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Discover the latest news and updates about the popular social networking sites and find out ways to reach out to your target audience using the best social media marketing practices.

Facebook is helping advertisers in developing their holiday marketing strategies by coming up with new ad features in advance before the start of the season. Here is a summary of the new improvements which advertisers can utilize this holiday season.

New Overlays Specifically for Product Ads

Facebook is extending product ad overlays with new templates which are specifically designed for use in the holiday season. Now advertisers can utilize a Black Friday overlay for visual promotion of discounted products. Facebook states that there Black Friday and similar videos attracted more than 450 million views during Thanksgiving shopping weekend last year.

Facebook has updated its full-screen mobile ad type with new features. These “Canvas” ads have been renamed as “Instant Experience” ads. This ad type was launched in 2016 to offer an experience of immersive advertising which expands to fill the screen on being clicked. Apart from the new name, Google has also added a new template option, making it convenient for people to share their contact details with a business. Here is a summary of all templates which are now available while creating Instant Experience Ads-

Today Facebook has made its mark as an important social media platform to reach the masses. Every business and professional individual is partaking in this promotional stint to drive as many potential customers as possible. Keeping the trend in mind, Facebook has launched a set of tools to enhance the advertisement quality on its display.

Creativity is the key to a successful ad campaign, and video Ads and clippings are gaining pace as the new trend on social media. Keeping the trend in mind Facebook has developed a a framework to approach creating lightweight video ads from still image ads. To help put that approach into action, Facebook has built the new video creation tools that enables advertisers to convert existing images and text assets into mobile-first video ads with ease. These light weight videos are optimized for Facebook feeds and stories on Facebook and Instagram.

Facebook is executing new requirements for individuals who manage pages which have a large US-based audience. From now on, people managing these pages will have to undergo an authorization process before they can continue making posts. By doing so, Facebook intends to make it more difficult for individuals with a fake or compromised account to administer a page. Authorization will ask people managing such pages to secure their account with a two-factor authentification. They will also need to affirm their primary country location.

Pinterest is rolling out wide-format Promoted Videos for all advertisers through its self-serve Ads Manager tool. The ad units are four times larger than the normal videos on the app, spanning across Pinterest’s two column grid, and are available in 16:9 as well as 1:1 aspect ratios.

In May this year, Pinterest launched a beta test of the max-width Promoted videos to a number of brands like American Express, Adidas, Kohl’s, Tropicana, Paramount Pictures, and Chevrolet. Since then, it has collected data from a Millward Brown report which confirms that advertisers using wider videos are witnessing lifts in brand awareness and eagerness to purchase.

Facebook Upgrades Ad Manager App With Latest Creative Tools

Facebook has recently updated the Ads Manager app with a new range of creative tools, enabling advertisers to create ad content from their mobiles. Launched in 2015, the Ads Manager app is a mobile solution for developing and monitoring ads. Till now, image-based content for Facebook ads needed to be developed outside the Ads Manager app. Advertisers would then need to save the image on their mobiles and upload it on the Ads Manager.

Pinterest is making many changes to look of business profiles, including the addition of a monthly viewer statistic.This statistic will be visible to everybody and not only account administrators. The redesigned business profile includes a dynamic cover image, which allows brands to highlight the content which they want to show to people first.

Head of content and creator products David Temple stated in a blog post, “You can show your latest Pins,pick a specific board to spotlight or just focus on the most recent Pinterest activity from your site. Whatever option you pick, we’ll make sure the Pins in your cover image are always the latest and greatest.”

Pinterest is offering, more than 1 million businesses on its platform, refreshed profile pages. The company is aiming to provide brands with more control over the content which they highlight on the platform. A spokesperson says that the newly designed business profile pages shall include more customization options and also a monthly viewer count which shows the total number of people who have viewed the company’s pins during the past 30 days.

According to Pinterest, the monthly viewer will be directly displayed under a business’s name on its page offering businesses and people who glimpse the page a glimpse of how far their influence extends on the site. The new options for customization shall include a “dynamic” cover image, ability to showcase the company’s latest Pins, select a specific board for highlighting or displaying recent Pinterest activity.