Hello and welcome to our roundup of the latest and greatest from the world of digital and technology. This week featuring a flurry of updates across the established social platforms and a new social offering from Jimmy Wales.
- Facebook have released Facebook Pay, for payment within their family of apps, alongside charity donation updates and increased ad personalisation
- Elsewhere in the Facebook family, Instagram has spawned a Tik Tok clone called ‘Reels’ and are testing a new meme generating app called Whale
- Wikipedia founder launches new, ad-free social platform WT:Social, and gains 160K users in a week
- Snapchat introduces extended play commercials
- Tik Tok tests social commerce functionality
- Alibaba Singles Day sales top a record $38 billion
- Nike pulls out of Amazon to focus on “elevating consumer experiences” through direct sales channels
- How Condé Nast is hoping to make money from IGTV
- A roundup of the pros and cons of using influencers alongside a prediction that the future is organic
- A t-shirt that makes you invisible to AI
- Inside the world’s biggest YouTube channel
- Disney offers you an AR experience to put you in Lady and the Tramp, while Gucci takes you to a psychedelic island
- Pinterest has expanded the wellbeing options in app
- Full detail on the Twitter political ad ban, exclusions and rules
- A first look at Google’s Stadia