Social media
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YouTube Updates Video Earnings Display in Studio, Tests New Desktop UI
YouTube’s updating the way that it displays how much revenue your videos are earning in the app, with new listings in the YouTube Studio app that’ll show you your top-earning videos in each category, including separate tabs for Shorts, VODs, and Live uploads. As you can see in this example, the updated format will now make it easier for creators…
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Indonesian Government Proposes New Scheme to Force Digital Platforms to Pay For News Content
Every time this comes up it seems like a misinterpretation of web usage data, but money, and pressure from influential publishers, still clearly has a strong hold on political policy. This week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo has announced that he has approved a new regulation that will require digital platforms, including Facebook and Google, to share revenue with local media outlets…
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WhatsApp Adds New Text Formatting Options to Improve Communications
After testing them out with selected users over the past few months, WhatsApp has today officially announced its new text formatting options, which are now available on both Android and iOS. As you can see in this overview, all of your favorite text formatting options are coming to your WhatsApp chats, including numbered lists, block quotes, bold, italics, etc. Which…
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Pinterest Launches New Campaign to Highlight the Opportunities of Pin Ads
Pinterest has launched a new global ad campaign to promote its evolving ad tools, which takes a comedic approach to highlighting the platform’s value for marketers. As you can see, the campaign takes a movie cliché-type approach to highlighting the benefits of Pin promotions. As explained by Pinterest: “Featuring action-packed minimovies, “The P is for Performance” campaign demonstrates how ads…
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Instagram Tests Options To Create Alternate Image Backgrounds and Facilitate In-Stream Orders
Instagram’s testing some interesting new sticker options for feed posts and Stories, which could provide new opportunities for marketers in the app. First off, Instagram’s working on a new AI “Backdrop” sticker, which enables you to replace the background of any image. As you can see in this example, shared by social media expert Lindsey Gamble, the new Backdrop sticker…
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Which Super Bowl Ads Drove the Biggest Online Response? [Infographic]
So which brands were the big winners of Super Bowl LVIII? The Super Bowl ads competition is the most expensive battleground in the ad industry, and every year, all the big players roll out any number of celebrity-led initiatives designed to grab attention, and shift units as a result. But which campaigns actually did that this time around? This provides…
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EU Officials Launch Investigation Into TikTok Over Potential DSA Violations
EU officials are wasting no time enacting their new powers under the Digital Services Act (DSA), with the European Commission announcing a new investigation into whether TikTok is currently in violation of DSA rules in relation to the protection of minors in the app. Concerns have actually been raised around TikTok’s compliance on several fronts, including systemic risks related to…
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LinkedIn Shares Insights Into Public Group Posts Distribution
Could LinkedIn groups be making a comeback? I mean, probably not. Long gone are the Halcyon days of robust LinkedIn groups, most of which have since been overrun by spammers and scammers looking to get attention at all costs, which has rendered most groups, and group notifications, as spam themselves. But maybe, there is a way for LinkedIn to get…
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LinkedIn Shares New Insights into How Public Group Posts are Distributed
Could LinkedIn groups be making a comeback? I mean, probably not. Long gone are the Halcyon days of robust LinkedIn groups, most of which have since been overrun by spammers and scammers looking to get attention at all costs, which has rendered most groups, and group notifications, as spam themselves. But maybe, there is a way for LinkedIn to get…
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EU Officials Launch Investigation into TikTok Over Potential DSA Violations
EU officials are wasting no time enacting their new powers under the Digital Services Act (DSA), with the European Commission announcing a new investigation into whether TikTok is currently in violation of DSA rules in relation to the protection of minors in the app. Concerns have actually been raised around TikTok’s compliance on several fronts, including systemic risks related to…
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