Top digital news for May 6, 2020 by The IDEA Agency.

Facebook Is Testing Longer-Lasting Stories, With an Option to Keep Stories Active for 3 Days (Social Media Today) With the Stories...

Instagram Is Testing a New Video Response Option for IGTV (Social Media Today) Instagram looks to be trying to add in a TikTok-style...

Why 2020 Is a Critical Global Tipping Point for Social Media (Forbes) This year is likely the last one ever in which you can say that...

Get Ready to See Spotify’s Looping Videos on Instagram (TechCrunch) Following Spotify’s confirmation of a new Stories feature, initially...

Twitter Will Give You Control Over Who Can Reply to Tweets (Engadget) You might not have to worry about strangers hurling abuse. Twitter...

Instagram Is Reaching Upper Limit of U.S. User Growth, So Expect Even More Ways to Insta-Shop (Forbes) Instagram’s rapid growth period in...

Twitter to Add a Way to ‘Memorialize’ Accounts for Deceased Users Before Removing Inactive Ones (TechCrunch) Twitter has changed its tune...

Inside the Instagram AI That Fills Explore with Fresh, Juicy Content (TechCrunch) Instagram has posted an article describing the...

Facebook Adds New Options for Brands to Control Ad Placements (Social Media Today) Facebook has announced a new set of brand safety tools...

Instagram Tests Hiding Like Counts Globally (TechCrunch) Instagram is making Like counts private for some users everywhere. Instagram...

Instagram Goes After TikTok with New 'Reels' Mode (Social Media Today) In what will likely come as little surprise, Instagram has...

Snapchat — Calling Facebook ‘Voldermort’ — Reportedly Recorded Aggressive Tactics, Hands Dossier To Feds (Forbes) Snapchat is handing...

Facebook Rolls Out New Video Tools, Plus Instagram and IGTV Scheduling Feature (TechCrunch) Facebook on Monday announced a number of...

Instagram Is Reportedly Working on a New Tool Which Replicates TikTok's Key Features (Social Media Today) There's one thing that you can...

Facebook Tests New In-App Shopping Ads for Both Facebook and Instagram (Social Media Today) Ahead of the holiday season, Facebook is...

Facebook Dating Launches in the US, Along with New Dating Features (Social Media Today) Facebook is finally coming through on some of the...

Google Proposes Tighter Standards Around Data Collected for Digital Ads (Digiday) Google has planted another user data-privacy flag in...

LGBTQ Creators Sue YouTube for Alleged Discrimination (Forbes) A group of LGBTQ YouTubers have alleged in a federal lawsuit that YouTube...

Prepare Yourselves for a Deluge of New AR Filters on Instagram (Engadget) As of today, anyone can create AR filters and effects for...