to compete with you on another front! Bloomberg News reported that Amazon Targets YouTube with New Online Video Posting Service and is now allowing the public to post videos, and receive money from ads and royalties. Amazon stated that they are looking for “professional video producers” but that definition is pretty loose since all that is needed is HD video and closed captioning in order to post a video. These producers can sell or rent their content, run it with ads, receive royalties tied to streaming numbers or subscriptions, or get additional money if they have one of the 100 most viewed videos. It will be interesting to find out if Amazon is a match for YouTube.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.

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Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday-2Welcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources that deal with social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

You keep hearing about Snapchat and how it’s making waves in social media. However, maybe you could still use some inspiration in order to dive into the platform and make your own waves. Inc. posted this 25 Snapchat Influencers Who Are Doing It Right to fill that very need!

If you thought Facebook was content with just being the most popular social media platform, think again. This Gizmodo video of Mark Zuckerberg laying out the company’s 10 year plans at the recent F8 conference is both interesting and really, really cool.

While there has been a lot of new Facebook changes lately, Instagram is sliding in under the radar with a new feature as well. Instagram’s website actually becomes useful with new notification tab is keeping the site in the news on pages like Mashable.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.

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Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday- Social Media News You Can Use

Top Three Thursday- Social Media News You Can UseWelcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources that deal with social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Visual content is where online marketing and social media is headed. An article by Sprout Social compares the viability of two giant, visual content apps – Instagram vs. Snapchat: Who Rules the Visual Content World? Check out all the interesting statistics about these two companies.

Since the innovation of Twitter, hashtags have pretty much been a free-for-all. Throw a pound sign in front of it and use it. Now corporations are beginning to trademark their own hashtags. MarketWatch covers the phenomenon in Here’s One More Way the Corporate World is Trying to Infiltrate Social Media.

Have you been doing social media the same way for a while now? Does everything you do work? Do you have some Social Media Marketing Habits You Should Break NOW? The Top Rank Marketing Blog has developed a list of seven habits you need to break right away.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.