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Reddit Search Hit 80M Weekly Users and Subreddits Are Now Ranking Targets

Reddit's weekly active search users hit 80 million in late 2025, up roughly 30% year over year, and Reddit Answers queries grew from about 1 million weekly users in Q1 2025 to 15 million by Q4. Reddit also reported $625 million in ad revenue for Q1 2026, up

NMS Editorial Team 01 May 2026, 9:36 AM

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LinkedIn's Hidden Scan Catalogs 6,278 Extensions, Including Apollo and Lusha

LinkedIn injects a 2.7MB JavaScript bundle that probes visiting browsers for 6,278 specific Chrome extension IDs, encrypts the result, and ties the fingerprint to your real name and employer. The catalog grew from 38 entries in 2017 to over 6,000 by April 2026, with 708 extensions added

NMS Editorial Team 30 Apr 2026, 9:26 PM

Spotify's Verified Badge Just Made Human Authenticity a Brand-Safety Tier

Spotify launched its Verified by Spotify green checkmark on April 30, 2026, covering more than 99% of artists listeners actively search for and explicitly excluding profiles that primarily represent AI-generated music. The badge reads as a UI tweak. The actual signal is a brand-safety tier: any UGC platform now has

NMS Editorial Team 30 Apr 2026, 8:24 PM

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Instagram's 10-in-30 Aggregator Rule Just Killed the Meme-Page Buy

Instagram is now restricting recommendation reach for photo and carousel accounts that repost unoriginal content 10 or more times in any rolling 30-day window, extending a rule that previously only applied to Reels. Affected accounts disappear from Discover and feed recommendations until they spend 30 days back under the threshold;

NMS Editorial Team 30 Apr 2026, 10:10 AM

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YouTube Muted Inactive Subscribers and Made Sub Counts a Sponsorship Liability

YouTube began permanently muting mobile push notifications to inactive "All Notifications" subscribers on April 21, 2026, with the change rolling out globally over the following weeks. A subscriber is now classified inactive when they have not watched a channel for roughly one month and have ignored every recent

NMS Editorial Team 28 Apr 2026, 6:35 PM

X Is Killing Communities. IShowSpeed's 100K Group Averaged 287 Active Users.

X Is Killing Communities. IShowSpeed's 100K Group Averaged 287 Active Users. X is shutting down Communities on May 30, 2026, after admitting the feature reached less than 0.4% of users while producing 80% of platform spam, scams, and malware. Head of product Nikita Bier disclosed that IShowSpeed&

NMS Editorial Team 23 Apr 2026, 2:53 PM

LinkedIn's 360Brew Cut 98% of Creators' Reach and Made Saves Worth 5 Likes

LinkedIn's feed is now ranked by 360Brew, a 150-billion-parameter in-house LLM that reads posts by semantic meaning instead of engagement velocity. Since the rollout, 98% of creators saw reach decline across 621,000 tracked posts, per AuthoredUp. One save now drives 5 times more reach than a like,

NMS Editorial Team 23 Apr 2026, 1:16 PM

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