1. And so it begins! WhatsApp confirms ads are coming to Status Bit by bit, Facebook has been drawing WhatsApp closer and closer into its advertising world. And it’s fair enough really, because although WhatsApp was originally an anti-ads domain, it was also a $1 a year...
1. Ready for an emotionally intelligent Alexa? This is either really creepy or really cute. I can’t decide. Amazon has just been granted a patent for tech that will enable Alexa to detect your physical, emotional and behavioural state. Picture this: you’re feeling under the weather and don’t...
1. Pinterest scraps Buyable Pins, replaces with upgraded Product Pins Pinterest is marking the start of holiday season with a slew of updates for businesses. First up, it's scrapping Buyable Pins and replacing them with Product Pins. With the change, “hundreds of millions” of pins will become shoppable,...
1. Facebook sticks two fingers up at Apple, adds first-party cookie option to bypass the blockers Last summer, Apple announced Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) for Safari as part of a crackdown on third-party trackers. It meant that Safari could block these trackers or limit their ability...
1. Not again! Facebook owns up to another data disaster If there was one thing Facebook didn’t need right now it was this. Another major data scare – less than 7 months after that Cambridge Analytica scandal. The company has been on a major grovelling mission since...
1. Instagram test revealed! Geo-fencing could soon be an option for organic posts Remember code hacker Jane Manchun Wong from last week’s Digital Dash? For anyone who missed it, Jane found an in-development “Add Hashtag” field buried in Instagram’s app code. And while we’re still not sure...
1. Twitter shocker! You’ll soon be able to switch back to a reverse chronological timeline One by one, practically every social media news feed has changed from reverse chronological (with newest posts first) to curated by an algorithm (which essentially decides what you’ll like on your...
Along with most of us, Digital Dash has been on summer vacation for the past few weeks. And as we all know, that’s about 6 months in the digital world. But fear not! Today we’re back, putting sunbathing and beaches behind us to bring you a bumper...
1. Amazon launches video ads in mobile search results, takes ad business up a gear Amazon already has annual ad sales of $2bn, and advertising is its fastest growing segment (source: Econsultancy) but this is really just the tip of the iceberg. Amazon’s edge is that it...
1. Snapchat reports major DAU crash, but revenue and share price both rise so what does this mean? Okay, let’s start with one of the biggest social stories of last week. Snapchat’s Q2 earnings report revealed a 3 million drop in daily active users (DAUs) month-on-month, falling...