#Newsfeed: Facebook tests ad breaks in all types of videos; How to use Instagram albums without losing all your followers; Spotify announces three new original podcasts about the music industry
Plus how a YouTube livestream of pregnant giraffe got pulled for nudity.
- Facebook tests ad breaks in all types of videos, giving creators a 55% cut [via TechCrunch]
- Facebook has 200 new flag frames and is still way behind Snapchat [via Mashable]
- Twitter, PBS team up to stream Trump’s address to Congress [via CNET]
- Behind the anonymous Twitter account that took down Milo Yiannopoulos [via Business Insider]
- Do you Finstagram? The new way teens are using Instagram in private [via Digital Trends]
- How to use Instagram albums without losing all your followers [via Mashable]
- 9 Very Important Ways to Use Instagram’s New Album Feature [via NY Mag]
- YouTube livestream of pregnant giraffe briefly pulled for nudity and sexually explicit content [via Mashable]
- Spotify announces three new original podcasts about the music industry [via The Verge]
- Beloved Sydney Venue Could Face Live Music Ban Following Noise Complaint At 7pm On A Saturday [via Music Feeds]
- Universal posts record revenues for 2016 – as streaming overtakes physical sales [via Music Business Worldwide]
- Sony Music artists won more than two-thirds of this year’s BRIT Awards [via Music Business Worldwide]
- Brit Awards 2017: See the Full Winners List [via Billboard]
- Could Snapchat’s quirky spectacles kiosks be heading overseas? [via Digital Trends]
- What Consumers Really Want From Your Video Content (Infographic) [via Hubspot Blog]
- Organic Reach on Social Media is Declining—Here’s What to Do About It [via Hootsuite]
- SocialRank Realtime helps marketers get more proactive on social media [via TechCrunch]
- TRENDING: #TonyAbbott, #AndrewBogut, #NeilMitchell
Facebook has begun testing ad breaks that interrupt on-demand video, using a small set of partners who will earn 55 percent of ad revenue share. On-demand video publishers will get to select where in their video they want to insert an ad break, but it must be at least 20 seconds in and at least 2 minutes apart.
See a screenshot from one of the ad breaks here.
Twitter will once again partner with PBS NewsHour to live-stream President Donald Trump’s upcoming address to a joint session of Congress. The stream comes after the social network and PBS teamed up to air Trump’s inauguration, which Twitter said attracted a record 6.82 million people.
Read more about this story here.
The pressure of perfection on Instagram is leading some users to take on a double life on the platform. The rise of the “Finstagram” (aka fake Instagram, or “Finsta”) among teens in particular is a growing trends, which sees users creating these secondary profiles to share posts that don’t fit the strict, self-imposed, parameters applied to their main account.
Read more about this growing trend here.
Yesterday’s BRIT Awards were just as surprising for the record labels as they were for the artists themselves. Sony Music acts picked up seven trophies out of a possible 11 on the night, as Universal Music took home three gongs – and Warner Music left empty-handed.
Read more about the results here.
Spotify is expanding its podcast selection, with the announcement that it’s adding three new original podcast series focused on the music industry. The podcasts will feature discussions about musical moments on TV, daily interviews with people in the creative industry, and the life of music industry exec Chris Lighty.
Read the official post from Spotify here.
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