Category: Social Media

Why did Mark Zuckerberg buy Instagram? Leaked emails resurface

Meta is also integrating AI to help businesses create ads on Facebook and Instagram, reminding customers they left an item in their cart or offering a discount for a purchase they’ve been waiting to make.

“They could be very disruptive to us”. Leaked emails allegedly written by Mark Zuckerberg to Facebook’s then CFO, outline his plans to neutralize competitors like Instagram before the defining acquisition.

Bang In The Middle calls out Medanta for using rejected campaign idea

Independent ad agency Bang In The Middle called out former client Medanta, a healthcare provider, for utilizing the agency’s campaign idea now after having rejected the same when the two were in a partnership.

The same everything. The people who once spat on it and threw it out, have now had a change of heart, done a complete volte face, and the campaign is now live on their pages, the LinkedIn post read.

User-generated content rivals OTT and traditional media in India: Accenture

Most of the companies collected users' age, gender, and the language they spoke. Many platforms also obtained information on education, income, and marital status.

According to Accenture’s annual ‘Reinvent for Growth’ report, in all scenarios presented to consumers, social media and social video platforms were consistently picked over streaming video services as the media of choice.

Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms

Challenges with promoting sex toys persist on Meta. From being shadow banned to accounts being restricted, sex-ed content creators face challenges with sexual health related content on Meta.

Manzuri’s Aastha Vohra and Sangya Project’s Aashish Mehrotra and Tanisha Rao share their experiences with censorship around sexual wellness content on Meta.

Why has the BCCI stopped IPL commentators, players, teams, from sharing photos/videos from stadiums on match days?

The top categories to advertise in this year’s IPL on TV are ecom – gaming, range of food products, pan masala, perfumes/deodorant and smartphones. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

It was reported that the BCCI issued these instructions after an Indian batsman was clicked while commentating during a game in the IPL. The batsman posted the video to social media, and broadcast-rights holders were not happy with it. A BCCI staff member asked him to then delete the post.

Meta introduces AI chatbot on WhatsApp; currently accessible to select users

Message to self: Your future self will thank you for using it. This feature allows you to send messages to yourself to keep track of notes and messages. Messages to yourself work and look like regular chats, but you can't make audio calls, or video calls, mute notifications, block or report yourself, or see your last seen online. (Representative Image: Dima Solomin via Unsplash)

The chatbot – Meta AI, like many other AI-powered chatbots, let’s you have conversations, provides recommendations, recipes, etc based on questions asked by users.