June 24-2024: A Recap of What Happened in The Digital Space Last Week

Happy new week!

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

Pssst! Kindly click on the hypertext links to read more from the sources

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

Digital Activism

Last week, young Kenyans took to social media to organise and lead protests against a proposed finance bill from the government. Here is a hashtag analytics report of #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #OccupyParliament by Nendo for last week's protests

Digital activism that we have never witnessed!

If you were still doubting the impact of social media on social media activism just look at the numbers. If you were doubting if indeed the GenZ are leading and are part of this revolution, check their favourite social media platform; TikTok numbers.

Also, you will notice lots of videos on "GRWM as I go for protests" on the app. GRWM stands for Get Ready With Me

Millennials are also at the forefront as the baby boomers raise their eyebrows and shake their heads in disbelief at this revolution.

Professionals, employed and unemployed are all in this and feeling the pinch of what's happening in Kenya. If not on the streets they are pushing the conversation online

The hashtag attracted global attention

Let the people's voices be heard. We are the ones who will change this country.

And if you don't know what The bill entails, a brilliant Kenya, Kelvin Ndemo came up with Finance Bill GPT on ChatGPT that you can ask about the Finance bill details

Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dFVx-mmK

X (Twitter)

X is working on analytics to show the most active times

X will soon make video Live-streaming a premium-only feature. Bad move Elon Musk

Meta

Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot Meta AI available to all users in India?

Meta introduced three products to help businesses grow, better engage on Threads, and unlock creativity:

?AI Chatbots on business messenger

?Messaging Tools for paid marketing messages

?Threads API?

TikTok

TikTok launched Whee a new photo-sharing app that allows you to capture and share real-life photos with only close friends. Whee is available for download on the Play Store. TikTok seems to be testing its waters in the photo-sharing space. In April, they launched another TikTok Notes

TikTok made its First Amendment case. In its lawsuit challenging the TikTok ‘ban’ law, the company provided the court with hundreds of pages of communications with the US government including slides on plans to mitigate national security risks

TikTok unveiled Symphony Digital Avatars, AI Dubbing for global translations, and Symphony Collective to help creators and brands produce TikTok-first content that breaks through.

YouTube

YouTube is cancelling Premium subscriptions bought using spoofed locations. In other words, it is cracking down on subscriptions where the signup country doesn’t match users’ locations.

YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos

谷歌

Google launched the Gemini Mobile app in India supporting English and 9 Indian languages. They are unlocking new features in Gemini Advanced like data analysis capabilities,? file uploads,?ability to chat with Gemini in Google Messages, starting in English.

New Social Media App- Butterflies

Former Snap engineer, Vu Tran,? launched Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist. You can interact through posts, comments and DMs. Anyone can create an AI persona and Butterfly automatically creates posts that other AIs and humans can then interact with.

AI

Apple might partner with Meta on AI. The deal with Meta could make Apple less reliant on a single partner, while also providing validation for Meta’s generative AI tech.

Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google

Adobe

The U.S. government sued Adobe, accusing the software maker of steering customers toward a pricey subscription plan while concealing how much it costs to cancel the service.

SpaceX

Elon Musk's satellite internet, SpaceX unveils Starlink Mini, a more portable version of its satellite internet product that is small enough to fit inside a backpack for $599

I hope you found these updates informative and inspiring. Stay ahead of the curve by subscribing for weekly insights delivered straight to your inbox! Subscribe now!

I'm also always looking to collaborate with fellow digital marketing, social media, and tech enthusiasts. If you have any hot takes, industry insights, or partnership ideas, don't hesitate to reach out! email at [email protected]

See you next week!