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​​☠️Music Piracy is Down More than 50% since 2013 Due to investments by DiMA’s members in creating licensed digital music services, consumers are able to legally access creative works with more ease than ever before. Back in 2013, shortly after #Spotify’s launch in the US, music P2P penetration stood at 9.8 percent. At the end of 2017 streaming music revenues were four times larger than in 2013, while P2P penetration was less than half of its 2013 rate. Quite simply, streaming is taking away most of the incentive for piracy, pushing piracy to the margins. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

🍰Look & Taste Dinara Kasko is a pioneering pastry chef who creates delicious edible sculptures using 3D-printed moulds. #3DPrinting 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ 54% of people say playlists are replacing albums in their listening habits. (Source: DiMA) INSIGHT 💸 Attention Economy: Dealing with Information Overload: prs.pctvix.co/2t78WJh OTHER NEWS ⏳ First look at #Instagram’s self-policing Time Well Spent tool: t.me/iXNews/27652 🚫#Facebook bans weapons accessories from being advertised to minors: t.me/iXNews/27669 ⚽️ Paul Pogba owns the most influential Instagram account among Premier League players: prs.pctvix.co/2MxuUNA 🗺#iOS12 will automatically share your iPhone location during 911 calls: t.me/iXNews/27678 💰#Google makes $550M strategic investment in Chinese e-commerce firm JD: t.me/iXNews/27672 🇮🇳 Almost 1 million people 'testing' #WhatsApp payments service in India: prs.pctvix.co/2t6eaF8 EXTRA ⬇️ 2018 Annual Music Report by the Digital Music Alliance (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MCdqzZ — “The future depends on what you do today.” – Mahatma Gandhi Have a great week! Ben, @iXNews

​​🏆How Prize Money Will Be Distributed At The World Cup While the 32 teams involved in the FIFA World Cup will be aiming to go as far as possible and achieve success on the pitch, they will also be battling for a sizeable pot of prize money. Late last year, FIFA announced the amount of prize money available for the tournament in Russia and it's at record levels once again. Excluding the Club Benefit and Protection Programmes, prize money this year stands at $400 million, an increase on 2014's $358 million. The following infographic provides an overview of how the performance-based prize money will be distributed. When Germany won the trophy in 2014, it was awarded $35 million. This year, the eventual winner in Russia will receive even more, $38 million. The runner-up will get $28 million while third place will receive $24 million. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

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​​💬Heavy Social Media Users How attitudes differ in line with the time people spend on #SocialMedia, and what this means for brand communication. Heavy Users are 23% more likely than average to want to work and live abroad and agreement with this increases in line with time spent on social media. Furthermore, they’re much more likely than Light/Non Users to have an interest in travel and cultures. This shows how inspirational platforms like #Instagram can be “eye-openers” to the world, different cultures and are especially important in the promotion of travel. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ U.S. podcast ad revenue rose a whopping 87 percent in 2017 ($314 million) and is forecast to reach $659 million by 2020, a 110 percent growth from this year. (Source: IAB/PwC) INSIGHT 💬 Encrypted messaging is not magic. It has limitations: prs.pctvix.co/2taJ4eF OTHER NEWS 📸#Instagram Stopped Notifying People When You Screenshot A Story: prs.pctvix.co/2t7DUjK 🔎#LinkedIn is the hottest B2C social media platform in town (yes, I said B2C): prs.pctvix.co/2JMiTSQ 📚 Snap launches a developer platform to bring Snapchat’s camera and Bitmoji to other apps: t.me/iXNews/27504 🐦#Twitter announces major updates for content discovery and real-time alerts: prs.pctvix.co/2tbYY8C 🏡 Finally! The 800 million ways #Facebook gets serious about local business: prs.pctvix.co/2JNmTm2 — “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde Ben, @iXNews

​​📰Social Media & News After a few years of relentless growth in the use of #SocialMedia for news, now, in many countries, growth has stopped or gone into reverse. Taking the 🇺🇸 as an example, weekly social media use for news grew steadily from 27% in 2013 to a peak of 51% before falling back significantly this year to 45% (-6). To some extent this represents a readjustment after the social media frenzy around the Trump inauguration last year – but these patterns also exist elsewhere. In the 🇬🇧 usage grew from 20% in 2013 to 41% in 2017 before falling back. The decline in 🇧🇷 appears to have started in 2016. Also, average news usage for #Facebook has fallen from 42% in 2016 to 36% today while other networks are stable or have been growing rapidly. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ More than a third (37%) of UK consumers think Facebook does not care about its users. (Source: the7stars) INSIGHT 🤳 How pro-eating disorder posts evade filters on #SocialMedia: prs.pctvix.co/2t2nQkf OTHER NEWS 👍#LinkedIn introduces Kudos: say thanks and show your appreciation: prs.pctvix.co/2sU1Rfg ⏯#Reddit rolls out auto-play video ads for web and mobile: prs.pctvix.co/2sYfpWX 🍎#Apple strikes blow to Facebook as it clamps down on data harvesting: prs.pctvix.co/2sWzltm 🍏 Apple will update #iOS to block police hacking tool: t.me/iXNews/27474 👻 At #Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality: prs.pctvix.co/2sWZqID EXTRA 🗞 Fewer people 'using Facebook for news': prs.pctvix.co/2sW5WPY ⬇️ Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2sRVdWL — ⚽️ The FIFA World Cup 2018 commences in Russia today. Are you excited? Ben, @iXNews

​​📈Information Created Worldwide (in ZettaBytes) 2005 → 0.1 ZB 2010 → 2 ZB 2015 → 12 ZB 2020 → 47 ZB 2024 → 163 ZB 1 Terabyte = 1,024 Gigabytes. 1 Petabyte = 1,024 Terabytes. 1 Exabyte = 1,024 Petabytes. 1 Zettabyte = 1,024 Exabytes. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ For every £1 spent on influencers within the beauty industry in 2017, brands received an average return of £8.81. (Source: Celebrity Intelligence) INSIGHT 🤯 Here Are 18 Things You Might Not Have Realized #Facebook Tracks About You: prs.pctvix.co/2t1KI2l OTHER NEWS 🛍#Instagram will now let you shop products through Stories: t.me/iXNews/27361 📈#Twitter stock is at a three-year high. What is going on? t.me/iXNews/27401 🎮 The first #Fortnite World Cup with $100 million in prize money is happening in 2019: t.me/iXNews/27392 🍎#Apple quietly banned developers from selling and sharing users’ contacts: t.me/iXNews/27375 🏛 Court approves merger of AT&T and Time Warner: t.me/iXNews/27371 — "Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself." ― Bill Gates #WednesdayWisdom Ben, @iXNews

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