With the holiday season in full swing, it can feel like there simply are not enough hours in the day to cross off every item on your list. With Zapier, you can connect external applications to your Squarespace account to help you get more done in less time. For example, if you have a form block set up on your website, you can set up new submissions to trigger “Zaps.” Zaps move information between the apps you use every day, giving you valuable time back in your busy schedule.

Once you have your Zaps set up, you can control the way in which they alert you to keep your workflow completely customized. For example, the Zaps could create a new ticket in Zendesk, if that’s how you’re currently managing new form submissions. Or, it could send you a Slack message instead. The Zap could also create a new Trello card, complete with information from the new submission. This way, you don’t have to alter the way in which you manage new submissions: you can simply automate the process.

Zapier is available for anyone using the Squarespace Business plan, Commerce Basic plan or Advanced plan. If you’d like to learn more about adding this integration to your website, check out our KB guide. As always, our award-winning Customer Care team is here to help 24/7. If you have any questions, get in touch with them here.

When it comes to creating a memorable online presence, adding fresh, professional imagery is absolutely crucial. However, we frequently hear from our customers that finding the right imagery is one of the biggest challenges to launching a new website. After all, you just came up with your big idea. You may not have a ton of visuals that support it just yet.

Now, instead of putting extra time or money into creating your own visuals, now you can simply replace the demo content on your chosen template with ease. Unsplash has an active group of contributing photographers from all around the world who have generously decided to share their work with others in the broader creative community, for free. Their massive digital library offers a wide variety of premium content that you can browse as you bring your vision to life on your own website.

Maybe you’ve already launched your website and are looking to add something fresh to your online presence. Unsplash can help you add free imagery to new blog posts, product lines, or simply update that ‘About Me’ section. Having an online presence is important, but it’s also vital to continue to add new content on a consistent basis. This gives your current visitors a reason to return. Plus, with this new unlimited access to free professional imagery, it’s never been easier to find the right visuals for your marketing efforts. For example, you may want to create a weekly email newsletter to share news about your business or to craft new social media posts to direct followers back to your website. With Unsplash, you can add imagery to your marketing channels to help your business stand out without breaking the budget.

Thinking about starting a website? Get started today with a free trial. If you have any questions, our Customer Care Team is available to help 24/7.

We are also excited to announce that we will be participating in this year’s Unsplash Awards. This event is intended to celebrate the impact that Unsplash contributors have made through their generosity and artistry to the larger creative community. Submit your photographs to one of the twelve categories before December 7th to be considered for the awards. Squarespace’s own Design Manager Andre Felipe Ribeiro will be judging the ‘People and Relationships’ category. The winners will be announced on December 17th.

Make an impact by visually showcasing your products. Shoppable posts give Instagram users another avenue to discover your brand and your products. When you tag a product, users can tap the image to view product details and click through to buy it on your site — all without leaving the app. Linking your product catalog to Instagram is a great way to reach your audience where they’re already spending their time, share products with followers, and attract new customers. And with Squarespace’s built-in analytics, you can see how much traffic and sales your shoppable posts are driving through your online store.  

This feature is available on the Commerce Basic and Advanced plans. Simply import your store’s inventory to your Facebook Business Manager account and reference your product catalog from your Instagram business profile. Once Instagram approves your profile, it’s easy to tag your products wherever they appear in your posts. To learn more about setting up shopping on Instagram, take a look at our help guide. If you have any questions, our Customer Care Team is available to help 24/7.

Drafting an email campaign that mirrors the style and content of your website is simple: choose from dozens of customizable layouts to express what you have to say, whether you’re making an announcement, launching a product, or sharing other news. Our professionally designed layouts automatically pull in your logo and social icons so you can focus on your message. You can even populate them with existing content such as blog posts or products in one click, saving time and avoiding mistakes. And with Squarespace’s responsive designs, your emails will look great no matter the device they’re viewed on.

Squarespace Email Campaigns scales with you as your marketing endeavors grow, giving you the ability to target specific groups with unique mailing lists. Quickly understand how subscribers respond to your content with real-time analytics, such as open and click-through rates. Combined with the robust traffic and sales metrics in Squarespace Analytics, you now have a holistic view of how your audience engages with you and your brand.

Whether you’re promoting a sale for your online store, sharing your most recent blog post, or sending an invitation, Squarespace Email Campaigns helps you effectively connect with your audience. Existing Squarespace customers can use Email Campaigns at no cost for a limited time during an invite-only early access period. Customers will receive an email when it has been added to their account. General availability is coming soon at a low monthly rate.

Learn more about what Squarespace Email Campaigns can do for you and your business. As always, if you have any questions, our Customer Care team is here to help 24/7.

Squarespace is the first CMS to integrate with Google Search Console to help you identify which keywords are driving traffic to your site and understand how you rank in search. These insights, available in the new Google Search Keywords panel within Squarespace Analytics, will help you refine your SEO strategy and optimize your ranking.

Verifying your website with Google Search Console now requires just one click within Squarespace. Once you’ve verified your site, you can access the new Google Search Keywords panel, where you can view your top keywords by total impressions, clicks, click-through rate, and search position. When combined with other metrics within Squarespace Analytics, these additional insights paint a rich picture of your website’s visitors, from how they discover your content to how they engage with it.

The Google Search Keywords panel is available on all plans. For more information on the metrics shown or verifying your website with Google Search Console, take a look at our help guide. As always, our Customer Care Team is available 24/7 to answer any questions you might have.

On any given day, the majority of podcasts that top the charts are produced in a major metropolitan area (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Atlanta). Great ideas can come from anywhere, and we're hoping that our competition gives individuals who may have never considered starting a podcast before access to the tools and production resources that come along with being in these markets.  Squarespace is a platform that empowers individuals with creative ideas to succeed, so it’s no surprise that when we considered producing our own podcast content, we chose to stay true to that mission. We want to provide that extra push and source of inspiration people might need to get out there and start their next venture—be it creating a website or starting a podcast.

We’re looking forward to hearing new voices from all over, and are excited to give a platform to an exciting, up-and-coming talent in podcasting. Now through May 21st, we’re putting out an open (pod)casting call at castingcallshow.com for aspiring hosts from all over the country.

Submissions will be reviewed by our esteemed panel of judges, including: our founder and CEO Anthony Casalena; Nazanin Rafsanjani, VP of New Show Development at Gimlet Media; and Aminatou Sow, co-founder of Tech LadyMafia and co-host of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend. The judges will choose three finalists who will come to New York City to produce a pilot for their show at Gimlet’s studios. Each pilot will air as an individual episode of Casting Call and, at the end of the journey, one talented hopeful will be awarded their very own Gimlet mini-series and maybe even a Squarespace ad or two—because is a podcast even a podcast without one?

This fall, we’ll launch the podcast that documents it all. To follow along behind the scenes in the search, subscribe to Casting Call in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. The journey begins this September.

To submit, you must be legally present in the United States, be 18 years of age or older and meet all other eligibility requirements. Enter at www.castingcallshow.com.

We partnered with the Tribeca Film Festival on the following moments to empower and inspire the next wave of storytellers in film:

• Tribeca Film Festival x Squarespace City Guide
  We curated a list of local dining recommendations consisting of 25 businesses who host their websites on Squarespace, such as Blue Ribbon Brasserie, Dante, and Cafe Integral, for festival attendees and industry folks to enjoy and make the most of their Tribeca experience.
• Squarespace 1:1 Website-Building Consultations at the Festival Hub
  When filmmakers check in at registration and pick up their credentials, they’ll also learn how to share their work online with Squarespace. Squarespace Specialists will provide premium support and 1:1 website-building consultations to help attendees create websites as unique as their creative visions.
• Tribeca Talks: Director’s Series
  In this series of discussions, today’s most groundbreaking filmmakers such as Alexander Payne and Nancy Meyers, among others, delve into what they’ve learned throughout their careers. You can check out the entire lineup here.
• The Director’s Brunch
  At this invite-only annual brunch, Squarespace is excited to honor and celebrate the 200 participating festival directors alongside the Tribeca Film Festival executive team.

The 2018 Tribeca Film Festival will take place from Wednesday, April 18th to Sunday, April 29th throughout downtown Manhattan.

Squarespace is also honored to have our short film “Make Your Next Move”, made in collaboration with creative collective JohnXHannes and featuring John Malkovich, nominated as one of the finalists for the Tribeca X Award.

Squarespace is a platform that empowers people to tell their stories, and we’re so excited to work with an organization like Tribeca Film Festival that supports the next generation of great storytellers in film.

• Privacy: We restructured our Privacy Policy to be clearer about the ways we collect, use, process, and share personal information. It also explains rights and choices you have over your personal information (and that of visitors to your Squarespace sites), including the ability to access, correct, and delete personal information.

• International Growth: In recognition of the global nature of our user base, Squarespace Ireland Limited, our Irish entity, is going to provide services to our users outside of the US. For users who are not residents of or who do not have their principal place of business in the US, the Terms of Service will be an agreement with Squarespace Ireland Limited and the laws of Ireland will apply. If you are a resident of or have your principal place of business in the United States of America or any of its territories or possessions, the Terms of Service will be an agreement with Squarespace, Inc. and the laws of the State of New York will apply.

• Data Processing Addendum: Additionally, we’ve incorporated a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) into our updated Terms of Service that may apply to you if you (or your use of our services) is subject to EU data protection law (including the GDPR). The DPA will be posted on May 14 and will explain how we handle, on your instructions, your and other people’s personal information that you collect or submit using our services.

• Services Provided: We made changes to the terms to clarify our relationship with our users in regards to what we do and provide as part of our services. We also made changes such as raising the minimum age of our users from thirteen (13) to sixteen (16) years old.

• Other Policies: On May 14, we will update our Cookie Policy, Copyright Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Developer Terms to make sure they are clear and consistent with these changes. When we make those updates, we’ll let you know in your account, and we encourage you to read the full updated terms.

We hope you’ll find these updated and new terms and policies beneficial, but if you have any feedback, please feel free to contact us. We’ll review all feedback we receive on the matter, and will take action as appropriate. Keep in mind that we may not be able to respond to these requests individually.

Overall, you should not experience any change in how you use Squarespace’s products and services, and our platform will continue to provide you with the experience you’ve come to know and trust.

This Equal Pay Day, Squarespace is helping raise awareness around this issue. We believe everyone deserves an equal shot at success, regardless of gender identity. It’s time to tip the scales.

Women of all backgrounds use Squarespace as a platform to share their stories, and this community of woman-identifying dreamers, makers, and doers has become an integral part of our own success story. We stand with these women and all women every day—but especially today.

To bring attention to this issue, we’re offering a symbolic 20% off a new website today, a percentage that represents the average wage discrepancy between women and men.

To help raise awareness about wage inequality and how it impacts us all, we’ve partnered with an inspiring group of customers including Gloria Steinem, Aja Dang, Deun Ivory, Liz Plank, and others to share their experiences.

See their stories and learn more by checking out our Instagram feed.

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Enter EQUALPAY at checkout between 12:00AM EST and 11:59PM EST on April 10th, 2018 for 20% off a new subscription plan purchase for a Squarespace website. Discount not valid on purchases made prior to this promotion period. Discount applies to the first payment of an annual plan or monthly plan, but does not apply to future recurring payments.