Facebook announced new partnerships with global publishers that allow them to reach over 1 billion people through Facebook's Audience Network. Pinterest announced an update to their ad structure to be similar to Facebook's. Instagram announced bringing insights and ads to Instagram stories and testing messenger ads in Australia and Thailand. LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter also announced updates to their platforms, while Facebook will weigh video completion rates more for longer videos.

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SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS & UPDATES
JANUARY 2017 RECAP
JAN 25
Facebook announced that they
have established partnerships
with new global publishers. With
these new publishers, now over
1 billion people can be reached
through Facebook’s Audience
Network.
Facebook introduced the
Facebook Journalism Project
JAN 17
Pinterest announced that they
are rolling out an update on the
Pinterest Ad structure, similar
to the one of Facebook.
JAN 11
Instagram announced that they
are bringing Insights and Ads
to Instagram Stories
Facebook announced that they
are testing the placement of
ads on Messanger for a small
group of publishers in Australian
and Thailand.
Pinterest announced that they
will start applying deep
learning to identify related
pins.
JAN 19
LinkedIn announced a new
desktop redesign.
YouTube announced a new
section in the Trending tab,
dedicated to discover up-and-
coming creators and artists on
YouTube.
Instagram announced that Live
Stories are now available
globally.l
YouTube introduced a new
“Super Chat” tool to help
creators and fans to connect
easily during live streams.
JAN 24
Twitter announced “Explore”. A
tab that will contain all best
trending topics, moments, live
video and search.
JAN 26
To avoid penalizing longer
videos, Facebook algorithm to
start weighting percent
completions more heavily the
longer a video is, because
completing a longer video is a
bigger commitment than
completing a shorter one
JAN 31
Facebook announced that they
are increasing their efforts to
show more authentic and
timely stories on people’s News
Feeds.
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