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TikTok Shop's 230% collectibles sales surge pitches trading cards and squishy toys as the Q4 sleeper category brands are missing
Sports cards, memorabilia and squishy toys are shaping Q4 on TikTok Shop, with collectibles sales climbing 230% year on year in October. Brands have six weeks to secure inventory and Live Shopping slots before Black Friday.

YouTube's sidebar layout forces marketers to rethink how audiences engage with comments and metadata

WhatsApp's guest calling shifts the bar for brand accessibility, not just convenience

YouTube now edges TV for US political news, forcing brands to rethink issue-led content distribution

The Spooky Season Economy: How Social Commerce and Creators are Transforming Halloween 2026
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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.
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