2022 was a big year for us here at Sendible. Here's a quick recap of what we've been up to over the last year. 🎉
From being able to release our top-voted feature of all time - Instagram carousels - to simplifying our Facebook connection process, we’ve had lots of exciting new updates.
Take a look at what’s been happening at Sendible over the last year:
Keep scrolling to find out what our top releases have been and maybe even a sneak peek at what’s coming in 2023 hidden in there. 👀
1.🎠 Instagram image carousels
Carousels make up nearly a fifth of all published content on Instagram. So it’s no surprise that it was our most popular feature request of all time.
Since its long-awaited release earlier this year thanks to Instagram opening up its API, our customers have scheduled over 1 million carousels! 🙌
If you need some inspiration to create more thumb-stopping Instagram carousels to promote your business in 2023, then take a look at this guide.
2. 🎥 Short-form video: YouTube Shorts and Facebook & Instagram Reels
Short-form video is a great way to attract new followers thanks to its discoverability. With Sendible, you can now schedule your short-form videos across Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
For Facebook and Instagram, make sure you select Post video as: Reel in the Compose Box when uploading your Reel.
For YouTube, it’s as simple as uploading a vertical video under 60 seconds, which will then be automatically uploaded as a short. Don’t forget to add #shorts to your caption to improve your discoverability!
3. 🗣 Replying to Instagram comments
Managing your community has to be one of the biggest challenges social media managers face. This release enables you to create conversations with your Instagram followers within your Social Feeds by clicking Reply to comments and selecting Add Comment to add a new comment to your posts.
4. 📝 Alt text for Facebook images
As a significant step in helping you make your content more inclusive on social media, we recently released the ability to add Alt text for Facebook image posts within our built-in image editor.
And we’ve loved seeing your response to this release 💜:
Want to learn more about how to be more accessible on social media? Then have a read of our latest insights blog.
We’re also working on bringing Alt text to Twitter and LinkedIn in the New Year, so keep an eye out!
5. 📸 GIPHY & Pexels integration
Stay tuned for updates in 2023 on how we’re making improvements to the way you manage media and assets in Sendible. 👀
Facebook New Page Experience
We know how tricky Facebook profile connections can be, especially with Meta’s rollout of the New Page Experience. That’s why we were thrilled to provide you with an easier way to manage Facebook connections including those on the New Page Experience.
This new update meant that you now only have to grant Sendible all the required permissions once, which then gives you the ability to add a profile or edit an existing profile without needing to accept permissions a second time.
Profile connections and other dashboard improvements
Merging Facebook Ads profiles with Facebook Page Profiles was just one of the many improvements we made to your workflow on Sendible.
With this update, your Facebook Ads profile automatically connects to Sendible when you connect the associated Facebook page to Sendible, saving you time and profile allocations! 🎉 You can read more about this improvement here.
Thanks to our developers who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes, we’ve also made some platform updates throughout the year which have resulted in improving our dashboard speed by 75%. 🙌
Take a look at the full list of our improvements and updates here.
📚 Deep Dive Webinars
Over the past year we’ve hosted 47 Deep Dive Webinars, where we walked through making the most out of all of our different features in Sendible.
Some of our favourites include:
You can register for any upcoming webinars right here!
If you have any suggestions for webinars or training sessions you’d like to see in 2023, just reach out to us.
🗓 Social Media Holiday Calendar 2023
Our Social Media Calendar 2023 is now out! 🎉 With over 300 hashtags and post ideas, it includes all the holidays you loved from 2022 plus more than 50 brand new ones along with actionable social media tips.
You can also now receive a free printed version of the calendar. All you need to do is just be one of the first 150 customers to give us a shoutout on social media and fill out this form.
We’re working on making integrating the holidays with your content planning in Sendible easier, so don’t forget to sign up for our product updates below to make sure you don’t miss out on this update. 💪
We’ve loved working with every single one of you and want to thank you for all your valuable feedback over the last year to improve Sendible. 💜
As always, if you have any more feedback or feature requests that you’d like to see on Sendible, then please don’t hesitate to let us know on our Ideas Portal.
We hope you have a great rest of the year and look forward to showing you what we’re working on in 2023!