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Social Media

The latest Social Media news from our blog

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Instagram to start removing likes on certain accounts

A few weeks ago, Instagram announced that it was going to start removing likes on certain accounts in attempts to “depressurize” the app. Some people (like Nicki Minaj) say they’ll stop posting to Instagram if likes go away, and Instagram users had mixed feelings.

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Social Media Templates for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

These are template files – for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign – for the most common social media platforms for profiles, covers, banners, posts, and backgrounds. We’re sharing these templates, that we use to produce client social media posts and social media branding, as they can really make life easier.

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Instagram is killing-off its Following tab

Instagram is removing its Following tab, a feature which became better known as a stalking tool rather than its purpose to aid with new account discovery.

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Social Media
Tom Furmanski

Guiding twitter users from a public Tweet to a private conversation

Find out how to create a link that will allow you to direct people from a public Tweet into a (private conversation) Direct Message. Twitter will turn that simple URL into a link with a clear call to action that guides a user straight into composing a new Direct Message.

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Social Media
Tom Furmanski

You can no longer turn off “Related Videos” when embedding a video from YouTube

According to their official statement, YouTube feels “Titles, channel information, and related videos are an important part of YouTube’s core user experience, and these changes help to make the YouTube viewing experience consistent across different platforms”.

So, YouTube considers related videos an important part of their core experience and that enabling related videos on embedded clips maintains “consistency”.