The Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association added on-demand athlete marketplace Icon Source to its roster, opening up opportunities for more than 150 former Major League Baseball players to line up endorsement deals, guest appearances, social media campaigns and speaking events.
https://www.adweek.com/media/major-league-baseball-players-alumni-association-teams-up-with-icon-source/
The National Hockey League introduced its second group of NHL Power Players Friday.
https://www.adweek.com/media/nhl-introduces-new-group-of-nhl-power-players/
Creator and TikTok star Brittany Tomlinson, also known as Brittany Broski, will host For You Podcast, a weekly interview show featuring some of the most successful and innovative creators on the video creation platform.
https://www.adweek.com/media/tiktok-features-creators-on-new-for-you-podcast/
Most people will never make it onto the Jumbotron at the Super Bowl, largely due to exorbitant ticket prices and limited availability (even more so this year, thanks to the pandemic), but there is a way to make it onto the virtual Jumbotron on the Facebook App page.
https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-app-pages-cover-image-to-become-a-jumbotron-during-the-big-game/
A new survey from Pew Research Center showed just how sharp the divide is between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to social platforms banning former President Donald Trump.
https://www.adweek.com/media/pew-78-of-republicans-disagree-with-social-platforms-banning-donald-trump/
Instagram Stories has a new look on desktop.
https://www.adweek.com/media/instagram-stories-desktop-experience-gets-refreshed/
YouTube removed over 500,000 videos for Covid-19 misinformation since last February, CEO Susan Wojcicki said in her letter outlining her 2021 priorities, and the Google-owned video site consulted with more than 85 local health authorities to bring trusted information to viewers, serving up over 400 billion impressions of information panels related to the pandemic.
https://www.adweek.com/media/youtubes-susan-wojcicki-discusses-the-pandemics-impact-in-2020-and-her-goals-for-2021/
When Twitter introduced Twitter API v2 last July—the first complete rebuild of its application-programming interface since a major update in 2012—the social network pledged to add a specific track for academic researchers, and the company made good on that pledge Tuesday.
https://www.adweek.com/media/its-academic-researchers-turn-to-tap-twitter-api-v2/
Did you know that you can stop Discord from automatically displaying images that have been uploaded by other users? This allows you to save data if you’re using a cellular connection.
https://www.adweek.com/media/discord-how-to-stop-discord-from-displaying-images-uploaded-to-chats/
Facebook began rolling out its stand-alone Facebook News tab in the U.K. Tuesday, after saying late last November that it would do so in early 2021.
https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-news-stand-alone-tab-rolls-out-in-uk/