The Top 5 Social Media News Of This Week

Week after week, Facebook is making the news. This week was not different. Between the announcement that Facebook will now start sharing ad revenue with creators and its new secret video sharing, it seems clear Facebook is fighting for top spot.

Facebook will now start sharing ad revenue with video creators.

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Still, Instagram manage to grab a bit of headline with its new swappable filters, already available on the updated Android version. Android before iOS, that was a first. For the rest, check out our social media confessions, you will most definitely recognise yourself in them.

So are you ready for this week’s Top 5 trending news on We are Social Media?

	It Now Only Takes A Swipe To Make The Perfect Instagram – Instagram is rolling out version 7.3 of its app on Android and according to Droid Life, the update is bringing a new “edit” screen that condenses all edit and sharing features in one, including on-image swipeable filters!
	Confessions Of A Social Media Manager – Being a social media manager sounds like a dream come true. Scrolling through Facebook and Twitter all day? Yes, please! I love my job and it is such a pleasure to be able to provide quality social media management to my clients.
	For Your Eyes Only: Facebook Launches Secret Videos – The new tools include a feature that allow Pages to post secret videos, as well as a very handy Video Library that helps admins manager their video content. Secret videos only ever show up in the Video Library and are only viewable by those that have the right URL.
	Facebook Is Ready To Share Video Ads Revenue – We have learned that Facebook is (finally) about to start sharing video ad revenues with video creators. In other words, “share awesome content on our platform and you will get a share of the money we make out of it.”
	You Can Now Promote Your CTA Button On Facebook Remember that call-to-action button Facebook rolled out a few months back? Well it seems like Facebook is now letting us pay to promote this CTA button and reach more users on their Newsfeed.