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🙏This is why we do what we do here! Thank you so much for the kind words, Rid. Moh. 🙂 🚀@PerspectiveIX

​​🗣The State of Chinese Voice Assistants China is the second-largest consumer market in the world, hitting $4.3T in consumer expenditure in 2016 alone (for reference, the US ranked first with $12.5T, and Japan third with $2.7T). The Chinese smart home market will reach nearly $23B in 2018, according to Juniper Research. #SmartSpeakers and #AI voice assistants are becoming an integral part of that. Now that smart speakers are becoming commonplace, the early entrant, #Amazon, is losing its market share — and not just to its rival #Google, but to newer players emerging in China. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via CBInsights. ❓ Do you own a smart speaker?

😳The Life-size LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron that DRIVES! #LEGO has done some amazing work here! 🚀@PerspectiveIX via LEGO

​​📺Facebook Watch A year after launching #FacebookWatch in the United States 🇺🇸, #Facebook announced that it’s making the video-on-demand platform available everywhere. Although the global rollout is a logical next step, a recent study suggests that the service hasn’t really made an impact in the U.S. yet. According to a survey conducted by The Diffusion Group, nearly 3 in 4 adult Facebook users in 🇺🇸 haven’t used the service yet. More importantly though, 50% of the respondents have never even heard of Facebook Watch despite its presence on the social network’s navigation bar. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via Statista. ❓ Are you a Facebook Watch user?

😳Think Outside the Box! 🚀@PerspectiveIX

​​📱Smartphone Usage: Adults vs. Teens Many of us are concerned about the amount of time we spend online, but surprisingly, it's not just adults that are increasingly self-aware of the dangers of excessive screen time. More than half (54%) of teens in the survey expressed a similar concern compared to about a third (36%) of adults surveyed. 🚀@PerspectiveIX via VertoAnalytics: prs.pctvix.co/2wp1yuA

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​​👻Snapchat's Growth In their Q2 2018 earnings report, Snap, #Snapchat's parent company, reported beating revenue expectations by 5%, but user growth, after slowing considerably for two years, went in the opposite direction. Snap’s Daily Active Users were (DAUs) still up 9% YoY, but for the first time declined sequentially by 2%. 🚀@PerspectiveIX Read more about Snap's growth excuses at Stratechery.

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​​🇨🇳98% Of Chinese Internet Users Are Mobile According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), 802 million people are now actively using the internet in China, which is 57% of the population. Out of these 802 million internet users, 788 million are mobile users, which is 98% of the country's user base. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ❓ What's your main device to use the internet?

🙌Manners Matter In life, good manners will always serve you well. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

​​🤳The Story of Stories According to a VidMob survey conducted among a thousand 16-24-year-olds in the US, #Snapchat (73%) edges #Instagram (70%) for consumption of Stories. However, the gap in #GenZ's content creation for Stories is a lot bigger on these platforms where Snapchat (58%) is way ahead of Instagram (39%). For #Millennials, however, the story is a bit different. According to the accompanying survey of a thousand 25-34-year-olds, they seem to prefer Instagram (58%) instead of Snapchat (53%) for story consumption. But just like their younger counterparts, Snapchat (34%) is their platform of choice when it comes to creating stories compared to Instagram (31%) or #Facebook (20%). 🚀@PerspectiveIX via MarketingCharts: prs.pctvix.co/2MTD6e9 ❓Where do YOU WATCH Stories?