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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” Whenever I talk about advertising people comment how much everybody hates ads. Here’s some other things you might find interesting: There are around 20 billion in-bound sales calls in the US each year.

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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

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With the recent announcement of our fourth fund , we are expanding the team at NexView with a new Platform and Operations Associate. This role will be virtual through the end of the pandemic, but will ultimately be based in either our New York or Boston office. Supporting other external PR and media relations for the firm.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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Making Social Media Work For SMEs

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For many SMEs, the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce – tipped to be worth US$2 trillion this year in the B2C space alone [1] – makes the opportunity too valuable to ignore. Without the large dedicated digital and social media team that many large brands have, even this can seem daunting. Build a following.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

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The internet had a massive impact on the media industry, as the reporting of news became a commodity few are willing to pay for. Source: Ben Thompson The missed opportunity of Media The realization that most people do not want to pay for the “core” product called news came late. And make some money along the way.

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Gen Z Making money: From Social Media Influencers to Gig Economy

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Known as “Digital Natives”, Gen Z are obviously also extremely comfortable with technology, and about a quarter of them are making money online. Unlike Millennials, who witnessed the introduction and rise of social media, tablets, smartphones and the mobility that allows them to access it all in an instant, Gen Z was born into it.

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Will the Apple Vision Pro launch a new era in spatial computing?

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But it’s not everyday that Apple launches a new product, and the Apple Vision Pro is special even within that category. The biggest hardware launch by Apple since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, the Apple Vision Pro is a mixed reality headset and it’s about to send the world into a new era of spatial computing.

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