instagram

• After Meta’s attempts to copy TikTok, Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian want to “make Instagram Instagram again”
• Google said Instagram was cutting into its Search and Maps traffic. Now Instagram’s debuting a searchable map.

  
• Instagram now lets you shop in DMs

  
• Instagram’s bulking up creator subscriptions

  Instagram has expanded its subscriptions test to “tens of thousands of creators here in the U.S.”

  
• Instagram is testing a “full screen” design that looks a lot like TikTok
• Meta is changing Facebook’s feed to be more like TikTok
• Meta survey: 58% of consumers purchased a product in the past six months because of a creator’s recommendation
• The FTC says social media is rife with crypto scams—and victims are losing hundreds of millions of dollars
• Meta hopes “platform agnostic” creators will flock to its events at VidCon
• TikTok’s Cannes Film Festival partnership has hit some major speed bumps
• Instagram thinks the future of memes has “infinite possibilities.” That’s why it’s holding an official MemeCon.
• Meta says it’s messing with Reels payouts, introduces new Facebook plug for creators to earn up to $4,000