General

• INSIGHTS 👀 Best social media management tool of 2024 [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Which Super Bowl Ads Drove the Biggest Online Response? [x]
  • Duolingo, Dunkin, and Disney+ gained the most social followers.
• INSIGHTS 👀 Gen Z excels at social media marketing. How do brands keep up? [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Social media holds the most potential for innovation [x]

AI Updates

• INSIGHTS 👀 More Generative AI Tools are Coming to Social Apps – Is That a Good Thing? [x]
  • Article lists what generative AI tools each major social app has!
• CONTENT CREATION 🎨 AI Tools Are Revolutionizing Creation, but the Value of Concept Is Still Key [x]

X f.k.a. Twitter

• UPDATE 📝 X Expands Audio and Video Calls to Non-Paying Users [x]

Instagram

• NEW FEATURE ✨ Instagram Tests Options To Create Alternate Image Backgrounds and Facilitate In-Stream Orders [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ Instagram Tests Live-Stream Games to Enhance Engagement [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ Meta Expands Access to Instagram’s Creator Marketplace [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Instagram Statistics Marketers Should Know in 2024 [x]

Threads

• NEW FEATURE ✨ Threads Tests Post Drafts and Integrated Camera In-Stream  [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ Meta Tests Cross-Posting Between Facebook and Threads [x]

YouTube

• CONTENT CREATION 🎨 YouTube Updates Video Earnings Display in Studio, Tests New Desktop UI [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ YouTube Marks New Milestone in Connected TV Viewing, Adds TV Channel Pages [x]

TikTok

• INSIGHTS 👀 TikTok Shares New Insights into Effective App Marketing Approaches  [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 EU Officials Launch Investigation Into TikTok Over Potential DSA Violations [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 TikTok Announces Third Annual TikTok Short Film Competition [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 27 TikTok Stats Marketers Need to Know in 2024 [x]

Twitch

• UPDATE 📝 Twitch and Kick Completely Banned in Turkey [x]
• UPDATE 📝 Twitch is increasing the price of channel subscriptions for the first time ever in March [x]

Discord

• INSIGHTS 👀 Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Helldivers 2’s community manager gets mistaken for an automaton by Discord, gets locked out of account for over 40 hours due to ‘sending too many DMs too fast’  [x]

Other Platforms

Reddit

• INSIGHTS 👀 Reddit’s Exclusive Data Sharing Deal With an Unnamed AI Company Could Mark a Key Industry Shift [x]

Bluesky

• NEW FEATURE ✨ Twitter competitor Bluesky to let users host their own servers [x]
  • Social media content to run similar to website purchasing, where you own the content etc. but if you wish to change who your “host” is – you can and move all content to another social media site.

Pinterest

• PAID SOCIAL 💸 Pinterest Launches New Campaign To Highlight the Opportunities of Pin Ads [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ Pinterest Launches Video Programming in Partnership With Tastemade [x]
• PAID SOCIAL 💸 Pinterest beckons advertisers to its platform in action series ‘The P is for Performance’ [x]

Snapchat

• PAID SOCIAL 💸 Snapchat Shares Data on the Key Drivers of Effective Brand/Creator Partnerships  [x]

Content Creator News

• INSIGHTS 👀 Instagram Reigns Supreme With Influencers, but TikTok Gains Ground [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 YouTube Shorts debuts new music tools after TikTok loses Universal catalog [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 5 Creator Marketing Trends Set To Take Off In 2024 [x]