Meta Announces 'Recurring Notifications' for Business Messaging, a Significant Shift in its Platform Approach
Meta Announces ‘Recurring Notifications’ for Business Messaging, a Significant Shift in its Platform Approach

This is an unusual switch up in Meta’s business messaging rules. This week, at its first-ever ‘Conversations’ messaging conference, Meta announced ‘Recurring Notifications’ on its Messenger Platform, which will enable businesses to send ‘proactive, automated messages, to people who have

Branded Search vs. Non-Branded Search: What's the Difference?
Branded Search vs. Non-Branded Search: What’s the Difference?

Most SEO advice talks about optimizing for keywords that don’t mention your brand because that is how you can attract complete strangers to your business. But what about search queries that do mention your brand? In other words, what about attracting

Meta Adds Updated Congressional District Data to Location Targeting Options for Ads
Meta Adds Updated Congressional District Data to Location Targeting Options for Ads

Meta has announced an update to its US location targeting options for ads, with US congressional districts, as defined by the 2020 census, to be added as additional geo-targeting options. As explained by Meta: “Starting May 19, 2022, an additional

What is Search Intent? | Seer Interactive
What is Search Intent? | Seer Interactive

Search intent (otherwise known as user intent, audience intent, or query intent) is the purpose of a person’s search. It is the intent behind or reason they typed specific terms into a search engine. When people type something into a

What It Is & How It Works
What It Is & How It Works

Canonicalization is the process that search engines use to determine the main version of a page. That is the page that will be indexed and shown to users. The chosen version is canonical, and ranking signals like links will consolidate

TikTok Tests New Mini-Games with Users in Vietnam
TikTok Tests New Mini-Games with Users in Vietnam

Gaming is arguably the most influential element of online culture, and as such, it makes sense for TikTok to lean into gaming where it can, as it looks to maximize its appeal among younger audiences. Already offering game streaming options,

Twitter Launches New Promotional Campaign for Spaces and Live Audio Chats
Twitter Launches New Promotional Campaign for Spaces and Live Audio Chats

While the audio social hype cycle has died down significantly, Twitter is determined to continue pushing Spaces as a key connection tool, in an effort to make it a bigger part of the Twitter experience. The latest on this front

Instagram's Testing a New Stories UI Which Could Have Big Implications for Your Content Strategy
Instagram’s Testing a New Stories UI Which Could Have Big Implications for Your Content Strategy

This is not going to please marketers that have made Instagram Stories a priority. Over the past few weeks, Instagram has been testing a new Stories presentation UI that essentially hides Stories posts after a certain frame count. As you

YouTube Rolls Out Activity Graph to All Videos, Ups the Maximum Price of Channel Memberships
YouTube Rolls Out Activity Graph to All Videos, Ups the Maximum Price of Channel Memberships

YouTube’s rolling out a new video activity graph to all videos, which will display the most engaged moments within each upload, based on when users are replaying segments. Initially previewed last October, and launched to selected creators, the graph will

YouTube Announces Weekly Ad Frequency Capping, New Live-Stream Commerce Upgrades
YouTube Announces Weekly Ad Frequency Capping, New Live-Stream Commerce Upgrades

YouTube has announced the addition of weekly frequency capping for video ad campaigns, as well as a coming live-stream shopping upgrade, as part of its Brandcast presentation for Upfronts week. The main element for general advertisers is frequency capping, which