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LOREEN of Sweden has become the first woman – and only the second person in history – to win the Eurovision Song Contest twice.
Europe’s biggest music party saw the likes of Finnish rapper Kaarija and Australian rockers Voyager perform during a dazzling four-hour spectacle in Liverpool.
But after a marathon vote count, Swedish star Loreen was crowned Eurovision winner after raising the roof with her performance of power-ballad Tattoo.
The singer, who previously triumphed in 2012 with hit song Euphoria, narrowly beat Kaarija after the public and jury votes totalled a huge 583 points.
But it was heartbreak for the UK’s Mae Muller, who came second to last on the board with just 24 points after the public and jury votes.
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While we wait for the Elden Ring DLC, plenty of excellent modders have been giving us great content for FromSoftware’s open-world game, and now the team behind what may very well be the most significant and game-changing Dark Souls 3 total conversion has released the Alpha for its next project, Elden Ring Convergence, and the changes are endless. If the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree release date wait is making you hungry, The Convergence is an Elden Ring mod that’s an absolute feast.
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Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has seen its stock tumble 20% in after-hours trading after reporting first-quarter earnings Thursday. The company missed Wall Street revenue estimates of $1 billion, closing out the quarter with $989 million. That’s down 7% from the same period last year, and it represents the first time since Snap went […]
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Unfortunately, it turns out we actually kind of like watching Instagram Reels.
When Instagram first launched Reels and promised to pivot the social media platform to video, users were livid. We threw fits. Kylie Jenner demanded that we “make Instagram Instagram again.” And, at first, Reels flopped as a lame version of TikTok.
But, at Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg reported that time spent on Instagram had risen by 24 percent, an engagement increase he blames on Instagram Reels.
“Reels continues to grow quickly on both Facebook and Instagram,” Zuckerberg said in the earnings call. “Reels also continue to become more social with people resharing Reels more than 2 billion times every day, doubling over the last six months. Reels are also increasing overall app engagement and we believe that we’re gaining share in short-form video too.”
Reels aren’t just doing well because we’re seeing our friends and favorite influencers post them, though. A big part of the reason we’re all so sucked into Reels is, Zuckerberg said, because of artificial intelligence. He said the ranking systems and AI recommendations have “driven a lot of the results that we’re seeing today across our discovery engine, Reels, and ads.”
While Zuckerberg didn’t give us any daily breakdown of Reels users, he said the monthly active users rose for all of Meta’s apps combined. Meta CFO Susan Li said on the call that the company isn’t quantifying “expected engagement growth” for Reels, but it is happy with what they’ve seen. “It’s clear that people value short-term video,” Li said, according to Business Insider.
This comes just a few weeks after Instagram launched new tools for Instagram Reels creators, including new metrics, gifts, and a space designed for users to “find inspiration” through trending audio and hashtags. It’s surely a ploy for continued engagement, but, hey, it seems to be working.
Meta also reported a $28.6 billion first-quarter revenue — showing 3 percent year-on-year revenue growth. But the company also noted a $5.7 billion net profit — a $523 million decline — partly due to the restructuring costs related to some 21,000 job cuts. Shares jumped a mighty 12 percent following the meeting.
James Corden is leaving his post at The Late Late Show on Thursday (April 27), and CBS is sending him off in style…on TikTok.
The @CBS TikTok account will run a 24-hour livestream in the lead-up to the finale, Deadline reports. The countdown will be a montage of clips from Corden’s career at CBS. Impressively, there will be no repeats, so if you miss your favorite moment, then you probably have to go look it up on YouTube.
Nick Bernstein, the senior vice president of late-night programming at CBS, was responsible for curating the clip marathon.
“I personally went through 900-plus episodes of the show and I think we curated a real mix of the big moments that everyone will have fun watching again and other moments that will have people say ‘this is really what they did during the pandemic?'” Bernstein told Deadline. “Also, if James ever asks me specifically what it is I do, now I can tell him I made a TikTok for them. Actually, someone else physically made it, but I made a lot of great suggestions.”
Corden, 44, has hosted the late-night show for eight years. The British actor is leaving on his own terms, reportedly to move back to London with his family. The finale has received some extra attention because of its special guests: Will Ferrell and Harry Styles. See… One Direction has a long, chummy history with Corden, and that’s led 1D fans to speculate they’d reunite for his final hour on air. The rumors got so rampant the show had to actually come out and deny it.
Regardless, Thursday marks the end of an era at CBS — an era you can relive on TikTok starting after Corden’s penultimate show on Wednesday night.