There are guides for recommended Facebook Page cover images all over the internet but accurate (and up-to-date) recommendations on GROUP image sizes are hard to come by.
The traditional Facebook Page cover images (we call this the "letterbox size") is 820 x 312 pixels. On these designers need to be careful where text is placed on the image because it will often be cropped on mobile or have Facebook-imposed text sitting on top of it.
Facebook GROUP cover images are different again. Fac...
How and why a Facebook Group might be the answer to your reach problem
I've lost count of the number of times Carlton and I have said to people over the last year that if you're not paying for reach on Facebook you're wasting your time.
I'm astonished by the number of organisations that are still doing Facebook marketing like it's 2009.
It's not just that reach is so much more challenging than before, engagement is more elusive too. Where previously people were merrily liking your conte...
The eagle eyed Carlton spotted a new Facebook feature today. If you look carefully in the post below you'll see a little loud speaker icon and the suggestion to "Notify a few friends about this post":
Here's the sequence of what happens when you click "Get Started":
Of course he decided to test it out with me so sent off the notification:
He's then told that I will get a notification:
And I duly received a little pop up about the post (which I managed not to screen grab!)...
All Facebook videos that are shorter than 30 seconds long now loop continuously, according to a pre-announcement emailed to Facebook Marketing Partners on 23rd May, tweeted by Nic Sharma:
???? .@facebook is going to start looping all videos under 30 seconds and allow advertisers to place CTA buttons alongside the video ????
— Nik Sharma (@mrsharma) May 23, 2016
@MosheIsaacian @facebook Facebook Marketing Partner email update
— Nik Sharma (@mrsharma) May 24, 2016
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Yes you read that right. According to a new study by Locowise, reach on Facebook Pages has perked up somewhat since hitting the doldrums at an all time low in November 2015.
Of the Pages considered in the study, average reach was 11.41% for March 2016.
As we've reported in recent months, video is the reach conqueror with an average video post reaching 12.81% of the audience. Photos hit 12.04% and links 10%. Plain text status updates reached 6.45%.
We've asked Locowise to clarif...
