The major platforms have been coming under fire for the implementation of new AI features – with user backlash forcing Meta to remove an Instagram update that allows users to […]
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Meta axes Muse Image feature referencing Instagram accounts
Meta unveiled its new image-generating AI tool, Muse Image, last week – complete with the ability to “reference” other people’s public Instagram accounts in prompts by @-mentioning them.
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Meta launches app for vibe coding mini games
In recent months, Meta has been busy rolling out new features and apps. While not everyone is impressed by its continued expansion into AI, the company’s latest app, Pocket, could […]
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LadBible struggles show impact of Meta and Google algorithms
News and lifestyle publishers are very much the canaries in the coal mines of social media – specifically platforms pivoting their algorithms to whatever their CEO is currently excited about, be […]
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More Prediction Markets: Meta aiming to create prediction market platform – report
Meta’s internal R&D team has long been trying to build new stuff that allows the company to expand outside of its titanic trios of Instagram and Facebook – with varying success. […]
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Google launches creator search profiles
Google recently launched Search Profiles for Creators, a new feature that allows creators to build a public presence directly within Google Search. The feature gives audiences another way to learn […]
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Report highlights big-tech platforms’ role in spreading Indian ‘hate music’
US-based non-profit The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has published a report titled ‘Profiting from Hate Music: The Role of YouTube, Meta, Spotify and Apple Music in […]
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Threads now has 500m monthly users (and some new features)
Instagram’s Threads app raced to 100 million users in its first month after launch in July 2023. Now it has 500 million.
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Report: Meta’s ‘monopoly’ of music-ad budgets is ending
Music marketing-tech company Ctrl+Reach has published a report analysing wider trends in the music industry’s advertising spending.
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Instagram details the features in its new ‘Plus’ subscription
Instagram has confirmed the details of what people will be getting in the $3.99-a-month Instagram Plus tier.
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Meta’s Supernatural VR music-fitness app isn’t dead after all
In January this year, Meta announced that its virtual-reality music fitness service Supernatural – which it had once battled regulator the FTC to acquire – would not be receiving any new updates or […]
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Meta’s latest tests focus on episodic reels and teen wellbeing
Barely a week goes by at the moment without Meta testing some new features on one of its apps and/or scrambling to head off concerns of regulators about the way […]
