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This news item is part of the weekly top 5 news bulletin (from Week 1, Dec 2023) specially packaged for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.
Couple of announcements from TikTok. Tiktok has announced that they are launching a new set of features to help musicians and artists become more discoverable on the platform under the banner of artist account. Even though it’s called artist account, right now, it only includes features for musicians. Eventually, it looks like they will add other features for other type of artists as well. Right now, if you are a musician, you get an artist tag below your name, and you can have a separate tab called Music. You can highlight certain type of music even before you release it. You can start promoting it. There are lots of features specifically for musicians to check it out. The next news is about their upcoming event on December 12th called Open House, which is a AR effects-based event. If you are a non-profit church or ministry focusing on adding AR in the coming days to your media ministry, then you might want to check out. We will link to the details in the show notes.
Here is the full list of the Top 5 News Items from Week 1, Dec 2023 with source links from Android, Meta, Mastercard, TikTok, WhatsApp.
🗞️ News 1: Android Releases New Features for Google TV, WearOS and Google Home
Source: Google
🗞️ News 2: Meta Celebrates 10 Years of FAIR, AI Research, Releases New AI Models
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 3: Mastercard Launches its Own Generative AI Chatbot, ‘Shopping Muse’
Source: Mastercard
🗞️ News 4: TikTok Launches ‘Artist Account’ & Announces ‘Open House’ AR Event
Source: TikTok | Open House
🗞️ News 5: WhatsApp Releases ‘Secret Code for Chat Lock’ Security Feature
Source: WhatsApp
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.
