Events.com announced the launch of digital tools to help event planners create and manage hybrid virtual and live events within a mobile platform. As the event industry begins to re-engage in-person attendees after a year of virtual events, Events.com’s new features integrate with streaming platforms Clubhouse, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, and Instagram; as well as wearable […]
The new avatar feature in MySize’s AI-driven sizing solution adds enhanced customer experience capabilities by letting users view how they would look in apparel they are browsing. MySize’s avatar solution mirrors online shoppers’ bodies for a virtual, gamified try-on experience. The technology leverages sensors already built into customers’ smartphones. Adding an avatar paired with MySize’s […]
Link in Bio tool Koji announced the launch of its newest feature, Billboards. The add-on offers ad units available to be purchased by advertisers who want to promote something on a Creator’s Link in Bio profile. Available now in the Koji Template Store, Billboards can be added to Koji Link in Bio profiles as an additional tool for Creators […]
Wix, a leading global SaaS platform to create, manage and grow an online presence announced the acquisition of Rise.ai, the gift card and customer re-engagement solution for online brands. The acquisition will extend the Wix eCommerce platform, providing a full solution for merchants to manage customer re-engagement activities aimed at increasing customer spending and repurchases, […]
Twitter has launched a new podcast that will provide new insight into how the company utilises user research and understanding to advance its systems, which could highlight some interesting use cases on Twitter data, and improve users’ platform understanding. Having a better understanding of how Twitter uses data insights to, say, improve its algorithm, and/or […]
TikTok has announced a range of new promotions, ad tools and education sessions to mark National Small Business Week – or National Small Business Month, as TikTok is calling it – which will help SMBs make better use of the platform, and provide more opportunities for promotion via short video clips. The main, over-arching element […]
LinkedIn analysed a randomised sample of three million LinkedIn members from across the world, in order to determine how their LinkedIn connections and activity have facilitated job transitions and developments. LinkedIn’s research focused on the relationship between people’s LinkedIn connection graph and career mobility – i.e. how quickly somebody moves into their next job. Factoring […]
Facebook has announced the next phase of its Community Accelerator Program, which is designed to help Facebook group admins, or organisations with a presence in Facebook groups, develop their leadership skills, and make better use of Facebook’s tools to maximise community impact. The program offers funding and training to the selected participants, in order to […]
Mobile gaming group Zynga, owner of hundreds of popular iPhone applications, is buying the advertising technology platform Chartboost for $250 million in the latest example of how changes to Apple’s privacy rules are shaking up the tech industry. The iPhone maker now requires every app wanting to track personal data and share it with third […]
Facebook runs a massively successful digital advertising operation on the back of its granular categories based on user behaviour. Yet, many of the people who actively use its services aren’t aware of how the social network shares their data with advertisers. To shed light on the issue, privacy-focussed messaging app Signal tried to use Facebook’s […]
