June 17-2024: A Recap of What Happened in The Digital Space Last Week

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Welcome to this week's newsletter. Here is a quick recap of what happened in the digital space last week that you should know!

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn Company Updates

??LinkedIn launched Premium Company Page, a subscription allowing subscribers to add a testimonial, custom button,n and credentials to Top Card. It is expected to be globally available by the end of July.

??Launches new Premium Business enhancements

LinkedIn announced new updates for its newsletter creation platform, including an updated reader UI, member & page embedding in articles, and new tools. The comments now shifted to the right of the main display. More than 184K newsletters are being published on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn Premium subscribers are getting access to a range of new job discovery and application tools, including AI-based job application feedback, enhanced cover letter assistance and conversational queries to find open roles

Meta

Meta’s all-out A.I. push has taken a hit in Europe, with the company forced to scale back its A.I. plans in Europe amid concerns about how it’s looking to fuel its A.I. models with user data, from both Facebook and Instagram.

• Instagram is testing new Ads overlayed on User Stories ?
• WhatsApp is experimenting with another section to let users easily transfer their chat history from an old phone.?

X /Twiter

• It was bound to happen for some countries with that new X Adult content policy. The Indonesian minister threatens to shut down X over adult content
• The Likes tab on X is now gone. This means you will not be able to see what a user likes on the app. However, you will still have the likes tab on your own account and see what you have liked. You will also receive notifications when users like your posts

X Analytics now requires you to be on X Premium to view the analytics of the new dashboard. In the recent past, you could view analytics of our page without paying

??X analytics has a new dashboard with bar graphs that app researchers spotted last week

Here is what the new Advanced X Analytics looks like:

?You can filter according to days, months and years

?You can filter according to impressions, likes, new followers, replies, profile visits and link clicks

?It now has a bar graph to show comparison and performance

If you are a premium user, check your analytics here: https://x.com/i/account_analytics. This would force businesses and creators to pay for the subscription because you must know and understand your performance

X is also testing audience analytics

BeReal sold!

BeReal the photo-sharing app has been purchased by French app, developer Voodoo for a whopping €500 million, approximately $537 million.

TikTok

TikTok rolls out image search capabilities in TikTok Shop

TikTok has a new AI effect that allows you to customize your background.

TikTok now allows more users to upload 60-minute-long videos including users in the EU?

YouTube

YouTube is adding QR codes for channels, to facilitate faster connections, while it’s also testing effects creation for Shorts, and expanding access to its “Jump Ahead” feature for clips.

YouTube is rolling out Thumbnail Test & Compare, which lets creators test up to 3 different thumbnails & uses data to pick a winner

YouTube’s updated Desktop UI is now available to all Premium Subscribers. U.I. places the video title, description, and comments to the right of the video player, with recommendations at the bottom?

Spotify

Spotify announced on Thursday that it’s venturing further into the ad space with its first in-house creative agency called Creative Lab, helping brands create custom marketing campaigns. Spotify has 615 million listeners.?

OpenAI, Apple, X

Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices at his companies in response to Apple's biggest iOS 18 announcement at WWDC 2024. But, Apple's integration with ChatGPT requires explicit permission from a user before any information is pinged to OpenAI's servers.

Retired U.S. Army & director of the National Security Agency, General Paul Nakason, joins OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee Board, which is responsible for making recommendations to the full Board on critical safety and security decisions for all OpenAI projects and operations

Elon Musk dropped his breach of contract lawsuit against OpenAI that he filed in March

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