{"id":19755,"date":"2019-06-03T16:48:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.phdmedia.com_\/argentina\/this-week-in-digital-175\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:38:36","slug":"this-week-in-digital-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/this-week-in-digital-175\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>It\u2019s a momentous time for us all as we bid farewell to two noughties behemoths:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/31\/goodbye-blackberry-messenger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blackberry Messenger<\/a> (BBM) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-finally-kills-off-itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple iTunes<\/a>\u00a0on Mac. Thanks for the memories.<\/h5>\n<h5>HEADLINES<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon are now dipping into ad serving and dynamic content optimisation with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/31\/amazon-acquires-sizmek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquisition of Sizmek<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon are also opening\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-britain-amazon-shops\/amazon-brings-online-sellers-to-uk-high-street-in-pop-up-stores-idUKKCN1T30W7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pop-up stores<\/a>, bringing 100 small online businesses to UK high street.<\/li>\n<li>Pok\u00e9mon have announced they are developing a new app\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/pokemon-sleep-is-pokemon-go-but-for-bedtime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pok\u00e9mon Sleep\u00a0<\/a>which will track a user\u2019s time sleeping and bring a gameplay experience unlike any other.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/03\/twitter-bags-deep-learning-talent-behind-london-startup-fabula-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquires Fabula<\/a>, a London start-up AI company.<\/li>\n<li>Apple released iOS 13 yesterday.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/ios-13-beta-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is a wrap-up<\/a>\u00a0of all the new, shiny things we can expect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>INSIGHTS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>OfCom have published a fascinating series of reports, including:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/research-and-data\/internet-and-on-demand-research\/online-nation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online Nation<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a look at peoples\u2019 internet usage, how they are served by its providers and platforms and their attitudes to and experiences of it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/research-and-data\/media-literacy-research\/adults\/adults-media-use-and-attitudes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adults\u2019 media use and attitudes report 2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 provides research that looks at media use, attitudes and understanding, and how these change over time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/research-and-data\/internet-and-on-demand-research\/internet-use-and-attitudes\/internet-users-experience-of-harm-online-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Internet users\u2019 experience of harm online report 2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 to quantify concerns about, reported experiences of and potential sources of online harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/emarketer-reduces-us-time-spent-estimates-for-facebook-and-snapchat?ecid=NL1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eMarketer reduces estimated times<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook and Instagram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>COOL<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Evian\u2019s\u00a0new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/creativity\/work\/evian-flip-it-good\/2172896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlipItForGood\u00a0campaign<\/a>\u00a0brings back the viral bottle flip recycling challenge.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/05\/28\/move-over-ready-player-one-the-future-of-ar-might-be-in-furniture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">future of AR<\/a>\u00a0might be in furniture, moving away from its gamer roots to helping people sell their homes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/creativity\/ikea-turned-the-living-rooms-from-simpsons-stranger-things-and-friends-into-perfect-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IKEA recreates<\/a>\u00a0living rooms from The Simpsons, Stranger Things and Friends.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campaignlive.co.uk\/article\/lucozade-rewrites-three-lions-support-england-womens-team\/1585834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucozade rewrites<\/a>\u00a0\u2018Three Lions\u2019 in support of the Lionesses this Summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>DEEP READS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Metadata is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/5\/29\/18531476\/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">biggest challenge<\/a>\u00a0behind issues in the music industry.<\/li>\n<li>What is the deal with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/article\/what-is-yolo-app-snapchat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yolo<\/a>, the new teen-favourite app storming the charts?<\/li>\n<li>Are we seeing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2019\/5\/28\/the-end-of-mobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end of mobile<\/a>\u00a0growth?<\/li>\n<li>Apple has released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/ios\/app-store\/principles-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">App Store principles<\/a>\u00a0saying it is not a competition.<\/li>\n<li>Is the world choking on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/january-february-march-2019\/the-world-is-choking-on-digital-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital pollution<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a momentous time for us all as we bid farewell to two noughties behemoths:\u00a0Blackberry Messenger (BBM) and\u00a0Apple iTunes\u00a0on Mac. Thanks for the memories. HEADLINES Amazon are now dipping into ad serving and dynamic content optimisation with the\u00a0acquisition of Sizmek. Amazon are also opening\u00a0pop-up stores, bringing 100 small online businesses to UK high street. Pok\u00e9mon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/argentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}