Marketing Updates - July 2022

A New Type of Search Snippet is In testing (Link)

Google Search is testing Explore Section (Link)

Google testing new featured snippet layouts (Link)

Google News Tests Frequently Asked Questions Based On Trending Searches (Link)

Bing tests Secure & HTTPS label on search results snippet (Link)

Tiktok has been testing mini-games ahead of a ‘major gaming push’ (Link)

TikTok’s launching Twitch-like subscriptions in beta on Thursday (Link)

Tiktok partnered with Social Media Management Tools like Later and Sprout social to help their users auto-publish Content (Link)

Tiktok Adds New Lead Generation Feature to its Business App (Link)

TikTok To Show Who Viewed Your Posts (Link)

TikTok campaign measurement with flexible attribution windows (Link)

Meta opens up WhatsApp Cloud API to attract more businesses to WhatsApp Marketing (Link)

Facebook and Instagram to make public more details on how their ads target users (Link)

Meta introduced Facebook Graph And Marketing API v14.0 (Link)

Meta is launching an Avatar store like Snapchat (Link)

Meta adds more Reels Creation Options on Instagram and Facebook (Link)

WhatsApp now lets you hide your Profile Photo, Last seen and more (Link)

Instagram  is working on Reactions For Videos (Link)

Instagram is testing A Full-Screen Experience Test like TikTok (Link)

New ways to verify age on Instagram (Link)

Instagram is testing new AR elements within stories for NFTs (Link)

Instagram is working on helping you share notes with close friends and follow backs (Link)

Instagram has added features to their upcoming subscription feature (Link)

Twitter agrees to Pay $150 Million in Privacy Settlements (Link)

Twitter (accidentally?) removes no-follow attribute from links in Tweets (Link)

Twitter now allows Local businesses to display location and contact info on their profile (Link)

Twitter is testing “Note”, a new long-form content format like blogs (Link)

Twitter partners with Spotify to help you advertise products better with one-click (Link)

eBay sellers can now share listings on Snapchat (Link)

Snapchat stocks tank 43% after being the fastest to grow in the first quarter (Link)

Snapchat Tests a New Paid Subscription for exclusive access to new features (Link)

YouTube Shorts are now viewed by more than 1.5 billion YouTube Users (Link)

Pinterest launched Idea Ads and Paid Participation Tool (Link)

Pinterest lands largest Content Deal ever with Tastemade (Link)

Linked “Funny” Reaction is officially live (Link)

Reddit acquires Spell to improve contextual Matching Results means better search results (Link)

Google Marketing Live (May 24th) announced a lot of changes and new features across Google's marketing offering (Link)

Google’s Creative Ad Studio is now available to all businesses (Link)

Google adds bounce rate, UTM parameters and conversion rate to GA4 (Link)

Google launches video health tools to help publisher monetisation (Link)

WordPress 6.0 is here with new features and improvements (Link)

Firefox rolls out Total Cookies Protection by default (Link)

Microsoft Bing is building a new retail marketplace (Link)

Netflix confirms An Ad-supported Tier is coming to the platform (Link)

Google Removes the Google My Business mobile app (Link)