On-demand grocery delivery giant Instacart has finally dropped its much anticipated S-1. The company, actually named MapleBear, is one of the best-known unicorns on the IPO shortlist. Instacart’s public-offering filing […]
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Back to news homeYouTube demystifies the Shorts algorithm, views and answers other creator questions
YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. The questions it answered ranged from how the algorithm for […]
Dropbox drops unlimited storage, blames crypto miners and resellers for the change
Dropbox is ending its unlimited option because some customers were using it for purposes like crypto mining, pooling storage for personal use cases and even reselling storage. The company’s highest-tier […]
X tries to lure back advertisers with new $250 ad credit
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a new initiative aimed at luring smaller businesses to advertise on its platform. The company announced on Wednesday it would offer a […]
YouTube tests a search feature where users hum to identify songs
YouTube announced a new experiment on Android devices that determines a song via humming—which seems like a major step up from Apple’s music recognition app Shazam. As noted on YouTube’s support page, the […]
Spotify introduces new podcaster tools, including customized pages, analytics, and other controls
Following Apple’s announcement of podcast creator tools for subscriptions on Monday, Spotify today also introduced its own latest developments in terms of features aimed at podcasters. Included among the changes […]
Landing, a platform for making virtual mood boards, brings its creation tools to mobile
Landing, the community-powered social platform where users create and publish virtual mood boards and collages, today launched a mobile feature called “Creation,” allowing users to express their creativity on the […]
Triller’s S-1 filing claims 550M users, but its app installs fall far short, new data shows
TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question. Per Triller’s S-1 filing, the short-form video app has had 550 […]
Musk says X’s ‘block’ feature is going away
Part of the X (née) roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell. The one thing we can say for sure is that […]
Amazon tries to boost its TikTok-like shopping feed by asking influencers to submit videos — for $25 each
Amazon is looking to boost its TikTok-style “Inspire” shopping feed and is offering to pay influencers $25 a video, but some creators are mocking the low rate. The company sent […]