Breaking away from their audio-only format, music streaming giant Spotify is testing video podcasts with two YouTube stars: Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, hosts of Zane and Heath: Unfiltered. Spotify told Engadget of the test: “At Spotify, we routinely conduct a number of tests in an effort to improve our user experience. Some of those…
Chrome to Sunset Use of 3rd-Party Ad-Targeting Cookies
Search engine giant Google has revealed plans to make obsolete an important tool used by advertisers for tracking users around the Internet. While this move will increase user privacy, it will also disrupt the publishers and marketers who are currently reliant on the company’s advertising products. Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., stated that it…
You Can Now Schedule Instagram Posts and IGTV Videos via Facebook
After having to make do with paid 3rd party tools you now can schedule IG posts and IGTV videos via your Facebook Creator Studio account – assuming you have a business account. One of the best features is that you can post multiple images right from your desktop, something most 3rd party tools cannot handle….
Instagram to De-emphasize ‘Inappropriate Content!’
Bad news for Instagram models and comedy accounts with risky ‘memes’… Instagram announced today that they will be demoting posts historically shown in the ‘Explore’ tab or hashtag pages if the posts are determined by IG’s artifical intelligence to be edgy, whatever their machine learning determines that to be. This smacks somewhat of censorship by…