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⚡️ Mobile search is still Google’s kingpin. For the second-quarter of 2018, Alphabet’s total revenue was $32.7 billion with mobile search leading the way. That’s up 26% from the year prior. (Source: Alphabet)
INSIGHT
🤖 What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Oxexkt
OTHER NEWS
🚫 Amazon to be told to ditch 'guaranteed next-day delivery' claim: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OxWoTG
🤳 With news-feed user growth slowing, Facebook revs its pitch for Instagram Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31313
😂 Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it: https://t.me/iXNews/31304
👻 Snapchat expands Shoppable AR to its top creators: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OAr8DF
😬 The DNC’s lawyers subpoena WikiLeaks with a tweet: https://t.me/iXNews/31315
😮 The Turkish lira is so volatile it’s making Bitcoin look tame by comparison: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KKWEw5
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⚡️ The average U.S. adult now spends more than 6 hours a day watching video, an 11 minute increase from Q4 2017. (Source: Nielsen)
INSIGHT
👶 How Alexa could be better at responding to toddlers: prs.pctvix.co/2Ok92p4
OTHER NEWS
😶 Snapchat monitors Infowars as Alex Jones promotes “Censorship” gag AR filter: t.me/iXNews/31102
🤖 This robot uses AI to find Waldo, thereby ruining Where’s Waldo: t.me/iXNews/31103
🚕 New York City Council votes to cap licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft: t.me/iXNews/31110
🍻 Heineken is still worried about Snapchat’s age-gating policies: prs.pctvix.co/2KDtT4F
🌽 Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think: t.me/iXNews/31113
🐠 Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data: t.me/iXNews/31122 | 📺 Watch Live: prs.pctvix.co/2KGArzz
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⚡️ Stories daily user counts as of May 2018.
- WhatsApp Status: 450 million daily users out of 1.5 billion monthly users.
- Snapchat: 191 million daily.
- Facebook Stories: 150 million daily out of 2.2 billion monthly.
(Source: TechCrunch)
INSIGHT
🗺 What happened to Facebook's grand plan to wire the world?: prs.pctvix.co/2LcUnve
OTHER NEWS
🐦 Twitter is changing how conversations happen based on user behavior and conduct: prs.pctvix.co/2Lakvqo
📉 Cambridge Analytica just filed for US bankruptcy: prs.pctvix.co/2LcamcN
🤳 Facebook is working on its own influencer platform (in German 🇩🇪): prs.pctvix.co/2L9MJBK
🦇 Lego’s new line of connected toys will let you build and program the Batmobile: t.me/iXNews/25543
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⚡️ More than 1.3 billion users of Google-owned YouTube regularly watch music videos, making it the biggest music service in the world. However, artists receive only 67 cents per user annually in royalties. (Source: The Guardian)
INSIGHT
⛓ Will Blockchain Diminish Facebook’s Advertising Dominance? prs.pctvix.co/2u5lEZJ
OTHER NEWS
😍#Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential: t.me/iXNews/28934
📈 Facebook moves on from data scandal as stock reaches all-time high: prs.pctvix.co/2u41YFs
🦂 Drake’s Scorpion pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week: t.me/iXNews/28933
😬 Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million: t.me/iXNews/28937
⚽️ Cristiano Ronaldo in talks over US$10m Facebook series: prs.pctvix.co/2u3mzcO
🏆 Technology has changed my World Cup watching for the better: t.me/iXNews/28927
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⚡️ Twitch users spend an average of 106 minutes on the platform each day Twitch (Source: Twitch)
INSIGHT
🤫 Listen to the Power of Quiet People - You don’t need to be loud to be smart: prs.pctvix.co/2Jp1zTH
OTHER NEWS
🤦♂️#Facebook's latest blunder made private posts public for 14M users: t.me/iXNews/27007
🔁#Instagram now lets you instantly repost stories you’re mentioned in to your own story: t.me/iXNews/27010
🧠 Bad things happen when you train AI using ‘the darkest corners of Reddit’: t.me/iXNews/27002
🎧 The Essential Phone’s first new module since launch is a magnetic headphone jack: t.me/iXNews/27020
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⚡️ 27% of SM users said their opinion of social media advertising has declined in the past year. The biggest reason for this is too much clutter, with 58% citing that they simply see too many ads on social (Source: Social Sprout)
INSIGHT
👋 Generation Z is already moving away from Facebook, and 6 more industries could be next: prs.pctvix.co/2L6Rmff
OTHER NEWS
📈#Facebook Analytics adds traffic data: prs.pctvix.co/2L2yYUs
👻#Snapchat plans to launch a developer kit to let other apps access its AR camera: t.me/iXNews/26251
😎 Snap CEO Evan Spiegel just threw some serious shade at Facebook: t.me/iXNews/26266
👃 Smartphones may get ‘smell-o-vision’ thanks to this tiny electronic nose: prs.pctvix.co/2L4LlPY
👹 Students confront the unethical side of tech in ‘Designing for Evil’ course: t.me/iXNews/26239
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⚡️ Research involving 109,780 internet users, aged 16-64 in 42 countries, shows that 46% use social media to stay abreast of current affairs. Out of this group, 29% are people aged 24-35, while 22% are 35-44. (Source: GWI)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJN5Te
OTHER NEWS
📸 Instagram is testing Recommended Posts in the feed: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MLexzW
💸 Netflix is testing a payment feature to bypass Apple’s App Store fees: https://t.me/iXNews/31885
🗣 Snapchat Users Can Activate Face Effects Using Voice Commands: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MPpYa9
🤔 There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, Senator Ron Wyden says: https://t.me/iXNews/31929
⚖️ Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJnv0N
🎮 Excitement brewing: Snap about to launch a game platform for Snapchat: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MGAmRb
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⚡️ People Spent 85 Billion Hours In WhatsApp In The Past 3 Months (Versus 31 Billion In Facebook).
85 billion hours is a lot of time. It's 3.5 billion days, or over nine million years -- 9,582,650 years, to be exact. And it's 11.425 hours for every human being on the planet. (Source: Apptopia)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2woglF9
OTHER NEWS
🏛 Why Facebook needs a Supreme Court for content moderation: https://t.me/iXNews/31828
📺 Lifestyle publisher Stylist quits IGTV in favor of Apple News: https://t.me/iXNews/31818
🍕 Google created a fake pizza brand to test out creative strategies for YouTube ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31811
🎮 Amazon is ending its 20 percent Prime discount on video game preorders: https://t.me/iXNews/31803
🇻🇪 Venezuela ties its currency to a state-run cryptocoin: https://t.me/iXNews/31799
🚗 Tesla challenger Lucid Motors also in talks with Saudi Arabia for reported $1 billion funding: https://t.me/iXNews/31788
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⚡️ New research suggests that six second linear television ads can generate good levels of engagement. In this research, despite six second ads accounting for just 3%, they actually drove 6% of attention. Interestingly, six second ads generated more attention per second than 15 or 30 second ads. They also yielded higher attention per second among all age groups, with adults aged 35 and over paying slightly better attention to six second ads than younger consumers. (Source: Advertising Research Foundation (ARF))
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mym4Cj
OTHER NEWS
⏯ Netflix sets the record straight over plans to introduce ads: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MIgQ6O
🎰 Apple cracks down on gambling apps in China: https://t.me/iXNews/31756
🐦 Jack Dorsey admits Twitter hasn’t ‘figured out’ approach to fake news: https://t.me/iXNews/31739
🗣 A university is outfitting living spaces with thousands of Echo Dots: https://t.me/iXNews/31735
👨👩👦👦 LinkedIn set to launch redesigned Groups platform by end of August: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nTpxgK
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STAT
⚡️ 60% of 16-24-year-olds claim to notice ads more if they deal with important issues, compared to 55% of 35-44-year-olds and 37% of those aged 45 and older. (Source: Channel 4)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MXnDXv
OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook secures deal to stream Champions League matches in Latin America: https://t.me/iXNews/31612
🏈 Adidas kicks off Twitter live streaming partnership with high school football: https://prs.pctvix.co/2waxfGR
💰 Coinbase now supports buying and selling Ethereum Classic: https://t.me/iXNews/31647
🤔 As demand for Instagram Stories ads heats up, some early adopters turn to Facebook Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31643
🚘 Update: New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup: https://t.me/iXNews/31634
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⚡️ The influencer marketing space is currently valued at £3.9bn globally. 54% of that is being spent on A-list celebrities. Meanwhile millennials remain the most receptive generational audience, followed by Gen Z. (Source: Zine)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2wcX4WQ
OTHER NEWS
🗞 Google releases a searchable database of US political ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31535
🤦♀️ Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job: https://t.me/iXNews/31539
💸 Uber reportedly lost $891 million in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows: https://t.me/iXNews/31540
🤔 Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries: https://t.me/iXNews/31549
💰 Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund: https://t.me/iXNews/31560
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⚡️ Nearly half of over 65s in Great Britain are now shopping online. The percentage of over 65s using the internet to shop has trebled since 2008, rising from just 16% to 48% in 2018. (Source: Office for National Statistics)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGAGl6
OTHER NEWS
🗣 New Apple patent hints that Siri could offer multiuser support: https://t.me/iXNews/31406
😑 Apple's Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September: https://t.me/iXNews/31410
5️⃣ Sprint and LG will release a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019: https://t.me/iXNews/31433
👩⚕️ Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health: https://t.me/iXNews/31434
💰 Square Cash expands bitcoin support to all 50 US states: https://t.me/iXNews/31446
👹 Instagram published a note about the recent jump in the number of hacked accounts: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGDizq
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