By Mark Wilson February 15, 2023 With very little fanfare, Netflix has sunset a UX feature that was half a decade in development. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company’s Surprise Me feature, which played a randomized movie or show with the click of a button, has been discontinued due to low use. … Continue reading Netflix killed its Surprise Me button. Here’s why the shuffle-play feature never made much sense
Instagram’s next feature might be a copy of BeReal Karissa Bell @karissabe Instagram is testing a new feature called Candid Challenges, which bears a striking resemblance to BeReal, a photo sharing app popular among Gen. Z. The currently unreleased feature was spotted by Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer known for reverse engineering apps and finding … Continue reading Instagram could be working on a paid verification feature
Jon Fingas @jonfingas Samsung is holding its first Unpacked event of 2023 on February 1st, and many expect the Galaxy S23 family to be the centerpiece. The company has even teased a few details, such as camera and performance upgrades. But will this phone lineup be a major revision, or a modest yearly refresh? Let’s … Continue reading Samsung’s entry model Galaxy S23 could feature slower storage
Elon Musk’s texts with Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal detail tumultuous Twitter negotiations Karissa Bell @karissabe A tranche of Elon Musk’s private messages have been made public as part of his ongoing lawsuit with Twitter. The messages, revealed in a court filing Thursday, shed new light on Musk’s behind-the-scenes negotiations with Twitter’s leadership, as … Continue reading Twitter’s Community Notes feature starts rolling out globally
YouTube Launches Global Target Frequency Feature by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, November 10, 2022 YouTube has introduced a global target frequency goal option for video campaigns that allows advertisers to select a goal of up to four weeks. The platform will then optimize toward the reach and goal. This is an extension of a feature launched … Continue reading YouTube Launches Global Target Frequency Feature
Firefox Turns On New Cookie-Blocking Feature by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, June 15, 2022 In its latest attempt to prevent online tracking, Mozilla has turned on a new cookie-blocking tool by default in the Firefox browser. The new tool, “Total Cookie Protection,” aims to prevent ad-tech companies from mingling data collected across websites by creating separate … Continue reading Firefox Turns On New Cookie-Blocking Feature
Ad spend losses from fraud will cost US companies $23 billion this year. Constantine von Hoffman on April 27, 2022 E-commerce platform Edgemesh has announced a new feature aimed at identifying and protecting brands against ad and click fraud at the infrastructure-level. What it does. Ad Protect is an upgrade of the Edgemesh Server. It … Continue reading Edgemesh announces new feature to fight ad and click fraud
By Jared Newman April 07, 2022 Google is releasing a new feature for its search engine that tries to mimic how we inquire about things in the real world. Instead of just typing into a search box, you can now present an image with Google Lens, then tailor the results with follow-up questions. You might, … Continue reading Google’s new search feature mixes images and text for better results
Experimental Twitter Shops lets brands display up to 50 items which users can buy Danny Goodwin on March 14, 2022 A new Twitter feature would put the company in competition with social e-commerce giants like TikTok and Instagram. Called Twitter Shops, the experimental feature lets brands who create a shop can curate up to 50 … Continue reading Twitter tests e-commerce waters with new feature for in-app purchases
Marketers will be able to create create custom audiences for many advertising platforms. Corey Patterson on December 7, 2021 Customer data platform Lytics announced today that it’s offering a new tool that allows users to enhance their advertising campaigns via cloud data warehouses. The feature, Cloud Connect, is a freemium offering linking to Google Big … Continue reading Lytics adds cloud data connection feature to improve ad targeting
