Goat Industry Round Up: Twitter Accepts Elon Musk's Deal & The European Union's Digital Services Act

Every week the Insights Team at The Goat Agency pull together the latest news from the social space in a weekly social media industry news round-up. This week we cover Twitter accepting Elon Musk's deal to acquire the platform for $44 billion, the new Digital Services Act in the E.U and the latest updates to social platforms!?

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News This Week You Don't Want To Miss:

Elon Musk’s $44 Billion Offer Accepted By Twitter Board: what will Twitter be like under Elon's ownership and what is his 'free speech' plans...

YouTube’s New Hire From Amazon: YouTube scores the Amazon veteran behind Alexa but how will YouTube utilise this new hire?

Spotify’s Update For Video Podcasts: Spotify clearly feels the future of podcasts is video not audio..... but what does this mean for social audio?

Jellysmack Acquires AMA Digital: the global creator company makes a second acquisition to enhance analytics

The European Union’s Digital Services Act: social media platforms could be forced to pay huge fines in EU territories.... especially Twitter with Elon's plans for the platform!

Instagram’s Reels Templates: an important update to enhance short-form video creation across the platform

Instagram’s Pinned Posts Test: another test giving users more control over their feed and another feature copied from TikTok

Updates To Reels Monetisation: TikTok's Creator Fund might be falling short, but Instagram is clearly learning from competitor mistakes!

YouTube Expands “Super Thanks”: another monetisation feature from YouTube to ensure it is seen as the most profitable platform for creators!

Snapchat’s Inclusion Updates: Snap is taking inclusion seriously with virtual avatars in anticipation of the metaverse shift

Meta Develops Creative Tools Within Spark AR Studio: Snapchat leads the way with AR but Meta is looking to close ground with the latest update to Spark

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