Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s making a change to its in-app discovery elements, with the removal of its “Trending” and “Trending Now” listings, which will be replaced by a series of category-specific charts. Continue reading

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Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s making a change to its in-app discovery elements, with the removal of its “Trending” and “Trending Now” listings, which will be replaced by a series of category-specific charts. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today Meta has added some new elements to its Marketing API, its connector that enables third party platforms to facilitate Meta ad management, with a focus on providing more tools to enable creator monetization in its apps. Continue...
Source: Social Media Today LinkedIn has launched a new set of Member Post Analytics APIs, which will enable third party social media management platforms to integrate more LinkedIn post performance data, in order to make it easier to manage your LinkedIn...
Source: Social Media Today YouTube has provided more info on its new option that enables creators to share more of their channel performance data with brands, in order to drive more monetization opportunities. Continue reading ...
Source: Techcrunch YouTube is preparing to update its policies to crack down on creators’ ability to generate revenue from “inauthentic” content, including mass-produced videos and other types of repetitive content — things that have become easier to generate...
Source: Social Media Today Meta’s expanded its content copyright checking tool to the Reels composer on Facebook, as a means to help creators avoid potential restrictions on their content after publishing. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today TikTok recently launched its new Brand Consideration ads, which enable advertisers to target different audience sub-segments based on where people are in the purchase journey. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today After launching an initial test of Threads DMs earlier this month, Meta has now announced a global expansion of the function, which will give all users their own Threads-specific inbox to engage in private chats. Continue...
Source: Social Media Today Meta has announced some updated ad options, with a focus on messaging, and WhatsApp in particular, as it looks to provide more ways for brands to tap into emerging engagement behaviors. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s looking to provide channel managers with more tools to help grow their in-app communities, including updated audience engagement insights, and improved markers of interaction opportunities in-stream. Continue...
Source: Techcrunch Instagram announced Monday that it’s finally adding the ability for users to listen to previews of songs that they’ve shared from Spotify to Stories. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today After announcing that hashtags would be banned from all Promoted Posts on X last week, X owner Elon Musk also flagged another coming to change to X’s ad process, with bigger ads to soon cost more per placement. Continue...