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Instagram continues to change, and every year the rules of the game become more complex. But if you want to stay on top of trends, understand innovations, and use them to your advantage, this material is for you. Ready to learn how to promote yourself on Instagram in 2025? Let's start with the main thing. The main changes in Instagram 2025 Ban on monetary rewards for targeted actions. Do you remember the high-profile blogger sweepstakes where you had to follow dozens of accounts for a chance to win money? That era is over. Instagram has officially banned financial rewards for following, liking, or reposting. ❗ What it means: Avoid any financial incentives for the audience. Focus on organic engagement: create content that attracts your target audience. Ban on calls to action before reading the content. Now you can't write "Like...

Info gypsies are pseudo-experts who sell information products promising quick solutions to complex problems, easy enrichment, or unique knowledge. The main danger of info gypsies is that their products often have no real value. They are based on superficial knowledge, manipulative marketing, and creating the illusion of success. By purchasing their courses, users not only waste money, but also risk losing time, faith in their own development, and even fall into a debt trap. Infogyps harm not only their customers but also the overall reputation of online education." The popularity of infogypsy is due to several factors. First, people are often looking for easy ways to solve their problems, particularly in finance, career, or business. Infogypsies skillfully play on these needs, promising quick results without much effort. Secondly, they actively use aggressive marketing, demonstrating a “successful life” on social media,...

Yuval Noah Harari (YNH), a renowned historian and best-selling author, shares his thoughts on the challenges and risks associated with regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in a conversation with a journalist. Journalist (J): Some large companies, such as OpenAI or Microsoft, are actively advocating for AI regulation. But isn't this an attempt to strengthen their positions? After all, it will be harder for small companies to compete if they need expensive certifications, lawyers, and large teams to operate. We have already seen how GDPR has only increased the influence of tech giants. Won't it happen again with AI? JUNH: You are absolutely right, this is an important question. At the moment, the development of powerful AI models already requires significant resources: money, data, and experts. In fact, it is a game for several players, and globally, only a few countries are...

In 2025, Google Ads is preparing a large-scale transformation in which artificial intelligence (AI) will become a key element of digital marketing strategies. These changes, according to Google's Vice President of Global Search Ads and Commerce Brandon Crayham, will be more significant than the mobile revolution and will fundamentally change the way businesses interact with users. Artificial intelligence is changing search marketing Google predicts a "seismic shift" in the way users search for information and interact with businesses. This will require advertisers to quickly adapt to the new realities in order not to lose their competitive advantage. Key areas of change Google is focusing on three main aspects: The evolution of search beyond keywords Search behavior is moving from the traditional keyword query to amultimodal experiencewhere users are using text, images, and video. AI will make search more intuitive and...

Technology and media have long shaped our daily lives, but the coming years promise to take these areas to a whole new level. The “Activate Technology & Media Outlook 2025” provides a unique insight into how the landscape of the Internet, media, software, and e-commerce will change. Key trends include the rapid growth of the global market, the e-commerce revolution, the boom in generative AI, and the transformation of video content. Let's take a closer look at 15 interesting facts from the “Activate Technology & Media Outlook 2025” forecast. Financial growth: Internet, media, B2B technology and software We anticipate that the global technology and media market will grow by $1.1 trillion over the next four years. The global consumer internet and media business will increase from $2.6 trillion in 2024 to $3.0 trillion in 2028, adding more than $400 billion....

The New Year holidays are a time when many people take a break from the hustle and bustle of social media and relax. But to make it easier to enter the new working year, we have compiled a list of trends that will be popular on social media in 2025. And in order not to be left behind, we need to adjust our content to these new realities. I'll warn you right away, for those who are active on several social networks, especially in “pink” or on stubborn YouTube, some of these trends will not seem like something new. But it's important to understand what a trend is. It's not just something new that suddenly appeared and everyone is like that: "Wow, finally something fresh!". Trends are long-term processes that develop over months or even years. By the way, if...

Google, like other major advertising platforms, is constantly adapting to new market and regulatory requirements. In 2025, Google Ads will implement several key changes that will affect the way arbitrageurs and ad campaigns work. 🎁 Bonus: Get 10 free virtual cards from FlexCard (a service with virtual cards for traffic arbitrage and personal shopping) with promo code PANDA. 🧨 Sign up at link, mention the promo code support and get the cards for free New betting optimization algorithms One of the most significant innovations will be the launch of new machine learning algorithms for automatic bid optimization. Google will use more sophisticated methods of predicting and analyzing user behavior to automatically select the optimal bids for each ad campaign. How will this affect arbitrageurs? Arbitrageurs will be able to scale their campaigns more easily without spending a lot of time...

Advertising auctions are overheated, performance campaigns are on the verge of collapse, and large companies are cutting marketing budgets. Should we expect a catastrophic market decline in 2025? Absolutely not. Let's find out why. Market situation If you look at the forecasts of marketers and other industry experts, they all say that in 2025, digital marketing will face a crisis. But let's be honest: the problems began in 2022. The list of main challenges looks like this: Reducing the budgets of large companies. Some big brands have already announced that they will reduce marketing spending next year. This is a trend that stretches back to 2022, when budgets fell sharply. This situation was repeated in 2023 and 2024. But smaller companies are replacing the large ones. Their number compensates for and even exceeds the previous budget. This may even reduce...

Midjourney has launched Patchwork, a new experimental tool for creating virtual worlds. The service is currently available for free. It will be useful for game designers, marketers, writers, and creative teams to collaborate on projects. Read on to find out what Patchwork offers and how to use it. What's unique about Patchwork Patchwork is an online whiteboard or a large interactive canvas that integrates the latest version of Midjourney (a generative AI that creates images based on a text description, i.e. a prompt). Here are the main features of Patchwork: Generating images directly on the canvas. Patchwork doesn't have a fixed place to enter a prompt, so you can choose any point on the infinite canvas, create an image based on a text description, and immediately place it wherever you want. You can then link the images together or add...