​​🎧 Social Media & Music

9 out of 10 #SocialMedia users do a #Music-related activity on their social media apps.

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📖 via Billboard: prs.pctvix.co/2nn4t1G

​​🇬🇧 London Is the World's Airbnb Capital

10 years ago, in early August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com went online, marking the birth of #Airbnb. Back then the three founders, Brian Cheky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk wanted to help short-term travelers find affordable accommodation and provide renters with an opportunity to make an extra buck by renting out spare rooms or even just the namesake airbed on the floor.

Now, it's about 10 years later and their little venture is valued at nearly $30 billion.

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📖 via Statista: prs.pctvix.co/2OhGNra

📰 Today's #BigThought
by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KD25xd

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📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ 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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😳 SHAASUIVG - and definitely not SAMSUNG - is my new favourite tech brand!

55-inch 4K TV for ¥388 (≈ $57) on Chinese online store Pinduoduo! That logo though...

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​​💰 Digital tech and industrial IoT startups raised $2.3bn in H1 2018

This is almost triple what was raised in April or May, and was driven by significant raises in industrial cybersecurity companies.

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📖 via BloombergNEF: prs.pctvix.co/2M11f31

🧠 Today's #BigThought
by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KGAECw

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​​📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ The use of #ad and #sponsored posts on Instagram grew by 44% in the first six months of this year, compared to the same time frame in 2017. (Source: Buzzoole via TheDrum)


INSIGHT
🎙 Reddit CTO On Fake News, QAnon, Harassment, And Running 'The Front Page Of The Internet': prs.pctvix.co/2On1e63

OTHER NEWS
💸 Facebook now deletes posts that financially endanger/trick people: t.me/iXNews/31198

👫 Emoji couples might come in 55 gender and skin tone combinations next year: t.me/iXNews/31209

🤳 Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebs: t.me/iXNews/31145

🤮 New Panasonic device sucks up your shoe smells, if you have five hours: t.me/iXNews/31144

EXTRA: Samsung
📱 Samsung Galaxy Note 9: t.me/iXNews/31156

🔈 Galaxy Home speaker with Bixby smart assistant: t.me/iXNews/31169

⌚️ New Galaxy Watch: t.me/iXNews/31163

✏️ New and more powerful S-Pen: t.me/iXNews/31157

🎶 Spotify as its go-to music partner: t.me/iXNews/31175
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🤬 Ouch!
#TweetOfTheDay

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​​📈 #Ad on Instagram grows by 44% in first half of 2018

A report published by Buzzoole found that Fashion (33%) Beauty (13%) and Food & Drinks (13%) brands were the most mentioned, accounting for almost 60% of global sponsored content production.

Globally, more than 559K creators were involved and produced an overall engagement of almost a billion interactions (988 mm), showing an average engagement per post of over 1K.

In 2017, 1.5 million #ad posts were shared on #Instagram, 58% of them in H2, the time of year when brands invest most of their online marketing budget.

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📖 via TheDrum: prs.pctvix.co/2Os4Xz8

🧠 Today's #BigThought
by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KHJq3t

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🗳 How many posts per day do you prefer?

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 Design is Never Done
the Apple website Edition

✏️ by Luke Wroblewski: prs.pctvix.co/2Mboib9

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​​🎶 Music in the Day in the Life of a Music Lover

A breakdown of Music Lovers activity based on streaming music service and screen reveals:

- On smartphones, #Google Play Music, #AppleMusic, #Pandora Radio, and #Spotify are the most popular streaming music services.

- On PCs, Spotify, Zune, #iTunes, and Pandora Radio are the most popular streaming music services.

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📖 via VertoAnalytics: prs.pctvix.co/2OxkPk9

🤖 Meet Kengoro: The Exercising Robot

Kengoro is A Japanese #robot that can do push-ups, play badminton, and could help us better understand our bodies.

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This is...

​​⌚️ Apple vs Samsung: The Smart Watch Edition

Based on IDC estimates, #Samsung has a lot of ground to make up if it wants to challenge #Apple’s dominant position in the #smartwatch market. In 2017, the Cupertino-based company shipped 17.7 million watches compared to Samsung’s 3.6 million.

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📖 via Statista: prs.pctvix.co/2Ou1tfC

❓ Do you own a smartwatch?

​​📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ 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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🧠 Today's #BigThought
by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KK6r5L

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 50 Shades of Gray

#Apple's current line up! Apparently, they can't decide on what Space Gray really is!

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📖 via Reddit: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nwcIsu

📰 #iXDailyBrief

STAT
⚡️ In a recent survey of 595 VR and AR professionals, 24% reported strong sales in the enterprise market but only 18% showed strong sales in the consumer market. When asked about the barriers to entry, 52% said a lack of content is the biggest barrier, although this is down from 62% the previous year. (Source: VR Intelligence & SuperData)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MneaLU

OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook joins forces with LaLiga 🇪🇸 to livestream matches in the Indian 🇮🇳 subcontinent: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mk2Joj

👻 How IGN is using Fortnite and Marvel to grow on Snapchat Discover: https://t.me/iXNews/31386

📉 Ethereum’s falling price splits the crypto community: https://t.me/iXNews/31380

🤔 The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control: https://t.me/iXNews/31376

🇸🇦 In the Tesla drama, Saudi Arabia reminds Silicon Valley of its weight: https://t.me/iXNews/31372

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