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As I’ve reported many times, TikTok really, really wants to get people buying products in-stream, so it’ll come as little surprise that the platform is making a big push on shopping features this holiday season. Continue reading
YouTube’s announced a new generative AI element as part of its weekly feature update, while it’s also adding new live-stream notification within the Shorts feed. Continue reading
It seems that adoption of ByteDance’s Instagram-like “Lemon8” app is stalling, with the company now looking to use TikTok to boost Lemon8 sign-ups. Continue reading
Threads has now expanded its drafts element mobile, moving it into line with the desktop app, with users now able to save up to 100 Thread drafts in the app. Continue reading
Meta’s rolling out a new ad option called “Flexible Media”, which is its next step in enabling variable ad delivery approaches based on its systematic predictions of user response. Continue reading
Instagram’s expanded its post boosting options, giving you more ways to maximize the value of your best-performing organic updates. Continue reading
TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts, to the streaming services where users discover and play their favorite music. Continue reading
YouTube’s looking to give Shorts creators another pathway to monetization, while it’s also adding new Data Story cards that aim to provide more insight into initial video performance. Continue reading
LinkedIn has announced that it’s removing a range of its templated posts, those celebratory post types in the app that include lightly animated graphics of varying kinds. Continue reading
LinkedIn’s adding another way to get more out of your lead generation efforts, with lead gen now available as an objective for boosted posts. Continue reading
YouTube’s providing more info on content performance, while it’s also adding more AI elements, in its latest update of its YouTube Studio app. Continue reading
Instagram announced an update to DMs, its direct messages inbox, which will improve the experience for those who receive a lot of inbound messages, like creators and influencers. Continue reading