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​​ Apple Stops Sharing Unit Sales Figures for Its Products During its Q4 2018 earnings call, #Apple made a surprise announcement, dealing a major blow to analysts and data enthusiasts such as ourselves: going forward, the company will not be sharing unit sales figures for its products. For the past few years, analysts and investors have tended to focus their attention on one number, #iPhone sales, and Apple apparently no longer wants its entire business to be reduced to that one indicator. When smartphone sales (naturally) started to slow down due to market saturation and slower technological progress, Apple decided to delve even further into the premium segment, bringing its average iPhone selling price to unprecedented heights and reaccelerating growth in its iPhone business. Therefore, Apple wants us to focus on the number that is more likely to be positive going forward. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Do you own any Apple device?

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📷Instagram Stories Picking Up More of the Platform’s Ad Spending #Instagram has been getting meaningful ad spend relative to #Facebook in recent months, and new data from Marin Software again indicates that it’s becoming a more important part of Facebook’s monetization strategy. In Q3, Marin indicates that its client advertisers spent 14.8% of their total Facebook spend on Instagram, more than double the proportion (6.5%) from a year earlier. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via MarketingCharts.

📈Fortnite's Effect on Epic Games Epic Games, creator of the blockbuster online game #Fortnite, has landed a $1.25 billion investment from multiple investors, the company announced last week. According to Pitchbook, it was the largest funding round ever for a video game company, valuing Epic Games at almost $15 billion. While Fortnite certainly is Epic’s breakthrough game, the company has more to show for than the online survival hit. Aside from popular gaming franchises such as Gears of War and Infinity Blade, the company is best-known for the Unreal Engine, a tool kit for game developers that has played a major role in the industry for 20 years now. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓Do you have a game console?

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👮‍♂️Facebook’s UK Cambridge Analytica Fine TL;DR: $5,100,000,000 → Facebook's last quarter net income. $56,000,000 → Facebook's daily net income. $2,340,000 → Facebook's hourly net income. $644,000 → Facebook's UK Cambridge Analytica Fine. — Last week, it was reported that #Facebook would face a £500,000 fine from the UK over the Cambridge Analytica scandal - but that is a drop in the bucket. Facebook made $5.1 billion in net income last quarter, a figure that makes the $644,000 fine difficult to see (the USD equivalent of the fine). An hourly view finally gives some sense of scope. Still, even by that metric, Facebook’s profit dwarfs the fine. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via TheVerge.

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🤳Instagram & the Fortune 500 Almost two-thirds (63%) of Fortune 500 companies are now actively using #Instagram, marking the 6th consecutive year of increases in the platform’s use by these companies, according to the latest annual analysis of Fortune 500 corporate #SocialMedia usage from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. This is up from 53% last year, 45% in 2016, 30% in 2015 and 20% in 2014, per the report. #LinkedIn continues to be the most popular social platform for Fortune 500 companies, with virtually all (98%) using the platform this year, consistent with last year’s report. #Twitter (91%) and #Facebook (89%) are also widely used by the Fortune 500. Each saw an incremental increase in usage, from 88% and 85%, respectively, last year. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via MarketingCharts. ❓Do you use Instagram?

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💰The World's $80 Trillion Economy - in one chart Here are the world’s top 10 economies, which together combine for a whopping two-thirds of global GDP. In nominal terms, the US 🇺🇸 still has the largest GDP at $19.4 trillion, making up 24.4% of the world economy. While China’s 🇨🇳 economy is far behind in nominal terms at $12.2 trillion, you may recall that the Chinese economy has been the world’s largest when adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) since 2016. The next two largest economies are Japan 🇯🇵 ($4.9 trillion) and Germany 🇩🇪 ($4.6 trillion) – and when added to the US 🇺🇸 and China 🇨🇳, the top four economies combined account for over 50% of the world economy. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via WEF.