Can You Save the Environment by Using Video?

Has Zoom ever helped you avoid driving somewhere? Have you opted to attend a virtual conference that you might have attended in-person in the past? Ever watched a video posted by a referral partner that helped you remember them and refer them to someone later on? You may not have meant to, but you might […]

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TikTok Testing New Brand Deal Option

TikTok continues to ramp up its initiatives to create more brand deals and get creators paid, and this time, it’s introducing a new element in its Creator Marketplace that’ll allow talent managers to assess the brand opportunities being offered to their clients. Despite the unpopularity of short-form as a direct monetization pathway, TikTok has reveled […]

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Meta Launches New Offensive at Data Scrapers

Meta is taking the law into its own hands. Well, more like it’s launching legal action against yet another company for scraping profile data from both Facebook and Instagram in its pursuit of establishing a legal precedent to stamp out data misuse. As per Meta: “Today, Meta has filed legal action against Voyager Labs in […]

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2023 Twitter Checkmarks

Oh, look at that, more Twitter news. Well, more like tips, rather than actual news. Twitter’s new checkmarks and profile indicators are indeed confusing, but perhaps this newly released infographic straight from Twitter itself might help clear up some of the fuzziness. Pre-Elon, Twitter already had blue ticks, which were an indicator that an account […]

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More Twitter International Offices Shut Down

More on the current Twitter sob story: new CEO Elon Musk continues to cut costs to get the company back on the right financial track, causing the closure of several more international offices. Based on reports, over the last week or so, Twitter needed to close down its offices in Hong Kong, The Philippines, Mexico, […]

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Meta: Heart Rate Monitor x VR

Do you wanna jump on the digital advertising train too and give Meta even more of your personal data? Great! Because even if you’re not, Meta will somehow find a way to subtly back you into a corner and unwittingly do so. Sleazy motives aside, Meta’s adding a new heart-rate tracking element to its Quest […]

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Say Goodbye to Meta’s ‘Creator Studio’ Management App

Did you ever use Facebook’s Creator Studio, its video-focused page management platform? Though unbeknownst to most regular users, Facebook’s Creator Studio, at one point, became the de facto go-to for many social media managers for scheduling page content. Soon, however, it too will join Meta’s app and feature graveyard, with Meta recently urging Creator Studio […]

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Twitter To Auction Freed-Up Handles

Would you consider paying for a Twitter handle that you really like? Amid discussion of how to free up unused Twitter @handles, of which there are over a billion, Twitter has reportedly discussed holding an auction for these now-userless handles as another way to generate a little extra income for the company. Do I hear […]

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YouTube Adds New Analytics Updates

When it comes to YouTube, there are a plethora of things that we just can’t wait to hear every year. One of these ‘things’ also happens to be the first Creator Insider update of 2023, which YouTube only recently uploaded. YouTube just announced a range of new analytics and display options, including fresh data on […]

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Higher Times Spent on Social in 2022

Before we officially close 2022, what better way to wrap up a year than by looking at some cumulative reports, right? Data.ai, formerly known as ‘App Annie’, has just released its annual overview of app performance trends report, which highlights all the note-worthy developments and shifts in 2022. The heaping 91-page report is chock-full of […]

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