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By Andy Lim and Rodrigo Bonilla Bumble now lets you hit snooze to take a break from your phone Popular dating app Bumble has introduced a “Snooze” feature that allows users to pause all activity within the app and essentially let your matches know that you are on a “digital detox.” Such a feature […]

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By Natasha Chew, Shane Carroll, Rodrigo Bonilla Facebook expands its video service worldwide Originally only available to U.S. users, the social network’s Watch feature on the app is now available to all 2.2 billion users around the world. Watch is a feed that shows videos in ‘episodes’, from Facebook or other creators, tailored to […]

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By Vee Tan, Jeremy Lim, and Rodrigo Bonilla Snapchat now lets you to send music GIFs In collaboration with TuneMoji, Snapchat has introduced a new feature that allows users to share music GIFs via chats and Stories. Just like regular GIFs, these musical GIFs contain the usual moving visual element, only this time, are […]

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By Erasmus William, Kelson Ong, and Rodrigo Bonilla Airbnb adds new collaborative features for group trips Airbnb is now preparing even more trip-planning features, allowing users to add co-travelers to their trips and make use of other collaboration features designed for group travel. Based on screenshots shared via Techcrunch, these new features enable a […]

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By Shane Carroll, Monisha Kishin, and Rodrigo Bonilla Spotify tests letting users skip ads for free Amid competition from Pandora and Apple Music, Spotify is trying to differentiate its offering. The platform has begun allowing Australian users to skip ads, even on its free service. By offering users unlimited skips, any time an ad is […]

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By Rodrigo Bonilla and Jeremy Lim Snapchat launches AR lenses that respond to words This past May, Snapchat released the first AR lenses that could respond to sound. While these lenses were able to distinguish between pitch and and volume, they could not identify specific words. However, this all changed last week when Snapchat took […]

What Will Social Look Like In The Next 10 Years?

Campaign and PRWeek recently published this article by Co-Founder and Group CEO of We Are Social, Nathan McDonald, looking at how he sees social media evolving over the next 10 years.

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By Erasmus William, Andy Lim, and Rodrigo Bonilla IGTV might make its way to the top of your Instagram feed This past June, Instagram launched IGTV, a standalone app dedicated to long-form vertical videos up to an hour in length. Initially, Instagram looked to attract users on their main app onto IGTV through the […]

Internet growth accelerates, but Facebook ad engagement tumbles

The new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot report from We Are Social and Hootsuite shows that there was plenty of change in the world of digital, social, and mobile over the past three months. There are many encouraging trends within this new data, but there are also some more worrying findings that marketers will need […]

Social in 2028

Since starting We Are Social a decade ago, we’ve seen changes occur faster and faster with each passing year; as new technologies, innovative platforms and cultural trends have helped evolve social media to what it is today. While we celebrate how we’ve developed and grown over the last 10 years, we’ve also looked ahead to […]

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