Facebook Dating is already a thing and, if a new application being tested by the Facebook NPE Team gains enough traction for an official rollout, Facebook speed dating may become a thing.
https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-npe-team-tests-speed-dating-app-sparked/
What do you see when National Hockey League players remove their helmets?
https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/great-clips-lets-nhl-fans-pick-their-legendhairy-lineup/
Juliana Jaoudi joined Nextdoor as head of global enterprise ad sales.
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https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/nextdoor-taps-juliana-jaoudi-as-head-of-global-enterprise-ad-sales/
LinkedIn rolled out a new LinkedIn Ads Guide Monday, providing brands with a single destination for ad specifications, formatting recommendations and general information about all of the professional network’s advertising offerings.
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/linkedin-ads-guide-provides-single-destination-for-all-ad-specs-formats/
Twitter is looking to establish a presence in Africa by actively building a team that will be based in Ghana.
https://www.adweek.com/media/twitter-begins-building-a-team-in-ghana/
Facebook detailed steps it is taking to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion in its open source efforts.
https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-ramps-up-diversity-equity-inclusion-efforts-in-open-source/
TikTok began rolling out a series of interactive music creative effects that users can add to their videos. Six new effects will be released in total, with the first being Music Visualizer. This effect adds a background to users’ videos that pulses to the beat of the music users select for their content.
https://www.adweek.com/media/tiktok-how-to-use-the-music-visualizer-effect/
Facebook shared the latest version of its Global State of Small Business Report examining the effects of the pandemic Thursday, saying that 26% of small and midsized businesses worldwide and 22% of those in the U.S. reported that they were closed in February.
https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-26-of-smbs-globally-22-in-us-were-closed-in-february/
Twitter unveiled a cleaned-up advertising product suite Wednesday, consolidating 22 individual ad product names into five categories and outlining which features apply to those categories.
https://www.adweek.com/programmatic/less-is-more-as-twitter-begins-cleaning-up-its-ad-product-suite/
Facebook is marking World Health Day Wednesday by teaming up with UNICEF and the World Health Organization on a worldwide campaign to promote credible information about the Covid-19 vaccine.
https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-joins-forces-with-unicef-who-for-world-health-day/