June 10-2024: A Recap of What Happened in The Digital Space Last Week

Happy new week!

Welcome to this week's newsletter, packed with lots of updates from Meta. Also, imagine waking up to the news of X/Twitter allowing adult content, or LinkedIn turning into the next TikTok sensation. LinkedIn is testing in-stream video ads and Mark Zuckerberg's got a new money-back guarantee for you to try out being "verified."

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If you missed the previous week's updates, kindly read here

X/Twitter

• X updated their policy to allow adult content in the app, provided it's properly labelled ?? "Adult Content is any consensually produced and distributed material depicting adult nudity or sexual behaviour that is pornographic or intended to cause sexual arousal."

Read my take on Elon Musk's move to allow Adult content on X (Twitter.) New X adult content policy risks collision with governments

• xAI is working on image generation
• Group calls coming to X. The Maximum group size for an audio call will be 8, whereas the maximum group size for a video call? will be 4
• X Analytics will soon let you see different metrics via a time graph.

Linkedin

LinkedIn is testing Wire Program, a new initiative that allows you to promote in-stream video ads alongside trusted publisher content

#LinkedIn now has a TikTok-style video feed. If we go back in time, TikTok kicked off with this vertical feed, then Instagram, Facebook, YouTube Shorts, and X/Twitter. In May 2023 Amazon rolled out this feed and lately, Uber Eats rolled out this feed in April 2024

Meta

Meta now offers a 14-day free trial for Meta Verified and you will get your money back if you don't see results.?

—Verification goes for $8.99/month

Benefits of Meta Verified?

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??Increased account protection?

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• Instagram is experimenting with the capacity to share draft Reels with friends, and a means to test your Reels concepts with a smaller audience.
• Instagram is trying out some new elements for Carousel posts
• Instagram has Added New Features for Broadcast Channels: IG Live, custom themes, and QR codes
• Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta Verified on WhatsApp is coming to Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Colombia, so people know when they're chatting with authentic shops and services.

• -600 million conversations are made between people and businesses every day on Meta Business messaging apps
• WhatsApp is starting to put AIs in the hands of WhatsApp for Businesses so that it can quickly answer questions or offer help when you need it.?

—You can also now call businesses directly on WhatsApp for extra support

TikTok

• President Donald Trump surpassed the Biden campaign on TikTok. In just 3 days Trump’s TikTok account has achieved almost 5 million followers and 5.2 million likes, compared with the Biden campaign's roughly 355,000 followers and 4.6 million likes
• TikTok has begun implementing mid-roll ads. While watching longer videos, over a minute, some users are being served ads during the videos, typically towards the end.

YouTube

• YouTube’s looking to provide more inspiration for content creators, with its revamped “Inspiration” tab in YouTube Studio Analytics?
• YouTube rolled out community posts to more creators. Posts allow YouTube creators to connect and interact with their viewers through polls, quizzes, GIFs, text, images, and videos. So besides posting long videos and short videos on YouTube, you can also share texts
• PR professionals abandon X for LinkedIn. "Communicators are using social listening tools and prioritizing platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram to build comprehensive PR strategies," said Gregory Galant, co-founder and CEO of Muck Rack.

NVIDIA

Nvidia, the chipmaking company, is now the 2nd most valuable company globally at $3.011 trillion. Currently, Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world. Nvidia just overtook Apple

Interesting Reads

• How Elon Musk's Starlink Turned Amazon Tribe Into Social Media And Pornography Addicts
• 9 Best AI Thumbnail Makers

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