YouTube and Video
Social Audio
Clubhouse is rolling out local language support for 13 languages: French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Tamil, and Telugu.
Social Media
Facebook is launching new features for Groups: create a custom greeting message and group rules; customize colors, fonts, post backgrounds and reaction emojis; member community awards; create subgroups (including paid subgroups); talk in community chat; recurring events; add an official shop and more. Plus Facebook is working on sharing features between Pages and Groups to make community management easier.
Facebook announced new monetization features, including paid subscription links that bypass the Apple app store’s 30% cut, special subscriber badges for livestreams, and a bonus program for select creators.
Web Publishers
This week was the
Chrome Developers Summit. The Chrome team is working with other browser vendors to improve browser compatibility. Other updates: bringing more applications to the web, developing new privacy-preserving technology, improving Core Web Vitals with new metrics, new courses to Learn design and CSS, and
more.
Learn all about the announcements at web.dev.
Google Search Central is
bringing page experience ranking to desktop, beginning in February 2022. Core Web Vitals metrics are currently used for mobile site ranking, and that is expanding to desktop ranking. There will be a Google Search Console report that launches before this change that will help publishers understand how their site’s pages are performing on desktop.
Productivity