In this month’s Social Media News Show, Andy Lambert from ContentCal tells us about the latest updates of social and digital trends.
Our monthly Social Media News Show is broadcast live on the last Tuesday of each month on Joanne’s LinkedIn profile, into our Facebook Group, and on our YouTube Channel. Hosted in collaboration with Andy Lambert from ContentCal we explore the developments on the social media landscape to ensure you are kept up to date!
Main takeaways from this month’s show
Platform feature comparison

Purpose of the Global 100

Hubspot Survey of 1,500 Marketers

Hubspot Survey of 1,500 Marketers

Hubspot Survey of 1,500 Marketers

Instagram Platform Overlap

LinkedIn Platform Overlap

Twitter Platform Overlap

Organic Engagement Performance

Facebook vs. Instagram Engagement

Facebook paid Reach Decreases

Instagram Organic Benchmarks

Instagram Organic Benchmarks

TikTok user growth

What’s new in

Reels is coming to Facebook

Facebook is becoming a Metaverse…
…but video now accounts for 50% of the time spent on Facebook and Instagram Reels is the ‘strongest contributor of engagement growth’.
Facebook launch Campaign Ideas Generator

What’s new in
Swipe up links will be no more…

IG Reels can now Last 60 Seconds

Sponsored listings comes to the ‘Shop’ tab

Instagram Reveals how the Discovery of Reels Content Works

What’s new in

Twitter Rolls out New Sharing Options for Spaces

Twitter goes Shopping

What’s new in
LinkedIn Acquire Jumprope

Reviews Comes to LinkedIn

LinkedIn Launches New Courses

What’s new in

TikTok launches Stories

TikTok launches new ‘Shop’ tab

TikTok Rolls Out Live Moderation Tools

TikTok impacts Purchasing Behaviour

TikTok want More Small Businesses

TikTok Announces New Partnerships with Vimeo and Canva to Streamline Content Creation
What’s new in

Pinterest Idea Pin Product Tagging

Pinterest loses 24 million Users

What’s new in

YouTube Launches Automated Video Chapters

YouTube will pay up to $10,000 for Shorts content

What’s new in

Snapchat launches ‘Snapchat Trends’

What’s new in

Clubhouse Adds New User Role and Active Usage Increases

Trends and Themes
• > Social performance metrics are shifting but strategies are not following suit
• > TikTok’s growth continues despite slight correction in usage trends
• > Expect to see continual downtrends of IG Feed performance in the wake of Reels
• > A ‘new dawn’ of social is coming…We’ll call it the ‘creator effect’ driven by
ownership, specialisation and monetisation














