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Discord cut video player code by 94% without users noticing, exposing the infrastructure cost platforms hide from marketers
Discord refactored four separate video players into one shared foundation, cutting code by up to 94% and shipping new features across the platform without disruption. For social media marketers, the real story is what platforms are spending to keep video working, and what you can demand when they do.
LinkedIn ships free digital business card with wallet integration while locking private notes behind Premium
SocialDay NYC: Meet the Speakers, Experts and Sponsors at the Social Media Marketing Forum
Bluesky's moderation inbox moves enforcement decisions into the app, closing the email loop brands couldn't scale
Substack's new lists feature turns curation into infrastructure as platform hands creators their own attribution data
What SocialDay is
Leading media and events platform for social media and creator economy professionals globally
SocialDay is an independent media and events platform for social media marketing professionals and the creator economy. Our readers are social media managers and heads of social in-house, agency and freelance strategists, community and content leads, and creators running their own businesses.
The newsroom is one part of it. We cover platform and product changes as they land and what they mean for organic reach, paid performance and community teams, alongside curated industry intelligence, expert insight, platform features and deep dives, career resources including the Social Media Career Ladder, salary and benchmark reports, a reviewed directory of the tools teams actually use, and a jobs board for social and creator roles.
Every story carries a named byline and a date, drafts produced with AI assistance are labelled as such and signed off by a human editor, and we correct errors in public. We make money from events, sponsorship and partnerships, never from coverage.
We also run SocialDay events, including the Social Media Fest, and a member community of more than 2,000 social media professionals, built by the community, for the community.
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