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Google Adds New Search Tools for the Holidays, Including AR Try-On Tools and Map Overlays

Google’s adding some new Search enhancements for the holidays, in order to help businesses maximize interest in the peak shopping season, and to help people get around and maximize their upcoming travels.

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WhatsApp Launches New Business Search Functionality, Expands In-Stream Payments

As social media engagement increasingly shifts to messages, Meta has already flagged its intentions to maximize the business opportunities in messaging, including Click-to-Message ads and other direct connection tools.

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Meta’s Removing Religious, Political and Sexual Preference Fields from Facebook Profiles

Meta has begun informing Facebook users that it’s removing several profile info fields, in order to streamline the platform and make it ‘easier to navigate’.

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Google Launches New, Shoppable Music Video, Featuring Ludacris, to Promote Black-Owned Friday

Google’s taking a new approach to its latest Black-owned Friday promotion, with the search giant teaming up with Ludacris to launch a new song, with a music video that featured a range of shoppable products, all sourced from Black-owned businesses.

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Meta Shares Tips for Marketers in New ‘Social Skills’ Video Series

Looking for last-minute tips to push your social strategies over the edge this holiday season? This might help – Meta has released the latest episodes of its ‘Social Skills’ interview series, in which Meta’s Laurise McMillan speaks to high-performing social media marketers to learn about their strategies, approaches and results, to help others learn from their efforts.