Social Media Walmart to Pilot Test Live-Streamed Video Shopping on TikTok Walmart and TikTok announced this morning they will be partnering on the first pilot test of a new shoppable product experience on TikTok’s social video app. Walmart, as you may recall, had planned to invest in TikTok when the app was being threatened with a ban […]
Social Media Twitter Confirms the Shutdown of its Separate Periscope App in March 2021 It comes as little surprise, especially given speculation about the app’s future after a discovery in Twitter’s back-end code last week. But today, Periscope has confirmed it. For the full article click here Facebook’s Looking to Take on Cameo with a New […]
Social Media European Union Announces Sweeping New Regulations Against Big Tech Companies Big tech companies could face multibillion dollar fines in Europe and the threat of being broken up unless they comply with sweeping new regulations announced by the European Commission on Tuesday. After years of wrangling in the U.S. over whether to hold tech companies […]
Social Media FTC Launches New Investigation into How the Major Social Platforms Utilize User Data By the looks of it, 2021 could see a range of significant regulatory changes, which could change the way digital platforms operate, and digital marketing as a result. Hot on the heels of launching legal action against Facebook over alleged antitrust breaches, […]
Social Media 23 Social Media And Digital Marketing Best Practices That Are Actually Myths When you are new to the game and have not your path to success (yet), you probably hop from one piece of information to the next, sucking up all the tips, social media best practices and success stories. The problem is […]
Social Media What the FTC’s Call for Facebook’s Break-Up Means for the Tech Sector Facebook is facing antitrust lawsuits from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 46 states alleging that the company employed anticompetitive, illegal practices to acquire or eliminate its rivals. For the full article click here Twitter Acquires Multi-Participant Streaming App Squad, Which Enables Screen-Sharing Within […]
Social Media FTC Launches Lawsuit Against Facebook Over Antitrust Activity The Federal Trade Commission has launched new legal action against Facebook, which alleges that the company is “illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct”. The suit specifically focuses on Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, and calls for a […]
Social Media TikTok’s Looking to Expand its Video Length Limit to Three Minutes According to reports, TikTok is testing a new option which would enable users to upload videos of up to three minutes in length, an increase on the current 60-second limit. For the full article click here Snapchat Announces New, $3.5 Million AR Creator […]
Social Media YouTube Gaming Saw 100 Billion Hours of Watch Time in 2020, Underlining the Rise of Gaming Culture If you’re not paying attention to the influence of gaming on popular culture in 2020, you’re missing out on one of the most significant elements for the next generation, with gamers now becoming major celebrities in […]
Social Media Facebook Shares New Insights into the Impacts of COVID-19 on SMBs Facebook has published the latest version of its State of Small Business Report, which looks at how COVID-19, and the related lockdown measures, are impacting SMBs around the world. The data, which Facebook has been tracking since July, incorporates responses from more than 30,000 small […]
