Social Media News: December 2018

If there's one thing that is constant about social media, it's that it is ever changing. Some of your favorite social media platforms rolled out big changes during the last month of 2018. Here are the highlights of what you should know:

-Youtube Adds Stories to its Platform: Youtube has launched Reels, its own take on short-form videos. You can read more about this new feature here.

-Instagram Adds a Countdown Sticker for Stories: And just in time for the New Year too! If you didn’t see this sticker in use during New Year’s Eve, it does what you’d expect it to: allows you to add a sticker counting down to a specific date and time to your Instagram story.

And while this isn’t an update per se, there was a great article posted on Social Media Examiner’s website recently where ten top marketers made their predictions for the changes we’ll see in social media marketing in 2019. Click here to read.

What do you think of these changes? Which one are you most excited to try out? Let me know in the comments below!