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Friday 15th January
Welcome to the Weekly Widget. All of the top Digital, Tech & Marketing stories from this week in a handy blog, delivered every week for your delicious fix of nerd. 🤓
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Things you may have missed🏖
If like me you’ve been on holiday for what feels like four years, then here’s a quick roundup.
Amazon buys Wondery to get into Podcasts, LOTS of crime podcasts.
Twitter acquired Breaker, a social broadcasting app. Plus they launched Spaces so you can have audio-only virtual rooms.
Facebook will summarise articles for you. What could go wrong?
Things You Should Know👀
When one door closes, another door ope…Oh actually, no. All closed Donald.
Trump is de-platformed with 14 days remaining, Big Tech are finally woke, but with this wokeness they’ve seen their stock performance dip. Will we see TrumpTV in 2021?
Data: Factset, Chart: Axios.
Everyones talking about it. No, not Sea Shanties. This week’s Facebook Webinars on the Apple changes
The Webinars explored the latest Apple changes and how ITP will affect advertisers. If you haven’t read up on ITP/PCM before, just bumping up this article.
Freedom isn’t free. Everywhere & everyone suspends Parler following an explosive podcast with Kara Swisher.
A big talking point and I’m sure it’ll keep growing. AWS & co are just protecting themselves it seems, taking a wide berth of a raging political debate. Enjoy the cartoon below.
Cool Stuff😎
2021- The Year of…Nano-cleaning, AI smelling, self-sterilizing, cloud clubbing and skin 2.0!? The future is now old man.
2021 LOOKS WILD. You can spend a long time on this site, so stop doomscrolling and start futureclicking. Eh. Needs work.
Sounding like a B-Grade Disney Film, DALL-E has creatives everywhere sweatin’. Why? It creates images from text.
The OpenAI multi-modal system can generate images from text captions, apply transformations to existing images and render text. But can it deliver assets out of spec? Kidding.😋
Hackers take…wait is this real? Okay, yes it is. Hackers take tallywackers hostage for Bitcoin. I must’ve missed this IOT at CES.
The type of story that journalists dream of, I’m sure. Connected chastity cages had a significant security flaw and that’s enough Internet for today.
What we’ve learned📚
Reach me on Signal guys. What if I told you that Whatsapp is using your data for advertising? Yeah, but Telegram is safe. Think again, buddy…
Their new T&C’s alarmed a lot of people (which they’ve recently clarified on an FAQ page) that saw a mass exodus to Signal -. As well as news that rival Telegram is now getting ready to monetise via ads.
Credit @hellotanda - Twitter.
The Marketing gurus are sure to claim 2021 as the year of Attention. Get ready for the TV funded study’s, and the Facebook retorts…
TV is still king. YouTube gets silver, and let’s not talk about display, shall we?
The Nerd Corner🤓
‘WHAT WAS IN THE BOX?! AHHH WHAT’S IN THE BOX.’ - UK Competition & Markets Authority to Google.
The CMA is investigating Google’s Privacy Sandbox, following concerns that it will impact competition. As they sweep dollars from the open web to their platforms.
Credit: Adexchanger
“I’ve seen the future Jimmy. And it’s Linear.” Would you Adam & Eve it, OpenAP has launched A Linear TV SSP.
OpenAP SSP currently works with scatter markets, when inventory is closer to the air date but the technology looks very positive to finally automating TV inventory.