Political Social Grab Bag – October 2025

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

Reminder: I have a new monthly newsletter that will also be going out the first the month…Digital Quick Hits. 3-5 carefully curated ideas for things we can be doing in digital to make our work more streamlined and, more importantly, more impactful.

What am I reading?

How to Summarize Your Metrics and Spot Patterns with AI – Really good way to use AI to help with your analytics work (disclosure: Katie & I are Eric Church/Music friends but she won’t know this is in my newsletter til she reads it 🤠)

Engagement-Based Algorithms Are Causing Social Division. But Is There an Alternative? – Your must read of the month

Report Finds Facebook and TikTok Are Key News Sources– Some data to consider when choosing which platforms to invest your time into

Everything that’s weird about the deal to spin out TIkTok– If you read anything about the TikTok deal read this

The Last Days of Social Media – another good read with some good food for thought

New Tools of Interest

Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet– Don’t use Canva? Don’t have sizes memorized? Bookmark this handy dandy image from Hootsuite

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Introducing Meta Vibes a feed of all AI generated content- what’s the over under on the life span of this one?

Facebook: Now rolling out …a new way to test ad content

Threads: From the long content is back in style files

Instagram: Finally an ipad app!

Messenger: Say good bye to group chats from groups (multi friend chats are still around)

Fediverse

Mastondon is planning to offer some paid for services in order to make money’

Masoton is finally going to release quote posts

Other Platforms

Twitter: What the world needs is another way to make sure they stay in their own echo chamber right?

Reddit: New 6 second video view optimization now available for ads

LinkedIn: Adding some new metrics to the data they surface for us

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