Pinterest Shares New Insights Into the Value of the Platform for Promoting Luxury Brands
Pinterest has published a new report on the value of the app for promoting luxury brands, including notes on how and why users come to the platform to discover luxury products. The report, conducted in conjunction with PA Consulting, looks specifically at engagement with high-end fashion brands, and how Pinterest is helping to drive discovery […]
Google Unveils Its Fourth Annual ‘Black Owned Friday’ Business Showcase
As part of its annual Black Friday initiative, Google has unveiled its latest showcase of Black-owned businesses and products, called “Black-Owned Friday”, which is designed to encourage shoppers to buy from smaller, local brands within their shopping process. Now in its fourth year, Google’s “Black-owned Friday” program aims to help shine a light on Black-owned […]
Meta Highlights What’s Driving Threads Engagement
With Threads usage rising, and more brands reconsidering their presence on X (formerly Twitter), a key question that many businesses are now considering is what works on Threads, and how can you maximize your Threads presence for optimal engagement? And while much of the Threads back-end is still in development, as Meta works to scale […]
Facebook’s Removing Its ‘Hobbies’ Section From User Profiles
This is probably not going to have a big impact, but worth noting either way. As of December 13th, Facebook is removing its “Hobbies” listings on user profiles, as it looks to streamline its profile display options. As you can see in this screenshot, posted by app researcher Ahmed Ghanem, Facebook is notifying users that […]
The Chaos at OpenAI Could Benefit Social Platform AI Projects
If you follow broader news in the tech sector at all, you’ve no doubt seen reports about the chaos at OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT and Dall-E, among other AI projects, which is seemingly now imploding before our eyes, marking what may be the fastest, and most unusual fall from grace that we’ve ever witnessed. […]
X Files Lawsuit Against Media Matters To Refute Claims Its Brand Safety Measures Are Failing
As promised, Elon Musk’s X Corp has filed a new lawsuit against Media Matters, which accuses Media Matters, a non-profit misinformation research group, of fabricating evidence in order to suggest that X is displaying ads from big-name brands alongside harmful content, including posts from neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ accounts. Media Matters has released several reports […]
X Files Lawsuit Against Media Matters in Order to Refute Claims That its Brand Safety Measures are Failing
As promised, Elon Musk’s X Corp has filed a new lawsuit against Media Matters, which accuses Media Matters, a non-profit misinformation research group, of fabricating evidence in order to suggest that X is displaying ads from big-name brands alongside harmful content, including posts from neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ accounts. Media Matters has released several reports […]
The Chaos at OpenAI Could Benefit Social Platform AI Projects
If you follow broader news in the tech sector at all, you’ve no doubt seen reports about the chaos at OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT and Dall-E, among other AI projects, which is seemingly now imploding before our eyes, marking what may be the fastest, and most unusual fall from grace that we’ve ever witnessed. […]
LinkedIn Shares New Insights into Engagement with Collaborative Articles
There’s been a lot of focus on LinkedIn’s Collaborative Articles of late, which LinkedIn recently reported have now become its fastest-growing traffic driver, as more of its members look to take part in these expert insight posts. Collaborative Articles, which LinkedIn first launched back in back in March, use AI-generated prompts as a starting point […]
Facebook’s Removing its ‘Hobbies’ Section from User Profiles
This is probably not going to have a big impact, but worth noting either way. As of December 13th, Facebook is removing its “Hobbies” listings on user profiles, as it looks to streamline its profile display options. As you can see in this screenshot, posted by app researcher Ahmed Ghanem, Facebook is notifying users that […]