Facebook rolls out new shopping features, including Shops in Groups, product recommendations in the News Feed, and a test of Live Shopping for Creators
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch :
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed
Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
Facebook is internally testing a tabbed version of News Feed for mobile that includes the Most Relevant, Most Recent, and Already Seen feeds
Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped …
Facebook is testing augmented reality ads from a select group of partners in the News Feed
Facebook is giving advertisers new ways to show off their products, including with augmented reality. — At its F8 developer conference earlier this year, Facebook announced that it was working …
Facebook adds a Keyword Snooze button to the News Feed which hides posts containing exact words or phrases for 30 days so users can avoid spoilers
Ever read a spoiler online before you've watched the last episode of the season? Or maybe you waited years for a movie sequel only to have your favorite blogger reveal the ending?
Facebook testing Marketplace ads in the US that let users promote their listings in the News Feed
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Facebook is rolling out job ads to 40 more countries; businesses can post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Facebook Marketplace, and the News Feed
LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 …
Facebook confirms it will stop subsidies for Facebook Live publishers, encouraging them to use mid-roll ads, and says pre-roll ads are coming to Watch
Everyone's least favorite ads are coming to Facebook, but pre-rolls are only coming to original Watch tab videos you purposefully view and not to the News Feed.
Facebook confirms it's testing Stories on desktop, with a wider rollout expected soon
Great news, folks. Facebook Stories, the shameless Snapchat clone that sits above the News Feed on Facebook's mobile app, is now rolling out to Facebook's desktop site.
Sources: Facebook is working on Collections, a feature to showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed
Alex Heath / Business Insider :