How Sked works, and why we use real phones to post for you Every now and then there’s sudden attention paid to how we work, which is great because it’s pretty unique and old-school! As the founder of Sked (formerly Schedugram), I welcome the opportunity to explain how Read more
Read our May email newsletter We just published our May newsletter. It’s got updates on what we have planned for Sked Social (formerly Schedugram), as well as a roundup of the latest news about Instagram and social media. If you Read more
iOS and Android Apps Now Available Hot on the heels of our iOS app beta that we announced in late March, we’re delighted to let you know that Sked Social‘s (formerly Scheduram) mobile apps are now available for both iOS and Read more
Reminder: Good Secure Password Practice Around the web, we’ve seen a few recent “hacks” of accounts, both Instagram and other social media accounts. Some of these have been big database breaches (a different problem altogether), while others have just been Read more
Improved Emoji Support Now Live If you’ve been copying and pasting emojis into your captions, you’ll know just how time-consuming this task can be! This is why we’ve included emoji support in Sked—making your emoji selection process twice as fast, Read more
US FTC Cracks Down on Sponsorship Transparency on Instagram The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US has recently written a media release about an initiative to improve disclosures in social media endorsements, in particular on Instagram. The FTC is the consumer protection arm Read more
iOS App Launched Into Beta UPDATE: our iOS app is now live on the App Store. You can download it here. We’re excited to launch the first version of our iOS app for Sked Social (formerly Schedugram) into beta testing. Read more
Snapchat’s IPO – what does it mean for Instagram? This originally appeared in our February monthly email newsletter. Sign up here. The initial public offering (IPO) of Snapchat blitzed the news this week, helped by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel’s fianceé Miranda Kerr’s Snapchat posts Read more
Instagram Carousel: multiple images or videos in one Instagram post Last week Instagram announced a feature we’re calling Carousel (some call it multiple images, gallery posts, etc). With this feature, users can now add up to 10 images and videos in one post. Instagram’s suggestions Read more
Changes to how we show Instagram accounts on bulk upload Since we launched the new interface, the one major mistake we’ve heard people have made is scheduling to the wrong accounts accidentally. It was a little more subtle which accounts you had chosen after you Read more
Can You Risk Choosing Later (formerly Latergram)? A number of customers have asked us about the difference between Sked (formerly Schedugram) and Later (formerly Latergram) as solutions for Instagram scheduling. The two services are quite different – each has their advantages though, Read more
Why Sked is The Best Hootsuite Alternative Is Sked the best Hootsuite alternative for me? What’s the difference between Sked and Hootsuite? These are just two of your most popular Hootsuite-related concerns, so we’ve decided to devote a blog to two of Read more
Our expectations of customers Instagram has announced they’re cracking down on low quality content and spam. I actually think this is a good sign – they want the content to be quality, and are working to reduce the rubbish Read more
An important message for your ongoing instaSuccess Please make sure that all of the content you upload to Instagram adds value to your followers and the general IG community. This is important because both it will reduce the probability of problems on Read more
Emoji Support! 😀👍 Another one of our frequently requested features is finally here – we now support Emojis in our captions (and comments too). Adding Emoji is a bit tricky though. It’s much easier if you’re a Google Chrome Read more
Place Your Instagram Hashtags in Comments Automatically With ‘First Comment’ A popular request that we’ve had has been to allow our users to place Instagram hashtags in comments automatically. We call it our ‘First Comment’ feature! It’s quite common for brands to write a caption, Read more
Video posting now live! We just upgraded Sked Social (formerly Schedugram) to v2.0, and you can now upload and post videos as well as photos to Instagram 🙂 Also with this update is further increases to our capacity, as well as Read more