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In today's edition:
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The latest Meta Verified feature matters to marketers
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Improve your Shorts performance
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Instagram Updates: Reels Tools, Insights, Content Reach, and More
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Tips to optimize ChatGPT agents
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🗞️ Industry news from Instagram and Threads
Meta Verified's Latest Feature Drop Affects Search
Meta Verified's Search Optimization feature quietly shifts the game for small business marketers and creators: accounts subscribed to Meta Verified now get priority placement across Instagram and Facebook search results.
So, if you're verified, people are more likely to find you, whether they're searching for services like yours or just exploring related content.
For marketers juggling content calendars, client work, and ever-changing platform algorithms, this could be a simple visibility boost without rethinking your entire strategy.
This new feature sits alongside Meta Verified's other perks like impersonation protection and premium support, but Search Optimization is the one that may directly impact growth. Learn more here.
Why Your YouTube Shorts Flatline and What You Can Do About It
Ever post a YouTube Short, see a quick spike in views, and then…nothing? It's not bad luck—it's a missed signal. YouTube is testing your Shorts during the crucial trial phase, and if you don't know what metrics it's watching, your content will quietly die on the vine.
This breakdown from Think Media explores the two performance indicators that matter most if you want your Shorts to go viral.
You'll walk away with a better grasp of why swipe-away rate and average percentage viewed make or break your video, and how to tweak your opening seconds, story pacing, and formatting to trigger that algorithmic green light. Watch more here.
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On this week's Social Media Marketing Talk Show, host Jerry Potter and Chelsea Peitz break down the latest Instagram news and what it means for marketers like you.
Content Reposting Feature
Instagram has finally introduced native reposting functionality, bringing a feature that has been available on other platforms since 2015. This development eliminates the need for third-party applications and provides users with an official way to share content from other accounts.
The repost feature works with reels, carousels, and any public posts that appear in the main feed. When users encounter content they want to share, they can tap a circular arrow icon to initiate the repost process.
Understanding where reposts appear is crucial for marketers planning their content strategy. Reposts exist in two primary locations within the Instagram ecosystem. First, they populate a dedicated tab on the user's profile, similar to the existing tags tab where content featuring the user appears. This creates a curated space where users can showcase collaborative content, events, or other relevant material from their network.
Second, reposts integrate into followers' home feeds as suggested content. When someone reposts content, it appears in their community's feed with the reposter's profile picture overlaid on the original content, along with a small arrow icon indicating the repost status.
The repost feature functions differently from platforms like LinkedIn, where users can add commentary to shared content. Currently, Instagram's repost feature simply shares the original content without additional context or commentary options. However, this limitation may change as the feature evolves.
The strategic implications for marketers are significant. Businesses can now more easily amplify collaborative content, customer testimonials, or event coverage without requiring followers to take additional steps. The feature also creates new opportunities for building community engagement and showcasing user-generated content.
For content creators, reposts offer a pathway to expanded reach through their network's audiences. When followers repost content, it exposes the original material to entirely new audience segments that may not have encountered it otherwise.
The feature's integration into the home feed rather than specialized sections means reposts have genuine potential for organic discovery. This represents a departure from more isolated sharing mechanisms and suggests Instagram views reposts as legitimate content worthy of algorithmic distribution.
Instagram Edits App Content Increases Reach
In an unprecedented move, Instagram has openly acknowledged that content edited using their Edits app receives algorithmic preference, representing a rare instance of the platform directly revealing reach optimization tactics.
The announcement came directly from Instagram's leadership, who stated that users editing content with the Edits app "might get a little bit more reach for a time." The platform didn't specify the duration of this advantage, describing it only as temporary.
This transparent approach to algorithmic preference serves multiple purposes for Instagram. First, it drives adoption of their proprietary editing tool, reducing reliance on competing applications like CapCut. Second, it demonstrates Instagram's commitment to supporting creators who embrace its ecosystem of tools and services.
From a strategic perspective, the reach boost makes business sense for Instagram. By incentivizing users to edit within their platform, Instagram gains more control over content quality, maintains users within their ecosystem longer, and reduces dependence on external applications that might not align with Instagram's long-term goals.
Peitz has fully embraced this strategy, transitioning entirely from CapCut to Instagram's Edits app. Her decision was based on both the announced reach benefits and practical considerations about content quality and integration.
"Well, it really was like, hey, if I were Facebook, Instagram, whoever, and I had my own editing system, why wouldn't I want people to use it?" Peitz explains. "So I just thought from day one, before they even announced something, I thought, well, maybe this is a way for them to say, oh, you're using our tools."
The quality improvements available through Edits provide additional motivation for the switch. Peitz notes that videos edited through Edits appear noticeably crisper and maintain better resolution compared to content processed through external applications.
This quality difference may result from Instagram's ability to optimize compression and processing when content remains within its ecosystem throughout the creation process. External editing applications require additional encoding and re-encoding steps that can degrade final video quality.
The user experience within Edits has also improved significantly. While CapCut offers robust functionality, its extensive feature set can overwhelm users who simply need basic editing capabilities. Instagram's Edits provides a more streamlined interface that reduces the learning curve for creators focused on content production rather than advanced video editing techniques.
For marketers evaluating their content creation workflows, the temporary reach boost combined with quality improvements makes Edits a compelling option. However, the temporary nature of the algorithmic advantage suggests that users should view this as a strategic opportunity rather than a permanent solution.
More Features, Tools, Changes, and Updates Discussed Include:
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Reels Linking Feature Launch
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Enhanced Edits App Features for Content Creators
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New Instagram Content Insights
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Live Streaming Access Restrictions
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Instagram's Debunking of Common Marketing Myths
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Privacy Considerations Due to Map Sharing and the Friends Tab
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Auto Scroll Testing for Hands-Free Content Consumption
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Fixes for ChatGPT Agents
ChatGPT agents are live, but many early users are calling them clunky and unreliable.
What if agents aren't broken… just misunderstood?
In this episode of The AI-Driven Marketer, Dan Sanchez reveals how a few simple tweaks—like using clear SOPs or controlled login credentials—helps these agents run tasks, schedule content, and automate workflows more intelligently than you'd expect.
He also explores a new way to sidestep agent limitations entirely by using form fills to trigger advanced automations. Watch more here.
Instagram Adds Inbox Tools for Creators: Instagram has introduced a set of updates aimed at improving message management for creators. The new tools include multi-select filters, custom inbox folders, and shortcuts to simplify sorting and accessing key messages. Creators can now prioritize conversations based on criteria like follower count and verification status, while a new folder separates Story replies from other DMs. These changes are designed to enhance performance, organization, and user control over direct messages. Instagram via Threads
Threads Experiments with Long-Form Text Attachments: Threads is testing a new feature that enables users to attach long-form text blocks to their posts. These text attachments appear as expandable gray boxes within the feed and support basic formatting like bold and italics. Multimedia content such as images or videos is not yet supported within the attachments. TechCrunch
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