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Facebook Launches Holiday Gift Showcase in Marketplace
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. With Facebook Marketplace usage rising, especially among younger consumers, Facebook’s looking to capitalize on the potential of Marketplace for gifting, with a new Holiday Shop activation of curated items. The activation will highlight popular gifts, based on seasonal trends, to help users…
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YouTube Expands Expressive Captions to All Devices
YouTube is expanding access to its AI-powered “Expressive Captions” option to all devices, which adds contextual explainer notes within captions to better capture the scene. As you can see in these examples, YouTube’s Expressive Captions include additional notes on things like tone, volume, and environmental cues, in order to better convey the sense of the moment within its text descriptions.…
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Google Expands AI-Powered Virtual Try-On to More Regions
Google’s expanding access to its advanced virtual try-on tools to more regions, with shoppers in the U.K and India set to get access to The Big G’s most advanced digital cosplay technology. Originally launched to U.S. consumers back in 2023, Google’s evolving virtual try-on process uses AI to show how chosen items look on different body types “down to the…
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Meta Integrates More AI-Powered Options Into Its Ad Flow
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. With its AI-based ad recommendations driving better results over time, Meta is now looking to make its AI targeting tools a more integrated element of the Meta ad creation process, by incorporating more of its Advantage+ elements into the creation flow direct.…
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YouTube Music Rolls Out AI Powered Recap for 2025
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. YouTube is rolling out its 2025 recap listings for YouTube Music subscribers, which, much like Spotify’s popular “Wrapped” yearly summaries, provides an overview of what you listened to in the app. But this time around YouTube has added an extra special element.…
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Edits Gets More Features, Including ‘Stranger Things’ Font
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Meta has released its latest round of feature updates for its Edits video editing app, including expanded masking options, variable volume controls, so the music doesn’t overpower your voiceover, and a Stranger Things font. First off, on masking, which enables you to…
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YouTube Expands Access to Gen AI Features
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. YouTube’s expanding access to some of its experimental generative AI features, while it’s also got some new updates for Communities, as per this week’s update. First off, on AI tools. YouTube says that it’s expanding to various AI editing features, including standalone…
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Meta Faces Major Legal Challenge Over Harm to Teens
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Another major legal challenge is mounting for Meta, with a group of U.S. parents and school leaders alleging that Meta ignored major risk red flags, in order to maximize usage and profit, despite warnings, including those from its own internal leaders. According…
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Instagram Updates Reels Camera With Improved Functions
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Instagram is rolling out some new updates for the Reels camera, which will make it easier to capture and edit your clips in-stream, for on-the-go posting. Also, you can now capture longer videos via the camera, with 20-minute recording now available in-stream.…
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Meta Advances Towards the Metaverse With New Creative Tools
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Meta’s next-level metaverse push progressed a little more this week, with the addition of two new features that will help facilitate the creation of 3D environments, and will eventually enable you to speak entire VR experiences into existence. In addition to the…
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