Next-Gen Communication
As WhatsApp usage continues to rise, particularly in Western markets, Meta’s slowly trying to integrate more functionality into the app, with a view to eventually facilitating a broader set of functions and options within your message streams. Meta’s latest focus…
Whenever we talk about end-to-end encrypted data, we’re usually talking about messaging apps like iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, and Google’s RCS. But plenty of other data is encrypted to ensure attackers can’t access it. Think of data in transit from your…
Representative Ilhan Omar’s Democratic primary opponent Don Samuels has had quite the week leading up to polls opening in Minnesota on Tuesday—including openly courting Republican voters and getting caught possibly breaking campaign finance laws. In a WhatsApp group chat titled…
This research is based on unique data collected from our proprietary audience of publisher, agency, brand and tech insiders. It’s available to Digiday+ members. More from the series → This is the second half of Digiday’s CMO Strategies report on…
Universal Music Group and Meta have inked an expanded licensing deal. Photo Credit: Dima Solomin Universal Music Group (UMG) has inked an “expanded global agreement” – including a framework for addressing “unauthorized AI-generated content” – with Facebook and Instagram parent…
It’s basically blackjack for jokes Image credit: spelafort Conan Throwbrien welcomes its host to the stage with discordant jazz and uncanny colour bars glitches. It feels eerie. Desperate. A crushing inevitability. Four joke topics appear at the bottom of the…
Snapchat’s updated its Ads Manager platform to simplify the campaign creation process, most notably reducing the steps required to set your campaign objectives. As you can see in this image, Snap’s reduced the amount of available objectives from eleven options…
Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced on Monday the expansion of their multi-year music licensing agreement, which enables users to share songs from UMG’s music library across Meta’s platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Horizon, Threads and WhatsApp) without violating copyright. What’s…
Both Russia and Venezuela have blocked access to the encrypted messaging app Signal, The Verge reports. The Russian news service Interfax broke the news about the block on the Signal app in Russia. Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor restricted the app…
As the most popular messaging app in the world, millions of people depend on WhatsApp to deliver messages to friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and loved ones daily. According to WhatsApp, the messaging service recently crossed the 100 million user threshold in the…