#Newsfeed: Ads Manager now accepts animated GIFs; Spotify and The New York Times team up; Katy Perry drops disco balls around the world
Plus find out the big names helping to launch a new vinyl subscription service.
- You Can Now Add Animated GIFs to Facebook Ads [via Social Media Today]
- Empowering People to Help One Another Within Safety Check [via FB Newsroom]
- U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren gets 6M+ Facebook Live views after being silenced by Republicans [via TechCrunch]
- North Queensland scientists use Twitter for global meet and greet [via ABC News]
- Meet the Man Designing Fashion Shows for the Instagram Generation [via Observer]
- Spotify and the New York Times launch an intriguing digital deal [via Mashable]
- Spotify now offers playlists tuned to the weather [via Mashable]
- Elton John, Quincy Jones, George Clinton Among Curators of New Experience Vinyl Subscription Service: Exclusive [via Billboard]
- Katy Perry Premieres New Song “Chained to the Rhythm” Via Disco Balls Around the World [via Pitchfork]
- Gudinski on Hanging Rock with Ed Sheeran [via Radio Today]
- Pinterest adds visual search for elements in images and through your camera [via TechCrunch]
- Google figured out how to turn pixelated images into high-res ones [via Mashable]
- The 7 Most Creative Uses of 360 Video by Brands [via Hubspot Blog]
- Netflix hoping to sell you merch based on its hit shows [via Mashable]
The future is now people – Facebook is officially rolling out GIFs in ads. While it was originally spotted by AdWeek a few days ago, Social Media Today has tested the new functionality in Ads Manager. That’s not the only update for Ads Manager either – they’ve also added a new date comparison tool and budget/reach graph.
See what the test GIF ad looks like for yourself here.
Can you name a scientist who is alive? That was the challenge laid down via a hashtag on Twitter recently, and some of Australia’s own answered the call. “[There] is an international community of scientists, which is what #actuallivingscientist kind of showed,” North Queensland associate professor at the ARC Centre of Coral Reef Studies Tracy Ainsworth told ABC News. “There are people all over the world making connections with each other and learning new things and trying to do new research that can contribute.”
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Fashion shows have come a long way, but it’s the Instagram age that is shaping the production of runways today. Speaking to lifestyle publication Observer, fashion show producer Thierry Dreyfus explained that social media influences his design choices these days. “People have a better experience when they have different images,” he said. “It seems like each image was a whole different show in the same moment.”
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The New York Times and Spotify have struck a deal to create one of the newest and most intriguing bundles in modern media, offering anyone who purchases a one-year subscription to the news publication access to Spotify’s premium music streaming service also. The partnership makes sense though, with the two companies both facing the same struggle – convincing people to consistently pay for their services, despite free alternatives being readily available.
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While other social media platforms have occupied the news recently, Pinterest has slowly and quietly been updating the platform to provide a unique user experience. Today, it announced the launch of three new products that will point out specific elements in pictures — whether viewed live through a camera or through a typical image search — and use them as a jumping point for search.
Read more about this story here.
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