Pinterest Provides New Music Options for Idea Pins

Pinterest aims to better help creators create more engaging Idea Pins with the addition of new music options for their Pin creations, including tracks from some of the world’s biggest recording artists and stars. Based on official samples, now, when creating an Idea Pin, you’ll be able to choose from a range of popular tracks to […]

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TikTok’s New ‘Stemdrop’

TikTok’s looking to take its musical elements to the next level with the launch of a new ‘StemDrop’ initiative which will provide TikTok users with the opportunity to remix a new song and create their own version of the track. As TikTok puts it: “StemDrop launches in collaboration with one of the greatest songwriting teams in history, […]

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Snap Bitstrips 15th Birthday

Despite being available only since 2016, Bitmoji creator Bitstrips is turning 15 this week, and Snap’s celebrating the milestone with some new insights into Bitmoji adoption and usage in the app. As Snap outlines: “Born in Toronto, Canada in 2007, the personalized comic strip builder called Bitstrips made it possible for anyone to express ideas in a fun, creative storytelling […]

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TikTok Launches Automated ‘Smart Performance Campaigns’

TikTok’s looking to make it easier for advertisers to maximize their in-app results, with a new automated ad process called ‘Smart Performance Campaigns’, which essentially requires you to put your trust into TikTok’s machine learning systems for full ad targeting and optimization. As TikTok explains: “Smart Performance Campaign is our first end-to-end automation solution that leverages machine […]

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TikTok Announces New Streaming Age Limits

TikTok just announced that it’s increasing the minimum age requirement for live-streaming in the app, along with adding a new ‘adults-only’ live-stream category and new keyword filtering options for live comments. Combined, the new updates could play a big role in improving the safety of its live-stream offers. Age Restricted First up are the new age restrictions […]

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New Pinterest Insights and Updated Conversions API

Pinterest has announced an update to its Pinterest Trends tools, which will help provide marketers with more insight into the latest shifts and opportunities, while it’s also launched a new API for Conversions, which will provide additional Pin shopping data for retailers. Trendy Insights Let’s first take a look at the updated Pinterest Trends – Pinterest has added […]

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Google ‘Frightgeist’ 2022

Google has brought it back! And by ‘it’ we mean its ‘Frightgeist’ mini-site, which highlights all the key Halloween costume trends across the US, and even provides a costume wizard tool to help users come up with the best option for your Halloween approach. Put Up a Fright The main Frightgeist listing shows you the most […]

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Google Updates Search Display Formats

Now, this shouldn’t have any significant impacts on SEO or Google usage more broadly, but Google has announced a couple of changes to the display of Search results to provide more clarity and transparency within its listings. While it may only be noticed by the most critical or niche of Google enthusiasts, more context, even if they […]

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Tweet Editing No Real Impact on Twitter Blue Take-Up

With Tweet editing, the supposed ‘most-requested’ Social Media feature of all time, recently added to Twitter Blue offerings, you would expect there to have been a big jump in Blue subscribers over the last week or so, right? Well, if you look at Twitter’s stats, it doesn’t seem like that’s the case. According to the latest […]

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Facebook Announces Retirement of ‘Instant Articles’

Facebook continues to move away from news content, in preference for entertaining video (ala TikTok), with the announcement that it’ll also be retiring its Instant Articles offering in April next year. Originally launched back in 2015, Instant Articles were designed to provide publishers with a more engaging, fast-loading way to present their articles on Facebook, helping to […]

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