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Instagram Adds New ‘Notify’ Sticker to Help Creators Maximize Connection with Fans
Instagram has added a new “Notify” sticker for creators, which will provide another way to help keep their audience informed of when they post in the app. As you can see in this example, using the new “Notify” sticker, creators will be able to prompt their audience to set a reminder to ensure that they see their upcoming posts in…
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LinkedIn Launches Connected TV and Live Event Ads to Expand Video Promotions
LinkedIn’s launching its own version of connected TV (CTV) ads, while it’s also adding a new way to promote live events, as it looks to help marketers capitalize on the rise of video consumption, both on and off platform. First off, on CTV ads. In partnership with a range of video providers, LinkedIn will now enable marketers to activate video…
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No, X Isn’t Seeing ‘All Time High’ Traffic
Whether Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) project is performing great or not, X is doing itself no favors with its repeated amplification of misleading, and/or incorrect, stats. Today, Elon Musk pinned this post on his timeline, which purportedly shows that X is reaching new highs in traffic. But that’s not what this chart indicates. First off, the chart, which has…
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X is Developing an Updated Explore Page, Featuring Grok Summaries of Events
X (formerly Twitter) is close to launching an updated Explore page, which will feature topic summaries, generated by its Grok AI chatbot, while also giving in-progress Spaces more exposure in the app. As you can see in this example, posted by X News Daily, the updated Explore format will provide overviews generated in real-time by Grok, while also featuring a…
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Meta’s Testing a New Bonus Program for Threads Creators to Stimulate Growth
Meta’s trying out a new way to boost its Twitter-like Threads app, with a new program that sees some threads creators getting paid for their posts. As reported by Business Insider, Meta’s currently trialing a “Threads Bonus program”, in order to keep popular users posting to the app. As per BI: “Eligible creators can earn money from Threads content based…
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Facebook Launches an Updated Vertical Video Display and Recommendations Algorithm
The TikTok-ification of social media more broadly continues, with Facebook rolling out a new, consistent full-screen video player, which will see all videos posted to the app expand to the TikTok-like vertical format. As explained by Facebook: “When you tap on a video anywhere on the Facebook app, you’ll now consistently see a fullscreen, vertically oriented video. Previously, depending on…
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Meta Celebrates 10 Years of VR Development
Will Meta’s VR metaverse ever become a thing, or will it be a multi-billion dollar albatross that will forever haunt Zuck and Co.? Today, Meta is celebrating 10 years of VR development, with the date marking the anniversary of Meta’s initial acquisition of VR company Oculus back in 2014. Look at young Zuck here, nose pinched tight in an early…
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Meta Partners with Stanford on Forum Around Responsible AI Development
Amid ongoing debate about the parameters that should be set around generative AI, and how it’s used, Meta recently partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab to conduct a community forum on generative AI, in order to glean feedback from actual users as to their expectations and concerns around responsible AI development. The forum incorporated responses from over 1,500 people from…
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Google Publishes New Report on the Opportunities of AI in Developing Regions
While the potential of generative AI has been discussed extensively over the past year, Google is now looking at AI from a different angle, in regards to how it will benefit developing regions. As per Google: “AI stands to benefit people worldwide. This is especially true for developing countries across Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa where it…
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Snap Announces 2024 Partner Summit and Lens Fest
Snapchat has announced the date for its annual Partner Summit, where it traditionally announces a range of new updates, both for the app and its expanded projects. The 2024 Snap Partner Summit will be held on September 17th at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA. As per Snap: “This year’s Snap Partner Summit will bring together our growing community…
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