Happy Friday! Kicking off the new format today with a links only email for the week. Keep an eye out on Sunday for the feature deep-dive edition.

The industries that are broken into sub-categories will change each week based on volume of what's shipped. E.g. ed-tech is right at the bottom, but on a week where there's lots of new ed-tech launches, it'll be more prominently displayed.

Given this is a new untested format, I'd love your feedback! Too long? Light on certain areas? Subcategories don't make sense? Let me know, and I'll do my best to address next week :)

New features & products (11/25)

Streaming

• Pricing

  • Hulu launches a $1.99 / month Black Friday promo

  • Paramount+ ships 50% annual plan Black Friday promo

• Other

  • Flixed ships a self-serve developer portal for its API

  • Spotify expands audiobooks to several other markets

  • Twitch launches safety features for children

Social

• Trust & safety

  • Facebook removes several information fields from profiles

  • Meta rolls out privacy updates for teens on IG & FB

  • Twitter prohibits new accounts buying Blue in first 90 days

  • Twitter to deemphasize "hate" and "negative" tweets

• Communication

  • Twitter to add encrypted DMs and video / voice chat

  • Saturday ships a nearby hangouts disappearing feature

  • Google Messages lets users react with all emojis

• Content creation

  • Linkedin rolls out scheduled posts functionality

  • Wisdom launches a voice answers audio format

• Other

  • Twitter rebrands "Super Follows" to "Subscriptions"

  • Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub

Creator

• Engagement

  • YouTube tests a quiz feature for creators community posts

  • Aviyel unveils a community dashboard, workflows, and rewards

• Monetization

  • Fanfix launches link-in-bio platform for Gen Z creators

• Discovery

  • Substack ships feature letting users browse top performing posts

• Other

  • Fireside to add interactive live shows

  • Streamyard launches local recordings for podcast creation

Artificial intelligence

• Models

  • Stability AI launches Stable Diffusion v2

• Audio

  • Clip Audio ships a "similar audio" search feature

  • Article Audio ships a free AI tool to convert articles to audio

• Writing

  • Jaq n Jill launches a generative-AI blog writing tool in beta

• Other

  • Meta unveils CICERO, an AI that collaborates & negotiates w/ humans

Web3

• NFTs

  • High Forge ships a Photoshop upload feature for NFTs

  • Magic Eden integrates with Polygon for blockchain gaming

  • ApeCoin DAO ships a community-driven NFT marketplace

  • Mattel launches NFT marketplace with Hot Wheels collection

• Climate

  • Consensys co-launches Ethereum Climate Platform

  • Atomic Hub introduces a Carbon Offset feature

• Other

  • CoinMarketCap releases Exchange Proof of Reserves feature

  • SorareTools launches a free market data product

  • Celo to integrate with Consensys' Infura infrastructure

Collaboration

• Productivity

  • Google introduces workspace chat conversation summaries

  • Cal ships scheduled text meeting functionality

  • Sketchnote announces a split screen tool

• Accessibility

  • Microsoft Teams ships a sign language view

• Other

  • Microsoft ships portrait mode powerpoint feature

  • Motionbox launched an updated rendering engine

Tools

• Data analytics

  • PostHog shipped area chart visualizations

  • UserMaven launches pinned events for analytics tracking

• Keyboards

  • Keylink launches an updated custom keyboard app for link management

  • Microsoft relists its Swiftkey keyboard to the app store

• Development

  • Platformatic ships a new database dashboard

  • Amazon launches payload-based message filtering for SNS

  • Armory announces a continuous deployment "sandbox cluster" feature

• Infrastructure

  • Meta implements new timing protocol in its data centers

  • Shadow launches Drive, a cloud storage service

Fintech

• P2P payments

  • Venmo adds in-app charitable donations

  • Venmo redesigns 'send money' screen

• Financial planning

  • Copilot unveils MacOS app in beta

  • Daylight announces a subscription for queer family financial planning

• Other

  • GloriFi shuts down its "anti-woke" neobank

  • Clio expands its legal payments product to Canada

  • Tink launches a Balance Check feature for direct deposits

  • Stubben Edge ships a life insurance product

Rideshare & delivery

• Waymo unveils a steering wheel-less robotaxi vehicle

• GoPuff launches scheduled deliveries, gifting, in-store pickup

• JOKR closes operations in several South American cities

E-commerce

• Tapcart adds product badges to its Shopify app builder platform

• Paypal announces a Return Shopping feature for Shopify merchants

• Konica Minolta launches a B2B digital commerce platform

• Mercari ships bundle offers to boost order size

Other

• Cars

  • Mercedes paywalls faster acceleration with $100/mo subscription

  • Telsa extends "full-self driving" to all drivers in North America

• Gaming

  • Marvel Snap introduces new cards and collectors tokens

  • Google Cloud to offer SuperGaming's game engine worldwide

• Health and wellness

  • Any Distance launches activity tracking with safety-first sharing

  • Almond unveils a full-service Ob-Gyn care platform

• Ads

  • TikTok rolls out an audience insights tool for Ad Manager

• Ed-tech

  • Amazon shuts down its online learning platform in India

• Media

  • New York Times ships a recipe sharing feature

• Smart-home

  • Wyze launches a new smartbulb for downlighting

And that’s a wrap for today. Stay tuned for more!

- Amol