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In today’s edition:
What Pause means for your IG Reels performance
Get your LinkedIn content cited by AI
🗞️ Industry news from Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more
Adjusting Your Instagram Reels Strategy for the Pause
What happens when a tiny platform tweak quietly rewrites your content strategy?
Instagram’s new “pause” feature for Reels might seem like a minor usability upgrade, but it’s about to shift how your audience consumes, interacts with, and values your content. And if you rely on Reels for visibility, this change is more than cosmetic.
For years, smart marketers leaned on subtle tactics such as looping videos, fast-moving text, and longer captions to drive replays and boost engagement.
Now, with a single tap, users can stop, read, and move on. That means the metrics you’ve been using to gauge what's working may start telling a very different story.
This update shift doesn’t just challenge your current approach, it opens the door to a different kind of performance. One that may favor clarity, intentional design, and content that holds attention in new ways.
Jenn Herman shares how to adapt before your metrics start slipping. Read more here.
Meet People Who Can Help You
As marketers, sometimes we need someone to talk to, someone who understands our struggles and can provide us with a nudge in the right direction. If you attend Social Media Marketing World in 3 weeks, you will find a lot of people like that. They are marketers who are happy to share what's working and what's not.
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LinkedIn Is Rewriting the Rules of Visibility
Months ago, AJ Wilcox noticed a few leads on his website's "How did you hear about us?" form saying they’d found him through ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. About six months ago, that number climbed from two or three per week to five or six. Today, AI referrals account for roughly 30–40% of his incoming leads, and the trend continues to rise.
Because Microsoft owns LinkedIn and is the largest investor in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, AJ fully expects LinkedIn content to get preferential treatment in ChatGPT's results, while competitor LLMs like Google's Gemini may eventually face restrictions on scraping LinkedIn.
Whether or not that plays out, LinkedIn is investing in making its content readable and indexable by AI models by adding semantic markup that describes the meaning and purpose of content, specifically to make it easier for LLMs to ingest.
How to Adjust Your LinkedIn Content Strategy for Humans, Search, and AI Visibility
The active shelf life of a LinkedIn post is about two to three days. After about two weeks, that human engagement dies out.
When you publish a LinkedIn newsletter article, the platform automatically creates a companion post that publishes to the feed. That auto-generated post tends to underperform compared to a freshly written post, but the article remains permanently accessible to LLMs.
AJ recommends using both types of LinkedIn content intentionally.
Use feed posts to drive human attention and engagement from your network.
Publish long-form content such as a blog post, a podcast episode summary, or an in-depth analysis on your own blog or website, and wait two or three days for Google to index it.
After the content is indexed by Google, republish it as a LinkedIn newsletter article.
This sequence protects your SEO priority because Google attributes the original content to your site while making the content available to LLMs through LinkedIn's indexed archive.
Write for Your Audience: LinkedIn recommends writing at a ninth- through eleventh-grade reading level. AJ writes at a fifth-grade level for ads—not to dumb things down, but because busy professionals skim, and the message has to land even in a quick pass.
Jerry Potter adds a useful counterweight to the grade-level debate: regardless of the level you write at, LLMs are likely to rewrite your content to match the reading preferences of the individual user. AJ confirmed this point directly. So don't overthink grade-level optimization at the expense of serving your actual audience.
The key is writing at your audience's level first, not at what LinkedIn recommends. If you're writing for scientists, write for scientists.
Make Statements the LLMs Can Corroborate: When an AI model already has a fact in its training data, and your content aligns with that fact, it's more likely to surface your content as a source. Novel claims or statistics the model hasn't encountered create uncertainty, and it's more likely to skip your content than risk citing something it can't verify.
Other topics discussed include:
Recommendations for 2 New LinkedIn Ad Features
LinkedIn Premium All-in-One for Small Businesses
LinkedIn Ban on Automated Comments and Tips to Scale Your Commenting
Today's advice is provided with insights from AJ Wilcox, a featured guest on the Social Media Marketing Podcast and speaker at Social Media Marketing World.
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Instagram Adds Scheduling to Trial Reels: Instagram has introduced the ability to schedule Trial Reels, allowing creators to plan when experimental content is shown to non-followers before a full release. This builds on the Trial feature’s testing model by adding timing control, enabling creators to optimize posts for regional engagement and performance insights before promoting them to their broader audience. Instagram
Meta Tests Instagram Plus Subscription with Premium Story Features: Meta is piloting a new paid tier, Instagram Plus, offering enhanced Story controls, deeper insights, and new engagement tools like anonymous viewing and Superlikes. With pricing positioned at a low monthly cost in select markets, the test signals Meta’s continued push toward subscription-based revenue while adding more advanced features for power users and creators. TechCrunch
LinkedIn Requires Scheduled Live Events: LinkedIn is updating its Live feature by mandating that all broadcasts be scheduled ahead of time, eliminating spontaneous livestreams. While users can still go live on short notice, the shift aims to improve event discovery, audience planning, and overall impact of live content on the platform. LinkedIn
Reddit Expands Pro Tools to Help Publishers Grow Reach and Engagement: Reddit is opening its Pro suite to all publishers, offering AI-powered tools to streamline content distribution and community targeting. With features like the Links tab, community insights, and RSS integration, publishers can more effectively share and scale their stories across Reddit. Reddit
TikTok and HubSpot Launch Native Integration for Full-Funnel Marketing: TikTok has deepened its partnership with HubSpot by introducing a native integration within HubSpot’s Marketing Hub, enabling marketers to manage ads, audiences, and organic content in a unified workflow. By connecting TikTok campaign performance with CRM data, businesses can automate lead follow-ups, improve targeting, and gain clearer visibility into ROI across the funnel. TikTok
TikTok Integrates Cameo to Unlock New Creator Monetization Paths: TikTok has partnered with Cameo to bring personalized video requests directly into the platform, allowing creators to monetize fan relationships without redirecting users to the app. TikTok
X Moves X Pro Behind Premium+ Paywall: X has tightened access to its professional management tool, X Pro (formerly TweetDeck), by restricting it to Premium+ subscribers only. The abrupt change locks out existing Premium users and significantly narrows access to a tool already used by a small fraction of the platform. The move reflects X’s ongoing strategy to monetize advanced features, even at the risk of reducing accessibility for social media professionals. Social Media Today
YouTube Rolls Out Engagement Tools for Creators: YouTube is introducing several creator-focused updates, including a bulk comment “hearting” feature and broader access to its Effect Maker tool with new AI-powered video effects. YouTube
YouTube Brings Conversational AI to Smart TVs for Interactive Viewing: YouTube is expanding its conversational AI tool to smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask questions and explore content directly from their screens using voice commands. With features like real-time queries and guided prompts, the update transforms traditional TV watching into a more interactive, discovery-driven experience. YouTube
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