Goat Industry Round Up: Meta Launches Wendyverse & Cracks Down On Watchbait Videos

Every week the Insights Team at The Goat Agency pull together the latest news from the social space in a weekly Industry Round-Up. This week we cover Meta launching Wendyverse, TikTok being sued by two previous moderators, Instagram testing a full immersive feed and so much more!

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News This Week You Don't Want To Miss:

Why Two TikTok Moderators Are Suing ByteDance : is TikTok's parent company in hot water with this latest lawsuit? Facebook (now Meta) faced a similar lawsuit a few years back. Click the link above to find out how that ended for the social media giant!

Influencer E-commerce Platform Raises $10 Million : keep an eye on this upcoming platform that utilises creators as personal shoppers.. could Instagram take something from this platform model?

Vlogbrothers Launch ‘Awesome Coffee Club’ : yes another creator has launched another coffee company (we're looking at you Emma Chamberlain), but there is something special about this one!

The New Data Agreement In Europe Saves Facebook & Instagram : it wasn't looking too good for Facebook and Instagram for a while there, find out why!

Meta Is Cracking Down On 'Watchbait' Videos Across Facebook : thinking about adding a clickbait title to your next Facebook video? Well, you better think again as Meta doesn't want you to!

Meta’s ‘Wendyverse’ : Meta is showcasing what a branded space will look like within its VR Horizon Worlds platform *proceeds to puts on Oculus headset*

Instagram Tests A Full Immersive Feed : will this be the future of our Instagram feeds? We've just been given back a chronological feed, but could we soon see feed posts, Reels and Stories combined in one feed flow?

Instagram’s New Prompts For Charitable Causes : Instagram has made another push to amplify social causes on the platform, now select cause hashtags will prompt users to share the hashtag page and highlight Instagram’s charitable donations feature.

New Twitter Spaces Analytics : Twitter is testing new analytics for Spaces for select hosts, is this another reason to leave Clubhouse in the rearview mirror?

Twitter & Collaborative Tweets : with Instagram stepping up collaborative features, now Twitter has entered the chat with this new test!

Pinterest Expands The Creator Fund : more creators will soon experience the support of Pinterest with an extension of the fund that has already helped a number of creators increase overall profile views and Pin impressions!

TikTok 'Watch History’ Feature : we can see all the videos we liked on TikTok, but what happens when we didn't hit the heart on that video we saw 5 hours ago, TikTok has you covered with this new update.

TikTok’s GIF Library Tool : TikTok is partnering with GIPHY to bring GIFs to its video creation tools... but wait don't Meta own GIPHY?

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