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Featured | 26 Jan 2023

Our Digital 2023 report highlights everything you need to know about social media, internet, mobile and ecommerce trends globally.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #615

Twitter changed its font, TikTok expands DM settings, WhatsApp's native Mac app Beta is now available to all, and more in our weekly roundup.

Digital Culture Review: What the content that shaped 2022 tells us about what’s to come in 2023

Today’s internet is a shapeshifter – an origami creature that’s forever folding in on itself and coming out in new forms (from -cores, to lorecore, to corecore, ad infinitum). But beyond its role as an entertainment sinkhole, an everything-archive, and home base of our chattiest AI playmates, it’s also a crystal ball of sorts. Digital […]

The Changing World of Digital In 2023

Simon Kemp talks through Digital 2023.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #614

Elon Musk teases higher priced Twitter Blue subscription, YouTube plans to provide more context on policy violations with new updates, TikTok's 2023 Marketing Calendar and more in our weekly roundup.

We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #613

Instagram's design overhaul, more changes at Twitter and the rest of the week's social news.

Trend Five: Expanding Identities

At the end of last year, we launched our annual trends report- Think Forward 2023: Fragmented Futures. It features the five key trends that we expect to shape social media over the next 12 months. This post looks at the final trend covered in the report: Expanding Identities.

Trend Four: New Cooperatives

This post looks at the fourth trend covered in Think Forward 2023; New Cooperatives.

Trend Three: Margin-chasers

This post looks at the third trend covered in Think Forward 2023; Margin-chasers.

Trend Two: Collapsing Narratives

This post looks at the second trend covered in the Think Forward 2023; Collapsing Narratives.

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