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YouTube Shorts is making a change to address the growing issues around spam on the short-form video platform. The company says that starting on August 31st, links that appear in the Shorts comments section, Shorts descriptions, and the vertical live feed will no...
In-stream shopping has become the key revenue driver for the Chinese version of TikTok, and the company is determined to make it a thing in Western regions too, despite limited interest, thus far, from users. Continue reading
Amid ongoing concerns about X’s new “free speech” approach, and how that’s impacted brand safety on the platform Continue reading
With the amount of AI-generated content steadily rising, social networks are trying to get ahead of the wave, while also trying to ride it with their own generative AI features. Continue reading
LinkedIn’s looking to help job seekers better highlight their professional skills, by incorporating more ways to highlight skills and competencies into various elements of the app. Continue reading
YouTube has announced the launch of a new report in YouTube Studio which will display the number of new and returning views by content format within your channel insights. Continue reading
Despite declines in user retention numbers following its buzzy, record-breaking launch, Instagram’s Twitter (er, X) competitor Threads continues to ship new features. Continue reading
Instagram’s expanding access to its new DM control options, which are designed to help users avoid unwanted contact, particularly in the form of images and videos that they don’t want to receive. Continue reading
Have you noticed that ads in your X timeline are getting harder to differentiate from normal posts? That’s seemingly by design, with X recently changing its ad disclosure indicators from a more prominent “Promoted” tag at the bottom left, to a much smaller “Ad” marker...
It’s been in testing for some time, but now, X Spaces users can log in as a speaker on desktop, providing another way to engage in the platform’s audio chats. Continue reading
The video sharing platform has announced that TikTok users in the European Union will “soon” be able to switch off its infamously engaging content-selection algorithm as it prepares to comply with the bloc’s updated digital rulebook. Continue reading
I’m not sure that X’s communities are ever going to be a key engagement space, or even a valuable consideration for most users. But the X team is trying to boost communities engagement, in the hopes that it can indeed help facilitate more types of discussion in the...