The Week in Social
Welcome to ‘The Week in Social’ our team sharing the top stories for you every week on the latest trends, updates and insights in the social-first world! Stories shared by the 1000heads team.
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SNAPCHAT LAUNCHES NEW AR EFFECT
Snapchat is taking its AR activations to the next level, with the addition of ray tracing in its Lens Studio.
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INSTAGRAM IS REMOVING LIVE SHOPPING
Starting on March 16th 2023, Instagram users will no longer be able to tag products while live-streaming.
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FACEBOOK SHARES WHY USERS ARE SEEING ADS
Meta is taking initiative to reveal to users why they see the ads that they do, in order to gain trust and increase transparency.
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YOUTUBE TESTS MULTI-LANGUAGE AUDIO TRACK
YouTube’s testing a new option that will enable creators to add multiple audio tracks in different languages to their videos.
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INSTAGRAM TESTS ‘MEMORIES’ PROMPT
Instagram’s trying out a new way to prompt users to re-share their old posts, with a ‘Memory’ Story prompt now showing up in some users’ feeds.
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TIKTOK’S REVENUE SHARE PROGRAM
The platform will soon launch a new Creator Fund 2.0 program, which will provide more monetisation opportunities for the app’s top stars.
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TWITTER RUNS ADS NEXT TO OFFENSIVE TWEETS
Two reports this week outline how the company is profiting off ads placed next to tweets from Holocaust deniers.
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TWEETDECK NOW FOR TWITTER BLUE USERS
The popular tweet management platform ‘TweetDeck’ will soon only be available to Twitter Blue users.
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