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Music marketing-related social media and music industry updates you need to know about and may have missed last week:   😨 Instagram will not focus on long-term content anytime soon. 🤔 Instagram is testing a new Collaborate option on the Professional Dashboard. This option will allow users to add an "open to collaborate" status to their profiles and DMs. 🌟 Facebook is testing what it calls "Clean Mode" - similar to TikTok - for Reels. 💢 TikTok is testing the ability to sort videos by popularity. 😯 X, FKA Twitter, wants to offer a free trial for premium subscriptions 😎 YouTube has announced the latest features for Premium subscribers, such as Jump Ahead and Shorts Picture-in-Picture. Catch you next week! 👋  .  .  . #musicmarketing #musicindustryupdates #musicindustry #weeklyupdates

Music marketing-related social media and music industry updates you need to know about and may have missed last week:   👯♀️ TikTok is developing a New AI chatbot called Genie. 🥹 YouTube is testing a new way to encourage participation with Shorts by copying Instagram’s “Add Yours” sticker, duplicated from TikTok’s Duet option. 🤖 YouTube has added picture-in-picture viewing for Shorts for Premium subscribers, and they’ll be able to minimize the screen and continue watching videos while doing other things on their phones. 🎵 Meta is testing a feature that would allow users to A/B test Reels 📝 Spotify is giving its podcast listeners a new way to interact with their favorite shows: posting comments. Catch you next week! 👋  .  .  . #musicmarketing #musicindustryupdates #musicindustry #wmmd #weeklyupdates

⏯ #playlistfriday Children Of Distance is on the cover of the Fresh Pop playlist on Spotify, and 'Keserű' is number one on the list! ✨ Pribelszki's cover of Nemazapop on Spotify this week, 'I'm OK' is number one ✨ LMEN PRALA is on the cover of Spotify's New Music Friday playlist - 'Balaton' is the first song on the list 🔥 URLs in the first comment! . . . . #spotifyplaylist #playlistcover #spotify #charts #album #single #singer #editorplaylist #artist

Music marketing-related social media and music industry updates you need to know about and may have missed last week:   👯♀️Explore how DistroKid’s podcast partnership is empowering artists to tell their unique stories 🥹 Meta is launching the first stage of its “AI Studio” platform, which will enable Instagram creators to build AI versions of themselves that can interact with fans via DM. 🤖 TikTok has announced Digital Avatars, allowing brands to use generative AI avatars of real people to “scale creative strategies on TikTok.” 🎵 Instagram now allows users to add music to carousel posts with videos, whereas previously, you could only add music to carousels with images. 📝 YouTube tests community notes to offer more “context and information” on videos. Catch you next week! 👋  .  .  . #musicmarketing #musicindustryupdates #musicindustry #wmmd #weeklyupdates

⏯ #newreleases New music you should know about. #spotify #release #artist #musicindustry #musicindustrynews #newsong #newstrack #wmmd

Music marketing-related social media and music industry updates you need to know about and may have missed last week: 👀 TikTok enhances its Taylor Swift experience with more gamification elements. 👏 Despite their long-standing rivalry, Apple might collaborate with Meta in the competitive field of artificial intelligence. 🔍 TikTok is upgrading its user experience by introducing location tags that display categories like food & drink, activities, hotels, parks, and shopping, all populated with relevant videos. 👀 YouTube is testing a new feature called 'Hype,' which allows users to increase the chances of a video appearing in the rankings alongside other hyped videos of the week. 📹 YouTube now permits creators to edit videos longer than 6 hours. Catch you next week! 👋 . . . . #musicmarketing #musicindustryupdates #musicindustry #wmmd #weeklyupdates

#playlistfriday We've been working with the band for a couple of weeks now. It's a great pleasure to see their new song, "Csupán," become this week's highlight on Spotify's Nemazapop playlist. The guys have also been chosen to cover the album. Schmrk and Máté Kapitány are working on a joint album, the precursor of which is the newly released track "Két én." The song is the first of the week on Spotify's Fleksz playlist, and Márk has also been featured on the cover. FILO on the cover of the Fresh Pop playlist on Spotify - 'Hajnalok a gangon' is number one on the list! Links in the first comment! #spotifyplaylist #playlistcover #spotify #charts #album #single #singer #editorplaylist #artist

Music marketing-related social media and music industry updates you need to know about and may have missed last week: 🔗 TikTok is introducing image search capabilities in TikTok Shop. 🎥 A/B Thumbnail testing is coming to YouTube. 📲 Instagram is testing more intrusive ads. 📂 Instagram is reportedly working on a folder management feature that will allow users to customize their inbox by renaming and ordering. 🎶 TikTok is entering the competitive music M&A market. 🚀 The next stage of digital marketing is arriving on TikTok with its new "Symphony" marketing management platform, which will include an option for brands to deploy virtual influencers to sell their products within the app. Catch you next week! 👋 . . . . #musicmarketing #musicindustryupdates #musicindustry #wmmd #weeklyupdates

🎙 Júlia Viszkeleti - Maluridé ⏯︎ WMMD ✘The Great Escape Festival report Júlia Viszkeleti's musical journey began at age five when she learned piano and flute and then moved on to classical singing and music theory. She graduated as a conductor from the Liszt Academy of Music and founded Maluridé during her university years. After initially writing songs in English and winning international acclaim, he now works on Hungarian-language material with the band, with whom he also performed (twice) at The Great Escape this year. 💬 "We have had the opportunity to attend a lot of colorful events, concerts, performances, and even random street parties. It was also great to get to know the members of the team a bit better, and even though the genre of music we create is different, there was much useful information that was shared, even during the conversations between us, that I will be able to use in my creative process. Brighton was beyond my imagination; the people's openness, the many small cafes and pubs, and the bustling city center all enchanted me. I'm sure I'll go back if I get the chance." 🎤 Favourite performance from the showcase program. Aka mesmerized the audience; you couldn't look anywhere else but at her, and you could get hooked on his sound. I've listened to nearly all his songs since then." #wmmd #thegreatescape #juliaviszkeleti

🎙 Dea Kollár ⏯︎ WMMD ✘ The Great Escape Festival report Dea Kollár is a young and upcoming Hungarian singer-songwriter. Her unique voice brings her lyrics to life in a unique way, which makes her performance style special and creates a unique spot in the contemporary Hungarian R&B genre. 💬 "In Brighton, I not only made some precious professional contacts, but I also made some amazing new friends. It's a fantastic, relaxed, fun city with small shops and open-minded people you can talk to about anything, anywhere, anytime. A stranger can become a dear acquaintance in a few minutes; everyone has a story to tell, a compliment, or even a nice smile. During my time out, I focused on attending concerts and making friends first and foremost; I didn't attend any explicit networking events or lectures, as I tactically made a list of concerts I knew I had to attend before the trip. I didn't have time for anything else with so many activities. I mainly went to the shows of artists who, like me, are active in the RnB scene to meet people both in the performer and in the audience with whom I could connect on the level I value most and gain fresh inspiration and relevant professional contacts abroad that I could use in my role in the Hungarian music industry and for a potential international career. I feel that this carefully planned stay abroad has paid off. Not only have I gained opportunities through networking with promoters, managers and artists, but I have also made some wonderful new friendships in this short time, which has meant even more to me than professional growth. We all want to feel valued around others, which is independent of our roles in the music industry hierarchy. I feel that the Great Escape was further proof that openness to people and friendships are invaluable in music and essential to my peace of mind. As a bonus, they have helped me to progress professionally. The spirit with which you go into it is the maximum you get back from the people around you. For me, the love of people and music is the driving force of my life, so I feel that I have received the same positivity and love back from the people in Brighton, from my newly met Hungarian fellow artists to the locals to the international delegation. I returned from the festival with a full heart, gratitude, new ideas and plans for the future." 🎤 Favourite production from the showcase program: "Jordan Hawkins' concert was the highlight for me; he is an amazingly talented performer, and his band is a blood professional! I went up to congratulate them after the show, and they were so sweet; they invited me to go out with them, and I spent the whole night with his band and management, who came from all over the world, and I got to mingle with them - even talked about future collaborations." #wmmd #thegreatescape #deakollar