🙃 You spend how long on Netflix?? 🙃

Happy Friday People, you made it! Last week was the most successful newsletter to date, maybe it’s the Ari Starbucks collab or maybe Friday morning coffee goes down well with a slice of your must read newsletter. So thank you all.

🤩 Your Five For Friday 🤩

1. 🚇Why not all London underground stations have WiFi 

2. 🙃The average Netflix subscriber spends 2 hours (yes two) per day on Netflix

3. 💯Pearl Jam are going to pump in $10.8m to combat homelessness

4. 🐳A new type of Orca (Killer) whale has been filmed in the wild

5. 💰Here is how large tech firms influence politics especially in 🇺🇸

❤️ Marketing / Growth / Advertising ❤️

No need to click news:Facebook have tweaked their ad guidelines for more modern metrics, alongside updating watch parties concentrating on live TV hint…sports, also including trivia (after a look under the hood of HQ Trivia last year), Facebook’s platform outage caused numerous problems - especially for themselves as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook users took to the web to complain. Last night the person who was pencilled to take over if Zuck ever stepped down Chris Cox left, as did Head of WhatsApp. Twitter have got into podcast with characters count and testing a number of new tools and beta apps

• If you’re in marketing and don’t know what discord is - go read this now ⚠️

• Apparently Netflix has a brand problem 👀

• Stat filled deck around Social Media Usage, Podcast listeners and Facebook’s problem 

• One of the most popular articles this week is what Google actually knows about you

• India has a bot problem costing over $1b last year alone

• Absolute Ninja: $1m to promote a game 💵

• SEO Update: Google released a core algorithm update this week - check your rankings, apparently it was a biggie

• The creator of the web has a #web30 campaign for its 30th birthday. Dust of those AOL, blueyonder and excite email addresses

• Wish.com thanks to marketing efforts could challenge amazon

• The Facebook outage led to 3million sign ups to messaging app Telegram (FWIW Telegram is very similar to WhatsApp but is not fully encrypted) the other fun fact is when Facebook goes down, so does the economy 

💵 Business 💵

• You probably won’t be surprised Tumblr lost 100m visits per month since upping their adult filter

• Virtual restaurants aka cloud kitchen are becoming all the rage, especially for Uber Eats

• Facebook are now being investigated in the US for their data deals, this is a huge step forward

• Rap beef? Spotify have gone after apple in court for their 30% tax

• Court documents shows Larry Page’s (Google Founder) power struggle and worry about losing his power in Google

• Google also paid a former employee $45m to leave after sexual harassment compliants and the godfather of Android $150m stock award behind the boards back

• Eat Sleep Work Repeat is one of my favourite podcasts and features Dave Trott one of my favourite marketing/advertising people, this podcast is an absolute gem

I know what I will be watching in coming weeks:

🎁Tool of the week - I work across many time zones and it’s a nightmare trying to find out what time it is in US or Oz, so this There answers this 🎁

🚀 Product 🚀

• There is an unexpected tool kids are using Google docs; to pass notes in class, rank friends and flirt

• How Starbucks brought together marketing and product development to improve feedback

• Twitter have taken inspiration from snapchat and releasing a load of new features

• Twitter also released their twttr app so they could test threading, here is a good look at what it is like

• A crazied YouTuber drove across country to face YouTube around taking his videos down….turns out it was his wife

• Last mile transport has become all the range, find out what scooters you should use 

🤔Final Thought 🤔

Talking to many businesses and business leaders, this is tweet (from the very smart Alex Osterwalder) really does resonate, the problem most businesses face is an ability to think differently and tackle things in alternative ways rather than defaulting to no or to fat cat syndrome. Let’s challenge people to think differently, create business cases and experiment, until you do or your colleagues do it will be status quo or death by a thousand cuts.

Let me know what you think of this week’s must reads by tweeting, emailing or messaging me on LinkedIn.

Thanks - Danny Denhard