Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #378 Aiyun Lee | 10 September 2019 Social media platforms are now more than just a place where you can share your #OOTDs and share updates on your daily life.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #377 Aiyun Lee | 3 September 2019 Snap is taking its augmented reality tools to a much bigger canvas. The company boosts Lens Studio, their desktop app, with a collection of new features: new Landmarker templates, more facial lens templates, and an interactive tour for first-time users.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #376 Aiyun Lee | 27 August 2019 Tiktok, the social media platform that confounds Millenials but speaks to Gen-Z audiences worldwide, has now released a new e-commerce feature. Termed Hashtag Challenge Plus, Tiktok will now allow users to purchase products related to sponsored Hashtag challenges within its app. Users are first encouraged to post videos with a brand product, using the sponsored hashtag and participating in the viral hashtag trend. They can then proceed to purchase a brand’s product without ever leaving the platform.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #375 Aiyun Lee | 20 August 2019 Written by Benjamin Oi, Leonard Koh and Clio Goh. Now everyone can create their own Instagram face...
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #374 Benjamin Oi | 13 August 2019 Pinterest rolled out a collection of emotional well-being activities tailored for million of users searching the visual pinboard for emotional health and related topics.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #373 Aiyun Lee | 6 August 2019 Twitter embraces it’s contrast to Instagram and celebrated its individuality in a self-aware OOH campaign. They turned real tweets into ads, showing users that it’s the place where you can just be yourself.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #372 Aiyun Lee | 30 July 2019 Technology blogger and app researcher Jane Manchun Wong uncovered an unreleased augmented reality feature that essentially places the user in front of a green screen.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #371 Aiyun Lee | 23 July 2019 In a controversial change, Instagram has begun a test on hiding like counts in countries such as Canada and Australia. More users will soon be given the option to publicly hide the like count on their posts, to encourage Instagrammers to appreciate posts based on merit and not simply how popular they are.
Social Thinking Number of social media users passes 3.5 billion Simon Kemp | 23 July 2019 The new Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social is packed with all the latest data you need to understand how people are using the internet in July 2019. You’ll find the complete report in the SlideShare embed below, but read on for my summary of this quarter’s essential headlines.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #370 Aiyun Lee | 16 July 2019 1.2 million people have signed up to storm the iconic Area 51, which has been the centre of alien conspiracy theories. In an instant, the internet unified and generated countless memes and Area 51 content.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #369 Aiyun Lee | 9 July 2019 Instagram debuts two new features to curb the growing problem of bullying and harassment on the social network. The first feature, which started rolling out over the last few days, advises bullies to rethink about their message before the damage is done. The system uses artificial intelligence to recognise when text resembles the kind of posts that are most often reported as inappropriate by users. Then, it notifies the commenter about the potential violation, all before anything is posted.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #368 Aiyun Lee | 2 July 2019 Don’t be surprised if you soon come across ads while scrolling through Instagram Explore - the Facebook-owned app has ventured into marketing on the Explore grid, showing users ads once they’ve tapped into a post and browsed through similar imagery.
Tuneup We Are Social Asia Tuesday Tune-Up #367 Aiyun Lee | 25 June 2019 Needless to say, YouTube is home to the most toxic comment section on the internet, much to the company’s chagrin. It is a dangerous, dangerous place. So instead of making users read or chance upon this no man’s land, YouTube is now working on a new feature that would hide comments by default.
Tuneup WE ARE SOCIAL ASIA TUESDAY TUNE UP #366 Aiyun Lee | 18 June 2019 Written by Lee Ai Yun, Jeremy Lim, Tricia Lee and Ernie Sulastri Facebook’s Digital Wallet Calibra...
Tuneup WE ARE SOCIAL ASIA TUESDAY TUNE UP #365 Aiyun Lee | 11 June 2019 Written by Lee Ai Yun, Melantha Tan and Ashleigh Sim Instagram takes on TikTok with song lyrics....
