Social Snapshot – 04.01.2023

January 4, 2023

It can be difficult to keep up with the constant rush of emerging social media insights. Relax, we’ve got you covered! Discover the most recent headlines from social media. 👇

Snapchat captured you in 2022 👻

The recently published newsletter reveals that the Crying Lens was the most popular AR Lens of last year and viewed more than 9.7 billion times since its launch. Find out more about the personalised Year End Stories and related data here.

What will go viral in 2023? 📺

Like & Describe, YouTube’s new trends podcast, reflects on the last year and dreams of what 2023 might hold. Check out the video here.

New safety guidelines 🚫

In case you missed it, TikTok recently released a statement about actions to strengthen and enforce content policies. Read more about the community changes here.

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Design and disability are so often discussed in terms of basic “accommodation” and “access,” yet my visit to the V&A’s Design and Disability exhibition completely shifted that perspective. Rather than framing disability as an issue to be fixed, the exhibition presents it as a culture, a rich set of identities, and a radical design force shaping practice from the 1940s right up to today.

Lurkers are your biggest audience and they’re deciding in silence. They watch in feeds, sanity-check you in comments, communities and reviews, then repeat whatever proof is easiest to quote internally. That’s why social feels harder, it’s no longer a click machine, it’s an answer surface. Ofcom shows AI summaries are now common in search results, and YouTube remains the UK’s biggest social utility by reach and time spent. If your story is inconsistent, your evidence is scattered, or your customer proof is buried, lurkers can’t do the job of trusting you for you.

Pinterest has rolled out a brand-new Media Planner inside its advertising tools, and it’s designed to make planning and managing Pin campaigns a whole lot simpler. In short? It gives you a clearer view of what you’re running, who you’re targeting, and what results you can expect…