Social media updates you NEED to know:
👀 Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, says that Instagram does NOT reduce the reach of sponsored content.
📌 Pinterest has launched a new feature that allows users to create personalised shoppable wishlists, so you can share all of your gift ideas in one place.
🎧 YouTube is experimenting with its generative AI music offering, Dream Track, by allowing creators to select “an eligible song, describe how you want to restyle it, then generate a unique 30-second soundtrack to use in your Short.”
🪡 Threads now allows users to save up to 100 drafts in the mobile app.
😳 Instagram is about to end friendships and relationships because it's bringing back the ACTIVITY feed, which shows you what content your friends have interacted with and who they have followed. And this is the fake update for the people who steal Annie-Mai's content.
📈 Google shares the TOP trending products of this year via The Holiday 100, Google’s list of gift ideas based on search trends.
📲 TikTok has announcement that users of TikTok can now access their Lemon8 account (the platforms Instagram-esque dupe) using the same credentials as their TikTok account.
💸 Instagram now allows users to boost content that include GIFs and stickers. But the platform worded it a bit more carefully by saying that “most GIFs and stickers are eligible to be boosted”.
And that's all for now folks! See ya'll next Wednesday for more of The Social Tea 👋🖤