#BestOf — Enjoy Our Top 3 “Fun” Articles Of 2017

During holidays, we are doing things a bit differently. December 18-22, we’ll be taking a look back at 2017 and share our best articles of the year with you again, one category a day. December 25-29, 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 2017 with the best fun articles of the year.

1. Create Hilarious, Custom Merch With Bitmoji Swag

Bitmoji Swag is an online service allowing you to custom print your Bitmoji on cool pieces of merch, and the process is dead simple! Read more here.

2. Check Whether You Will Have A Robot Boss Anytime Soon

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) progresses, voices are raising about technology taking up human jobs: but don’t worry, if you want to check whether you will have a robot boss anytime soon, WillRobotBeMyBoss.com has you covered! Just type in your job title and discover your odds of ending up working for a bot. Learn more here.

3. Get The Best Of Twitter Printed On Beautiful Photobooks

140books is a collection of beautifully designed photobooks featuring the best tweets from celebrities of all horizons, from politics to entertainment & business, including: President Donald J. Trump, Kanye West & Paul Graham. Read our original story here.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our fun section.

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#BestOf — Check Our Top 3 “Resources” Articles Of 2017

Today’s part of our #BestOf 2017 is dedicated to our Top 3 “resources” of the year, and the least we can is that Facebook has been dominating this category!

1. Get All Facebook Video Requirements In This Cheat Sheet

Here is Facebook’s official, visual reference guide providing all criteria for videos aimed at Newsfeed, Instant Articles, Instagram, Stories, et Audience Network, including specs in terms of: aspect ratio, video length, objectives, caption support & sound requirement.

2.Learn How Facebook News Feed Works

If you want to learn how Facebook News Feed works, then the best way is probably to watch this video by Facebook themselves:

If the video does not appear in your browser, click here to watch it on Facebook.

3. Discover Growth Opportunities With The New Facebook IQ

Facebook IQ is Facebook’s research department and shares insights drawn from the platform’s two billion users’ activity & behavior: in order to make these insights even more accessible, Facebook launched earlier this year a new version of the portal.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our resources section.

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#BestOf — Discover Our Top 3 “Long Reads” Articles Of 2017

Our #BestOf 2017 goes on with a selection of our Top 3 “Long Reads” of the year:

1. Explore Fred Cavazza’s 2017 Social Media Landscape

Fred Cavazza published the first version of his Social Media Landscape back in 2008. Here is the 2017 edition.

2. Make Creative Use Of Social Media

Two inspiring long reads including ideas to make creative use of social media, with 12 innovative digital formats and a proper way of misusing Facebook’s Ads Manager tool.

3. Acknowledge These Positive Social Media Evolutions

It’s no secret that change is hard, be it within a company, an industry or platforms used by millions — or even billions — of people: that being said, change is also good, and we want to feature today some positive social media evolutions.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our long reads section.

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#BestOf — Browse Our Top 3 “Data” Articles Of 2017

Keeping on with our #BestOf 2017, here are the Top 3 data articles of the year.

1. What Happens In One Internet Minute In 2017

Just like every year now, Excelacom sums up what the Internet does in 60 seconds with its famous What happens in an Internet Minute infographic, 2017 edition: check it out here.

2.Facebook Hits The 2 Billion Users Mark

On June 27, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit the 2 billion users mark (no pun intended). This number basically means that almost 1 in 3 persons on the planet is a Facebook user. Read more here.

3. Browse The 2017 World Map Of Social Networks

Since 2009, Vincenzo Cosenza has been publishing a world map of social networks every year, as a mean to visualize which platform is the most popular in each country. Here is the 2017 version:

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our data section.

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#BestOf — Read Our Top 3 “Tools” Articles Of 2017

Let’s start this #BestOf with our Top 3 tools of the year.

1. Plotagraph

Plotagraph is an incredible online tool that lets you animate static photographs and create hypnotic visual effects for your audience:

2. Linklay

Linklay helps your audience go faster from picture to purchase — literally, to checkout — by helping you create beautiful clickable images.

3. Solo

Solo is a 100% free mobile app that combines over 10 different financial & business tools so you can hustle from anywhere.

If you enjoyed this selection, you can find similar articles in our Tools section, as well as more social media management software reviews at FitSmallBusiness.com.

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#Update — Manage All Your Assets Inside Your Brand-New Content Library

We’ve been a little more quiet than usual lately, as we have been working on some big surprises for you all, the first of which is this major update, bringing a brand-new Content Library to your favorite social media tool.

You can access your Content Library from both the List View & the Calendar View via the Library icon in your Toolbar.

Inside your Content Library, you can:

Upload photos & videos to be used later when creating new posts.
Edit new and existing files metadata, for instance renaming assets per your internal conventions.
Delete assets you no longer need.
Apply changes to multiple files with bulk actions.

Of course, you can select any file — and even multiple files — in your Content Library and create a post from there:

Conversely, you can access your Content Library from Post Builder and simply select a file — or multiple files — on the fly when creating a new post:

Oh, and one more thing: all the files you have ever used in all of your Loomly posts since Day 1 have automatically been saved into your Content Library, ready to use again.

This brand-new Content Library is already available to all Loomly users: check it out now!

Once again, this feature was inspired by your amazing feedback and developed thanks to your outstanding support: thank you so much to you all.

We are immensely grateful to be able to build Loomly for you every day and we are happy to report that we have some pretty sweet surprises coming your way real soon: stay tuned.

The Loomly Team.

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#Data — (Huge) Number of Instagram Business Profiles

Impressive growth: up from 15 million back in July, there are now more than 25 million active Instagram business profiles.

Yes, that’s a 67% increase in less than 4 months!

As TechCrunch puts it:

The company throws out a lot of different statistics (back in September it said it had 800 million monthly active users, 500 million daily active users and 2 million advertisers), but this one’s significant as a measure of how many businesses see Instagram as an important way to connect with customers. Instagram also says that more than 80 percent of Instagram accounts follow a business, with 200 million users visiting a business profile every day.

Credit: Instagram

Instagram business profiles do offer advanced features for brands & businesses.

In fast, if you are eligible to a business profile and have not converted your “regular” profile yet, we highly encourage you to do so…

Something tells us a major, upcoming Loomly update will let you do more with your favorite scheduler if you do have an Instagram business profile: stay tuned!

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#Tip — Hack Advertising With Spacewolff, The Ad Marketplace

Let’s kick off this week with a pretty cool advertising hack: Spacewolff, the ultimate ad marketplace.

Think of it as the “Airbnb of advertising”:

Spacewolff is an online marketplace connecting advertisers and owners of ad space. Small and large businesses, individuals, publishers, and content creators can create and sell space across multiple channels. Advertisers can easily search and sort ad space to identify channels that reach their specific target market and place ads directly through the site.

What’s (particularly) brilliant about Spacewolff is the type of ad placements available: from people’s balconies to someone’s arm tatoo, apartment elevators and frontyards, almost nothing if off limit!

And, of course, you can even place ads on Spacewolff’s homepage & blog as well as in their emails.

What’s in it for Social Media Managers: a unique way to amplify social campaigns with other, creative online & offline efforts.

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