NPR listeners - there's a show where people describe their business problems and the hosts give them advice. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?? I'm trying to find the show as an example for something and don't know where to start. TIA!

Any Snapchat users here? Because I’m pretty sure they’ve had this for years

Happy days!!! You can now watch Reels on 2X 💨 Feature just showed up for me (on a Zuck video no less): Press edge to fast-forward ⏩ h/t @mattnavarra.com

BIG YouTube Update 💥 Shorts “Views” will now count the number of times your Short starts to play or replay with NO minimum watch time required This helps reconcile short-form video view analytics if you’re posting across multiple platforms BUT…

Pinterest just announced its second annual partnership with Coachella 💡 Pinterest users start searching for Coachella inspiration on the platform as early as January, and Gen Z accounts for 45% of all Coachella-related searches newsroom.pinterest.com/news/pintere...

Instagram is working on search this year! 👉🏼 Search for accounts 👉🏼 Search for content And they’re considering search on profiles to sift through a creator’s content This gets mentioned every few years so I hope we really see some huge improvements in IG search

“Thing is, there will always be a new platform. Chasing every shiny new social media app without proper resources and strategy is unsustainable and counterproductive.” open.substack.com/pub/liahaber...

Instagram is reportedly considering launching a stand-alone app for Reels, code-name: "Project Ray" Great scoop from Kaya Yurieff + Kalley Huang www.theinformation.com/articles/ins...

What we know about TikTok content creators: - Post more content - Post more regularly - Produce longer posts - Talk more in their videos via @pewresearch www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Inside The RealReal’s latest marketing bet: a new Gossip Girl-esque Substack newsletter Thanks for including my thoughts Allison! www.modernretail.co/technology/i...

can we ditch most punctuation too? the death of capital letters: why gen z loves lowercase www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NEW ✨ Shorts creators now have access to Veo 2, Google DeepMind's newest video generation model. The text-to-video tool is being integrated into Dream Screen Veo 2 will allow you to generate standalone video clips that can be added to any of your Shorts blog.youtube/news-and-eve...

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan outlined the platform’s 2025 priorities: 1. Providing a platform for cultural trends 2. Supporting creators as Hollywood startups 3. Bringing the best of YouTube to TV 4. Investing in AI tools that empower creators blog.youtube/inside-youtu...

"Wholesome but unhinged" Duolingo just released a brand handbook: blog.duolingo.com/handbook/

News that came out after the ICYMI newsletter went out this morning 🤷🏼‍♀️ - YouTube is allowing premium users to 4X through videos 💨 - Threads is beta testing ads with some users in the U.S. and Japan - TikTok creators are turning against the platform adage.com/article/digi...

“I don’t think people are going to trust Instagram or TikTok for a very long time” - Lindsey Lee Lugrin gifted link: adage.com/article/digi...

Welcome to what feels like day 4,718 of January 2025. Instagram has been working OT rolling out the updates, so I ranked them from best to worst liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-rank...

YouTube premium users will now get to watch videos at up to 4x speed on mobile 😍 techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/y...

Does Reese Witherspoon joining LinkedIn make you like the platform more or less? I’m here for the celebrities looking for safe spaces

I hope Meta and TikTok employees are keeping diaries because one day we’ll need an oral history of January 2025 and it is going to be wild

“I’m so tired help lol” a social creator texted me This was a crazy weekend in social — I summed it up here along with reactions from industry pros liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-soci...

Apple suspends AI news alerts — “an alert generated by Apple's AI falsely told some readers that Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had shot himself” Uh what?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you want to level up your LinkedIn presence this year we're doing audits on the platform tomorrow to raise funds for those displaced by California wildfires! You can also support by engaging with the LinkedIn event and sharing with friends ❤️ www.linkedin.com/events/72853...

I really want to focus on positive news this week… making 2 exceptions today 1. Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s DEI programs, effective immediately — quite the villain era www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m... 2. And then the TikTok news update when it comes through

Smart recap from #CES2025 by @liahaberman.bsky.social incl this: “ByteDance confirmed it would pull TikTok from the U.S. unless the Supreme Court blocks or delays the ban” …but ALSO: “TikTok used CES to launch its What’s Next Trend Report 2025.” 🤔 Link: www.linkedin.com/pulse/inside...

TikTok just released their What’s Next Trend Report 2025. newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok...

"Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now" Be prepared: This is going to have huge implications on creator well being and brand safety www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/t...

To help you hit the ground running in 2025, here’s a thread of platform updates that you might have missed over the holidays and ICYMI social and creator predictions for 2025 🧵

nikki! is! CRUSHING!

All the details from inside the White House holiday party for creators liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-insi...

There’s a new Christmas movie for Die Hard fans Netflix’s Carry On 🎒I’ve never been so stressed watching a movie but in a good way?

The future of social media: 7 expert predictions for 2025 sproutsocial-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/sproutso...

No, Lemon8 is NOT a TikTok substitute. I broke down some of the bad advice I saw floating around Threads this week for a "TikTok ban fact or fiction" ICYMI newsletter just dropped 💌 liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-lemo...

Excited to moderate a Bluesky briefing with @liahaberman.bsky.social @andreas212nyc.bsky.social and @sarakshi.bsky.social 12/17 We'll also be sharing a few tips from #43 top Blueskyer @aaronparnas.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/events/blues...

Instagram just launched trial Reels for professional accounts 🔥 It’s a game changer one creator told me liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-bonu...

There are a lot of bad takes on the potential TikTok ban. You can actually read the act for yourself: www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

The future of social media: 7 expert predictions for 2025 sproutsocial.com/insights/fut...

Yes 😄 #RHOSLC www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Nrjwtn/

The law that could lead to a TikTok ban has been upheld... who's going to make a bid to buy it?? apnews.com/article/tikt...

Over 240 marketers and creators shared their picks for today’s ICYMI newsletter 💌 👉🏻 Top social platforms 👉🏻 Priority content formats 👉🏻 Trending topics and social shifts that will define 2025 liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-2025...

Betting there’s a spike in searches for Kerastase Thermatique today #RHOSLC

It’s big tech news week 🔥 YouTube dropped its 2024 Trends Report Spotify Wrapped just dropped TikTok released it’s Year on TikTok 2024 And Instagram just announced Broadcast Channel replies *links in thread

Instagram just announced Broadcast channels are about to get more interactive with: 👉🏼 Replies - Fans will now be able to respond to messages and each other 👉🏼 Prompts - Similar to “Add Yours,” fans can respond to with text or photos 👉🏻 Insights and best practices

If you unplugged last week — and I hope you did — here’s a quick recap of the biggest November platform updates to get you up to speed Hit the ground running today: liahaberman.substack.com/p/icymi-nove...

A long time ago we all really loved Snapchat 👻 thx AJ Feuerman for the memory

There are 2 days a year you’re not expected to answer emails in the US — and this is one of them It’s the best

Ariana Madix appearing in the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade topping this week’s VPR news is 🤌🏼

Christmas party at Nakatomi Plaza going sideways … Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie

Remember new users are coming on daily, unsure of engagement. The more posts you like and reply to, the strong the platform becomes !