A look into YouTube’s AI-Generated Radio Stations
A brand new “AI-generated radio” option is now available to YouTube Music Premium subscribers, which allows users to customise what they want to listen to by merely describing it.
The YouTube AI radio station is able to create a personalised playlist from a series of conversational prompts. The system will be able to generate a continuous stream of tracks aligned with your preferences, such as “angry metal music”, or “relaxing instrumentals with female vocals”.
The system is using YouTube’s existing keyword matching, based on text tags for each track, to provide music matches. Whilst it may not be a huge step in the world of AI, it demonstrates the platform making use of the systems they have to come out with new innovative features for their premium consumers.
This illustrates the need for accurate tagging and captions when uploading to ensure the desired audience can find it.
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LinkedIn introduces sponsored newsletters
LinkedIn is expanding its sponsored articles ad option to include sponsored newsletters, which is set to provide another way for brands to generate leads from their LinkedIn content.
With LinkedIn newsletters seeing significant interest within the platform, it could be a one to note for businesses who are looking to get their branding in front of more people within their sector.
LinkedIn introduced sponsored articles in January, allowing brands to promote and restrict access to their content within the app. Sponsored newsletters function similarly, enabling company pages to boost their newsletters to attract more subscribers.
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X violates the DSA with changes to verification
A large legal battle is about to unfold in Europe after the EU Commission ruled that X’s decision to sell verification ticks violates the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), due to misunderstandings among users as to what the tick actually means.
The EU Commission has decided that the ability to buy blue verification ticks has created a new opportunity for the promotion of misinformation as the appearance verification tick is said to add legitimacy to an account, which was established by Twitter’s previous verification system.
With a huge legal fight on his hands, Elon Musk will have a difficult few weeks, but he may not be alone. Meta has also introduced their own verification package which could land them in trouble in the coming weeks, for similar reasons to X.
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X usage hits ‘all time high’ with Musk’s alterations received positively
This week, X owner Elon Musk claimed that that the platform reached a new “record high” in usage, claiming a cumulative “417 billion user-seconds globally” in one day, which equates to 27.8 minutes per user, at 250 million daily actives.
It comes with Musk’s announcement of even more changes to the platform, with the most recent being the introduction of a ‘downvote button’, in a similar style to the features found on Reddit.
It is reported that the platforms userbase (unsurprisingly) has dropped since Musk took over, however it seems that users are spending more time on X, which is backed up by the impressive performance in recent months.
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Restrictions on Trump’s accounts lifted ahead of US election
In what has been an eventful week for former president, Donald Trump, there have been further movements in his bid to regain the presidency.
This week, Meta has lifted all restrictions on Trump’s Instagram/Facebook accounts, allowing Trump to resume his full social media advertising and promotion program heading into the November election.
Meta originally suspended Trump’s accounts in January 2021 due to the Capitol Riots, and the belief that he had encouraged the violent riots through his use of the social media platforms.
Trump’s full reinstatement on Facebook could be significant in shifting the shape of the upcoming election, considering the amount of money the previous Trump campaign splashed on Facebook ads.
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