“Not gonna lie. This f*cking sucks. This is the last HQ ever!” yelled host Matt Richards . And it just got crazier from there.The farewell game of HQ Trivia before it shut down last night was a beautiful disaster. The hosts cursed, sprayed champagne, threatened to defecate
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore Instagram’s upcoming monetization program for IGTV and updated tools
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/ads-coming-to-igtv-what-it-means-for-marketers-and-creators/" align="left"]HQ Trivia is dead. Today the company laid off its full staff of 25 and will cease operation of its trivia, sports and word guessing games, a source close to the company confirmed. HQ Trivia had a deal in the works to be acquired, but the buyer
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/hq-trivia-shuts-down-after-acquisition-falls-through/" align="left"]Instagram is changing its advertising rules to require political campaigns’ sponsored posts from influencers to use its Branded Content Ads tool that adds a disclosure label of “Paid Partnership with.” The change comes after the Bloomberg presidential campaign paid meme-makers to post screenshots that showed him asking
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Do you want to connect more often with your YouTube subscribers without releasing a full video? Are you taking advantage of YouTube’s Stories and Community tab features? To explore how to use YouTube Stories and the YouTube Community tab, I interview Evan Carmichael on the Social Media
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/youtube-stories-success-tips-from-a-top-youtuber/" align="left"]Instagram users who miss the reverse chronological feed might get a new way to see the most recent pics and videos from who they follow. Instagram has been spotted internally prototyping a “Latest Posts” feature. It appears as a pop-up over the main feed and brings users
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/instagram-prototypes-latest-posts-feature/" align="left"]Facebook is adding another app to its group of experimental projects from the NPE Team, an initiative it announced last year focused on rapidly trying out new ideas in social to see how users react. This week, the team released its fourth app experiment with the launch
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/facebooks-latest-experiment-is-hobbi-an-app-to-document-your-personal-projects/" align="left"]Tinder is testing a series of new social features designed to boost conversations between users on its service. One of the new features is a conversational prompt, first teased during parent company Match Group’s recent earnings. The prompt encourages users to respond to questions or finish a
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/tinder-tests-new-social-features-including-prompts-and-a-share-to-matches-option/" align="left"]Facebook has been left red-faced after being forced to call off the launch date of its dating service in Europe because it failed to give its lead EU data regulator enough advanced warning — including failing to demonstrate it had performed a legally required assessment of privacy
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://www.carolynclarkdfw.com/facebook-dating-launch-blocked-in-europe-after-it-fails-to-show-privacy-workings/" align="left"]Undisclosed influencer marketing posts on social media should trigger financial penalties, according to a statement released today by the Federal Trade Commission’s Rohit Chopra. The FTC has voted 5-0 to approve a Federal Register notice calling for public comments on questions related to whether The Endorsement Guides
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