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Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson l Presented By Marigold

EP. 82- GOODBYE LIKES? l What's Up THIS WEEK

Do This, NOT That: Marketing Tips with Jay Schwedelson l Presented By Marigold

GURU Media Hub

Growth, Education, Email, Business, Revenue, How To, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Profit, B2b, B2c

5715 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this short weekly update episode, Jay shares the latest happenings from major platforms like Twitter (now called X) and Google. He also gives a recap of his predictions for the reality show Love is Blind. Main Discussion Points: - X (formerly Twitter) will remove like and retweet counts from feeds and only show view counts - Hiding Instagram like counts can increase engagement by 40% - Google is testing showing "most read" articles in search results, especially for product searches - Usin...

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0:00.0

Welcome back to What's Up this week from Do This, Not That.

0:12.6

This is our super short episode where you share new stuff going on this week that's interesting.

0:17.1

Please also check out our Ask Us Anything a little later in the week.

0:20.3

And then at the end of the week,

0:21.2

we do our longer episode where break down new big ideas and tactics you want to check out.

0:26.4

So what is going on this week? Something big from X, which is the old Twitter. They are going to

0:33.2

be removing like and retweet counts on all the posts in the feed soon.

0:40.7

So Elon Musk said this week, he said X, formerly known as Twitter, is definitely going

0:47.4

to remove the number of likes and retweets from feeds.

0:50.9

Just view count will show on the timeline.

0:54.0

This is a game changer. A lot of marketers,

0:56.3

a lot of individuals, they're really focused on getting their light counts up and their retweet

1:00.7

counts up. And I think it's going to be a big shift by removing these. Something we see that's

1:06.3

interesting on Instagram, actually from a performance standpoint from our research group, we found on a

1:12.9

similar kind of idea that when you post something on Instagram, unless you're like a Kardashian

1:19.1

and you get a billion likes and whatever, if you are a regular brand, a regular individual,

1:24.5

and you post something on Instagram, if you click hide like count, which after

1:30.1

you post, you click the three dots in the upper right hand corner of your post, and you click

1:34.1

hide like count on your posts, we actually see a 40% increase in engagement by that like count

1:40.4

being hidden because sometimes people don't like things where it only has a handful of

1:45.5

likes or comments, right? So if you actually hide the light count, it could be a great way to

1:49.9

boost your performance. So what else are we seeing this week? Google, their search, is testing

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