Snapchat at Snap Partner Summit 2021 announced a slew of updates that are aiming to grow its presence among creators, businesses, and developers. Real-time wrist tracking Snap, the parent company behind Snapchat and chief rival of Facebook-owned Instagram, introduced features called Creator Marketplace and Gifting to help creators attract monetisation. The company has also brought […]
TikTok is about to reach a pivotal milestone. By the end of 2021, the video app will have more Gen Z users in the US than Instagram, according to an eMarketer forecast, and it’ll surpass Snapchat in total users by 2023. This year, TikTok will attract 37.3 million Gen Z users, (people born between 1997 […]
TikTok has announced a range of new promotions, ad tools and education sessions to mark National Small Business Week – or National Small Business Month, as TikTok is calling it – which will help SMBs make better use of the platform, and provide more opportunities for promotion via short video clips. The main, over-arching element […]
TikTok appointed Shouzi Chew as the new Chief Executive Officer of the video-sharing platform, the company said on Friday. Chew, who is based in Singapore was named CFO of TikTok parent company ByteDance in March this year, and will continue in that role. Also Read: Platform War: TikTok v/s Reels TikTok’s interim head Vanessa Pappas, […]
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) announced its partnership with social media giant TikTok. In a statement, the tourism department said that by using its newly launched Tiktok channel – Visit Abu Dhabi – it aims to “engage content creators to showcase the best of the emirate with creativity […]
TikTok and Instagram Reels have become a go-to marketing strategy in social media. Which platform is winning? Vines, Snapchat, and Spotify. Put the three together, and what do you get? TikTok. If you are wondering what happened to Musical.ly, well, it was purchased by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance. They did not want the competition. Four […]
Here are our Top 10 social media news stories that you don’t want to miss this week. Social audio could be the next big frontier: Many apps are experimenting with live audio setups right now. Twitter’s live audio chat feature, Spaces, which had beta launched for IOS in December 2020, was made available for Android. […]
Influencer agency Mediakix has released an analysis of over 100 Branded Hashtag Challenges launched on TikTok between July 2020 and March 2021. It found that the three most popular types of TikTok Branded Hashtag Challenges are sponsored challenges, followed by contests, and then Hashtag Challenge Plus campaigns. A Branded Hashtag Challenge is a brand-sponsored version […]
Influencer agency Mediakix has released an analysis of over 100 Branded Hashtag Challenges launched on TikTok between July 2020 and March 2021. It found that the three most popular types of TikTok Branded Hashtag Challenges are sponsored challenges, followed by contests, and then Hashtag Challenge Plus campaigns. A Branded Hashtag Challenge is a brand-sponsored version […]
Instagram has officially introduced its answer to TikTok Duets, launching its ‘Remix’ feature to the world in the latest instance of a Facebook-owned app ‘taking inspiration’ from another platform. The feature, which has been added to Instagram’s version of TikTok called ‘Reels’, enables users to create their own content alongside somebody else’s previously created video. […]
