November 2024 Social Platform Updates

LinkedIn is shutting down live audio. Spotify announced a monetization program for video creators. And Threads gets ready to roll out ads.

Here's everything you missed from social platforms last month...

Bluesky 🦋

✦ The decentralized social network roughly doubled its user base last month to 22M+ following the U.S. Presidential election.

Daze 💬

✦ The new AI-powered messaging app aimed at middle and high school students launched on November 4th.

Facebook 👍

✦ Announced views as the primary metric for all post types. The platform previously showed “plays” for Reels and videos and “impressions” for text posts and Stories.

Instagram 📷

✦ Unveiled privacy improvements, including AI identification of young users who lie about their age in order to automatically switch them to stricter privacy settings.

✦ Testing an option to reset the content recommendations users see in their main feed, Reels, and Explore page.

✦ Will no longer allow users to follow hashtags starting December 13.

✦ Enabled users to add nicknames for direct messages with friends and group chats.

LinkedIn 🤝

✦ Shutting down its live audio feature as of December 2. Previously scheduled events will be removed at the end of the year.

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Snapchat 👻

✦ Enabled parents and caregivers to request location sharing from their teens.

Spotify 🔊

✦ Adding integrations with TikTok and Instagram.

✦ Announced a revenue sharing program for video creators called Spotify for Creators that will launch in January.

Substack ✍️

✦ Announced it has surpassed 4M paid subscriptions, up from 3M in February.

Threads 🧵

✦ Reached almost 275M MAUs.

✦ Reportedly planning to introduce ads early next year.

✦ Testing AI-powered summaries of discussion topics.

✦ Made it possible to search for posts from an individual account.

TikTok ♪

✦ Partnered with LTK to enable creators to share LTK links in their posts.

✦ Filed two new trademarks. The first is for "TikTok Go" to promote “restaurants, retail businesses, the travel industry, and other online and offline businesses.” The other is for a BNPL offering called "TikTok PayLater."

✦ Expanded its AI ads tool Symphony Creative Studio to all advertisers, including the ability to use virtual AI influencers.

YouTube 🎥

✦ Enabled Shorts creators to send video linking requests to brands to explore potential sponsorships.

✦ Introduced jewels, which are virtual tips that fans can send creators during livestreams.

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