Meta Outlines its Approach to Brand and User Safety with New 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 […]
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 […]
YouTube Shares Halloween Inspiration for Shorts Creators [Infographic]
YouTube’s looking to inspire more Shorts engagement this Halloween, with a new listing of spooky Shorts ideas for the season. In order to help guide your process, YouTube has shared 31 Halloween Shorts ideas, from recipe videos, to make-up tutorials, to clips scripted by AI. And with Shorts now driving over 50 billion daily views, […]
TikTok Shares New Insights into its Value for Gaming Marketers [Infographic]
TikTok has published not one, but two new reports which examine the value of the platform for gaming promotions, and the growing TikTok Gaming community. The first report, created in conjunction with NewZoo, explores the importance of community in game marketing, and how gaming marketers need to reach players where they spend the most time. […]
TikTok Provides New Insights to Help Drive Halloween-Themed Promotions in the App
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’s Testing a New, Dedicated Feed of Content from ‘Meta Verified’ Accounts Only
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 […]
YouTube’s Testing Out New Comment Controls to Manage Video Interactions
YouTube is testing a new option that would enable creators to deactivate future comments on selected videos, while still keeping any comments that have been posted till that point, in order to provide more ways to manage the discussion around your clips. To be clear, you can already switch off video comments, both at the […]
Elon Musk Outlines Coming X Premium Subscription Packages, Including an Ad Free Option
X is looking to move to the next stage of its subscription package push, with X owner and CTO Elon Musk outlining two new X Premium packages that will be released shortly in the app. Two new tiers of X Premium subscriptions launching soon. One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in […]
New Report Suggests X Usage is Declining Amid Various App Changes
It seems like X’s reported numbers could be flawed, or that it may be losing audience as more changes are implemented by Elon Musk and his team. According to a new analysis by Apptopia, which tracks the usage habits of more than 100,000 mobile app users, X currently has around 121 million daily active users, […]
Instagram Will Enable You to Create Stickers from Entities in Your Photos
Instagram’s testing another new sticker option, this time with a photo cut-out process, that enables you to make stickers out of objects within your images. As you can see in this example, the new option will enable you to identify specific entities within your photos, and then easily cut and paste them in isolation, so […]