Facebook has added a new naming option in Facebook Groups, with members now able to go by their chosen nicknames within group discussion. As you can see in these examples, when creating your profile within any Facebook group, you can now choose to use a nickname, instead of your real name, along with an alternative…
TikTok has launched another avenue to help drive more ad spend in the app, this time via “TikTok Foundry,” a new program that will enable venture capital and private equity firms to enlist TikTok’s ad experts to assist their portfolio brands in maximizing their brand presence in the app. So, essentially, investor firms will now…
YouTube’s trying out a new way to give users more control over the videos they see in their home feed, via a feed customization option that would enable you to update your algorithmic recommendations through conversational prompts. Which sounds similar to the algorithm training options being built by both X and Instagram, using AI chat…
Threads is making it easier to add people into your group chats in the app, with the option to share an invite link, meaning you’ll no longer need to invite people individually to join your group. As you can see in this example, now, within your Threads DM options, you can access a new invite…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Elon Musk has finally come good on his promise to “make comedy legal again” on X, though probably not in the way that he intended. Over the weekend, X flipped the switch on its new “About this…
YouTube is looking to help creators avoid a wider range of penalties with their uploads, by expanding its pre-publish checking tool to cover more types of potential violations. YouTube’s pre-publish checks tool, which it first launched back in 2021, analyzes the content of your upload for a range of potential violations, including copyright concerns and…
Despite its efforts to be classified as a messaging app, instead of a social platform, in order to avoid the coming social media age restrictions in Australia, Snapchat has now accepted that it will be required to abide by the new laws, which will come into effect on December 10th. And like Meta, it’s now…
Another major legal challenge is mounting for Meta, with a group of U.S. parents and school leaders alleging that Meta ignored major risk red flags, in order to maximize usage and profit, despite warnings, including those from its own internal leaders. According to a new filing in the Northern District of California, which has been…
Instagram is rolling out some new updates for the Reels camera, which will make it easier to capture and edit your clips in-stream, for on-the-go posting. Also, you can now capture longer videos via the camera, with 20-minute recording now available in-stream. As explained by IG: “The Instagram Design Team has been hard at work…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Google is launching an updated version of its Nano Banana AI visual generation tool, with the new Nano Banana Pro offering improved capacity to generate images using Google’s most advanced AI models. And for marketers, it could…
