TikTok Avoids Ban, But Does It Matter?

After multiple deadline extensions and cliff-hangers regarding its Chinese ownership, TikTok's future in the United States has been secured with new...

Social Media Updates: January 2026

Pinterest To Acquire tvScientific Pinterest announced it is set to acquire tvScientific, a connected TV (CTV) performance advertising platform. "For...

Instagram Chief Addresses AI Challenges for 2026

Ringing in the new year is a time for celebration, one often filled with feelings of hope, gratefulness, and reflection on the year just passed....

The Year In Social Media, 2025

It's hard to believe I'm writing this again so soon, but we're wrapping up another year in social media. For 2024, the buzzword was AI—and this...

A Jewelry Designer’s Favorite Social Media App This Year Is…

Drumroll please...it's Instagram. Might you have guessed it? I certainly could have, though my conversations with members of our industry weren't...

TikTok Reports Most Successful Black Friday Weekend Ever

TikTok's report on its Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) results supports the National Retail Federation's declaration that the holiday shopping...

Pew’s 2025 Social Media Report Shows Endurance of YouTube, Facebook

A Pew Research Center report on "Americans' Social Media Use 2025" says that while YouTube and Facebook were the most popular platforms, they were...

Social Media Updates: November 2025

TikTok Officially Launches Bulletin Board TikTok had extended its bulletin board messaging feature to all users, after making it available on only...

What Jewelers Should Know About GoWish Ahead of the Holidays

Have you heard of GoWish? The shopping and wish list app, which was launched in 2015 by the Danish-Swedish national postal service (under the name...

Pinterest and Instagram Unveil More AI-Driven Features

While artificial intelligence (AI) continues to pose challenges on social media—like possibly making it difficult to tell if a video or image is...