As the date of a potential US ban for TikTok looms, users have begun flocking to a surprise alternative – Chinese social commerce app RedNote (Xiaohongshu). Can RedNote maintain its international popularity to the point of becoming competition for TikTok – or will it be a flash in the pan?

In its first earnings call as a publicly-traded company, Reddit detailed its growth from organic search traffic. But can Reddit manage to have its cake – trade on its reputation for unvarnished authenticity – and eat it – license its content to train the very AI models it wants to stand apart from?

When people have a question, whether it’s about a hobby or a product recommendation, they often want to hear from other human beings – not content marketing, or worse, a banal AI.

In the run-up to the eighth season of Love Island, which has just begun airing, Reddit and ITV announced a more wide-ranging partnership, billed as the “first of its kind … in the UK”. Reddit will be the “official fan partner” for Love Island in a deal that will see an official Love Island brand account interacting with fans in the Love Island subreddit, r/LoveIslandTV.

In the western world, no company has really managed to make social commerce work. In China, however, it’s a different story. Here’s how one app, Xiaohongshu, has fused social content with commerce to great success.

If you’re someone who loves ideas, projects and discovery, you’ll be right at home in the new social network that’s currently creating buzz online. Capioca (Cap-ee-oh-kuh) is a website designed for people to collect things that fascinate them, and to find and discuss new ideas. It was envisioned by its founders, Rebecca Findley and Byron Wong, as an online version of a coffee house in Samuel Pepys’ London: a thriving hub of learning, discovery and discussion.