Marketing Google’s ‘Duplex on the web’ enables the Assistant to buy movie tickets for you Google is making it possible to use the Assistant (via Duplex) to buy movie tickets online. Back in May at Google I/O, the company announced that it was expanding the AI-powered Duplex beyond restaurant reservations to booking rental cars and […]
Social Media Instagram’s Testing a Display New Layout for IGTV Content As discovered by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, Instagram is still working on new ways to get more people engaging with IGTV content. Instagram is working on a new format for IGTV content which would switch your main feed into a vertical scrolling […]
Social Media TikTok Reaches 1.5 Billion Downloads, Seeks to Distance Itself from Chinese Government Links According to the latest data from Sensor Tower, the short video app has now exceeded 1.5 billion downloads worldwide, making it the third most downloaded, non-gaming app of the year (after WhatsApp and Messenger). US growth is good, but India, […]
Social Media Facebook releases several ad personalization capabilities Facebook is bringing more machine learning-driven capabilities to its ads platform to improve personalization, the company announced this week. Advertisers will now be able to automatically serve different ad formats to audiences based on the machine learning model’s prediction of a user’s format preference. Campaign managers can […]
Social Media Facebook Releases New Overview of Content Removals, Fake Profiles and Enforcements The Social Network has this week released its latest Community Standards Enforcement Report, which outlines all the content removals and actions it’s taken as a result of posted material that breaks its established rules. Facebook says that it has significantly improved its […]
Social Media Facebook Rolls Out Facebook Pay to the US, Expanding On-Platform Payments Facebook has announced the roll-out of Facebook Pay to US users, which will facilitate on-platform payments, in-stream, making it easier for people to buy products on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Initially, Facebook Pay will be available as a payment option for […]
Social Media Facebook Adds Option to Control Your Navigation Bar Icons and Notifications Over the last few days that Facebook has rolled out a change to its lower navigation bar, in order to better align the displayed icons with the on-platform functions which you actually use. TechCrunch has confirmed that this update also includes a […]
Social Media Instagram Will Begin Hiding Total Like Counts for US Users from Next Week Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced that the platform will be extending its test of hiding total like counts to users in the US. Instagram’s hidden like counts test has sparked much debate in the social media industry, with some seeing […]
Social Media YouTube Launches Updated Desktop and Tablet App Layout YouTube is rolling out a new desktop and tablet app update which utilizes an updated presentation style, and provides additional control options. The updated format provides more room for each preview panel, enabling additional context on each from the main screen. In addition to this, […]
Social Media Facebook Expands Access to Brand Collabs Manager, Adds New Insights to Creator Studio Facebook has announced some new additions to its publisher tools, including expanded access to its Brand Collabs influencer discovery and connection database, and new metrics within its Creator Studio dashboard. Brand Collabs Manager is a database of potential Facebook and […]
