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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
YouTube Brings Live Streaming to Mobile: YouTube will be "bringing the power of live video to creators everywhere" with the launch of live streaming on its mobile app. Mobile live streaming on YouTube "will have all the features your regular videos have - you'll be able to search for them, find them through recommendations and playlists and protect

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
New Targeting Tools Make Pinterest Ads More Effective: Pinterest added three new targeting options to let marketers and businesses target the delivery of promoted pins by combining their own business data with the data Pinterest collects on its users. The new targeting options include customer list retargeting, website visitor retargeting, and

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Snapchat Updates Stories and Discover Pages: "The Discover page now features a Pinterest-style mason grid of tiles, while the Stories page now combines the two rows of static Discover channels and Live Stories into one scrollable row of non-friend content." TechCrunch reports that this recent update makes "professionally made and community-curated

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Instagram Announces New Business Tools: Instagram unveiled new business profiles, which feature a Contact button, access to insights, and the ability to turn well-performing posts into ads from within the Instagram app. According to the Instagram for Business blog, these new business tools will "make growing a business on Instagram that much easier."

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Enables Continuous Live Video Support and Geogating: "Facebook will now allow non-stop, long-form broadcasting." TechCrunch reports that the only tradeoff for the Continuous Live Video API is that "unlike [the] normal Facebook Live stream, there's no option to let people replay the stream later or rewind to earlier." Facebook also rolled out

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