Instagram Outperforms TikTok

🤳10th May 2024 | X introduces AI ad audience creation, TikTok introduces AI labels, and more!

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OUTLOOK

📊 Instagram Outperforms TikTok in Video User Acquisition: Survey 

Instagram emerges as the preferred platform for video-based user acquisition, with 79% of marketers allocating at least 75% of their budget to the platform compared to a mere 25% for TikTok.  This preference is fueled by Instagram's effective use of user-generated content and influencer marketing. 56% of marketers utilized influencers for acquisition in 2023, with 44% planning increased investments in content creators this year. 

📈 Adobe's 2024 e-commerce spending surpasses $330 billion

According to recent figures from Adobe Analytics, e-commerce spending during the first four months of 2024 has seen a steady increase, totaling $331.6 billion, marking a 7% YoY growth compared to the same period in 2023. The upward trajectory is expected to continue, with projections indicating a potential surpassing of $500 billion in online spending for the first half of the year.

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SEO

🔍 Google Search Results Without SGE Surge to 65%

Source - Search Engine Land

The number of Google searches without SGE results jumped from 25% to 65%, showing a big change in how people search.  Google is likely refining its Opt-in results,   where users request AI-generated answers. Notably, the space occupied by SGE has decreased from around 1200 pixels to under 1050 pixels.

AI

🔄 TikTok to Label Content Made by External AI Tools

Source - Social Media Today

TikTok introduces AI labels for externally generated content, marking videos modified by AI tools from other sources. In partnership with C2PA, TikTok attaches metadata to identify AI-generated content, offering users transparency on its origin and editing. TikTok is also introducing MediaWise to develop new generative AI media literacy campaigns, in order to help users understand and identify AI content. 

PERFORMANCE MARKETING

🚀 X Introduces AI-Powered Ad Audience Creation for Advertisers

X introduces AI ad audience creation. Advertisers can easily describe desired audiences, such as "users who are leaders in technology," with X's AI matching system generating corresponding ad audiences and offering insights into top users within the generated audience, including their interests and locations. 

BRAIN TEASER

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Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet you miss me, when I have flown. What am I?

The answer is: Time

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