Daily Minute Master Series
May 29, 2025

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

X Pauses DM Encryption as it Works on Messaging Updates

It seems that X’s DMs are about to get an overhaul, with X announcing today that it’s removing encrypted DMs for the time being, as it continues to implement back-end improvements.

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Telegram Agrees to Deal to Host xAI’s Grok Chatbot

Telegram and xAI are looking into a 1-year partnership to distribute Grok via the messaging app, which will make Grok availavle to Telegram’s billion-plus users.

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Linkedin Adds More Post Analytics to Help Guide Content Strategy

LinkedIn’s adding some additional post analytics elements, in order to provide more insight into how your content is driving engagement and interaction in the app.

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X Looks to Expand its Video Push With ‘X Originals’

X is looking to sign-up more original content, as part of its expanded video push, with the launch of a new “X Originals” moniker for its expanding slate of programming.

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Instagram Adds Native Support for 3:4 Images

Instagram has announced that the platform now supports 3:4 aspect ratio photos, which is the native format for more phone cameras.

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Google’s Query Fan-Out Patent: Thematic Search

A patent that Google filed in December 2024 presents a close match to the Query Fan-Out technique that Google’s AI Mode uses. The patent, called Thematic Search, offers an idea of how AI Mode answers are generated and suggests new ways to think about content strategy.

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