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Friday 26th November
Things you may have missed🏖
Things You Should Know 👀
As expected, Nike is the next big brand to enter the Metaverse - well the centralized one anyway - as they create Nikeland in Roblox. A virtual Nike HQ allows the Roblox community to test their skills in various mini-games, with wearables too.
Are you paying attention yet? Adidas has also dipped their toe in this week, following a rumoured partnership with Decentraland. Wearables and virtual branded worlds are going to be big business in 2022 & beyond, not sure if Adland is equipped for this yet though…
Squid Game was big, REALLY BIG. Don’t believe me? Well do I have a treat for you, Netflix has released its viewership numbers and Top 10s per country - a massive flex that provides insight into the SVOD giant for the first time.
I wonder if Masterchef can boast numbers like this? Hehe. The graph and further analysis are from Alex Kirk - linkedin post here.
Cool Stuff😎
From SPF & Vitamin C all-in-one to Metaverse enabled spectacles, to a mind-controlled computer, to the unbreakable baby bottle. This list from Time has the best inventions of 2021, one to peruse and sit in awe at how amazing people are.
If I don’t get a compassionate companion aka Robin the Robot for Christmas, I am going to be pissed. From AI to sustainability, this list has it all
What we’ve learned📚
As Millenials start flocking to TikTok, the mother of all millennials partnerships has happened. No, it’s not the Wiggles & TikTok, the listicle famed, clickbait giant Buzzfeed has partnered with TikTok for weekly live shows.
Leveraging their Tasty brand, “I Made This” is the first original content deal struck and we can expect to see many more. Despite not sharing the viewership numbers, this could signify the winds changing…
(📜,📜)We’re going to buy the constitution! Wait, we lost? But we have $40m? A fascinating case study on web3 occurred in the past week. If you missed it, a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) grouped funds together($ETH) and planned to buy the Constitution at Sotheby’s.
Still with me? Think of it as a GoFundMe but with crypto, with the ultimate ambition of fractionalizing ownership of this piece of American history. But a crypto super villain outbid them, leaving a crisis of refunds & lost investment following the fluctuation of Ethereum prices
The Nerd Corner🤓
“Digital privacy is an unpredictable unstoppable three-body problem - Tech competitors, government regulators and public opinion.” This isn’t just any death of the cookie piece, it’s from someone who truly understands the depth & breadth of the issue at hand.
An excellent piece from Myles Younger in the MobileDevMemo, as he writes about the emergence of server-side technology, the new measurement tools, and preparing teams to learn new skills.