Ask HN: What happened in marketing and social media recently?

Here’s what I have caught up with:

1/ Threads API launched.

2/ Meta launches new AI bots for messenger and other business messaging tools.

3/ TikTok testing website links in organic videos.

4/ Instagram showing prompts to share newly published content with friends, it shows up as soon as you finish upload.

5/ YouTube testing community notes, similar to X’s notes feature.

6/ TikTok launched a new Instagram rival, a photo sharing app: Whee.

7/ US sues Adobe for deceiving subscriptions and tactics that make it hard to cancel the subscription plans.

8/ IG now shows “X new posts” text on threads username tag on your profile.

9/ TikTok launched AI creator avatars, launch of Symphony Avatars.

10/ Instacart’s new Youtube expansion of shoppable ads.

11/ Reddit launches new version of conversation ads.

12/ TikTok launched a new commercial music library for Adobe Express.

13/ Disney to launch a commerce media solution in partnership with Affinity solutions.

14/ Oracle to end all of its ad products by Sept. 30.

15/ New Platforms: Seen App, where you react to other people’s content and Butterflies app where AI and Human content exists side by side.

Credit: Axios, The Social Juice, Business Insider, The Information, FT and more.