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2021-11-29 14:00:02 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) It paid to be in first class on the Titanic. Some interesting data on who survived the Titanic disaster split by gender, age and class of ticket.

2) World leaders are leaving it down to the last minute to get a deal done at COP26 that might limit global warming to 1.5°C.

3) Swiping less. Dating app Bumble saw its paying user numbers fall 2%, sending shares down 20%.

4) Wilson, the volleyball Tom Hanks befriends in classic movie Cast Away, has sold at auction for $311k.

4) YouTube is going to begin hiding the number of dislikes on videos, in an attempt to reduce harassment on the platform. Good article here on whether the internet needs a dislike button.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-29 10:00:03 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗'𝚜 𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔, 𝙱𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝙰𝚐𝚊𝚒𝚗

We'd rather not be charting about inflation when there's so much else going on in the world, but when the data is doing something it hasn't done for more than 30 years, it's hard to ignore.

Consumer prices in the US are up more than 6.2% in the last 12 months — a reading last seen in December 1990. So if you just got a 5% pay rise, congrats, but also sorry — you're probably poorer in real terms than you used to be.

Stuff that's gone up the most
- Energy. Gasoline prices are up almost 50% on this time last year.
- Used vehicles. Prices for second-hand cars and vehicles were up 26% year-on-year.
- Food. Food as a category was up "only" 5%, but high-protein foods like meats, poultry, fish and eggs are up 12%.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-28 10:00:02 𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢'𝚜 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙶𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝙻𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚃𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑

There aren't many better times to launch a family-friendly streaming service than 4 months before everyone gets locked inside — and it showed for Disney.

After launching in November 2019, Disney+ went on to hit 100 million subscribers in record time. People were watching more content than ever, and Disney felt confident it could raise its targets. It settled on a goal of between 230 million and 260 million subscribers by the end of 2024.

The good news for Disney is that its Parks division swung back into profit, thanks to a doubling of its revenue compared to this time last year. The bad news is that the stock market didn't seem to care, with the focus presumably on the streaming slowdown, which sent Disney's shares down more than 7% yesterday.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-27 10:00:03 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚒𝚝𝚜? 𝙰 𝙻𝚞𝚡𝚞𝚛𝚢, 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝙰 𝙽𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙰 𝙼𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚗 𝙸𝙿𝙾

Rivian, a maker of "electric adventure vehicles", is officially a public company — one with an eye-watering valuation of ~$105bn after its share price rose almost 30% on its first day of trading. That makes it more valuable than Ford ($78bn), GM ($90bn) or Ferrari ($49bn).

Profit? Who needs it

It probably goes without saying, but Rivian does not make a profit — fitting the bill for most companies that go public these days according to data from professor Jay Ritter. Last year just ~20% of IPOs were for companies actually making money, a similar proportion to that found during the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s.

Revenue? Who needs it

Rivian's valuation is particularly stunning because the company has recorded less revenue in its 12-year life than most of the coffee shops in your area — in fact Rivian is yet to record any material amount of revenue.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-26 14:00:02 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) A parent on reddit has visualized every single day of sleep for the first year of their newborn daughter's life.

2) Robinhood has confirmed that 5 million customer email addresses and 2 million customer names were compromised during a hack recently.

3) Squid Game is a perfect example of the globalization of the streaming boom — and it's causing a shortage of translators.

4) US inflation just hit 6.2% year-on-year, the highest reading for 30 years.

5) NASA's return to the moon has been pushed back a year, with the space agency now expecting to land the first woman and 13th man on the lunar surface in 2025.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-26 10:00:03 𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚝𝚜 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢

The New York Times is the biggest English-language news organization in the world, counting almost 8.4 million paid subscribers as of its latest update from last week.

How it makes its money has changed — and is changing — quite dramatically.

Like other modern media entities, the NYTimes has been fundamentally changing its business model in two ways. There's the ongoing shift from print revenue to digital revenue, and an ongoing shift away from advertising into subscription revenue.

7.6 million of the NYTimes subscribers are digital-only. But that only accounts for ~40% of revenue.

That's because, even though it's dying, print is still a chunk of the core business. Now NYT has 795,000 print subscribers, a 4% drop in a time when everything has been going online. Print is dying, but it's taking its time. Maybe it'll never die? Or make a comeback like Vinyl.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-25 10:00:03 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙳𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝙲𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝙰 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝙳𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚃𝚘 𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙼𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚑

Last week the US became the latest country to go through the annual ritual of setting the clocks back one hour. That adds the US population to the millions of other people in the Northern Hemisphere that see the sun routinely setting around, or even before, 5pm.

Shorter and darker days can quite literally have an effect on all of our mental health. Seasonal Affective Disorder, which might have the most appropriate acronym ever (SAD), is a type of depression common in countries where days are shorter — and it even shows up in Google data. People search for "depression" approximately 25-30% more in the winter months relative to the summer.

Around 5% of US adults are thought to affected by SAD and it manifests itself like all other types of depression; low-energy, anxiety, over-eating, sluggishness, melancholy or apathy.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-24 10:00:03 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙸𝚗 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝 𝚂𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑: 𝙱𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝙾𝚗

With more than 87% US market share (according to StatCounter), Google has never looked likely to be toppled from its perch — but that hasn't stopped people from trying.

This week a new competitor sprung up. "You" launched announced a $20m round of investment from some notable VCs.

For a long time, the silver medal of internet search has belonged to Yahoo! or Microsoft's Bing, each of which has held onto somewhere between 5% and 10% of the search market share for the last decade.

Rivals like Ecosia, which promises to plant trees with its revenue, and DuckDuckGo, which is focused on data privacy, have gotten some decent traction recently. DuckDuckGo in particular secured 2% of the market. That's impressive, but it's been 13 years in the making, which shows how hard it is to compete against a company whose product is literally a verb.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-23 14:00:02 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙰𝚃𝙰

1) Sportico has put together a list of the 25 highest-paid athletes of all time, adjusted for inflation. There are 6 golfers in the top 25, but it's Michael Jordan at the very top, thanks to more than $2bn in earnings.

2) Australia is in the middle of an "avocado glut", as bumper crop yields and limited demand have seen prices for avocados fall up to 80% in some places. Millennials should now expect to get on the property ladder with ease.

3) An experimental COVID pill created by Pfizer reportedly cuts the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% in vulnerable adults.

4) The US economy added 531k jobs in October, ahead of expectations for gains of 450k.

5) Travel is back baby. Airbnb reported 67% revenue growth year-on-year, with 80 million nights or experiences booked on its platform in its latest quarter.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment

2021-11-23 10:00:03 𝙳𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚁𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 & 𝚆𝚎𝚋 𝙷𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸𝚜 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝙱𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜

If you've ever set up a website, you'll know that buying a domain name can be a confusing (and sometimes expensive) experience.

You'll also have probably come across GoDaddy — the biggest domain name registrar in the world.

Domain names are actually registered and controlled by a non-profit organization called ICANN. GoDaddy's business, and that of other domain name registrars, is registering your domain with ICANN and then helping you actually host your site. GoDaddy revealed it was on track to do almost $3.8bn in revenue this year.

There aren't many sensible sounding ".com" names left because of "domain parking". Snapping up available domains has become a whole market in itself - and there have been some big sales. Elon Musk coughed up $11m for "Tesla[dot]com". Toys 'R' Us spent $5.1m on "Toys[dot]com", and in 2019 "Voice[dot]com" went for a record $30m.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚛 | 𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 Open / Comment