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Today we’re announcing several updates to our Transfer Your Information (TYI) tool to make data portability more seamless for our users. To provide people with choice and control over their data, we’ve spent the last few months rebuilding our data portability tool...
After adding support for various third-party video providers over the last year in order to facilitate video meetings in the app, last week, LinkedIn quietly rolled out a new, native video option within its messaging platform, which provides another way to connect...
Facebook has launched a new series of expert interviews to help provide more guidance for advertisers on how to respond to key industry shifts, and outline what's working right now in building effective Facebook ad campaigns. As explained by Facebook: "Across several...
A steady convergence of social media platforms continues unabated with news that TikTok has become the latest provider to ape Snapchat’s popular ‘Stories’ feature. This bout of corporate mimicry has seen Snapchat’s killer app first copied by Instagram, and it will now...
Earlier in the week, Facebook announced that it had been forced to cut off a group of NYU researchers from accessing Facebook's internal usage data, because the NYU team had failed to adhere to the platform's more stringent research usage conditions, which it...
Fleets weren’t long for this world, but Twitter’s product teams aren’t slowing down on bringing new stuff to Spaces, the company’s own take on audio rooms. Twitter introduced Spaces in a limited test last year, expanding the Clubhouse copycat feature more broadly to...
As part of its broader push to help maximize economic opportunity, and remove inherent bias from its systems, LinkedIn has refined the recommendation algorithm for its 'People You May Know' feature, in order to ensure that users are not adversely impacted by various...
Amid the global lockdowns over the past year and half, gaming, unsurprisingly, has seen a big boost in popularity, providing alternative forms of both in-home entertainment and social connection while distant. But even before 2020, gaming had already become a key part...
The film industry is going through a major upheaval at the moment, with the pandemic forcing a reassessment of traditional distribution processes, and both expanding and limiting opportunities in-step, as more people turn to video-on-demand (VOD) platforms...
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve people’s experience on Facebook, we’ve redesigned the Facebook Settings page to make our tools easier to find. We’ve streamlined the layout, while keeping all the previous settings. Whether it’s managing the ads people...
TikTok continues to seek opportunities to expand on its business potential, this time through a new, global partnership with Publicis Groupe, which will give Publicis clients first-up access to TikTok's evolving commerce tools, while also providing TikTok with more...
Instagram is looking to help brands improve their posting approach by highlighting top examples of both organic and promoted posts from other businesses in the app, which may help to spark creative thinking and consideration. The new element has been added to...