🗞️SKINCARE NEWS

WWD Beauty Compiles the 100 Greatest Skin Care Products of All Time

WWD Beauty Inc. conducted a poll of over 600 beauty industry professionals. Voters were asked to consider product efficacy, formula innovation, sales performance, packaging design, and market impact.  The votes were tabulated accounting for duplicates, to determine the top 100 products. The chosen products represent those deemed most impactful and successful within the beauty industry based on the collective opinions of a diverse group of industry experts.

Here are some of the drugstore skincare products that made the list:

• Aquaphor Healing Ointment 💧

• CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser✨

• Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser🧴

• Dove Beauty Bar🧼

• Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel💦

• Nivea Creme✨

• Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream💎

• RoC Skincare Retinol Correxion Line Smoothing Eye Cream👀

• Vanicream Face Wash✨

• Vaseline Original Healing Jelly💧

📲SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS

Meta Plans to Launch AI-Driven Bot Accounts🤖: Virtual Profiles Will Mimic Real Users to Create and Share Content

Meta has an ambitious plan to integrate millions of generative AI profiles into Facebook and Instagram. These AI-driven accounts will mimic real users, creating and sharing content while engaging with others. Meta aims to use these bots to enhance user engagement and adapt to the evolving social media landscape. Here’s a quick summary:

• Meta plans to introduce millions of AI-generated profiles with bios, profile pictures, and the ability to create and interact with content🤖

• Mark Zuckerberg envisions a transformation of social media, where AI-generated content becomes a core part of user feeds📱

• Meta’s strategy is influenced by Social.ai, an app that allows interaction with diverse AI bots, reflecting its capacity for AI-driven engagement🤝

• The AI profiles aim to address declining user engagement and provide a boost in followers, likes, and comments, satisfying users' desire for recognition🚀

• AI bots can offer practical engagement, such as advice from topic-specific bots (e.g., chefs or health experts) on user posts💡

• Although some users might embrace AI-driven interaction and increased engagement, Meta’s AI bots could complicate metrics for influencers, making it harder to assess their real audience value for brand partnerships👥

• Critics also argue that the influx of bots dilutes the authenticity of social interactions on platforms, potentially impacting the trustworthiness of social media❌

• Despite skepticism, Meta bets on the appeal of inflated numbers and new interaction models to drive user satisfaction and app retention📈

🔥TRENDING TIKTOK & INSTAGRAM SOUNDS

Here are some trending sounds on Instagram and TikTok that can be used with “text on screen” videos or as background music for educational content🔥

📈SKINCARE BESTSELLERS

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