#Newsfeed: Instagram adds video masks to Live option; Ed Sheeran smashes Drake’s record for the most-streamed song on Spotify; Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app
Plus how to get the most benefit from Facebook’s analytics update.
Facebook analytics can be confusing at the best of times, and with the recent introduction of a new analytics dashboard, things are probably more confusing than ever before. Thankfully Salesforce has compiled a helpful infographic to guide you through it all, so that you’re prepared for when it becomes available for your page. Facebook Analytics enables marketers to see people’s interactions with their company, and is divided into two sections – ‘People’ and ‘Activity’ – in order to provide important insights into how to optimise the customer journey.
Read more about this new dashboard here.
Read more about the revealing stats here.
Instagram’s adding their Snapchat-esque virtual masks to Instagram Live, giving users another creative option when broadcasting within the app. To use face filters in live video, tap the face icon in the bottom right corner before or during your broadcast. Tap any filter to check out a new look, and play around with as many as you’d like. You can also try on the new sunglasses face filter — available exclusively in live video for the next week — and tap to change the scenery reflected in your lenses. When your broadcast has ended you can share a replay to Stories, or choose “Discard” and your live video will disappear from the app as usual.
Read more about this new feature here.
Ed Sheeran‘s ‘Shape Of You’ has surpassed Drake‘s ‘One Dance’ as Spotify’s most-streamed song ever. ‘Shape Of You’, which was released on January 6 this year, has now clocked up 1,318,420,396 streams, according to newly-published figures. This huge number exceeds the total amount of streams of ‘One Dance’ (which came out on April 5, 2016), which currently has 1,317,143,742 plays.
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