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Climate change continues to be top of the agenda, as campaigners use social media to supply facts.
- Stricter rules for YouTube account verification affects several creators, whilst paid ad views are removed from YouTube Music Charts rankings
- Facebook receives the JICWEBS brand safety certificate and Instagram tightens rules on diet and cosmetic surgery posts
- Digital video viewership in 2019
- 75% of Rugby World Cup sponsors are finance, telecom and travel brands
- Giphy partners with Moat to start measuring branded gifs
- Google allows users to search for key moments within videos
- Paddy Power launches a ‘Japanese-themed’ YouTube series for the Rugby World Cup
- Facebook partners with Ray-Ban to develop smart glasses, adds more AR and interactive games and pushes their Stories feature via a dog shelter campaign
- A virtual grocery store app helps refugees access food
- Everything you need to know about California’s version of GDPR
- Microsoft brings out AI software to help retailers track consumers
- Researchers adopt increasingly intrusive high tech surveillance to monitor people
- Amazon changes its search algorithm to boost its own products