Watchdogs are cracking down after discovering Lanistar is not FCA approved Update: On November 20, The FCA released the following statement:“Following the FCA receiving a number of consumer reports, on Wednesday 18 November we issued a consumer warning against Lanistar. Today, the firm agreed to add an appropriate disclaimer to its marketing materials updating its …
Update: As of November 19th 2020, Twitter has announced Fleets are temporarily paused due to ‘performance and stability problems’. Yes, after just one day. Twitter has rolled out tweets that disappear after 24 hours after extensive testing in Brazil, Italy, India, and South Korea. They’re called Fleets, for some reason, and function pretty much exactly …
At first mention, WhatsApp introducing a shopping button or eCommerce link sounds a bit creepy, and like your allegedly encrypted chats might not be as private as you’d thought they were. But actually, this is a pretty cool feature and it’s only available for WhatsApp Business accounts. WhatsApp say that over 175 million messages are …
Now even WhatsApp has a shopping function and it’s actually… pretty good? Read More »
Boss Adam Mosseri revealed a preview of the new update in his own stories this week Following the quiet release of the update that groups your notifications together on Instagram (very this), Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has posted on his own Instagram stories that the platform is experimenting with new ways of emoji-reacting to the …
Instagram is working on ways to react to stories without sending DMs Read More »
Following the announcements that YouTube and IGTV were taking steps towards upping their eCommerce game, TikTok has announced a partnership with eCommerce platform Shopify in order to help merchants make their products more available to purchase from TikTok. Hold onto your wallets.
Facebook Dating has launched in Europe this week, and the reactions so far have ranged from alarmed and confused over potentially being matched with your parents’ friends, to excited about being left on read on yet another dating platform.
Facebook Inc (who own Instagram, lest we forget) have announced their commitment to a new policy which will make it “much harder” for users to post advertisements or sponsored content to the platform without correctly and prominently labelling the posts as such. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have been looking into the use of …
Instagram to change creator ad policy following U.K. watchdog investigation Read More »
Google announce plans to introduce YouTube commerce as Instagram launches shoppable videos As social platforms are all looking for new ways to make money, most of them are seemingly turning to e-commerce. Creators are spreading their content over multiple platforms and having to produce seemingly endless new video formats, and the platforms are trying to …
IGTV and YouTube experiment with product tags and in-video shopping Read More »
Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai will be quizzed about their content policies The men at the top of three of the world’s most powerful companies have been subpoenaed by the US Senate Commerce Committee, meaning they’ll be asked some probing questions about their content publishing by the USA’s government and lawmakers. The bosses …
Facebook, Twitter and Google bosses called for questioning by US Senate Read More »
Another step closer to having all their messaging (including WhatsApp) on one platform Facebook has previously announced that it plans to host all its messaging services (that would be Instagram DM, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp) on one unified platform, and it seems the goal is edging ever closer. Also, the co-watching experience ‘Watch Together’ (that …
Facebook announces integration of Messenger and co-watching with Instagram Read More »
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