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2022-02-23 10:00:01 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Recently the 2022 Winter Olympics kicked off in Beijing today, and China is the first country to use almost 100% artificial snow.

2) Interesting in-depth visual analysis of more than 382,000 news headlines, exploring how women are represented in written media.

3) The company behind the "Bored Ape Yacht Club" NFTs is reportedly in talks to raise $200m... at an eye-watering $5bn valuation.

4) The race to reconnect Tonga's 827km long communication cable is on, after the recent volcanic eruption.

5) This year's Super Bowl ads have hit new highs, with some being sold for a record $7 million for a 30-second slot.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-22 10:00:01 𝙰𝚖𝚊𝚣𝚘𝚗'𝚜 𝙰𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚞𝚐𝚎

The big tech news flow just keeps coming, and recently it was Amazon's turn.

The e-commerce giant did a Google, not a Facebook, reporting an impressive set of results on all fronts — and revealing for the first time just how big its advertising business is.

Amazon isn't the first company you think of when you think of ads, but a careful search for any product on their website or app will reveal an enormous number of embedded ads. Want to get your product further up the page? Pay for a sponsored slot. Want to run a video showing your product off in between the search results? Buy an ad.

And a lot of people are doing just that.

Amazon made almost $10bn last quarter from advertising, which makes it a bigger advertising business than YouTube, which reeled in $8.6bn, and more than double what Twitter, Snapchat and Pinterest make combined.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-21 10:00:01 𝚁𝚘𝚊𝚍 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝙵𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚁𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙰𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝙸𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚄𝚂𝙰

Road traffic fatalities have risen in the USA, with preliminary data showing 11,750 fatalities in the 3 months to September 2021 and 31,720 fatalities in the first 9 months of 2021. That's a 32% rise in just the last decade, and a 12% rise on last year.

Why are roads getting more dangerous?

It's not immediately obvious, considering the ongoing improvements in car safety and design, but blaming the pandemic is probably not a bad bet.

Stress from job losses and ill health, coupled with fewer cars on the road, may have encouraged more risk-taking behind the wheel. Indeed, that's been the conclusion from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, with some behavioral research showing that speeding and traveling without a seat belt have been more common in the last couple of years. Drive safe, folks.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-20 10:00:01 𝙵𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝙵𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝙰𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚁𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚍

By now you've probably seen that the artist-formerly-known-as-Facebook has had a rough February, notching up the biggest one-day loss of value in the stock market's history.

Meta's 2021 revenue was up 37% on last year, and the company delivered a cool $47bn of operating profit — so you'd be forgiven for wondering why investors wiped ~$230bn of value from the company.

In short, Meta has a few problems:

- Apple's privacy change: Targeted advertising has gotten more difficult since Apple's new tracking update, making Facebook ads less effective, and hurting demand.

- TikTok: Facebook is losing users, particularly younger users, to TikTok. The core Facebook platform lost daily active users for the first time ever.

- The metaverse isn't here yet: Reality Labs, Facebook's augmented and virtual reality division, is a big cash sink, and will likely remain so for a while.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-19 10:00:01 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) The CEO of YouTube mentioned the word "creators" 52 times in her annual letter, which also cited research from Oxford Economics that the "YouTube economy" supported 394,000 jobs in the US.

2) How has the popularity of each movie genre changed in the last century? Some great work by Bo McCready. RIP Westerns.

3) Rise of the machines: fantastic chart and story from FiveThirtyEight showing how computers caught up to, matched and then rapidly outpaced the best human chess players in the world. Related viewing: "AlphaGo - The Movie", the story of how AI took on the ancient Chinese game of Go.

4) Microsoft made more than $6 billion a month in its latest quarter, with revenue up 20% on the year before.

5) Adele was the only artist last year to sell more than 1 million copies of an album last year, underlining how much the industry has changed since the advent of streaming.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-18 10:00:02 𝙰 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙰𝚐𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚃𝚅? 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛

Can't find something good to watch in the evenings? That's on you, unfortunately.

According to the latest data from FX Networks, there have never been more new original scripted series, with 559 hitting the small screen last year across cable, streaming services and broadcast TV in the US.

In 2010, there were just 216 new original scripted series, meaning that in just the last decade, your options for viewing have almost tripled (presuming you can access them all, which admittedly is a different question altogether). Overwhelmed by options? You're probably not alone.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-17 10:00:01 𝚁𝚘𝚋𝚒𝚗𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚍'𝚜 𝙾𝚠𝚗 𝙴𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚢 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝙿𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝙷𝚊𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚂𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚑

One company that enjoys when markets are full of activity is Robinhood, but the investing platform hasn't had a good 12 months.

One year ago it was at the center of the GameStop saga, which - despite some negative press - led to a surge in users and revenue ahead of its own IPO. Retail traders were buying more complicated financial instruments like options, and eventually crypto assets.

But Robinhood's fortune has faded.

As GameStop mania subsided, the negative press lingered, and everything went into reverse for Robinhood. Last quarter the company revealed that active user numbers had started falling and that the company was making less from each user.

Those two things were a potent combination, and together contributed to a big reversal in the company's revenue, which dropped 35% last quarter, and share price being down more than 81%.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-16 10:00:01 𝚆𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝'𝚜 "𝙵𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚡" 𝙸𝚜 𝚄𝚙, 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝙱𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝙷𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎

US stock markets had one of their worst ever January, with the S&P 500 index down roughly 10% since the start of the year.

But after a remarkably solid 2021, and 2020, just how nervous are investors actually feeling today? One measure worth checking is the Volatility Index (VIX), also known as the "fear index".

VIX is a good indicator of how nervous markets are because it tracks how much investors expect stock prices to fluctuate. When the VIX is higher it means investors expect prices to move around a lot (i.e. they're more uncertain), and when it's lower it means they don't expect prices to move around much.

Now VIX is about 30, which is well above the average of 18-19 from the last 15 years, but still some way from the 80+ during the "call your family and go full panic mode" of the global financial crisis of '08-09 or March 2020.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2022-02-15 10:00:02 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Peloton continues to fall off its bike, with shares plunging more than 20% after CEO John Foley acknowledged that the company is considering layoffs and production cuts.

2) Incredible data + satire from our friends at pudding.cool, who use data science to generate fake resumes, fake headshots and fake thought leadership tweets.

3) Netflix shares have dropped 23% in early trading, wiping more than $50bn off the value of the company, as the streaming giant expects subscriber growth to substantially slow.

4) If you're as obsessed with word game Wordle as we are, you'll love the number crunching behind how to pick your first word.

5) A Tongan man has survived 27 hours at sea after the devastating Tsunami last weekend.

6) Apple TV's show depicting the rise and fall of WeWork (and its founder Adam Neumann) now has a trailer and a release date (March 18th).

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