During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

We conclude our #BestOf 2016 with the best fun articles of the year.

1. Unwind With This Hilarious Clickbait Generator

Developer & Designer Christine Cha created a very cool “tool” that generates (spoof) clickbaits, from randomly selected images, buzz words, controversial topics and celebrities names.

2. Get Your Top 9 Instagram Photos Of 2016

It was worldwide hit last year and it will be a hit this year again: 2016bestnine lets you find your Top 9 Instagram photos of 2016 and combine them instantly into a square collage.

3. Create Hilarious Puns To Share With Pun Generator

Pun Generator is a free online tool that — well — generates puns and as well as phrases containing a specific word, which can be useful to make rhymes for instance.

4. Meet Coby The Cat

We all know Grumpy Cat, but have you heard of the new rising start in the industry, Coby The Cat?

5. Play Chess On Facebook Messenger

If you like Easter Eggs, you are going to love this one: you can play Chess on Facebook Messenger. You just need a secret code…

Credit: TechNewsToday.com

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During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Today’s part of our #BestOf 2016 is dedicated to our Top 5 “tips” of the year.

1. Embed Twitter Timelines Without Coding Skills

Twitter introduced three new ways to embed Twitter timelines: two potentially reserved for developers — factory functions and the oEmbed API — and that does not require any coding skills: Twitter Publish.

2. Avoid Hashtags In Facebook Posts

The team at BuzzSumo analyzed one billion — 1,000,000,000 — posts and found out that Facebook posts including hashtags resulted in significantly less engagement.

3. Save Photos From Instagram With Instaport

Instaport is a simple way to download & save Instagram videos, pictures, and posts to your local hard drive.

4. Make The Most Of Facebook Pages To Watch

Pages to Watch is a powerful native Facebook native feature that allows you to get performances of other pages and benchmark these with your own. Of course, other brands and businesses can also watch your page, as long as you have more than 30 likes.

5. Make GIFs Even More Awesome With Giphy’s GIF Editor

Giphy’s GIF Editor is a great way to customize GIFs with stickers, effects and captions for your social channels.

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During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Our #BestOf 2016 goes on with a selection of our Top 5 “Long Reads” of the year:

1. On The Trap Of Optimizing Facebook Campaigns For CPM

SocialCode Director of Ad Insights James Donner explains why you should not aim for lower CPM, which factors really affect CPM and how you can really optimize the ROI of your campaigns.

2. Get A Social Media Manager’s View On SEO

Dennis Yu SEO teaches how SEO works and why social media managers should care about it.

3. The Facebook Supremacy

These two long reads highlight how powerful Facebook is and will become: one clearly shows why Facebook is king, while the other stresses out how Facebook has become a platform of platforms.

4. How People With Chronic Illness Use Social Media To Soothe Their Pain

Reporter Amanda Hess expresses a very refreshing perspective on social media and their curative potential: definitely a must read.

5. Learn How Artificial Intelligence Is Shaping The Future Of Work

More than a “conventional” long form article, this pick is actually an interactive documentary by The Economist on the potential and challenges of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

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During Winter Holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Keeping on with our #BestOf 2016, here are the Top 5 data articles of the year.

1. The Six Degrees Of Separation Are Shrinking

Each person in the world used to be connected to every other person by an average of five other people: now, this number is down to three and a half (at least among the 1.59 billion people active on Facebook).

2. Facebook Daily Post Frequency

Facebook daily post frequency increased by 36% in 2015, according to a significant study led by Quintly, whose team analyzed more than 180,000 brand pages between January and December of last year.

3. Percentage Of Paid Reach On Facebook

According to a study from April 2016, by Locowise, 32% of Facebook Pages’ total reach is actually paid reach.

4. One Minute Of Social Networks

For the fourth time, Domo published their amazing infographic showing how much data is generated every minute on the Internet.

5. Percentage Of Instagram Users Who Watch Videos

According to Global Web Index, 37% of Instagram users watch videos on the plaftorm.

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During Winter Holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 19-23, we’ll be taking a look back at 2016 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 26-30, we’ll take a little break and come back January 2, with lots of new and exciting things for you. Happy Holidays! The Loomly Team.

Let’s start this #BestOf with our Top 5 tools of the year.

1. Printerest

Printerest is a free Chrome extension that lets you print your Pinterest pins:

2. Compressor

Compressor is a free online service that help you reduce drastically the size of an image or a photo, whilst maintaining a high quality with almost no difference before and after compression.

3. Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark is a free online tool that makes it incredibly easy to create impactful social media visuals (as well as other forms of graphics).

4. Adobe Color CC (Formerly Adobe Kuler)

Adobe Color CC is a free online platform that allows you to build color combinations according to seven different color rules — Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Compound, Shades and of course Custom — or from an existing picture.

5. Giphy Catpure

Giphy Capture is a small, simple and free Mac app that lets you create GIFs by capturing what’s on your screen, from web pages, to workflows and videos.

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