Tag: media platforms

• Introducing Spotify snippets, a new feature to enhance podcast based learning

  February 8, 2025

  Spotify is a renowned streaming app that enables users to listen to songs & podcasts. Podcast listening is a great way for listeners to discover enriching content across a variety… more ›

• Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing

  January 29, 2025

  In the delicate journalistic ecosystem of the White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, the seating chart is the be-all, end-all of status. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/media/white-house-press-briefing-podcasters-influencers.html more ›

• The Secret Sauce of Chinese Social Media Apps

  January 27, 2025

  Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-algorithm-shopping-china/ more ›

• TikTok’s billion-dollar secret that wasn’t

  January 22, 2025

  Last week at Vox Media’s Code conference, Evan Spiegel, Snap’s CEO, touched upon the various pain points that currently afflict the developer behind Snapchat, resulting last month in the company… more ›

• These Influencers Helped Get Trump Elected. Now They’re Ready to Party

  January 21, 2025

  TikTok sponsored an inauguration-eve bash for content creators, proving that the stigma around being MAGA on social media is gone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-donald-trump-inauguration-party-maga-1235241317/ more ›

• Quality is a Serious Problem

  January 20, 2025

    A shift is underway across media. It’s happening on YouTube and Reels, Roblox and Fortnite, Soundcloud and Spotify and here, on Substack. On these platforms—across video, gaming, music and… more ›

• The Great Decentralization

  January 8, 2025

  For the past two decades, most online discourse has occurred on a handful of social media platforms. Their dominion seemed unshakeable. The question wasn’t when a challenger to Twitter or… more ›

• I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw.

  December 14, 2024

  As soon as President-elect Donald J. Trump won the presidential race, influencers on Rumble, the right-wing alternative to YouTube, flooded the platform with a simple catchphrase: “We are the media… more ›

• Movie Stars, Matchmakers, and Aunties: How WhatsApp Became an Unstoppable Cultural Force

  December 12, 2024

  It’s a warm September afternoon in Lagos and filming of the Nollywood slapstick comedy Osas and Nosa is delayed for the day. The scene being shot takes place in the… more ›

• Insights to Own the Future

  November 27, 2024

  Our research and industry perspective inform our work and enable us to bring insight from the start of an engagement. https://www.activate.com/insights more ›