September 1, 2022

• YouTube’s looking to make it easier for you to run promotions with the addition of a new ‘Promotions’ tab in YouTube Studio, which would alleviate the need for you to run your YouTube ad campaigns via Google Ads Manager instead. Learn more about this update here.

• Snapchat launches a new ‘Dual’ Camera option, similar to BeReal. Read the article here.

Holidays 9/2/2022:

• World Coconut Day

• College Colors Day

• Lazy Mom’s Day

• Calendar Adjustment Day

• V-J Day

• Blueberry Popsicle Day

• Bring Your Manners to Work Day

• Food Bank Day

• Pierce Your Ears Day

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August 31, 2022

• Instagram announced the platform is rolling out a feature that defaults accounts for new users under 16 years old to “Less,” the most restrictive setting for Sensitive Content Control. Teenagers already on Instagram will get push notifications “encouraging” them to opt-in to the heavier filtering on what the algorithm shows them across Search, Explore, Hashtag Pages, Reels, Feed Recommendations, and Suggested Accounts. Read more about this update here

• Do you ever watch YouTube videos at faster than normal speed? It turns out, a lot of people do, with YouTube reporting that users ‘save an average of over 900 years of video time per day’ because they’re watching videos at faster speeds. Read the article here.

Holidays for the month of September:

• Friendship Month

• Sourdough September

• Read A New Book Month

• Self-Improvement Month

• Shake Month

• Sewing Month

• Hunger Action Month

• Happy Cat Month

• Honey Month

• Chicken Month

• Piano Month

• Preparedness month

• Library Card Sign-up Month

• Mushroom Month

• Courtesy Month

• Square Dancing Month

• Classical Music Month

And tomorrow is:

• Building Code Staff Appreciation Day

• Tofu Day

• Ginger Cat Appreciation Day

• World Letter Writing Day

• Cherry Popover Day

• American Chess Day

• No Rhyme Nor Reason Day

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August 30, 2022

• Twitter’s slowly adding more options to its Professional Accounts tools, with new, variable link CTAs now being rolled out to business users in the app. Read more about this update here.

• LinkedIn now gives you the capacity to pin a comment from the three dots menu, which will then keep that specific response at the top of the reply chain. Learn more about this update here.

• While Instagram's guidelines are still vague on nudity and sexual activity in art photography, their guidelines now explicitly allow for "real world art that depicts implied or explicit sexual activity". But never the less, art is not being shown, and in some cases artists are having their accounts banned altogether. Read the article here.

Holidays 8/31/2022:

• We Love Memoirs Day

• Eat Outside Day

• Love Litigating Lawyers Day

• Matchmaker Day

• Zoo Awareness Day

• World Distance Learning Day

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August 29, 2022

• BeReal now has reportedly up to 10 million daily active users, which is up from just 10,000 a little over a year ago. Read the article here.

Holidays 8/30/2022:

• Beach Day

• Frankenstein Day

• International Whale Shark Day

• Grief Awareness Day

• Holistic Pet Day

• Toasted Marshmallow Day

• Slinky Day

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August 26, 2022

• Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

Saturday

• International Bat Night

• Petroleum Day

• Banana Lover’s Day

• Just Because Day

• Tug of War Day

• International Lottery Day

Sunday

• Red Wine Day

• Pony Express Day

• Cherry Turnover Day

• Bow Tie Day

• Crackers Over The Keyboard Day

• Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

• Radio Commercials Day

• Race Your Mouse Around The Icons Day

• Social Justice Sunday

• World Alternative Games

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August 25, 2022

• Good news for YouTube creators, with the platform throwing smaller channels a bone, by expanding access to its ‘Other Videos Your Audience Watched’ data. Click here to learn more.

• TikTok has confirmed that it’s currently experimenting with a new ‘Nearby’ content feed, in addition to the current ‘For You’ and ‘Following’ tabs. Click here to learn more.

Holidays 8/26/2022:

• Dog Day

• Toilet Paper Day

• Cherry Popsicle Day

• Women’s Equality Day

• Webmistress Day

• Spark the World Day

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August 24, 2022

• Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users' personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post. Read the article here.

• YouTube’s taking its next steps into podcast hosting, with some users now able to access a dedicated podcast page in the app, which will eventually let podcasters feed their shows straight into YouTube. Learn more about this update here.

Holidays 8/25/2022:

• Banana Split Day

• Kiss and Make Up Day

• Secondhand Wardrobe Day

• Franchise Appreciation Day

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August 23, 2022

• Instagram is now looking to copy BeReal with new “IG Candid” feature. Learn more about this update here.

• As part of Instagram’s ongoing quest to negate TikTok through blatant replication, it recently launched a test of a full-screen main feed, which incorporated regular posts, Stories and Reels into a single, TikTok-style display. Click here to learn more.

• Earlier this year, TikTok launched ‘Instant Page’, which let's you connect your TikTok ads through to a lightweight, native landing page, built within TikTok itself, that loads up to 11x faster than standard mobile pages. Learn more about TikTok’s Instant Page tools here.

Holidays 8/24/2022:

• Waffle Day

• International Strange Music Day

• Peach Pie Day

• Knife Day

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