Top News of the Week
- Subscriptions made more money than digital ads for top publishers in early 2025
Search Trends
- Google’s MUVERA update makes search better
- Google rolls out Offerwall to boost monetization
- Google AI Overviews show up below top results 12.4% of the time
- Google Ads makes broad match testing easier
- Google tries out Preferred Sources to tailor top stories
- Google Ads tests new way to include or exclude URLs in search
Microsoft&Bing
- Microsoft Ads adds detailed asset-level reviews
- Microsoft took down 1 billion ads for violations in 2024
YouTube
- YouTube Analytics gets saved reports and a fresh look
- YouTube’s AI chat tool is coming to some non-Premium users in the US
- YouTube shares how its recommendation system works
- YouTube search adds its own take on AI Overviews
- YouTube pushes back on being included in Australia’s under-16 social media ban
- YouTube expands auto-dubbing to 80 million creators, adds 11 new languages and new tools like Dream Screen and the Inspiration Tab
Social Media Buzz
Meta
- Meta will shut down Facebook and Instagram checkout by August 2025
- Meta brings AI-generated summaries to WhatsApp
- Threads adds spoiler tags for posts and media
- Instagram now lets you upload Reels up to 20 minutes
- TikTok and Instagram are working on TV apps like YouTube’s
TikTok
- TikTok is testing a feature similar to Instagram’s broadcast channels
- TikTok rolls out Content Check, letting users run it up to three times a day
X
- X will charge for ads based on vertical size and drop ad hashtags, says Elon Musk
AI Insights
- Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit from Sarah Silverman and others
- Google AI Pro now offered as a $200 yearly subscription
- Grok 4 set to launch after July 4 with better coding features
- Perplexity plans $200 subscription aimed at Labs power users
