🤩 Your Five For Friday 🤩

1. 🎤 Why UK rappers / drill artists talk about bally and alter-egos

2. 😡Alexa stores your deleted searches and queries even after you request for it to be removed

3. 😮 How newer social networks are highlighting crime even when its down and not crime

4. 🤔 Netflix UK finally lets us know the most watch shows

5. 🆘 Why companies are so bad at hiring - not surprising really

❤️ Marketing / Growth / Advertising ❤️

• Engagement powerhouse Instagram continues to outperform all other platforms and what topics work on each platform

• Adidas’ most important/popular channel….e- commerce - you’ll want to know why

• Influencer is now official in the dictionary

• “In the elevator” is a video series I really enjoy on Wall Street Journal, here is fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff’s video

• It’s been suggested publishers loss £1m per year from adblocking - maybe get a different business model? Subs as a model is slowly working - people do and will always pay for great content, just not always news

💵 Business 💵

Loved this piece (below) and breakdown of how we think and act around mobility, this also applies for food delivery if you apply a similar model

• Great piece by NYTimes interactive team (❤ their work) on Today’s IPO’s vs the dot com booms

• LinkedIn is the new craigslist - bundle vs unbundle is back again

• Justin Kan had a great tweetstorm on pressures of start ups vs the universe

• Investing legend (Warren Buffett’s partner) Charlie Munger interviewed about investments and making the right life decisions

🚀 Product 🚀

• Nike launches app to stop you buying the wrong sizes - this won’t stop the sizing issue many of us face but good step towards it

• WhatsApp have selected London as their new hub and hiring 100 people for the new push into payment - WhatsApp’s way to make money and get “in wallet”

• YOLO the newest app taking the appstore by storm is built on snapchat, here’s the insights but will bullying be the issue again with anonymous apps

• It’s been a busy week for Google — Google to kill affiliate links…again / Their conference went very well, here a great video summary / Google are also updating the SERP’s with podcasts directly in results and improve news results

  Danny Denhard @dannydenhard

  Podcasts in SERP's will be really interesting to watch, especially as to how basic podcasts are and how important Google Podcasts will instantly become...

  May 9th 2019

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＂Quote that resonated with me this week＂

Competition is one click away — Larry Page, Google co-founder

Shouldn’t be surprise this was said many years ago, the internet is becoming a number of walled gardens, it’s only going to get worse. Answer engines won’t be good for people or business in the long run.

🎧 Must Listen(s) Of The Week 🎧

The last seven days have been the best week for podcasts, considered a dedicated newsletter just on them but here are my top 3 picks

1. Recode Decode: Kara Swisher interviews Tristan Harris on time well spent and why it’s got all wrong

2. Recode Media: Why it’s now Netflix vs the world in the media world

3. Pivot: Prof Scott Galloway goes deep in promoting his new book and why business, friends and Chipotle is so important

4. It’s a video but watch / listen to Facebook’s co-founder say why it’s time for it to be broken up

   New York Times Opinion @nytopinion

   Why is Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes saying it’s time to break up the company? He explains in this video op-ed. https://t.co/mrAuP3QXzE

   May 9th 2019

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