Tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams are partnering with X, formerly Twitter, to launch a video podcast providing audiences with an opportunity to get to know them better. Launching in August, the video podcast will provide an opportunity to witness the undeniable bond and enjoy the playful banter between the sisters, as well as possibly ..
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YouTube quietly made changes to its moderation policies last December, ahead of President Donald Trump’s second term. According to The New York Times, which reviewed internal documents, YouTube is allowing content containing political, social, and cultural issues that would have been subject to removal under previous guidelines to remain on the platform. YouTube is allowing ..
Every tweet, direct message, and comment holds weight. Social media has long been a connectivity platform, where users engage with friends, colleagues, and family. In recent years, it’s also evolved to become a feedback mechanism for businesses. In many industries, customers are communicating with a business on social media. It’s a key customer service channel, ..
The vast majority of influencers are using artificial intelligence but consumers want influencers to be transparent about how the technology is being used, according to new research commissioned by survey company Typeform. Typeform’s report is based on a survey of 1,300 creators, marketers, and consumers. Typeform targeted the survey towards B2B creators with a LinkedIn ..
Beginning Thursday, X will start testing a feature that labels posts that have been liked by users with differing viewpoints. Intended to highlight content that has consensus opinions, the tool is rolling out as a pilot to a group of a few thousand testers, all of whom are contributors to Community Notes, X’s crowdsourced approach ..
Ads from major brands including Verizon, Amazon, and Popeyes ran next to sexually suggestive or racially offensive content on a popular short-form video platform XShorts, ADWEEK has confirmed. At the time of writing, XShorts has over a million downloads and is the top app in the free entertainment category on the Google Play store. It ..
A federal judge ruled today that Florida cannot enforce a law that requires social media platforms to block kids from using their platforms. The state law “is likely unconstitutional,” US Judge Mark Walker of the Northern District of Florida ruled while granting the tech industry’s request for a preliminary injunction. The Florida law “prohibits some ..
TikTok announced a slew of ad products for performance advertisers, ahead of its second potential U.S. ban deadline, at its World Summit on Tuesday. To address growing search behavior on the short-form video platform—one in four users starts searching within 30 seconds of opening the app, per TikTok—the company is launching a new Search Ads ..
Social media giant Meta intends to integrate artificial intelligence into more of its suite of products, including its ad unit. The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta aims for brands to be able to create and target ads using AI, with the goal of full implementation by the end of 2026. Some AI functionality is ..
A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled unanimously in favor of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog organization, blocking a Texas attorney general’s attempt to investigate the firm for its reporting about brand safety concerns on X. Texas AG Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Media Matters in late November of 2023, after ..
