Show notes
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 was underway, Khan jetted off to Vancouver to support Team Qatar's journey. With the summer being quiet, we've seen it's still business as usual with announcements. We decided to pull off another episode in the air (counting this as our 6th one), especially as we crunched what's relevant to the MENA region from all the announcements.Another milestone for the podcast just one year laterUAE being first in the Middle East to regulate social media for teenagersMeta's hunger for more subscriptions, now with their "Plus" options alongside Meta VerifiedMore of Meta: Threads' 500M+ milestone, AI-based dubbing in Arabic for Reels, and Instagram's newer way for Your Algo tweaksCapCut's cross-platform presence to get a worthy challenger when Edits makes its desktop debutGoogle's new creator search profiles to better surface influencers/creators in searchHow different social media platforms are tapping into the FIFA World Cup 2026and much more.P.S: Khan was travelling light, so he used his AirPods for this. Apologies for his voice quality (even with lot of post-production editing), but we're very adept at being 'on the move' when recording our episodes.-- Chapters --(00:00) Opening and Intro(02:51) Podcast milestone(07:33) UAE's Newly-Announced Social Media Regulations(15:57) Meta's New Subscription Options as 'Plus'(20:53) Too many Subscriptions(25:35) FIFA World Cup across Social Media(29:50) Instagram Algorithm Changes(35:00) Edits on desktop to challenge CapCut(41:13) Meta's Arabic Dubbing and Content Accessibility(46:08) Google's new Creator Search Profiles(48:20) Catching AI-generated music with Deezer's new tool(50:32) NVIDIA's RTX Spark vs Qualcomm's Snapdragon X for Windows on ARM(52:54) Apple's Pricing Strategy and Consumer Behavior(55:15) Wrapping up with final thoughts---If you're keen to suggest topics that you'd want to hear more about with a Middle East focus, follow us on our accounts below and drop us a message.Yasser Masood (LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube)Gazanfarulla Khan (LinkedIn, Instagram) The Geeky Nomads (Website, Threads, Instagram, YouTube)
