GIZMODO Monday October 10, 2022
Are you one of the growing number of creators who are tired of ads popping up in your Facebook or Instagram reels, on your pages news feed and in the apps’ shopping sections? (See item 1.) If so, you’re not in luck: Meta is introducing new ways to offer advertisers your eyeballs while using its apps, notes Gizmodo. In a recently blog post, the company announced that it is testing new ways for companies to advertise with its short-form video format Reels. In initial tests, four-to-10-second skippable video ads play after a Reel ends. At Instagram, Meta is increasing the number of ads in the Explore tab.
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The Nature Conservancy Monday October 10, 2022
A bolt of lightning over a volcano in Indonesia. A glowing mushroom in Australia. A pair of lions strolling in the Kenyan savannah. These sights were captured in some of the winning images of the 2022 Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. The top prize this year, chosen from some 100,000 entires, goes to Li Ping, a photographer based in China, for a drone’s eye view of an isolated highway in Tibet, bordered on each side by gullies extending outward in the shape of a tree.
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DP Review Monday October 10, 2022
Tamron calls its newly announced 24-40mm f/2.8 Di III VXD zoom for full-frame Sony E-Mount cameras “category-disrupting,” notes DIY Photography. The lens offers a unique focal length range, adds DP Review. Tamron says it’s designed for shooting both stills and video and incorporates the company’s VXD (Voice-coil eXtreme-torque Drive) autofocus drive system for silence and speed.
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David Schonauer Monday October 10, 2022
It's been a tough year for Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: He is now merely the 20th richest person in the world. "Despite the fact that we still have three months left in 2022, [he]
has already lost more than half of his wealth this year," noted the Robb Report recently. Bloomberg recently reported that Zuckerberg has seen $71 billion disappear from … Read the full Story >>
