“There are too many podcasts,” states Muck Rack survey
Muck Rack’s State of Podcasting 2022 survey found that while fewer podcasters started their own show this year (68% in 2021 vs. 41% in 2022), there has been a…
Account credentials of a million Facebook users may have been compromised
Meta Platforms said it would notify roughly a million Facebook users that their account credentials may have been compromised due to security issues with…
TikTok increases character count In posts, improving its ad targeting capabilities
People increasingly turn to TikTok to search for information, states Marketing Daily, “using it as a visual search engine, even as the company faces…
Twitter has neither the incentive nor resources to properly measure the full scope of bots on its platform, states company’s former security lead
As part of a wide-ranging, nearly 200-page disclosure sent last month to US lawmakers and regulators, which was exclusively reported by CNN…
Do Instagram Reels perform better?
Quintly, a social media analytics company, released a report analyzing 20 top profiles on the performance and impact of Reels. Instagram’s Reels was…
UK teens shun traditional news channels for TikTok and Instagram, states Ofcom report
More teenagers in the UK are turning away from traditional media outlets and getting their news from social media, new research from Ofcom has…
Facebook makes changes to compete with TikTok
Facebook is overhauling the design of its flagship social network by elevating content from creators over posts from friends and family in an effort…
Twitter to launch custom “Like” animations for tweets that brands can create through the ads manager
Twitter continues to step up the introduction of tools and services that advertisers can use to create engagement and plan performance, reports MediaPost. The…
Meta sued over claims patient data secretly shared with Facebook
Meta Platforms Inc. was sued over claims that private medical data is being shared secretly with Facebook when patients access web portals for some…
Meta “responding to the rise of TikTok,” reports The Verge
Facebook employees were given a new directive with sweeping implications: make an app’s feed more like TikTok, reports The Verge. The Verge states:…
Meta to provide more information about how advertisers target people with political ads
Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the…
Musk calls on SEC to look into Twitter’s user numbers
Elon Musk has called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to look into Twitter’s user numbers, reports CNBC. Musk wrote in…
Twitter freezes hiring as execs exit
Twitter is undergoing a major upending phase, coming to a head internally as two major executives are seemingly being pushed out and the company…
U.S. podcast ad revenue estimated to jump 47% to $2.1 billion in 2022
U.S. podcast ad revenue is estimated to grow 47% to $2.1 billion in 2022, according to a report from the Interactive Advertising…
Winning Elections in 2022
By Lightbox Search Campaign-winning political strategist Lee Neves knows how to leverage the power of Google Search to promote his candidate, “it’s…
