Social Media

Snapchat Launches Meditation Tool from HeadSpace, the First of its New Mini-Apps

Back in June, at its 2020 Partner Summit, Snapchat previewed its upcoming ‘Snapchat Minis’, which are essentially micro-versions of full apps, built within Snapchat.

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TikTok Faces More Challenges, Pausing Expansion Plans in UK and Dealing with Penalties in South Korea

While there’s no doubting the popularity of TikTok, as reflected in the apps rapid, ongoing growth around the world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know what the future holds for the app, with various investigations and considerations in play that threaten to stop the platform in its tracks, and relegate it to the history books with various other short-term hits. And while questions over TikTok’s Chinese ownership, and its potential links to the Chinese Government, have always been present, they do seem to have gained momentum recently, with global tensions rising, and nations looking at ways in which they can hit back over economic sanctions, and even military incursions, putting TikTok, once again, in the firing line.

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Investigation Finds Facebook has Removed Fact Check Markers on Some Climate Change Denial Posts

While Facebook continues to up its efforts to remove COVID-19 misinformation, various reports in recent weeks have suggested that it’s not doing anywhere near as much to halt the spread of other types of misinformation across its network, raising questions as to the role Facebook plays in such, and what its motivations are, exactly, for taking a more ‘hands off’ approach in certain contexts. The latest report comes from Popular Information, which has today published an account of one specific piece of climate change denial literature which, despite being found by Facebook’s fact-checking partners to be ‘partly false’, and labeled as such as per Facebook’s policies, eventually had that tag removed, seemingly after intervention by Facebook management.

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Marketing

How to Use AI to Provide Seamless Email Journeys for Your Customers

You probably had your first dose of artificial intelligence (AI) through Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi films that depict robots coming to life and gaining control over the world. Though this is still a distant dream, it wouldn’t come as a surprise if such advancements actually came true in the near future. As the world is moving at breakneck speed, the concept of AI is receiving a mix of emotions from all around the world. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates referred to AI as a “holy grail” in the realms of computer science and technology that would go a long way in making lives easier. Now looking beyond the scenario of robots taking over the world, AI has arrived in the business landscape transforming critical operations and processes for tons of businesses worldwide. Marketing, particularly email marketing, is one such practice that stands to receive the most out of artificial intelligence.

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Adapt or Die: 5 Predictions for the Workplace of the Future

In a matter of months, Covid-19 has caused an historic, radical transformation in how we think about the time-honored act of going to work. The CDC recently issued restrictive occupancy guidelines; companies like Twitter and Shopify have suggested their employees may work remotely forever; NYC is re-opening, yet only 10-15 percent of office workers have actually returned.

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COVID is Accelerating TV Advertising’s Transformation Into an Addressable Medium

When it comes to ad targeting and attribution, Connected TV (CTV) beats traditional TV in every way. From an advertiser perspective, however, the challenge has been one of scale. That now appears to be changing rapidly. CTV, including OTT (over the top streaming), has been growing steadily for years. But COVID-19 has accelerated everything significantly.

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