As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many smaller businesses are struggling to stay afloat. In response, Instagram has launched a personal fundraising feature on its platform to help business owners raise money for selected causes. Instagram will review all of the fundraising campaigns prior...
Snapchat has gone live with a set of seven small-scale apps, named Minis accordingly. It announced the launch of this new feature at its virtual partner summit last month. Four of these Minis include; meditation by Headspace, a collaborative studying tool called Flashcards, a group...
Instagram confirmed that it will be launching its ‘Reels’ functionality in 50 additional regions including the US as early as next month. This new feature will allow users to create and share TikTok-like clips on Instagram, without having to sign up for a new platform....
Whatsapp rolled out two exciting features this week to help brands promote their products and services on the platform. The first upgrade is new QR codes for businesses, which will empower potential customers to connect and start a conversation with the brand on Whatsapp directly...
Earlier this year, Facebook announced that it was working on various updates to its Live Producer platform, which could take Facebook Live streams to the next level. This week, a highly-anticipated number of updates were finally rolled out to creators, and while they’re not yet...
Twitter has acquired Chroma Labs. Chroma Labs launched in 2018 as an app that allows users to create Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat stories using templates, collages, filters, and more. The Chromas Stories iPhone app will not be taken away, but rather it will remain without...
Twitter kicked off the year with an update that promises to facilitate conversations on the platform. The new strategy offers four different options for users to control the replies they get to their tweets. The first option allows replies from anyone coming across the post....
“Extra! Extra! Read all about it!”: Facebook has re-implemented a dedicated place for news on its platform. Facebook Newsroom will allow users to explore a wide range of news stories directly within the Facebook app. Over 200 publishers like The Wall Street Journal and BuzzFeed...
As Instagram tests hiding like counts in seven countries, Facebook has announced they are interested in following suit. Rather than seeing a post’s total like count, users will have access to an indicator of reactions to the post followed by "...