YouTube’s new “Super Thanks” tool will allow users to tip creators from one of four price points between $2 and $50, or whatever the regional equivalent is, The Verge reported Tuesday (July 20). Creators will be able to respond to the tips, and the report says when...
Yelp’s new “Yelp Audiences” platform will help advertisers target consumers around the web, according to a press release. “Yelp Audiences offers an opportunity for location-based, direct-to-consumer, consumer packaged goods, and online advertisers to reach Yelp’s high-intent audience at all stages of the buying cycle,” the...
Facebook announced it will invest more than $1 billion by the end of 2022 in “programs that give creators new ways to earn money for the content they create on Facebook and Instagram,” according to a Wednesday (July 14) company blog post. “… creators drive...
Instagram is testing a new feature that will let users promote other people’s content by allowing account holders to add a “reshare” button on top of their stories, posts and videos, Bloomberg reported. Adding this label will allow users to see a list of posts...
The cozy and consolidated universe of payment and digital wallet providers got a little less comfortable on Wednesday (July 14) after social media giant Facebook announced that its Facebook Pay service will, for the first time, be available off of its own platform, starting with...
Pushed by the pandemic, the first half of 2021 has seen an explosion in shoppable streaming, as retailers and brands have rushed to find a new way to reach — and sell to — home-based consumers. “It’s basically digitizing QVC and HSN,” Deborah Weinswig, chief...
TikTok is just saying no to financial products and services — at least when it comes to their promotional material. The social media giant has officially announced that policy extended to (but is not limited to) advertising lending and management of money assets, loans and...
Popshop Live, a livestream shopping community, is coming off a Series A round with a $100 million valuation, a Thursday (July 8) press release said, and has added two new tech industry veterans to its fold. Livestream shopping refers to the practice of making live...
Instagram is readying an “Exclusive Stories” function similar to Twitter’s recently announced “Super Follow” feature, the website 9to5Mac reported on Wednesday (June 30). Citing “reverse engineer and leaker Alessandro Paluzzi,” along with comments by Instagram in a TechCrunch piece, the story reported that the function...