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Source: Social Media Today Snapchat’s looking to become even more important to teen social life, by acquiring calendar-based social app Saturn, which enables users to share their schedules, and arrange meet-ups in the app. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today More reassurance for Meta advertisers, with Meta today announcing that it’s been re-accredited by the Media Ratings Council (MRC) for Content-Level Brand Safety, meaning that Meta’s documented processes continue to meet the MRC...
Source: Techcrunch Facebook is rolling out support for passkeys on both iOS and Android, the social network has recently announced Continue reading
Source: Techcrunch YouTube is updating the Shopping experience for Shorts, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is launching new Shopping product stickers to make it easy for viewers to know that the products being used in the Short are shoppable....
Source: Social Media Today Meta’s announced some new AI-powered ad options, including image-to-video generation, branding in AI-generated video clips, business AIs to respond to customer queries, and more Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s rolling out an updated shopping button for Shorts, while it’s also giving more channel managers access to its Communities option, providing more ways to engage with your audience in the app Continue...
Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s looking to help creators establish more brand partnership opportunities via a new “Open Call” element within its BrandConnect platform, which will enable brands to post opportunities for prospective creators to apply to work...
Source: Techcrunch Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation. Up until now, users have been able to share both video posts and reels Continue reading
Source: Techcrunch Instagram Threads, Meta’s competitor to X, on Tuesday launched two new features as part of its plan to further integrate with the open social web, known as the fediverse Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today TikTok’s announced some new AI-powered elements for its TikTok Symphony brand creation platform, including updated text-to-video creation, image-to-video animation, and more Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today After testing them out over the past few months, Threads has now launched its new spoiler tags in posts, which will enable users to hide words in their posts behind a tappable overlay. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s added another revenue opportunity for creators, with its “Player for Education” program giving creators a share of any revenue earned when their content is embedded as part of a schools initiative Continue reading...