Links, Live, Mentions, Boomerang All Now On Instagram

Good news for Instagram users who’ve been experiencing Snapchat envy, the former photo sharing platform is now making links, live streams, tags, and boomerang accessible within its Stories feature, something which will be of great benefit to artists in the coming year. _______________________ Guest post by Jenn Schwartz on The…

BandPage Promises New Features For YouTube Creators In 2017

Even as BandPage is shutting down tools and features that many musicians and music marketers had come to reply on, it is promising that new discovery and D2F features for YouTube creators will be rolled out in 2017. __________________________________ "Since we joined YouTube in February, we’ve been developing some brand…

BandPage To Discontinue Key Features As Service Folds Into YouTube

BandPage is discontinuing many of its most used features as of March 1st. BandPage has served as a cornerstone of many artist’s web and Facebook presence since it launched in 2009. But when Google’s YouTube purchased the company in February of this year, major change became inevitable. _____________________________ As of…

Instagram Has 600 Million Active Users, Growing Faster Than Ever

In recent weeks, we’ve written a lot about how Instagram is becoming the best way to reach music fans and shared how to grow your following there. The news that Instagram has 600 million active users and rapid growth confirms that a strong presence on the social network is more…

Twitter Adds Live Video Broadcasts

Twitter has just announced that all users can create and Tweet live video from the Twitter app "powered by Periscope". The specifics of the move calls into question the future of Twitter’s Periscope app. ___________________________ Much like Facebook and Instagram, Twitter has added the ability to broadcast live video. To…

Instagram Launches Live Video Broadcasts, Facebook Adds Live 360

Earlier this year Mark Zuckerberg pledged that video, particularly livem would become that linchpin of Facebook and now he’s expanded his aspirations to include Facebook owned Instagram. ________________________________ Last month Instagram said it would be adding live video broadcasts, and yesterday it made the feature available to all accounts. You…