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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 Rolls Out Interactive Live Broadcast Map: Facebook introduced an "interactive map that shows you [public Facebook Live] streams that you can tune into in real-time" from all over the world and "who's watching the video you've selected." The Next Web reports that this new feature "has been around for the past month, but it's now easier to

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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
Amazon Targets YouTube With Video Upload Service: Amazon debuted a new video upload service that allows users to "post videos to its website and earn money from advertising, royalties and other sources, putting the company in more direct competition with Google's YouTube." Bloomberg reports that content creators can upload original or licensed videos

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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
Periscope Beta Testing Full Archives of Live Video: Periscope is testing a new feature that will make it "easier to save your streams indefinitely."

Twitter Introduces New Connect Tab on Mobile: Twitter rolled out a new Connect tab on mobile where users can find "a detailed list of people and accounts [Twitter thinks] you'll enjoy following, all

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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 Now Serves 10 Billion Daily Video Views: "Now users are watching 10 billion videos a day on the application, up from 8 billion in February."

YouTube Introduces 6-Second Bumper Ads That Can't Be Skipped: YouTube launched Bumper ads, "a new six-second video format... [that is] ideal for driving incremental reach and frequency, especially on

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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 Introduces New Features for Purchasing and Planning Mobile Video Ads: Facebook introduced "new features to make it easy for advertisers to plan and purchase ads on Facebook in ways that align to how they have traditionally bought television ads." These new features are also available for Instagram video ads.

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