📡 You and your stories 📖
Hello and welcome to this week’s Pulse — the weekly techie/businessy newsletter from @perspectiveix. I’m your host, Behrouz, and I’d like to thank you for being here.
I’m sorry I’m late today. It’s been a hectic week around here with the UK reopening many businesses since yesterday…
So, without further ado, let’s get through today’s Pulse.
🧠 INSIGHTS
When you talk about your last job, your last vacation, the things that happened when you were 12…
What do you lead with?
Do you lead with, “I broke my ankle that summer and rarely got out” or is it, “I stuck with my reading regimen and read all of Shakespeare.”
Because both are true.
The top story is the one that informs our narrative, and our narrative changes our future.
Read more on Seth Godin’s Blog.
for me, this was super-relatable, but if you wanna read more, Seth’s post about stolen ideas was really good too… have you had any original ideas you were afraid people would steal from you?
📊 STATISTICS
Streamlabs & Stream Hatchet Q2 2020 Live Streaming Industry Report
Mixer made headlines last year when it signed an exclusivity deal with Ninja and Shroud — top live streamers that made the switch from Twitch. It was a big bet in the hopes of attracting a larger…
Read more on Streamlabs.
Global App Revenue Reached $50 Billion in the 1H 2020 — Up 23% YoY
Apple’s App Store generated an estimated $32.8 billion globally from in-app purchases, subscriptions, and premium apps and games in the first half of 2020. This figure is 24.7 percent more year-over-year from the $26.3 billion spent during the same period in 2019. Spending on Apple’s marketplace was nearly twice the estimated gross revenue on Google Play, which clocked in at $17.3 billion. That was up 21 percent Y/Y from the first half of 2019, when we estimate consumers spent $14.3 billion on Google Play.
Read more on SensorTower.
TikTok Engagement Among Kids Surges During the Pandemic
Compared with 2019, the average time spent per day by children (ages 4-15) in the US on social media apps almost doubled in 2020 across all major platforms. Of the apps studied in a recent report [pdf] from Qustodio, TikTok made standout gains in overtaking popular platforms such as Instagram and YouTube.
Read more on MarketingCharts.
📱 TOOLS & APPS
TRASH: Vibe Check: we could all use vibe check right now
remember the AI video editing app, Trash? this is their vibe check snapchat sticker; it’s pretty cool.
Weblings: Add a little colour and joy to your new browser tabs [Chrome/Brave | Firefox | Edge]
they just look so cool — and colourful :D
Free illustrations: List of free to use illustrations & vectors
can be useful to have in your toolbox
Headlime: Create headlines like copywriting experts
it can give you good ideas…
🔍 SPOTTED
Spotify is redesigning the desktop app, basing the design on the web player [link]
Spotify is working on a new Sharing UI [link]
Twitter is working on text colours for Fleets and new UI [link]
Twitter is working on ‘co-fleets’ where you can have ephemeral conversations with anyone [link]
Facebook might let some users edit the destination URL of an existing post [link]
LinkedIn let’s you add a voice recording of how to pronounce your surname [link]
🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness.
Rumi
You can have an edit button when everyone wears a mask
men: why is your bag so heavy
also men: put this in your bag please
So,
so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
Did they get you to trade
your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze? https://t.co/loYOScGvWc
😂 FUN STUFF
I found it! The definitive cartoon for 2020..... https://t.co/TqddHk1xlt
so romantic! - Credit: Reddit/listener025
Suddenly I am totally OK with these https://t.co/iYVQKTiUAd
I don't think anything I've seen so perfectly captures why there's no way the US is going to be getting on top of COVID-19 pandemic anytime soon. https://t.co/Sa0WNYyYs6
🗞 NEWS
Instagram Stories page, Tim Cook joining his competitors, and why Google is paying Apple billions of dollars [link]
YouTube TV prices, Spotify for couples, and US Space Force [link]
Big tech against Trump and hate speech; everyone else against Facebook Ads [link]
No earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box, How Telegram embarrassed Russia, and 👁👄👁 [link]
That's all for this week...
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