General

• INSIGHTS 👀 The 7 C’s of Social Media Marketing [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 New Report Looks at Social Platform Performance Benchmarks for Brands [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 How 20 Executives Turn ‘Community’ From Buzz To Business [x]

X f.k.a. Twitter

• NEW FEATURE ✨ X Will Soon Show Your Pinned Posts to All of Your Followers in the App [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ X Launches Live Test of Video in Spaces [x]
• UPDATE 📝 X Adds Video Playback Quality Controls In-Stream [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 X Continues To Build Out Its Video Content Slate via New Deal with The Big 3 [x]
• UPDATE 📝 X Says There Are Now More Than 1M Open Jobs Posted in the App [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 The Twitter Settings You Should Change Now To Block Unwanted Calls [x]
  • Important for any social media managers who have Twitter on their phone  😅
• INSIGHTS 👀 I tried replacing Twitter with Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon: What I found [x]

Instagram

• NEW FEATURE ✨ Instagram Adds In-Stream Safety Alerts To Improve Scam Awareness [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Instagram Highlights High-Performing Brand Marketing Concepts [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ Instagram Experiments with New ‘Friend Map’ Live Location Display [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 9 Instagram Trends to Watch in 2024 [x]
  • tl;dr – Video takes priority over images; AI Content Creation; Community Experiences; SEO; Partnerships

Threads

• NEW FEATURE ✨ Threads Launches Live Test of its API, Enabling Content Scheduling in Some Third Party Apps [x] 🥳
• INSIGHTS 👀 Threads Chief Proposes Auto-Archiving User Posts After 30 Days [x]

Facebook/Meta

• NEW FEATURE ✨ Meta Plans to Showcase Its Next-Gen AR Glasses Later This Year [x]
• UPDATE 📝 Meta to close down Facebook news tabs in US, Australia [x]

YouTube

• UPDATE 📝 YouTube Expands Access to Its ‘Create’ Mobile Video Editing App [x]
• CONTENT CREATION 🎨 How to use YouTube Create  [x]
• UPDATE 📝 YouTube Challenges TikTok Duets With “Collab” For Shorts [x]

TikTok

• INSIGHTS 👀 TikTok Shares Insights with Monthly Trends Digest [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ TikTok Launches Live Test of Option to Automatically Identify Products in User Uploads [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Universal Music impasse with TikTok threatens to take more tracks off platform [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 How do TikTok ‘trend forecasters’ do their jobs  [x]

Twitch

• INSIGHTS 👀 South Korean streamers struggle with Twitch’s sudden exit  [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Twitch reportedly shuts down in Turkey [x]

Other Platforms

Pinterest

• INSIGHTS 👀 Eight Fast Facts from the Pinterest Predicts Agency Insights Guide [x]
• INSIGHTS 👀 Pinterest’s AI-Powered Inclusive Filters Prove Popular Among Gen Z Users [x]

Other Platforms

• INSIGHTS 👀 UK social media app Lapse raises £24m to take on Instagram [x]

Content Creator News

• UPDATE 📝 Meta Updates Its Creator Bonus Program To Provide More Incentives for Top Talent [x]
• NEW FEATURE ✨ X Adds New ‘Monetization’ Tab To Help Creators Keep Track of Pending Payouts [x]