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YouTube Expands AI Comment Summaries to More Languages
YouTube’s expanding its comment topics feature, which uses AI to sort video comments into categories, to more languages. As you can see in this example, YouTube’s comment topics, which it first launched in November last year, filters video comments into separate categories for easier sorting. When you tap through on the “Comments” section on videos where this is enabled, you’re…
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Snapchat Adds New Safety Resources for Educators
With kids heading back to school, Snapchat has announced some new resources to help teachers both understand the platform, and to raise awareness of concerns directly, helping to ensure young users are safe in the app. Snapchat remains one of the most popular messaging platforms among teens, with its disappearing messages adding assurance that their updates won’t be held against…
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YouTube Expands Access to Courses for Creators
YouTube’s expanding access to its courses option for creators, providing another potential revenue stream for creators in the app, while it’s also enhancing its “Featured Products” display for those using Live Shopping, and making it possible for creators to add AI labels when uploading via mobile device. First off, on courses. Originally launched in beta with selected creators back in…
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Meta Is Shutting Down Its Spark AR Studio
This seems like a little strange. Today, Meta has announced that it’s shutting down its Spark AR Studio platform, which enabled creators and brands to build their own AR effects, that could then be used across Meta’s apps. Originally launched back in 2017, Meta’s Spark AR platform has enabled hundreds of thousands of creators to develop AR effects. Indeed, back…
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Google Adds New Tools To Help Retailers Tap into Shopping Trends
With only 120 days to go till Christmas, Google’s gearing up for the holiday marketing push, with a range of new updates for businesses using Google Merchant Center to link into Google Shopping listings. First off, Google’s adding new product trend insights, which will highlight key shopping search and purchase trends in the app. As you can see in this…
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Instagram Is Exploring a New Music Sharing Process via Spotify
Music has been a key element in TikTok’s rise, with music publishers now focusing on the app as a key platform to connect with audiences, with some even changing their artists’ song names to better align with TikTok trends. But if TikTok leaves the U.S. next year, as the current sell-off bill implies, music publishers will have to shift their…
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Instagram’s Working on a Custom Collage Creation Feature
Here’s a thing… Apparently, Instagram is experimenting with a new automated “Collages” feature, that would use images from your device’s Camera Roll to populate collages that you could then share in the app. As you can see in this example, shared by digital marketing expert Lia Haberman, some IG users are seeing this new notification in the app which prompts…
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X Is Close To Launching Video Conference Calls
X is close to launching its new professional video calling feature, which will essentially provide Zoom-like functionality within the X app. As you can see in this example, posted by X engineer Chris Park, X has built a working version of its video conferencing platform, which owner Elon Musk claims they’re already using for internal meetings at the company. The…
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Meta’s Shutting Down its Spark AR Studio
This seems like a little strange. Today, Meta has announced that it’s shutting down its Spark AR Studio platform, which enabled creators and brands to build their own AR effects, that could then be used across Meta’s apps. Originally launched back in 2017, Meta’s Spark AR platform has enabled hundreds of thousands of creators to develop AR effects. Indeed, back…
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Instagram’s Exploring a New Music Sharing Process via Spotify
Music has been a key element in TikTok’s rise, with music publishers now focusing on the app as a key platform to connect with audiences, with some even changing their artists’ song names to better align with TikTok trends. But if TikTok leaves the U.S. next year, as the current sell-off bill implies, music publishers will have to shift their…
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