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Meta’s launching a range of new creator management tools within its Business Suite, which will provide more ways for agencies to manage their talent across Meta’s apps. Continue reading
LinkedIn is rolling out new tools that are designed to help people find relevant job opportunities, the company announced. Continue reading
An important note for Facebook advertisers, with Meta announcing that it’ll be removing and/or consolidating some of its detailed ad targeting options, either because they’re not widely used, are too granular, or they relate to topics that “people may perceive as...
YouTube has rolled out a new option to help you reformat your long-form content into Shorts, which could be a handy option for those looking to tap into the popularity of the Shorts format. Continue reading
Snapchat’s rolling out some new updates to its parental control and supervision tools, which will make it easier for parents to manage their kids’ exposure levels in the app. Continue reading
Meta’s new disclosure requirements for digitally altered political ads are now in effect, with all advertisers looking to run ads about social issues, elections, and politics now required to indicate when their ad “contains a photorealistic image or video, or...
X has taken another step forward in its “everything app” plan, with the platform announcing a new partnership with Shopify, which will provide more opportunity for Shopify merchants to promote their products in the app. Continue reading
Many more people will now be able to watch TikTok clips on their home TV screens, with the platform today announcing the capacity to cast your TikTok feed to your TV via Chromecast. Continue reading
We want teens to have safe, age-appropriate experiences on our apps. We’ve developed more than 30 tools and resources to support teens and their parents, and we’ve spent over a decade developing policies and technology to address content that breaks our rules or could...
It seemed that Threads has changed its mind on enabling users to search for topics chronologically, with some users seeing a new toggle in the latest version of the app which enabled them to sort search results by “Latest”, if they so chose. Continue reading
As per The New York Times, TikTok has removed the capacity to search for specific hashtags within its Creative Center tools, which will limit your capability to glean insight into the popularity, or not, of certain tags. Continue reading
Given the various misleading data points that X’s team has communicated since Elon Musk took ownership of the app, which are seemingly designed to give the impression that the platform is performing better than it actually is, it’s hard to trust the numbers that they...