Here’s what we covered on today’s This Week in Digital Marketing:

• Important new Pew data on Social Media usage

Facebook
• Time-spent is dropping like a rock (!)
• More music now legally available to use — organically
• How to get your Facebook show added to “Watch”
• What’s with this Animated Text?
• Don’t fall for this potentially dangerous scam

Instagram
• Moving back to Chronological timeline?!
• Clever Macy’s influencer campaign
• Testing “Focus” photography

Twitter
• Teasing at more subscription-based ad products
• Verification badge coming to everyone

Snapchat
• Here we go again. Another celebrity pissed off at Snapchat
• Will Apple buy Snapchat?

Hootsuite to embark on a buying spree

• App of the Week: Parcel (track all your inbound shipments easily)

• Tool of the Week: Photolemur (instantly improve images you have)

56 Comments

Michael Sponhour on March 16, 2018 at 11:02 am

hello
Michael Sponhour on March 16, 2018 at 11:02 am

Yep good audio
Emily Spohr Anderson on March 16, 2018 at 11:03 am

god i hope so…
Kathleen Flaherty on March 16, 2018 at 11:03 am

lots of voice distortion
Kathleen Flaherty on March 16, 2018 at 11:04 am

yes, it does help
Don Genova on March 16, 2018 at 11:04 am

Quieter is better. Hi Tod!
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:06 am

Brainiac
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:08 am

I hear constantly in my newsfeed that people are tired of the repetitive posts the algorithm shows from their friends and them not seeing enough of brand pages.
Tanya Whipple on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

is it frozen?
Tanya Whipple on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

I can’t hear anything and my screen is not changing
Michael Sponhour on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

I am seeing FB groups pop up like crazy
Brianna Fee on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

Not frozen for me
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

everything is fine for me
Christine Chepyha on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

cool in victoria
Michael Sponhour on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

seems ok to me
James Buchan on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

works for me
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

Nope.
engageQ on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

It’s good here!
Kathleen Flaherty on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

fine for me
Tanya Whipple on March 16, 2018 at 11:09 am

I had to close and re-join
Don Genova on March 16, 2018 at 11:10 am

Froze briefly a couple of times but fine now.
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:10 am

I can hear.
Nancy Smith on March 16, 2018 at 11:10 am

Fine
Andrew McGivern on March 16, 2018 at 11:10 am

It is working for me.
James Buchan on March 16, 2018 at 11:10 am

Hola!
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:10 am

When are you live again. Randy winter asked.
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:13 am

Pizzeria Funeral Home ?
engageQ on March 16, 2018 at 11:13 am

Moneca Yardley Every Friday at 12 PST. There’s a reminder set up on the page.
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:15 am

Yes, seen that a while
Jocelyn Kabatoff on March 16, 2018 at 11:15 am

Hee. They’ve been doing that for some time. xo
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:16 am

BFF You’re The Best You Got this Congratulations ans xoxo all animated
Nancy Smith on March 16, 2018 at 11:16 am

I am not as offended ?
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:19 am

Live at sfu. His next event.
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:19 am

Developer / Hacker /
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:19 am

SFU events are on hold right now
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:20 am

Rats. So glad I got to the two I went to. Yahoo.
engageQ on March 16, 2018 at 11:22 am

bit.ly/macysig
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:24 am

Twitter ads are terrible
Emily Spohr Anderson on March 16, 2018 at 11:25 am

no wonder I get so many weird ads on twitter that aren’t relevant to me…
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:30 am

If snap chats gets organized on their ad management and innovate it will be fine
Thomas Cagley Jr on March 16, 2018 at 11:30 am

Ha ha
Kathleen Flaherty on March 16, 2018 at 11:30 am

appchat
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:31 am

Hootsuite should reinvest in their own platform
Trevor Martin on March 16, 2018 at 11:31 am

?
engageQ on March 16, 2018 at 11:32 am

?? http://todmaffin.com/hootsuite ?
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:36 am

I got nothing today
Don Genova on March 16, 2018 at 11:36 am

Good stuff as always, Tod!
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:36 am

Great show
Moneca Yardley on March 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

You are addictive. Lol.
Jocelyn Kabatoff on March 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

HI JMAF!
Albert Lee Down on March 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

Nice
Pamela Dale on March 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

so amazing!
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

I am from BC . What are your thoughts on Linked in. Do you get a lot of business from it
Trevor Martin on March 16, 2018 at 11:37 am

Thanks Tod!
Pamela Dale on March 16, 2018 at 11:38 am

I absolutely love these… I schedule you in… everyone else I catch the reply…
Jane Stewart on March 16, 2018 at 11:39 am

Thank you . Have a good weekend. Love this every week !