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In the ever-evolving land of Facebook, the latest change that some newsrooms are dealing with is the switch to Facebook’s New Pages Experience. It’s not available for all Facebook Pages <yet>, and you might still be on the Classic Page – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing! So, what should you expect when it’s your…
The Social Rankings app, powered by Social News Desk, is beloved by newsrooms across the country. This FREE app aggregates social media content and data from every single DMA in the United States — ranking newsrooms and market talent according to their daily social engagement. Within a market, you can see how each newsroom is…
Like mullets and tie-dye, email newsletters have made a comeback from the 90s in a big way. But unlike mullets and tie-dye, a winning strategy for your newsroom’s newsletters is really important! Your email subscribers give you a database of first-party data, help generate ad revenue, help generate membership and subscription revenue, and provide a…
The future is now for TV Newsrooms looking to diversify revenue streams and acquire new digital audience. While newspapers have in many ways gotten a head start here, television stations in local markets are starting to lean into new ways to boost engagement and ultimately create revenue online. For WDIV-TV in Detroit, MI, this means…
Social News Desk is the first social publishing platform to offer Twitter Carousels for organic Twitter posts. Twitter Carousels allow you to use up to 6 different links with customized headlines, and up to 6 different photos or videos in a single Tweet. Ready to try it? Read below to learn how or watch the…
Twitter has just launched ‘Carousels’ for organic tweets and its available to all news publishers via Social News Desk’s leading-edge publishing tool: SND Dashboard. The new capability is representative of a philosophical shift at Twitter… as the company looks for ways to build out more engaging content-experiences for its users. And for newsrooms, this signals…
Building new audience isn’t just about selling magazines for The New Republic – an unambiguously left-leaning national political magazine with a robust history going back more than 100 years to its founding in 1914. The 21st century version of the magazine is looking to newsletters and podcasts to round out its reach. And the magazine’s…
Social News Desk is now seeking a full-time Paid Social Specialist to be a member of our new SND Promotions department. This is a hands-on role and is ideal for someone who loves to build and optimize successful social ads. The ideal candidate will have experience in paid social media. Applicants should have created, executed…
It’s true, Q4 comes with candles, cookies and holiday cheer … but the one gift we’d all like to return is that inevitable increase in cost per result we see in digital advertising this time of year. There are a few reasons for it: It’s the holiday season, which means advertisers are introducing an influx…
Most Instagram users have gotten used to the necessary (yet annoying) step of clicking your IG profile bio to get to the link for a post. It’s just life on Insta. But you don’t have to spend YOUR whole life uploading those links to your link in bio solution. SND just made it a whole…