Instagram announced changes to how it labels accounts featuring AI-generated people. The platform is renaming its “AI Creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clearer when a profile features an AI-generated person versus a real human creator who may simply use AI tools.

YouTube is bringing Stations to more formats. Stations, which are continuous 24/7 streams of curated videos, launched as part of YouTube's Coachella coverage and are now expanding to creator content, media channels, podcasts, and more.

YouTube shared that it will soon start sending copyright email notifications to channel managers. Similar to channel owners, channel managers will receive copyright claims and removal requests.

Facebook officially launched Facebook Creator Studio, an AI-powered companion app announced earlier this summer. The app provides personalized guidance, comment management tools, including AI-powered comment replies, and content insights.

Instagram is rolling out Picture-in-Picture (PiP) for Reels to more users. The platform has been testing PiP for some time, with the feature appearing as far back as August 2025 and resurfacing more recently in March.

Pinterest is rolling out "Promote a Pin," a new feature that lets anyone instantly turn organic content into a paid ad, with no advertising experience required.

Threads, Instagram’s X competitor, is officially beta testing “Dear Algo,” an AI feature that lets users shape their feeds by telling Threads what they want to see more or less of.

Instagram is testing a new Early Access feature that lets creators post a Reel exclusively for their followers for the first 24 hours before it becomes public.

Instagram announced a new school experience for US college students. After verifying their student email through UNiDAYS, students can add a school banner to their profile and access a directory of confirmed classmates, organized by graduation year.

Instagram's Send a Preview feature has been spotted again. It allows creators to share a preview of a Reel with friends before posting, which also generates a draft of the Reel. Unlike a published post, previews can't be commented on or reshared.