Ask HN: What happened in marketing and social media recently? Here’s what I have caught up with: 1/ Threads API launched. 2/ Meta launches new AI bots for messenger and other business messaging tools. 3/ TikTok testing website links in organic videos. 4/ Instagram showing prompts to share newly published content with friends, it shows up as soon as you finish upload. 5/ YouTube testing community notes, similar to X’s notes feature. 6/ TikTok launched a new Instagram rival, a photo sharing app: Whee. 7/ US sues Adobe for deceiving subscriptions and tactics that make it hard to cancel the subscription plans. 8/ IG now shows “X new posts” text on threads username tag on your profile. 9/ TikTok launched AI creator avatars, launch of Symphony Avatars. 10/ Instacart’s new Youtube expansion of shoppable ads. 11/ Reddit launches new version of conversation ads. 12/ TikTok launched a new commercial music library for Adobe Express. 13/ Disney to launch a commerce media solution in partnership with Affinity solutions. 14/ Oracle to end all of its ad products by Sept. 30. 15/ New Platforms: Seen App, where you react to other people’s content and Butterflies app where AI and Human content exists side by side. Credit: Axios, The Social Juice, Business Insider, The Information, FT and more. |