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Every morning, Julie Parlade, a 34-year-old stylist from Springfield, wakes up and does what most millennials do. She reaches for her phone and checks her apps. Instagram, Gmail, maybe the news. Then she checks one more: Craigslist. Yes, that Craigslist. The classified advertisement website that was popular in the early aughts and 2010s. She checks it later in the day, too, pretty much whenever she has downtime. “It’s so automatic for me,” she said. “I have an obsession.” Parlade mostly sticks to the free section, where she has scored everything from a pair of Frye boots in perfect condition to an entire set of Le Creuset cookware. Half of her house is furnished from the Craigslist free section: the clawfoot tub in the bathroom, the subway tile in the kitchen, the mid-century modern furniture in the living room. She started using Craigslist around 2010, first for jobs and apartments, and never really stopped. Today, it’s still her go-to source for secondhand items, despite the rise of other online marketplaces like Depop and Facebook Marketplace.  » Read More

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Ask any AI tool for the “best platform for private video hosting” in 2026 and you will notice something curious. The answers look different on the surface, but the same handful of private video platforms show up repeatedly. Vimeo. A couple of developer-friendly video APIs. One or two OTT style solutions. Maybe a marketing-focused video host. The names change order, yet the list does not really change. There is a reason for that. Large language models are trained on content that was published over many years. Blogs about secure video hosting, product documentation, comparison pages and user reviews all feed into what an AI considers a “trusted” recommendation. When the internet repeats a few names often enough in the context of private video hosting, AI tools start to treat those names as the default options. For teams that are serious about privacy, this is not always a good thing. The gap between “private” as a marketing label and private video hosting as a security requirement is only getting wider. Course creators need more than unlisted links. B2B companies need more than a password on an embedded player. Internal communications teams need more than crude access control on a shared drive.

Trending on Billboard You open up TikTok or Instagram. The first video is a creator dancing to “Lush Life” by Zara Larsson. The next one is an influencer promoting a startup mattress brand, set to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams.” After that, it’s Kylie Jenner lip-syncing to “Pretty Little Baby” by Connie Francis. Then it’s your favorite NCAA team, using AC/DC’s “Back in Black” in a hype video. The creators of each of those videos pulled their music from TikTok or Instagram’s vast song libraries, which make it easy for modern social media users to add fully-licensed tracks to their posts. But only some of them were actually allowed to do so. Related Here’s why: According to the rules of those platforms, the song libraries are strictly for personal use. Videos posted by businesses or paid influencers, on the other hand, must utilize a far more limited commercial library. If a brand wants to use a popular song that’s not there, they must get a sync license — just like any conventional advertisement on TV. Many companies have apparently missed that message. For years, large commercial accounts have liberally used well-known songs on social media to promote their brands — so much

Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Lana Del Rey contains Americana multitudes: a New York state-raised, Los Angeles-myth maker who recently settled down in Louisiana; a Tumblr poet laureate turned great American songwriter; a woman who put a hex on Donald Trump in 2017 and declared herself “not a feminist” a few years later. Her new single, “White feather hawk tail deer hunter” is a love song and a horror film, scored by eerie strings and fraught arpeggios. The latest single from her tenth studio album, Stove, is whispered with such tenderness that any lingering unease suffocates within Del Rey’s rose-colored love bubble. Like much of Del Rey’s work, “White feather” toes an uncomfortable line between adoration and submission. The poetically wrought ode to husband-and-alligator-tour-guide Jeremy Dufrene has a push-pull dynamic. Sometimes, their union feels deliciously rebellious and counter-culture like it’s them and their domestic bliss against the world: “Likes to keep me cool in the hot breeze summer / Likes to push me on this green John Deere mower.” At other times, Del Rey is just glorifying the toils of being a wife: “I know it's strange to see me cooking for my husband” and “I love my daddy, of

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Every day, millions of people use Snapchat to connect with friends and family in ways that feel personal and real. Today, we’re excited to share that our direct revenue category—the portfolio of products where Snapchatters support the platform directly—has exceeded a $1B annualized revenue run rate. This milestone is anchored by our global subscription community, which has now surpassed 25 million members. Since launching in late 2022, Snapchat+ has become one of the fastest-growing consumer subscription services globally, with subscriber growth every quarter. What started as an early-access program for our most engaged Snapchatters has quickly scaled into a meaningful business—one that now represents a strong and growing revenue stream alongside our ads business. But Snapchat+ isn’t just growing quickly. It’s working because it’s built around something deeply human. Why Snapchat+ Resonates Snapchat plays an intimate role in people’s lives—it’s where millions connect everyday with the people who matter most to them. With more than 946 million monthly active users worldwide, Snapchat is on a path toward reaching one billion people globally. Snapchat+ succeeds by giving our community more ways to personalize and elevate their Snapchat experience. Features that may sound simple on paper—like pinning a best friend, customizing chat

Snap’s direct revenue business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, the company announced on Wednesday. Annualized revenue refers to a business’s current revenue rate projected over a full year. The social media giant says the milestone is driven by its Snapchat+ offering, which has now surpassed 25 million subscribers. Launched in 2022, Snapchat+ gives subscribers access to exclusive and pre-release features for $3.99 per month. Following a successful launch, Snap introduced additional paid tiers beyond the core Snapchat+ subscription over the past year to further diversify its revenue streams. “Snapchat+ has become one of the fastest-growing consumer subscription services globally, with subscriber growth every quarter,” the company wrote in a blog post. “What started as an early-access program for our most engaged Snapchatters has quickly scaled into a meaningful business—one that now represents a strong and growing revenue stream alongside our ads business.” Last June, Snapchat launched Lens+, which gives users access to exclusive Lenses and AR experiences, along with the perks in the standard Snapchat+ tier, for $8.99 per month. In early 2025, the company launched an ad-free Snapchat+ subscription tier called Platinum for $15.99 per month. And, in a controversial move in September, Snapchat announced