Ask HN: What happened in marketing and social media recently?
1/ Threads API launched.
2/ Meta launches new AI bots for messenger and other business messaging tools.
3/ TikTok testing website links in organic videos.
4/ Instagram showing prompts to share newly published content with friends, it shows up as soon as you finish upload.
5/ YouTube testing community notes, similar to X’s notes feature.
6/ TikTok launched a new Instagram rival, a photo sharing app: Whee.
7/ US sues Adobe for deceiving subscriptions and tactics that make it hard to cancel the subscription plans.
8/ IG now shows “X new posts” text on threads username tag on your profile.
9/ TikTok launched AI creator avatars, launch of Symphony Avatars.
10/ Instacart’s new Youtube expansion of shoppable ads.
11/ Reddit launches new version of conversation ads.
12/ TikTok launched a new commercial music library for Adobe Express.
13/ Disney to launch a commerce media solution in partnership with Affinity solutions.
14/ Oracle to end all of its ad products by Sept. 30.
15/ New Platforms: Seen App, where you react to other people’s content and Butterflies app where AI and Human content exists side by side.
Credit: Axios, The Social Juice, Business Insider, The Information, FT and more.