Pinterest has added a new way to showcase your Pinterest marketing skills, with a new type of badge that you can earn via its Pinterest Academy education platform. Now, you can earn and share your “Performance Essentials” achievement, which is awarded to those who complete the latest Pin Academy course. As explained by Pinterest: “Starting…
TikTok has renewed its media partnership with Major League Soccer (MLS), which will see the U.S.-based soccer league continue to share exclusive content to the app. TikTok signed its original partnership with MLS back in 2023, which has seen the league build a strong following in the app, which it’s now looking to expand on…
Looking to get into YouTube Shorts, but only have long-form content? YouTube’s keen to help, because Shorts are now driving a lot more engagement in the app, and as such, feeding in more short-form content is likely to be a win, both for YouTube and for creators. Over on the YouTube blog, it’s shared a…
Meta’s change in approach to political content appears to be driving more referral traffic from the platform once again, with new data showing that total referral traffic from the app is up 74% year-over-year for some of the biggest publisher sites. According to new analysis conducted by Similarweb, and shared with Press Gazette, Meta’s revised…
As you’re no doubt aware, Meta is defending itself against an FTC antitrust case at the moment, which has seen Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg face several days of questioning in a federal court, in regards to the company’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, and is motivations in buying up potentially competing apps. And most of…
xAI has added new memory capacity to its Grok chatbot, which will enable Grok to recall elements of your previous interactions with the bot, in order to customize future responses. As you can see in this example, using its memory of your past questions and responses, Grok will now be able to tailor its future…
xAI has released its initial version of “Grok Studio,” a new expansion of its Grok chatbot designed to incorporate multiple inputs, and generate reports, code, even browser games, via Grok outputs. Today, we are releasing the first version of Grok studio, adding code execution and google drive support. Grok StudioGrok can now generate documents, code,…
Instagram appears to be testing two new search filters for the Reels tab, which would enable you to sort your recommended Reels by “Latest” or “Most Viewed.” As you can see in this example, posted by Brent Colmer (and shared by social media expert Lindsey Gamble), some users are now seeing the new filter options…
While Meta’s AI chatbot and image generation features are fairly generic, in terms of other consumer-facing AI tools available on the market, where Meta could really benefit from generative AI is in VR creation, and eventually, enabling VR users to speak entirely new experiences into existence, literally, then explore those creations. And this week, Meta…
With Threads passing its 20 month mark recently, and amid ongoing discussion about the potential for the app’s growth, and the relative decline of the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s worth checking in on exactly where the real-time social market is at, and what kind of growth Threads, X, and Bluesky are currently seeing….
