TikTok Search Ads Come With A Caveat by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 23, 2023 Advertisers will soon have an option to place ads alongside organic content that appears when searching in the TikTok app, but there’s no guarantee that enabling the Search Ads Toggle will result in ads being served in the TikTok … Continue reading TikTok Search Ads Come With A Caveat
TikTok Expands Text Posts For Creators by Colin Kirkland , July 24, 2023 In an effort to lower the barriers of creation on TikTok and move beyond short-form video, the social-media platform has announced an expansion of in-app text posts that invite creators to share stories, poems, lyrics and other written content with their followers. … Continue reading TikTok Expands Text Posts For Creators
Verizon will sell Tumblr to the owner of WordPress Jon Fingas @jonfingas The rumors of Verizon selling Tumblr turned out to have merit. Verizon (Engadget’s parent company) is selling the social network to Automattic, the company behind the blogging tool WordPress. It’s not disclosing the size of the deal, but Automattic is taking … Continue reading Tumblr’s building a TikTok inspired feed in bid to grow its user base
Basis Automates TikTok Ads Performance Reporting by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, June 27, 2023 Basis Technologies is offering steps to automate marketing accountability and reporting with the integration of TikTok ad-delivery data alongside programmatic, direct, search and social — despite reports that the company notes exceptions for storing creator data. A central hub in the Basis … Continue reading Basis Automates TikTok Ads Performance Reporting
TikTok Wants To Offer An AI Chatbot For Search And Discovery by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 26, 2023 Industry buzz around TikTok’s role in search started as a hum. Now the company is testing the Tako chatbot, which is designed to help make it easier to discover entertaining and inspiring content on TikTok. … Continue reading TikTok Wants To Offer An AI Chatbot For Search And Discovery
Hyundai and Kia release software update to prevent TikTok thefts Katie Malone @kathrynamalone Kia and Hyundai released a software update on Monday after a viral TikTok challenge taught users how to hack the vehicles. But for now, it’s only available to a selected one million vehicles, out of the four million cars that … Continue reading Hyundai will pay $200 million after a TikTok challenge exposed a huge security flaw
The US government is trying to force ByteDance to sell TikTok TikTok could be banned in the United States if ByteDance refuses. Karissa Bell @karissabe The Biden Administration is significantly increasing pressure on ByteDance just days before TikTok’s CEO is set to testify in front of Congress. The United States government is … Continue reading Former ByteDance exec claims company used bots to inflate TikTok engagement
By Clint Rainey April 18, 2023 Fears that TikTok might be a Chinese intelligence-gathering tool haven’t hurt its spot yet among the most popular U.S. mobile apps—and perhaps that’s no surprise for a platform that claims to have 150 million American users. What may surprise people, though, is when they look at the … Continue reading TikTok may get banned, but our phones will still be fully loaded with Chinese apps
Montana is about to become the first state to ban TikTok Karissa Bell @karissabe Montana is poised to become the first state to ban TikTok. The state’s legislature passed a bill requiring app stores to block the app in the state. The bill, which passed 54 – 43, will now head to Republican Governor … Continue reading Montana is about to become the first state to ban TikTok
By Jessica Bursztynsky April 11, 2023 An upbeat woman takes to TikTok to bring users along for her mid-morning hydration hit. She rummages through a caddy full of flavor packets, screaming “crushed pineapple” once she picks one. She grabs her cup of ice and water, then moves toward her “water bar,” which is stocked … Continue reading What is WaterTok? Why flavored water is blowing up on TikTok
