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WEDNESDAY WRAP-UP #450

Facebook prepares to expand Facebook News outside the US Elsewhere in the world, Facebook is planning to bring Facebook News, its dedicated tab for curated news content, to the UK, Germany, France, India and Brazil “within the next six months to a year” – as part of an expansion beyond the US. Publishers in each of these regions […]

TUESDAY TUNE-UP #448

The Great Messenger Unification BeginsFacebook has been busily working on the back-end of plans to unify the messaging platforms across its suite of apps, allowing cross-messaging among Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Looks like the first step will be the merge of Facebook and Instagram messaging. Twitter releases a revamped API V2The API is the framework that lets […]

TUESDAY TUNE-UP #447

Social media platforms fact check Trump Last week, Facebook took down a post from President Trump – in which he made unfounded claims that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19 – for violating its rules against harmful false claims that any group is immune to the virus. Twitter also removed a link to the same video clip, which the […]

DIGITAL USE AROUND THE WORLD IN JULY 2020

Author: Simon Kemp The global digital landscape is still evolving rapidly as we enter the second half of 2020, with the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic continuing to influence and reshape various aspects of people’s daily lives. Lockdowns may have been lifted across many countries, but many of the new digital behaviours that people adopted during confinement […]

Culture, entertainment, and everything you need to know about TikTok

Our Global Communications Manager shares some of the key takeaways from our virtual TikTok 101 masterclass.

Unprecedented? Webinar Series

If headlines have told us anything during the first half of 2020, it’s that we’re living in unprecedented times. But how unprecedented are they really? What aspects of this experience have been felt by generations before us? And how much will they really shape people, behaviour and culture moving forwards? Hosted by Chief Strategy Officer, […]

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on consumer behaviour

We’ve launched Understanding Shifting Attitudes, Behaviours and Values - an in-depth social listening study, which maps out life during the lockdown.

TUESDAY TUNE-UP #441

TikTok launches TikTok For BusinessTikTok has announced that it’s officially introducing a new brand platform called TikTok For Business, which will serve as the home for all its current and future marketing solutions for brands. The site will include access to TikTok ad formats – including its marquee product, TopView – along with a new e-learning […]

WEDNESDAY WRAP-UP #440

GG WP EZ: End game for Microsoft’s MixerMicrosoft have announced that they will be retiring their video game streaming platform, Mixer, as of July 22 (after 0.2% YoY growth). Microsoft will be teaming up with Facebook, transferring Mixer’s streamers to Facebook Gaming. Mixer made a splash in 2019 when they poached some of Twitch’s biggest stars, including Ninja, for […]

TUESDAY TUNE-UP #439

EU asks tech giants to report on fake news around COVID-19The EU has requested that US tech giants, including Facebook, Twitter and Google, begin producing monthly reports containing “detailed data” on how they are combating fake news about COVID-19 on their platforms. While the exact details and starting date of these reports are currently unknown, Facebook, […]

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