⚡️ Dimple's Digital Digest: 4 March ⚡️
Welcome to your regular round-up of what’s hot and what’s not in the digital world.
This week, we cover the rise of photo-sharing app Dispo, Tom Cruise deepfakes, TikTok’s famous feta pasta and Clubhouse privacy problems. ⬇️
READ ME (PART ONE):
📲 Must-read: how creativity flourishes on TikTok
▶️ 19 moments that defined YouTube drama’s economy
🗞️ Four takeaways from Facebook’s Australian news brawl
🤳 Instagram is dead (it just doesn’t know it yet)
🐦 Would you use Twitter’s ‘Super Follow’ feature?
READ ME (PART TWO):
🔗 The link in bio feature is becoming a battleground
💸 Do users secretly like targeted social ads?
📅 Check out Twitter’s 2021 marketing calendar…
🤔 And Facebook’s 2021 topics + trends report too
🎨 Artists are cashing in thanks to NFTs and digital assets
A SPOTLIGHT ON TIKTOK:
🎵 Why TikTok has become the world’s radio station
🍝 Have you made the famous TikTok feta pasta?
🍳 More young people are picking up cooking tips
🌎 Do world leaders and governments use the app?
‼️ Countering misinformation about eating disorders
🛒 The talented 20-year-old behind Kum & Go’s channel
A SPOTLIGHT ON DISPO:
📸 Are disposables the future of photo sharing?
📱 Why Dispo could be the perfect consumer app…
💚 And how it helps us tell nostalgic connected stories
💯 It proves the past + delayed gratification can win
A SPOTLIGHT ON CLUBHOUSE (PART ONE):
🎧 Clubhouse is considered the ‘first AirPods social network’
🗣️ Will social audio will change influencer marketing?
❓ The right + wrong ways marketers can use the app
🔊 How brands could begin jumping on the hype
💰 Clubhouse is disrupting another industry: charity drives
A SPOTLIGHT ON CLUBHOUSE (PART TWO):
🧐 Must-read: How safe is Clubhouse?
🔒 The app is under fire for big privacy concerns…
❌ And deleting your account can be a nightmare
📈 But the app is still booming. So is the ecosystem around it
HEY THAT’S COOL:
🦁 One Minute Briefs calls on creatives for World Wildlife Day
🍫 This clever KitKat ad concept went insanely viral
WINS OF THE WEEK:
💉 Dolly Parton gets her vaccine with a Jolene rewrite
🍨 Ben & Jerry’s raises alarm over anti Asian-American hate crimes
🚆 Avanti West Coast’s hilarious Twitter thread showing trains as birds
UH OH:
🤯 The deepfake Tom Cruise videos are worrying
❗ When influencers make fools of themselves
🚫 Facebook bans Myanmar military-linked accounts
BONUS!
📊 7 ways to use data to create better social media content
🏥 People are using Instagram to find kidney donors
🍺 This website recreates the sounds of your favourite bar
👗 We are living in the golden age of the “fit pic”
👏 Breaking down President Biden’s social media strategy