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ποΈ TikTok Shop drives $100 million in Black Friday sales
TikTok's second Black Friday in the US shows it's starting to drive real holiday spending, driving over $100 million in US sales on its eCommerce platform, Shop. Live shopping experiences were a large contributor to sale activity with over 30,000 livestream sessions being run on the day, in effort with TikTok pushing both sellers and creators to get involved with the initiative to drive holiday sales.
π Meta shares performance insights into Advantage+ campaigns
Advertisers who are leveraging Meta's AI-powered ad creation process β from creation to budget to targeting β have noted significant performance improvements. They shared that advertisers who did not previously use Advantage+ creative enabled its targeting features generated a 22% increase in ROAS from ads.
πΈ Global advertising spend to pass $1 trillion for the first time this year
WARC Media's latest Global Ad Spend Outlook report reveals that global advertising spend is set to grow 10.7% this year to a total of $1.08 trillion, with online media leading the charge β the strongest growth rate in six years. Prospects for the social media market have been revised upwards this year to +19.3%, owing mostly to stronger-than expected results for Meta and TikTok over the first nine months of the year.
π€ Reddit overtakes X as the UK's fifth largest social media platform
Reddit is on track to becoming the UK's fastest-growing social media platform, reaching nearly 23 million (48%) of adults by May 2024, according to new research from Ofcom in collaboration with TikTok and Snapchat. These findings mark Reddit's significant year on year growth, with the majority (58%) of its growing popularity driven by young adult users aged 18-24.
π» Sponsored Snaps officially launches in the UK with Boots
Snapchatβs new ad format Sponsored Snaps hit UK users' inboxes for the first time over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend with Boots, the UK-based beauty and healthcare giant. The new ad format comes into effect with Snapchat's focus on helping advertisers engage prospective customers and the app's 443 million daily active users across the full funnel, all within a single ad placement.