Marketing Updates 🚀
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Top 5 Updates of the Week

• Meta is working on a decentralised social media app like Twitter. (Platform)
• Youtube will stop showing overlay Ads on desktop starting next month. (Check)
• Googles February 2023 Product Reviews Update Finished rolling out. (SET)
• Microsoft to launch ChatGPT 4 next week with AI videos. (DigitalTrends)
• Tiktok expands “Tiktok search Ads” to more advertisers, target users based on keywords & searches. (SEL)

Google 🔍

• Google Ads simplifies audience creation with new GA4 Audience builder. (News)
• Google announced new updates to featured snippets with “new headings” for Also Asked Tab in search. (Blog)
• Google roles out new updated desktop search design with new site names & more. (SEL)
• Google Trends have a new look for 2023. (Post)
• Google Ads launches Performance max for Travel Goals. (Blog)
• Google expands local service Ads to more than 70 new businesses. (SEL)

Tiktok 🎼

• Tiktok launched “Series” a new feature that allows creators to charge for premium content. (News)
• Tiktok is blocking links to App store from creator bios, limited business still have this access. (TC)
• Tiktok partnered with Dentsu on a new campaign performance tracking solution. (Newsroom)
• Tiktok wins US trademark trial over stitch video feature. (Reuters)
• Belgium bans Tiktok from governmental devices. (politico)
• Tiktok provides new in-app prompt update on how it is protecting users. (Blog)

Instagram 🧬

• Instagram’s new “About this account” UI with Paid subscription mentioned. (Tweet)
• Instagram is back online after Brief global outages this week. (CNN)

Meta 🔮

• Meta is cutting off reels bonuses program for Instagram & Facebook reels. (Here)
• Meta is planning to lay off thousands of employees as soon as possible. (Insider)
• Facebook made new mentions in a blogpost about Messenger coming back to Facebook app. (Blog)
• Facebook is testing removal of Topics in its groups feature. (DIW)
• Important: WhatsApp users in EU can disagree to terms & services as Meta agrees to EU to comply with consumer protection rights. (Read)
• WhatsApp can get banned in UK over the issues regarding end-to-end encryption. (TG)

Twitter 🕊️

• EU suggests Elon musk to hire more employees to moderate twitter. (FT)
• Twitter to charge $42k per month for API access for enterprises. (wired)
• Twitter’s privacy preserving Tor service is unavailable now. (News)
• Elon musk says Q2 2023 will be profitable for Twitter after major changes. (Insider)
• Twitter aims to add chat encryption, New DM features & emoji reactions by end of this month. (Elon)
• Outages: Twitter was down multiple times this week, with desktop outages, Image loading errors & more.

YouTube 👨🏻‍🎨

• Youtube Updated their policies regarding Profanity after creator backlash, videos are eligible for monetisation. (blog)

Snapchat 😶‍🌫️

• Snapchat launches new AR filters about election awareness ahead of Dutch Elections. (TC)

Reddit 🎃

• Reddit is shutting down Reddit talks from March 21. (CBS)
• Reddit launches separate feeds for readable & video content, many are calling it Tiktok clone. (TC)

Pinterest 📌

• Child sensitive content is escaping Pinterest algorithm, but platform shared update regarding new content reporting tools launching next week. (engadget)
• Pinterest shared new key insights on International Women’s day. (Blog)

Microsoft 👨‍💼

• Microsoft Bing AI working on save chats & more features. (Seroundtable)
• Global head of Microsoft advertising steps down. (SEL)
• Microsoft layed off another set of 10,000 employees working in US. (DNA)
• Code-free custom conversions, and 5 other new Microsoft Ad updates. (SEL)

Marketing 🥘

• Discord’s new AI features are getting user backlash. (TB)
• Spotify goes all in on creator economy with new video podcast deals with Viral creators. (Read)
• Twitch creators are angry as all the exclusive deals will go down, all creators will have a 50/50 revenue cut. (TB)
• Disney sells out Ad inventory for Oscars. (Adweek)
• Spotify revamps its app with new Tiktok style discovery feed & smart shuffle for playlist. (TC)
• DuckDuckGo is supposedly working on Generative AI features. (DIW)
• Audi, Mars Nespresso to start using Attention marketplace “Adelaide” focused on attention metrics. (Adweek)
• Etsy deals seller payments due to silicon valley collapse. (Nbcnews)
• Telegram announces new power-saving mode. (Blog)

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Content Opportunities

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• 13 March: Commonwealth Day / National Good Samaritan Day / National Jewel Day.
• 14 March: International Ask A question Day / Science Education Day / International Day of Mathematics / National Pi Day.
• 15 March: World Contact Day / World Speech Day / World Consumer Right’s Day.
• 16 March : National Panda Day / Ted Lasso Season 3 / National freedom of information day.
• 17 March : Saint Patrick’s Day / World Sleep Day / Narvik Winter Festival.
• 18 March: Global Recycling Day / Companies that care Day / National Awkward Moments Day / Share your awkward moment that you’re audience might relate to!
• 19 March: International Client’s Day / International read to me day / Pretzel Sunday / Share a story about your best client.

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SaaS Finds of the Week

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• ​ChatGPT for YouTube - A chrome plugin to summarise youtube videos.
• ​OnceHub - A no-code meeting scheduling platform.
• ​evolv AI - Use AI to craft customer journeys & track user behaviour.
• ​Conductor - A content marketing platform to track your SEO growth.
• ​text Cortex - An open plugin to help you write better copy & edit your posts.

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Marketing Resources of the Week

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1. ​Tiktok: The platform launched a new library to provide Ad insights on specific keywords .
2. ​Marketing : New Marketing Spending report shows a decrease in growth regarding spending this year.
3. ​SMS: A New report on state of SMS marketing, consumers are annoyed.
4. ​Twitter: The platform shared new insights on capturing attention during march madness
5. ​Consumer: A free report on how brands & consumers are listening to each other & what are the barriers.
6. ​Social Media: How engagement across various social media platforms is dropping.

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