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TikTok Announces New Activations for the 96th Academy Awards
TikTok has announced a range of activations for the 96th Oscar Awards ceremony, in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Disney, which will include both IRL and in-app activations for the event. Which could also provide opportunities for film-related tie-ins and discussion, as the hype around Oscars night heats up. First off, TikTok’s sending two…
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TikTok Launches ‘Data Portability API’ to Meet New EU Requirements
While TikTok continues to grapple with EU regulators over the technicalities of its new rules for digital platforms, it’s also implementing new processes and options to align with the Digital Markets Acts (DMA) and ensure that TikTok remains available to its 134 million European users. TikTok has already implemented the capacity for users to switch off personalization in the app,…
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Social Platform Image Size Requirements 2024 [Infographic]
If you want to ensure that your social media presence looks professional, and your content stands out in busy social feeds, you need to align with the right image dimension requirements for each platform, so your images look crisp in-stream. Which can be hard to do when the platforms keep updating their posting requirements without notice, and keep adding in…
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TikTok Adds New ‘Data Portability API’ to Adhere with New EU Rules
While TikTok continues to grapple with EU regulators over the technicalities of its new rules for digital platforms, it’s also implementing new processes and options to align with the Digital Markets Acts (DMA) and ensure that TikTok remains available to its 134 million European users. TikTok has already implemented the capacity for users to switch off personalization in the app,…
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Instagram Launches New DM Updates Including Messaged Editing and Pinned Chats
Instagram has announced some new DM features as it works to enhance the usage of messaging as the key connective element in the app. Because over time, more and more personal engagement is migrating to private chats, as users stop posting to the main feed. First off, Instagram’s added message editing, which will enable you to update your DM for…
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New Reports Show That Brands Are Seeing Less Engagement on TikTok Over Time
There’s certainly a trend emerging in the latest social platform performance benchmark reports; TikTok engagement is way down for all brands. Which makes sense. The more users that TikTok adds, the more competition there’ll be for attention, while brands are also now jostling for position within people’s “For You” feeds. But it is worth noting, as three significant benchmark data…
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X’s New Voice and Video Calling Feature Reveals Users’ IP Address
In the new age of data privacy, of which X owner Elon Musk has been a key advocate, this seems like a significant oversight by the platform formerly known as Twitter. With X rolling out its new option to make voice and video calls in the app to all users late last month, privacy advocates have noted that the new…
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TikTok Announces New Activations fot the 96th Oscars Ceremony
TikTok has announced a range of activations for the 96th Oscar Awards ceremony, in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Disney, which will include both IRL and in-app activations for the event. Which could also provide opportunities for film-related tie-ins and discussion, as the hype around Oscars night heats up. First off, TikTok’s sending two…
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Social Platforms’ Changing Approaches To Political and News Content Could Sway Upcoming Elections
It’s interesting to note the varying approaches that each social app is taking to political content, as we head into what’s expected to be a particularly tumultuous election period. Not only do you have the U.S. election, which is coming up on November 5th, but also heading to the polls this year are India (May), the European Union (June), the…
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Elon Musk Says Changes to X’s Deadnaming Policy Will Be Confined to Brazil
Given Elon Musk’s personal stances on transgender people, X’s policies on deadnaming and pronouns unfortunately align with his own logic. But last week, after the platform was forced to make a change to those policies following a court ruling in Brazil, we also got another glimpse into how Musk is now being held to ransom by his key supporters, whom…
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