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Twitter has just launched ‘Carousels’ for organic tweets and its available to all news publishers via Social News Desk’s leading-edge publishing tool: SND Dashboard. The new capability is representative of a philosophical shift at Twitter… as the company looks for ways to build out more engaging content-experiences for its users. And for newsrooms, this signals…
Building new audience isn’t just about selling magazines for The New Republic – an unambiguously left-leaning national political magazine with a robust history going back more than 100 years to its founding in 1914. The 21st century version of the magazine is looking to newsletters and podcasts to round out its reach. And the magazine’s…
Social News Desk is now seeking a full-time Paid Social Specialist to be a member of our new SND Promotions department. This is a hands-on role and is ideal for someone who loves to build and optimize successful social ads. The ideal candidate will have experience in paid social media. Applicants should have created, executed…
It’s true, Q4 comes with candles, cookies and holiday cheer … but the one gift we’d all like to return is that inevitable increase in cost per result we see in digital advertising this time of year. There are a few reasons for it: It’s the holiday season, which means advertisers are introducing an influx…
Most Instagram users have gotten used to the necessary (yet annoying) step of clicking your IG profile bio to get to the link for a post. It’s just life on Insta. But you don’t have to spend YOUR whole life uploading those links to your link in bio solution. SND just made it a whole…
Many publishers, in the interest of faster-loading site speeds for mobile users, have implemented Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) technology. This allows them to quickly create lightweight versions of articles that load faster than traditional websites. Twitter announced that starting today (Oct. 27), they are discontinuing support for Google AMP, and will no longer automatically…
Facebook’s algorithm has always been opaque when it comes to what types of content are demoted in the News Feed. That’s why their release of Content Distribution Guidelines is such a big deal – we’re now getting a more clear understanding of how the type of content you post to Facebook will impact that content’s…
One of the most requested features in Social News Desk has been Organic Post Preview – and we’re pleased to announce that it’s now LIVE for all Dashboard users! Not only can you get a peek at what your Facebook post will look like, but Organic Preview also supports Twitter and Instagram. Organic Preview is…
Need to post the same content across multiple properties, markets and pages? Don’t want to spend all day doing it? Maximize your efficiency through Social News Desk’s Syndication abilities. We give you the ability to post the same story or link or video across as many markets as you need to at one time. And…
We’ll admit…we ask a lot of our Test Drive Team members. ‘Please run our new features through the paces, give us brutal feedback and then blog about it.‘ End result? A better product for you. Doug Rogers from Lilly Broadcasting was kind of enough to share his experience with SND Planner – our new hybrid…