In Today’s Must-Reads:
💯 The 4 areas for economic growth in 2021
🏀 Why depression impacts even the biggest stars
👄 Why the beauty industry and drama has gone hand in hand
📹 The take away from Netflix Culture
☕️ How 🦠 has moved the needed morning coffee to lunchtime
Must Read Endorsement Of The Week
The Must-Read Stories Of The Week
The 4 predicted areas for economic growth in 2021 and beyond 🔮 - Link
This is probably the best and most thought through long-form blog I have written in a long time, features food delivery, gaming, live sports, and audio.
— Related Reads: Amazon have come under pressure for banning competitors from bidding on sponsored ads on Amazon 🤨 - LinkA powerful read on depression and its impact (from a professional star speaking at the athlete level and importantly how it would also impact at the fan level) 💯 - Link
The must-have role for your company - The Culture Community Manager ⚙️ - Link
“When I saw how senior management spends their time. I lost confidence in the company” 😞 - Link
This is the main take away from the Netflix culture book The No Rules RulesThere has been a lot made of viral content on social media recently. This article looks at if social networks can stop misinformation and suicides going viral 🙏- Link
The question here is whether Facebook and Twitter want to do right or want to do right by them and their company’s hard goals of ad $’s. Remember social algorithms are still powered by enragement = engagementHow the beauty world became obsessed with drama…not product 👄- Link
The data is in…the Coffee kick has moved from bright and early towards lunchtime ☕️ - Link
Our habits have shifted, commuting reduced down but starting work earlier has shifted our day around and breaks are needed earlier and more often. This has moved the desired and relied upon caffeine kick towards lunch.Dopamines kicks are controlling consumer apps and us the consumers cannot fight against it 📲 - Link
DTC is getting a rough ride, I disagree, we will see more DTC, it’s up to them to make brands not blands 7️⃣- Link
—More bland/brand reading - LinkI stumbled upon a new TikTok account about saving bees, it’s actually a great educational channel, this is a good video on seeing if you can spot the Queen Bee 🐝 - Link
Why ‘production effect’ aka reading aloud helps us to remember what we read 📖 - Link
How the common frog is the best way to understand climate change 🐸 - Link
9 priceless skills for the modern-day professional ℹ️- Link
New Tools To Check Out:
- Are you looking for an influencer search engine? Sistrix launched one for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube - Link
- Worried about sites that follow you and track you around the web? Here is a new tool that helps you find out - Link
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Thanks for reading, enjoy your weekend and I’ll see you next week.
Danny Denhard
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