60 Second Social 27/03/2017

March 27, 2017

The prime suspect in #60SecondSocial this week is LinkedIn. The Sales Navigator has been beefed up with an enterprise plan, CRM syncing, and PointDrive integration, tapping into its user base of more than 465 million professionals.

We haven’t forgotten about Instagram, who introduced two-factor authentication & Facebook who have designed yet another ad format, with the intention of helping marketers drive discovery in mobile.

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