Social Snapshot – 27.04.2022

April 27, 2022

Take a look at the latest happenings in the world of social media with this week’s social snapshot👇🏻

Instagram is testing ‘templates’ for Reels

Instagram is trying out a new way to help users create more engaging Reels, with templates, which creators can follow and replace clips with their own.

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Elon Musk buys Twitter

If you hadn’t heard the news already, where have you been!? Twitter’s board met at the weekend to vote on accepting Elon Musk’s $44b takeover offer.

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LinkedIn adds new options for profiles & mobile editing

LinkedIn has released a bunch of new features, including a showcase link on your profile, video trimming on mobile, and analytics for group posts.

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Meta Adds New Creative Tools to Spark AR Studio

Meta has added new creative tools within its Spark AR Studio, which includes more audio options, new depth mapping features, plus improvements in access and controls for occlusions.

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Latest Posts

It’s been a while since AI really took off on social networks. On LinkedIn, it’s been a mixed bag – and we don’t see AI as all bad, but we do see the limitations. If you’re doing paid or doing one-click content/responses…we advise you to read on. Firstly, some stats…

Community isn’t a channel, it’s how your social actually works Over the last few weeks I have lost count of how many marketers have said some version of this to me: “We’re thinking about community for 2026.” Often it comes with a hopeful look, as if community will magically fix…

A few weeks ago we wrote about Instagram testing a brand-new way to help creators grow their audiences, and it centres around Early Access Reels. This new feature lets creators publish a Reel that only their followers can watch for a set period of time. Anyone who…