TikTok is reportedly working to entice established brands into selling on TikTok Shop. The new program in the United States, known as Project Horizon, is calling on 100 eCommerce agencies to each recruit dozens of brands with at least $10 million in annual sales on...
Pinterest is reportedly launching a shoppable TV partnership with streaming platform Roku. Two companies are set to debut “Bring My Pinterest to Life,” an original series where viewers can move seamlessly from watching to shopping through Pinterest and its brand partners, Chain Store Age reported...
Meta-owned social media platform Threads is reportedly surpassing X in terms of mobile usage. Threads now has more daily usage on mobile devices than Elon Musk’s X, TechCrunch reported Sunday (Jan. 18), citing data from Similarweb. Meta introduced Threads, a text-based app seen as its...
Elon Musk says his social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public. The change, set to happen six days from now, includes all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, Musk said in a post Saturday (Jan. 11) on the platform....
Has social media been the source of a “terrible devastation” upon society? A pair of Silicon Valley veterans apparently think so, and have debuted an app they say is designed to offer a countering effect, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (Jan. 4) Biz Stone...
TikTok and parent company ByteDance have signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture that will enable the app to continue operating in the United States, according to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. The transaction is set to close on Jan. 22, Chew said in...
Generation Z is often portrayed as a disruptive force, reinventing money, work and consumption. Yet PYMNTS Intelligence’s “Gen Z Decoder Ring” report suggests something more subtle, and in some ways more telling. The real story isn’t that this generation is different. It’s that they are...
Instagram has reportedly reached 3 billion monthly users, reinforcing its position as parent company Meta’s key source of revenue growth. As Meta works to keep driving that growth, it is shifting Instagram’s focus from the traditional photo feed to short-form video and private messaging, Bloomberg...
TikTok will still feel familiar to the 170 million Americans who scroll through it every day, but the company behind the app would be restructured under a proposal being considered Tuesday (Sept. 16). The plan, under discussion by the U.S. and China this week, would...