🤳 Do you use Instagram Stories?

Here's a quick feature you probably didn't know #Instagram Stories have: Flipping #Emojis!

📺 Watch it on IGTV.
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📈 Social Media Users Pass 3.5 Billion

The number of people around the world using #SocialMedia grew by more than a quarter of a billion over the past 12 months, to reach the 3.5 billion milestone by July 2019.

More than 46% of the world’s total population now uses social media, but if we focus on ‘eligible audiences’ – people aged 13 and above – the penetration rate increases to 59%, with the latest trends suggesting that it will pass 60% within the next few months.

🔗 Read more on DataReportal.
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😂 Installation Time Remaining: 46283 Years

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👻 Snapchat’s Audience Jumps

Data published in #Snapchat’s self-serve tools show that the platform’s advertising audience jumped by a massive 19% in the past three months, reaching a total of 369 million users by July 2019. That translates to an increase of almost 60 million users since April, with growth rates consistent across all age groups.

It’s not just Snapchat’s data that shows the platform is growing, either. According to App Annie, Snapchat saw a surge in downloads with the release of new #AR filters and its new, faster #Android mobile app, over the past three months.

🔗 Read more on DataReportal.
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❓ Do you use Snapchat? (add me if you are: perspectiveix)

 Apple Logo in Details

There is enough information to build an apple logo 20 meters tall, with the "Apple Byte!"

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📈 TikTok User Spending Set New Record in June, Climbing 588% to More Than $10 Million

#ByteDance’s short video social app #TikTok continues to experience impressive growth in user spending, hitting a new record of $10.8 million last month.

TikTok’s gross revenue from in-app purchases of virtual currency (known as Coins) was up 588 percent year-over-year from $1.6 million in June 2018. Spending in the app increased 19 percent month-over-month from $9 million in May.

This increase in spending has been most pronounced during the first half of 2019 and is being driven primarily by users in China, where gross revenue for the app has increased 271 percent since January. By comparison, TikTok’s revenue from IAP last month was down 16 percent from January in the United States.

🔗 Read more on SensorTower.
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🎟 RENDER: Human After All
Friday, 26 July 2019; Meatpacking District membership club, New York City, NY 🇺🇸

Betaworks are hosting the second instalment of their bi-monthly conference series at their Meatpacking District membership club on Friday, July 26 – RENDER: Human After All.

Betaworks is a startup platform based in NYC, comprised of a venture fund (Betaworks Ventures), accelerator program (Betaworks Camp) and membership club for entrepreneurs (Betaworks Studios).

Initial speakers include Douglas Rushkoff, Teodora Pavkovic, Nir Eyal, Max Stossel, Jessey White-Cinis, Danika Cleary Laszuk, and many more. It’s going to be great.

I was invited, but I can’t make it to NYC🇺🇸 this week. If you can, RSVP here and use the code 'PARTNER25' for 25% discount!

🔗 More about the event: https://prs.pctvix.co/2LD31GH
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🤔 British & American kids would much rather be YouTubers than astronauts!

Last week, we had the 50th Apollo 11 anniversary, which landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the Moon. On the eve of that, LEGO asked The Harris Poll to survey a total of 3,000 children in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇳 about their attitudes toward and knowledge of space.

Asked what they would like to be when they grow up, about 3 in 10 American and British children replied that they wanted to be YouTubers or Vloggers. In fact, becoming an astronaut ranked last among five professions! Only in China did children have a clear preference for being an astronaut!

#️⃣ #SocialMedia #Influencers #YouTube #NASA

📡 from arsTechnica via Pulse.
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❓ How will this affect the West in 50 years?

😐 When you're asking for help online & you get a 'Like!'

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📱 Which was your first phone?

Caution! This might make you feel old!
#️⃣ #mobile #iphone
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📈 Facebook Keeps On Growing

Little more than 15 years ago, on February 4, 2004, 19-year old Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, along with some of his classmates, launched a little website called Thefacebook.

Confined to the Harvard campus at first, after changing its name to just "Facebook" in 2005, the social network was opened to the general public in the fall of 2006, marking the start of one of the most remarkable growth stories in corporate history.

Within three years, the social network added 350 million users and in the summer of 2012 it became the first online service of its kind to reach 1 billion monthly active users. Until today, despite being shrouded in controversy over its (mis)handling of user privacy, #Facebook just keeps on growing. In the past quarter alone, Facebook added 39 million monthly active users, bringing its total user base to an astonishing 2.41 billion.

🔗 Read more on Statista.
🔗 Read about #Twitter & #Snapchat's 2Q19 growth on yesterday's Pulse.

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📰 News Consumption in the UK (2019)

Key findings:

- While TV remains the most-used platform for #news nowadays by UK adults, usage has decreased since last year (75% vs. 79% in 2018). At the same time, use of social media for news use has gone up (49% vs. 44%).

- Use of TV for news is much more likely among the 65+ age group (94%), while the #internet is the most-used platform for news consumption among 16-24s and those from a minority ethnic background.

- Fewer UK adults use BBC TV channels for news compared to last year, while more are using #SocialMedia platforms.

- When rated by their users on measures such as quality, accuracy, trustworthiness and impartiality, magazines continue to perform better than other news platforms, followed by #TV.

🦅 @PerspectiveIX via Ofcom.

😂 How my internet works!

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