Apple tax on Facebook ads When you buy a boosted post on Facebook or Instagram via the iOS app, Apple charges Meta a 30% transaction fee. And now they’re passing that fee onto you. Starting in the US this will be rolled out globally. You can avoid paying by using the Facebook and Instagram websites […]

Instagram is not limiting you to 5 tags Could hashtags soon be over on Instagram? It’s such a pain adding them to posts.  So when users got notifications that they couldn’t add more than 5 to their posts, I was kinda glad. It seems that the notification was a ‘glitch’, but is it a hint […]

LinkedIn is killing creator mode If you switched LinkedIn creator mode on to avail of extra features like live streaming and enhanced analytics, you may be surprised to know that this mode is going away. But the features aren’t. Although LinkedIn is killing creator mode it is going to make most of the tools available […]

TikTok in Landscape TikTok has its eyes set on YouTube viewers, those people who like to watch longer videos, in the traditional landscape format. The platform that made vertical video the norm is now flipping for landscape. Landscape videos will have to be over a minute long but in return, TikTok is offering ‘boosted views’. […]

Conversation starters on Instagram Notes Fewer people post publicly on social than before, more people are using private chats. If you’re a social network and you want to retain your users, you better adapt. That seems to be what Meta is doing with Instagram notes. The feature that posts short updates from friends at the […]

Chrome blocks 3rd party cookies 1% of Chrome users are now in a test that automatically blocks third-party cookies. And I’m one of the 1%.  What does this mean? Third-party cookies stalk you around the internet. They are mostly used by advertising tools to build a picture of the people who visit sites so they […]