LinkedIn lets users set core brand rules
<p>Colors, fonts and even brand voice can all be created using the platform’s brand kit, which will then use these selections for artificial intelligence-generated content.</p>
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Snapchat launches ‘House of the Dragon’ AR ad in New York City
<p>The interactive large-format experience in Times Square allows people to project themselves onto billboards while inserting themselves into fictional scenes.</p>
YouTube updates mobile UI and channel membership pricing
<p>Like, dislike, share and ask icons got a new format and channel managers will be able to factor in foreign exchange rates when setting membership prices.</p>
Snapchat launches AI-powered ad creation tools
<p>Updated features include a chatbot-guided set-up and Snap Creator Network, which is designed to help advertisers find the right creator partners. </p>
Google adds AI bot to Ad Manager
<p>The in-stream assistant provides personalized answers to campaign-related questions and is powered by Gemini’s artificial intelligence model.</p>
Show HN: Convert your landing pages to powerful visuals for social media
launchreel.devBeing a solo founder focused on building products, content creation to evangelize was not easy. Making videos meant taking screen captures, writing captions, converting text to voice overs and assembling them into frames took hours. This being a repetitive exercise, it was becoming a bottleneck.So I built launchreel.How it works:you paste a URL (up to 3, plus up to 6 images/videos). It applies vision apis to extract visual references, text and LLM weaves a story. It writes ca
Show HN: Timestamp and provenance records for AI-assisted creative work
hey guys, I have been chronically online for quite a couple of months now, and honestly, a lot of content that keeps on going viral happens to be AI-assisted. This became more prominent when Seedance 2.0 came. AI work from Seedance 2.0 models are especially really good, that it is so hard to know if they were done by AI or a Hollywood-level production studio, they are that good! Cat videos, to now world cup anime videos are going viral on social media. Being that these videos are just all AI, a
Instagram Users Under 18 Will Soon Be Blocked From Seeing Posts Promoting Certain Cosmetic Surgery And Diet Products
A spokesperson for Instagram said that it's about reducing the pressure that people can sometimes feel using social media.
Here Is Exactly What's Going Down Between UMG And TikTok, And Why It’s Not As Clear-Cut As You Might Think
While UMG has argued that artists deserve more compensation for their music being on TikTok, others have called the record label “greedy” and claimed that the promotional value of the social media app is priceless.
Trump Just Absolutely Lost It On Social Media After People Criticized His Peace Deal With Iran, And Wow
The president returned home and immediately attacked critics of his Iran deal.
Tom Holland And Zendaya Are Once Again Proving To Be The Internet's Most-Loved Couple
Tom Holland has sparked a social media storm after seemingly confirming he and Zendaya are married in a new interview.
Jenna Schilstra: In defense of emojis
A simple emoji can help clarify and amplify subtext so that we can better understand each other, but their benefits extend far beyond enhancing our daily texts and emails. Marketing analyst and avid emoji-defender Jenna Schilstra demonstrates how these pictograms are being used in new ways, like helping abused children describe complex emotions,...
7 Things That Hit This Week: Meta’s Next Stab at Commerce, New Hires at Sephora and Lowe’s, and Pinterest Goes Deep on AI
Plus, how much it costs to sponsor a retail upfront.
Ads of the Week: 11 Campaigns That Caught Our Eye, From Nike to Etsy
Absolut, Nike, Liquid Death, Etsy, and more are behind the week’s most notable ads.
6 Top Local World Cup Ads: Adidas Backs Scotland, Brahma Dreams Big For Brazil and More
Some of the tournament’s top creative taps into national culture and regional nuances.
An Inside Look at the Ad Experience at a World Cup Match
ADWEEK was on hand to see the brands at a recent match between France and Senegal.
Ask HN: Do you know anyone at Meta?
Hi, there as an instagram account who has a naked picture of my girlfriend pretending to be her in the profile picture.An ex bf of her made the account and he has also made other fake accounts sending intimate images of her in several platforms. We just want the instagram account to be eliminated as this is the first thing that comes up when someone looks up her name in instagram.We already tried reporting it in instagram and they didnt accept the report. The account is still up there. She alrea
The internet is on life support
I am wondering what is going to happen to the internet when you can no longer navigate it with a Google Search? Its just astounding what OpenAI and Anthropic have accomplished, and I reminisce. I remember in 2004, how much better Google performed versus Alta Vista for finding sources for term papers and essays. Later, I learned that they achieved this by converting all the content on the internet to vectors, a process we would now call tokenization. I learned that they created the first stable s
Tell HN: Facebook login is down for many
If you’re wondering about reduced metrics on your site, Meta logon services are acting up for people so ”Log in with Facebook” doesn’t work either
UK’s Under 16 Social Media Ban Risks Digital ID Expansion
The UK’s under 16 social media ban has raised privacy concerns over age verification, digital ID, surveillance and children moving to less regulated platforms.