Instagram slashes Reels payout rates Instagram slashes Reels payout rates Announced in July last year, Instagram’s Reels Play Bonus program rewards creators for making Reels. Payouts start at $600 and go all the way up to $35,000 depending on the number of views. This program is the company’s attempt to get more reputed creators onboard its app as it challenges TikTok, the platform that made short-form videos a thing. Meta, the Facebook parent that also owns Instagram, said it plans to pay out $1 billion to Reels creators through 2022....

“If we lose the teen foothold in the U.S. we lose the pipeline,” an internal memo said. This memo is from October 2020 and was accessed by The New York Times (via). In 2018, Instagram reportedly directed almost the entirety of its annual worldwide marketing budget towards promoting the app among teens. Marketers told NYT that focusing on a particular age group on that scale is unusual. The report also mentions that the final spending included messaging directed towards parents and young adults....

The Moto E40 is a budget smartphone and the front look of the device clearly tells that. The handset features a rather huge display bezel at the bottom that you don’t see on more premium devices. Motorola has tucked the earpiece grille onto the frame. A sizeable punch-hole cutout sits centered at the top of the display. On the back, we have three cameras and an LED flash sitting inside a rounded rectangular housing....

This Pixel ad shows the Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch and its UI, and more This Pixel ad shows the Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch and its UI, and more By that title, you’d assume that the ad is all about the Pixel 7, but it’s not. In fact, a good portion of it is focused on the Pixel Watch. This ad does give you a better look at the watch, and a glimpse of its UI....

Yes. The original flip device from Samsung, the Galaxy Z Flip, is receiving the latest security update. To recall, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Z Flip, its first attempt at a flip device, back in early 2020. The flip device instantly caught everyone’s attention, as it was having a clamshell-style design and not a regular slab shape. It came out with Android 10 with One UI 2.0 out of the box. It received Android 11 bundled with One UI 3....