September 23, 2022

• Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

Saturday

• International Lace Day 

• Ghost Hunting Day

• World Bollywood Day

• International Rabbit Day

• Cherries Jubilee Day

• Lash Stylists’ Day

• Save Your Photos Day

• Punctuation Day

• Bluebird of Happiness Day

• Ancestors’ Day

Sunday

• Comic Book Day

• Cooking Day

• World Dream Day

• Daughter DAy

• World Rivers Day

• Better Breakfast Day

• Binge Day

• World Pharmacists Day

• One-Hit Wonder Day

• Psychotherapy Day

• Math Storytelling Day

• Food Service Employee Day

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September 22, 2022

• Meta’s has launched the Facebook Reels API, which will let you post Reels clips via third-party video creation apps and social media management tools. Learn more about this update here.

• Instagram’s testing out another way to protect users from unwanted content exposure in the app, this time via DMs, with a new nudity filter that would block likely nudes in your IG Direct messages. Read the article here.

• YouTube’s launching its biggest assault on TikTok yet, as part of its broader push to dominate the short-form video trend, with the announcement that it will provide more direct monetization options for Shorts creators, which could make YouTube the platform of choice for more creative talent. Learn more about this update here.

Holidays 9/23/2022:

• Native American Day

• Hug a Vegetarian Day

• Education Technology Day

• International Day of Sign Languages

• Celebrate Bisexuality Day

• Redhead Appreciation Day

• Great American Pot Pie Day

• Checkers Day

• Love Note Day

• Restless Legs Awareness Day

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September 21, 2022

• YouTube’s currently developing separate tabs for ‘Videos’, ‘Shorts’ and ‘Live’ uploads, segmenting each content format into its own element on your channel page. Users who then tap through to your page from Shorts, for example, would be routed to the Shorts-specific page. Learn more here.

• TikTok has announced a new feature called ‘TikTok Now’, which will prompt you to share a selfie, using the front and back camera, at a random time each day. Read more here.

Holidays 9/22/2022:

• Fall Equinox

• Ice Cream Cone Day

• Singles Day

• American Business Women’s Day

• Chainmail Day

• Dear Diary Day

• Hobbit Day

• Elephant Appreciation Day

• Centenarian’s Day

• Girls’ Night in Day

• World Car-free Day

• Business Women’s Day

• Remember Me Thursday

• Doodle Day

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September 20, 2022

• YouTube Shorts, is ramping up its pitch for top short-form creative talent, with The New York Times reporting that YouTube will soon add a new, direct monetization option for Shorts, which would provide a clearer pathway for short-form content creators to make money purely for their clips. Learn more here.

• LinkedIn’s looking to help members better manage their LinkedIn inbox, by filtering out more of the junk, with a new ‘Focused Inbox’ UI, which will essentially re-route less valuable messages into an ‘Other’ tab in your LinkedIn message stream. Read more here.

Holidays 9/21/2022:

• Miniature Golf Day

• Pecan Cookie Day

• World Gratitude Day

• International Day of Peace

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September 19, 2022

• Instagram’s currently developing a new ‘media kit’ option, which would guide YOU through the process of building your pitch to brands. Learn more here.

• Adobe has released its annual Emoji Trend Report, for which it conducted a survey of over 5,000 emoji users in the US to learn how, when and why they’re posting emojis. Download the full 111-page report here.

Holidays 9/20/2022:

• Care for Kids Day

• Fried Rice Day

• I.T. Professionals Day

• Punch Day

• Get Ready Day

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September 16, 2022

• Recap of this week’s updates

Holidays:

Saturday

• Dance Day

• Gymnastics Day

• International Country Music Day

• Apple Dumpling Day

• International Coastal Cleanup Day

• International Red Panda Day

• Monte Cristo Day

• International Eat An Apple Day

• Pet Bird Day

• International Patient Safety Day

• CleanUp Day

• Boy’s and Girl’s Club Day for Kids

• Responsible Dog Ownership Day

• Time’s Up Day

Sunday

• Wife Appreciation Day

• First Love Day

• Read An Ebook Day

• World Water Monitoring Day

• Respect Day

• Rice Krispies Treat Day

• Hug a Greeting Card Writer Day

• Global Company Culture Day

• International Equal Pay Day

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September 15 2022

• Meta is rolling out a new way to encourage more engagement stemming from Facebook Groups, via a new Community Chat option that’ll facilitate topic-based discussion groups within Messenger. Learn more here.

• More Instagram users are now able to activate end-to-end encryption in their IG Direct chats. Click here to learn more about this update.

• Peiter Zatcko, Twitter’s former security chief appeared before a Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss his recent accusations that Twitter is not fulfilling its security requirements, and has repeatedly misled the market, and its own board, about the state of its performance, on various fronts. Learn more about this update here.

Holidays 9/16/2022:

• Mayflower Day

• International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

• Guacamole Day

• Stepfamily Day

• Tradesmen Day

• Teenager Workout Day

• Locate An Old Friend DAy

• Concussion Awareness Day

• 4PM Finish Day

• Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day

• Choose Your Chocolate Day

• Working Parents Day

• Play-Doh Day

• Collect Rocks Day

• Barber Day

• Sit with a Stranger Day

• Tattoo Story Day

• World Ozone Day

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September 14, 2022

• According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Instagram engagement is declining, with Reels, in particular, seeing a significant drop-off in user engagement of late. Read the article here.

• YouTube announced a new, dedicated YouTube Player for Education, which will let educators display YouTube content without ads via certain third-party platforms, while YouTube’s also giving qualified creators the option to offer free or paid courses directly in-app. Learn more about this update here.

Holidays 9/15/2022:

• Felt Hat Day

• Get Ready Day

• Greenpeace Day

• International Dot Day

• Make a Hat Day

• Custom Framing Day

• Google.Com Day

• Online Learning Day

• World Engineers Day

• Linguine Day

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