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- 🙃 You spend how long on Netflix?? 🙃
🙃 You spend how long on Netflix?? 🙃
Two hours everyday - addiction 👀
Happy Friday People, you made it! Last week was the most successful newsletter to date, maybe it’s the Ari Starbucks collab or maybe Friday morning coffee goes down well with a slice of your must read newsletter. So thank you all.
🤩 Your Five For Friday 🤩
❤️ Marketing / Growth / Advertising ❤️
No need to click news:Facebook have tweaked their ad guidelines for more modern metrics, alongside updating watch parties concentrating on live TV hint…sports, also including trivia (after a look under the hood of HQ Trivia last year), Facebook’s platform outage caused numerous problems - especially for themselves as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook users took to the web to complain. Last night the person who was pencilled to take over if Zuck ever stepped down Chris Cox left, as did Head of WhatsApp. Twitter have got into podcast with characters count and testing a number of new tools and beta apps
If you’re in marketing and don’t know what discord is - go read this now ⚠️
Stat filled deck around Social Media Usage, Podcast listeners and Facebook’s problem
One of the most popular articles this week is what Google actually knows about you
SEO Update: Google released a core algorithm update this week - check your rankings, apparently it was a biggie
The creator of the web has a #web30 campaign for its 30th birthday. Dust of those AOL, blueyonder and excite email addresses
The Facebook outage led to 3million sign ups to messaging app Telegram (FWIW Telegram is very similar to WhatsApp but is not fully encrypted) the other fun fact is when Facebook goes down, so does the economy
💵 Business 💵
You probably won’t be surprised Tumblr lost 100m visits per month since upping their adult filter
Virtual restaurants aka cloud kitchen are becoming all the rage, especially for Uber Eats
Facebook are now being investigated in the US for their data deals, this is a huge step forward
Rap beef? Spotify have gone after apple in court for their 30% tax
Google also paid a former employee $45m to leave after sexual harassment compliants and the godfather of Android $150m stock award behind the boards back
I know what I will be watching in coming weeks:
🎁Tool of the week - I work across many time zones and it’s a nightmare trying to find out what time it is in US or Oz, so this There answers this 🎁
🚀 Product 🚀
🤔Final Thought 🤔
Companies rarely lack good ideas.
What most companies that I see really lack, is the willingness to *explore* truly new ideas and experiment.
— Alex Osterwalder🇨🇭 (@AlexOsterwalder)
1:28 PM • Mar 12, 2019
Talking to many businesses and business leaders, this is tweet (from the very smart Alex Osterwalder) really does resonate, the problem most businesses face is an ability to think differently and tackle things in alternative ways rather than defaulting to no or to fat cat syndrome. Let’s challenge people to think differently, create business cases and experiment, until you do or your colleagues do it will be status quo or death by a thousand cuts.
Let me know what you think of this week’s must reads by tweeting, emailing or messaging me on LinkedIn.
Thanks - Danny Denhard