The VKontakte team announced the launch of several special projects for Cosmonautics Day. Among them is the space marathon in Steps with a prize fund of 1.5 million rubles. Festive projects will unite Easter eggs in the form of “portals”, users will be able to find them in various sections of the social network. “Space […]
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“Reliable sender”: in Mail.ru Mail, letters from trusted sources are marked with a special icon
The Mail.ru mail service team has announced the launch of a new useful feature designed to improve user security. The updated anti-fraud system for additional protection of users adds a special mark “green shield” for letters from reliable senders. Messages from trusted major services are highlighted with a special icon and color in the web […]
VKontakte banned emoji in advertising and promotional publications
The VKontakte team announced changes to its technical requirements for ad formats. A new limitation of tools has been introduced to artificially manipulate attention in advertising. So that it doesn’t turn out like this The social network banned the use of emoji in advertising. According to the developers, advertisers will no longer be able to […]
Viewers no longer have to wait: VKontakte now processes videos instantly
The VKontakte team announced the launch of a new function of the social network – on the VK Video platform, they introduced instant video processing technology so that content becomes available to users immediately after downloading. As the developers explain, other popular video services need to fully download and process the video for efficient distribution […]
Goodbye unlimited: VK Video has enabled traffic saving mode
The VKontakte team announced the launch of a new useful feature for the VK Video platform. It is designed to provide savings in data consumption for users with limited Internet traffic. The new function “VK Video” automatically selects the quality of videos. According to the developers, this reduces the consumption of Internet traffic and saves […]
Microsoft disconnected mail Mail.ru from servers
Russian users of VK services (former Mail.ru Group) have been complaining for almost a week about failures when viewing files attached to letters in the Mail.ru email client. The problem turned out to be that Microsoft disconnected the Russian mail service from its servers. This was reported by the Vedomosti publication, citing an employee of […]
VK Video comes to Smart TV. The video platform app is already available for Samsung and LG TVs, as well as Android TV
VK Video’s own app was announced last year, but it’s only now being rolled out to Samsung, LG, and Android TV smart TV stores. Soon, the developers of the application promise to cover Apple TV users as well. With a separate application, smart TV users get access to all VK Video technologies, including auto-quality with […]
You can now make phone calls in the VKontakte store
The VKontakte team announced the launch of a new feature in the Store section. Now you can add a “Call” button to the product card. With a new button, shoppers can quickly jump to a salesperson call over cellular. According to the developers, the new feature helps to increase the number of contacts and purchases. […]
On the Boosty platform, the commission for all bloggers was canceled
The team of the author’s content monetization platform Boosty.to, in fact, the Russian analogue of Patreon, announced the good news – from March 14, the commission for all bloggers is cancelled. As a result of the cancellation of the commission, the authors will be able to receive 100% of the income from monetization tools. The […]
In “VKontakte” there was a tape of trends “Actual”
The VKontakte team announced the launch of a new feature on the social network — the Trending Feed. According to the developers, the new neural network is capable of analyzing millions of posts every second and automatically generates a feed with trends and a picture of the day. The algorithm at the heart of the […]