Meta Announces New Avatar Updates, Including Halloween-Themed Customizations
In case you didn’t notice, Meta really wants you to try out its 3D avatars, and its evolving avatar interaction tools. Why? Because it’s through these avatars that more people will be able to engage in its 3D VR environments, which, eventually, could help to migrate them across to its more immersive metaverse experience. Which […]
Twitter Alternative ‘Pebble’, Formerly ‘T2’, is Shutting Down Due to Low Usage
After Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover sparked a raft of copycats and alternatives, it was inevitable, at some stage, that the crowd would thin, as funding begins to dry up for these new services. Today, Pebble, the app founded by former Twitter staff, which was originally titled T2, has announced that it will be shutting down […]
Snapchat Crosses 400 Million Users, Sees Return to Revenue Growth in Q3
Snap Inc. has published its latest performance update, showing a steady increase in active users, and a return to positive revenue growth. Though signs of what’s coming next for the app remain unclear, due to rising costs and increasing ad industry pressures. First off, on users. Snap’s daily active user count rose to 406 million, […]
TikTok Shares Insights and Tips From Ad Industry Leaders in New Video Series
TikTok has launched a new video series that will highlight how leading ad execs are approaching the app, which could give you more inspiration and guidance for your TikTok content. The new “Made for TikTok” series will include a range of ad experts sharing their insights and tips on how to make best use of […]
Instagram Tests New “Nearby” Feed for Stories
Instagram is once again taking cues from TikTok, and could be looking to negate the next push from the app with this new test. As you can see in this image, shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram’s currently experimenting with a new “Nearby” feed for Stories, which would highlight public content from users and […]
Meta Faces Legal Action from 42 State Attorneys General Over Addicting Teen Users
This could be trouble for Meta, and potentially every other social app that utilizes an algorithmic feed. Today, a coalition of 42 U.S. attorneys general has launched legal action against the company, accusing it of utilizing addictive processes to hook young users on their apps. As reported by CNBC: “Attorneys general from 33 states filed […]
TikTok Provides New Insights To Help Drive Halloween-Themed Promotions
Are you excited for Halloween? The spooky season hype is growing, and with that, many brands will also be looking to get in on the action, by creating themed promotions that aim to link into the Halloween trend, and drive more shopping activity. To help with this, TikTok has published a new overview of Halloween […]
Instagram Tests a Dedicated Content Feed From ‘Meta Verified’ Accounts
Meta’s moving to the next stage of its paid verification testing, with a new experiment that will see some Instagram users able to filter their main and Reels feeds to posts from “Meta Verifed” users only. As you can see in this example, some users are now able to access a new, dedicated stream of […]
LinkedIn Looks to Help Candidates Stand Out With ‘Top Choice’ Job Application Option
As LinkedIn continues to add more features to help creators stand out in the app, it also needs to keep its core purpose in mind, which is to enable its members to advance their professional careers, which, of course, will occur mostly outside of the app itself. And while some people are able to make […]
Meta Outlines Brand and User Safety Approaches With Mini-Site
It may not be what it is, but Meta’s latest “media responsibility” push feels like a shot at Elon Musk, and the revised approach that X is taking to content moderation in its app. Today, Meta has outlined its new Media Responsibility framework, which are the guiding principles that it’s applying to its own moderation […]