A pair of fans of Taylor Swift raised more than $1,000 in a GoFundMe a campaign to publicly support Swift in her ongoing battle with Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta. Haley Spalding and Kyle Graden used the funds to pay for two digital billboards in N…
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TikTok Hits a Whopping 1.5 Billion Downloads
TikTok has reached 1.5 billion downloads as it continues to compete with rival Instagram. According to data from Sensor Tower, TikTok’s total downloads across both Apple’s App Store and Google Play just passed the 1.5 billion mark, after re…
What U.S. Government Investigation? TikTok Is Testing Out Buy Links
In spite of a U.S. government investigation into its business practices, TikTok is continuing to move forward with its app, by testing out new e-commerce capabilities. Fabian Bern, who is the founder of a Chinese influencer marketing agency called Upla…
Instagram Clones TikTok With ‘Reels’ — Limited to Brazil for Right Now
Facebook is testing something new with Instagram in Brazil. Instagram Reels is a clone of TikTok — a popular Chinese-owned app Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to fight. In leaked audio of a Facebook meeting this summer, Zuckerberg revealed this strategy to …
An Ex-Facebooker Devastatingly Piled Into Mark Zuckerberg’s Stance Allowing Politicians to Lie in Ads
Facebook’s former head of global elections integrity voiced her concerns in a ‘Washington Post’ op-ed.
What U.S. Government Investigation? TikTok Releases a Developer SDK to Further Leverage Its Platform
TikTok is releasing its software development kit (SDK) to third-parties to leverage the platform. The SDK release comes amid U.S. investigations into the Chinese-owned tech company. The ByteDance-owned app has been downloaded more than 800 million time…
TikTok Marketing For Indie Artists
While it may be the one of the most discussed social media platforms of the present day, many still struggle to understand what exactly TikTok is, much less how to utilize it as the powerful marketing tool which it undeniably is. Here, we clear some of the fog surrounding TikTok…
Twitter Bans Political Ads as Facebook Doubles Down
‘We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought,’ says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Facebook Adds Millions Of New US, Canada, EU Users After 2 Years Of Stagnation
Facebook now has more than 2.45 billion monthly users, up 1.65%, from 2.41 billion in Q2 2019 when it grew 1.6%. The social behemoth now has 1.62 billion daily active users, up 2% from 1.587 billion last quarter when it grew 1.6%. Most notably, Facebook added 2 million users each…
HOW TO: Basics Of Chinese Social Media For Musicians
While popular artist platforms like Instagram and Facebook aren’t accessible in China, musicians in the US are capable of bridging the global divide and reach fans overseas, simply by creating accounts on the following social media platforms. __________________________ Guest post by Cait McMahon from the Symphonic Blog We, as a…