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We’re bringing you six of the month’s top social updates, including TikTok’s Search Ads Campaigns, two new ad types from Snapchat and Pinterest’s 2024 Halloween report.

What KFC and Ryanair teaches brands about being self-aware

Self-awareness is a hugely effective creative play that’s worked absolute wonders for the likes of Ryanair and KFC. But if the idea of letting your audience, not your internal team, decide who you are scares you, let us break it down.

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We’re bringing you six of the month’s top social updates, including a very familiar update for YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn’s push for more vertical video content, and TikTok’s decision to let you edit videos after posting.

How to transform your approach to transparency

Being an authentic brand starts with transparency. Transparency comes from understanding your brand and your audience. But how do you do it? Find out our top tips in our brand new white paper Forget Real: Why Brands Should Aim Higher Than Authentic on Social.

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We’re bringing you six of the month’s top social updates, including X’s lawsuit against ad safety nonprofit Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), Instagram’s analytics changes that put views front and centre, and a much-requested TikTok feature.

How to ace accountability on social

To truly live your brand values, you need to hold yourself accountable for your actions – because if you don’t, your audience will. Find out our top tips on how to do it in our brand new white paper Forget Real: Why Brands Should Aim Higher Than Authentic on Social.

Aim higher than authentic with our all-new white paper

Everywhere we look, brands are told to “be authentic”. But the true meaning of the word has become hard to find. In SocialChain’s latest white paper, we unpack the word “authentic” and give brands actionable ways to achieve real, tangible change on social.

10 takeaways for accessible social content with RNIB  

The RNIB logo, which reads: “RNIB: See differently”, plus images of a man being guided while using a white cane; a man looking down while using a tablet device; a woman looking off to her left while holding a mobile to her ear, a pink cane in her other hand; and a woman outside the front door of a building holding a cane.

Thanks to RNIB’s social media officer Holly Duke and social media content manager Helen Dutson, we’ve put together some takeaways from their SocialMinds podcast episode. Here’s how to not only make your content accessible, but find more creative and rewarding work in the process. 

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1. Virtual influencers have arrived on TikTok   @tiktoknewsroom Introducing TikTok Symphony: our new Creative AI suite that blends human imagination with AI-powered efficiency to help marketers scale content development, creativity, and productivity on TikTok. ♬ original sound – TikTok Newsroom The story:  So what?  We’re well and truly in the age of AI influencers, […]