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With Social Media Changing, Has Advertising Reached Peak 'Purpose'?

With Social Media Changing, Has Advertising Reached Peak 'Purpose'?

It's hard to overstate just how dominant purpose-driven advertising has become at award shows. Eight of the 11 Grand Clio winners this year were purpose-based campaigns—and they...

Baby’s First Social Media Handle

Baby’s First Social Media Handle

Baby’s First Social Media Handle Sorry, that profile name is taken. It belongs to a newborn. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each...

Kagan: Facebook ignores hacked user plea for help

Kagan: Facebook ignores hacked user plea for help

We’ve all heard the horror stories about stolen identities when our names and photos are stolen and used to create fake accounts on social media like Facebook and Twitter. It...

How TikTok’s algorithm made it a success: ‘It pushes the boundaries’

How TikTok’s algorithm made it a success: ‘It pushes the boundaries’

It is, quite literally, the trillion dollar question: how did TikTok go from a niche social network for lip-syncing teens to the most popular app in the western world,...

 A social media status update

A social media status update

Good morning. Top social media apps are struggling after a decade of dominance. Jenny Kane/Associated Press Losing ground For years, most of the conversation about social media...

LinkedIn Provides More Tools to Facilitate Internal Promotion and Movement

LinkedIn Provides More Tools to Facilitate Internal Promotion and Movement

Amid the broader economic downturn, organizations are seeking to rationalize all of their internal processes, in order to cut costs, improve efficiency and work within the...

LinkedIn Adds New Security Features, Including New Info on When an Account Was Created

LinkedIn Adds New Security Features, Including New Info on When an Account Was Created

LinkedIn has announced some new features to help combat fraud and spammers in the app, including new insights into when a profile was created, new tools to detect AI-generated...

How do we find each other again?

How do we find each other again?

Feeling overwhelmed by Everything That Is Going On on social media this week, I resorted to the meditative and enjoyable practice of digital archive diving. One of my favorite...

Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes

Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes

© 2022 VICE MEDIA GROUP Facebook’s Monopoly Is Imploding Before Our Eyes Competition, miscalculations, and regulatory scrutiny have all but killed the advertising giant's dreams...

How Do Big Tech Giants Make Their Billions?

How Do Big Tech Giants Make Their Billions?

Carmen Ang Charting The Rise of Mobile Device Subscriptions Worldwide There were approximately 8.6 billion mobile device subscriptions worldwide as of 2021, more than there are...

Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it. Now it has a secret tool to let you delete it.

Facebook probably has your phone number, even if you never shared it. Now it has a secret tool to let you delete it.

Facebook's parent firm Meta has quietly rolled out a new service that lets people check whether the firm holds their contact information, such as their phone number or email...

Welcome to Geriatric Social Media

Welcome to Geriatric Social Media

Weirdos like myself, who pay too much attention to tech platforms, are currently mulling a question: Is social media dying? The New York Times’Kevin Roose formally kicked this...