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Brain Typing & Skin Hearing: Everything You Need to Know About Facebook's 2017 F8 Conference

Hubspot

Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has been the leader of social media innovation and change. We've seen Facebook change the way we talk, text, share, and connect around the world. Today, Facebook is no longer an option for marketers. Globally, almost 2 billion people use Facebook, and more than 1 billion people use Messenger.

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The Marketer's Guide to Facebook Live [Free Guide]

Hubspot

At a conference in June, a Facebook VP said that in five years time the platform would be "all video." And one of the biggest drivers behind the growing prevalence of video is Facebook Live, which only was introduced in April of this year, but has since become a major distribution channel for both publishers and brands.

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Why Marketers Are Embracing Live Videos

Biznology

That desire has been incited by popular social media platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook, which have introduced new functions for video broadcast. And, make no mistake, brands have noticed this opportunity, especially since live videos on Facebook are on autoplay. Land Rover.

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April Social Media News: AR on Facebook, Ads on Snapchat & More

Hubspot

Just like last month, Facebook and Instagram continued to compete with Snap Inc. 1) Facebook announced new AR, VR, and AI initiatives at F8 2017. Source: Facebook. With almost no mention of Facebook Instant Articles, publishers, or Pages, it's clear that Facebook is doubling down on high-tech visual content.

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Top 3 marketing use cases for the B2B metaverse

Martech

Meta (Facebook). Meta (Facebook). I predict that there will be some new announcements about Microsoft Mesh this October during their flagship developer conference, Ignite , and I can’t wait! Enterprise travel budgets have never been tighter, and justifying an in-person conference experience has become more challenging.

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Is Facebook Messenger the New Email? 3 Experiments to Find Out

Hubspot

Facebook Messenger boasts 1.2 Here are three ways we’ve experimented with using Facebook Messenger instead of email in our marketing, along with early results (Spoiler: Get excited). #1: 1: Using Facebook Messenger as a Content Delivery Channel. 2: Getting Event Attendees to Participate Through Facebook Messenger.

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7 Ways Brands Take Advantage of Facebook Stories

Sprout Social

Facebook Stories is just one of the latest ways to delight your customers with visual content. Facebook brought Stories to the market after the format achieved phenomenal success on Snapchat. Facebook supports 2.23 Just 14 months after launching, Facebook had 150 million active users per day for Stories.