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Snapchat brings Dynamic Product Ads into Chat as platform tests how far commerce can push into private messaging
Catalog ads are now live in the inbox used by 85% of Snapchatters. The move turns private messaging into a commerce surface and raises the question every platform will have to answer: where does helpful cross into intrusive?
Disney opens El Capitan red carpet to creators as entertainment's power centre shifts
Six Series A rounds in a single month show creator economy tooling still hunting for repeatable revenue
Pinterest tells advertisers to launch Q4 campaigns now, not November, as 55% of weekly users still shop post-Christmas
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Leading media and events platform for social media marketing 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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