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Songclip raises $11M to bring more licensed music to social media

TechCrunch

The team behind Songclip thinks that social media could use more music. VanSuchtelen said that like Giphy, Songclip plans to popularize a new media format — the short audio clip — and make it accessible across a wide range of services. VSCO acquires mobile app Trash to expand into AI-powered video editing.

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5 Social Media Trends for Nonprofits in 2021

TechSoup

billion social media users worldwide in 2021 — about a 32 percent increase from just five years ago. These numbers are expected to continue to grow, meaning social media will become an even more useful tool for nonprofits to connect with their communities. There are now 3.78

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Nonprofit Social Media Benchmarks 2021

TechSoup

In 2021, we expect to see the digital landscape continue to change as our ways of communication and connection settle back into a new normal. For that reason, we can expect social media to take an even more central role in nonprofits' ability to build, engage, and leverage their communities.

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Is Your MSP Fully Leveraging Its Social Media Audience?

Kaseya

Managed service providers (MSPs) are increasingly investing in social media as part of their digital marketing strategies and for good reason. Between 2021 and 2022, social media users increased by more than 10%, with users spending an average of 2 hours and 27 minutes between messaging apps and social media platforms.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Copy-from-China’ social media app Lemon8 squeezes its way into US top 10

TechCrunch

Manish writes that the project, called New Umbrella Entity, had made some traction, attracting interest from large companies and financial institutions, and inviting bids in 2021 for licenses to operate new retail payment and settlement systems across India. Oops, ChatGPT did it again : Devin asks, “ Can AI commit libel?

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Social Media Benchmarks 2021

TechSoup

In 2021, we expect to see the digital landscape continue to change as our ways of communication and connection settle back into a new normal. For that reason, we can expect social media to take an even more central role in nonprofits' ability to build, engage, and leverage their communities.

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Beams wants to turn collaborative audio clips into a social media biz

TechCrunch

Finding the signal in the noice of social audio is turning out to be the real challenge. Or, well, adding to the social audio noise. Although it only beta launched in May 2021 so it is still early days. Why focus on short-form audio as a social media medium? “We raised $3M in late 2020.

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