{"id":19718,"date":"2019-03-07T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.phdmedia.com_\/lithuania\/this-week-in-digital-167\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T16:30:22","slug":"this-week-in-digital-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/this-week-in-digital-167\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>We are kicking off This Week in Digital with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/03\/01\/the-best-of-mwc-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neat summary<\/a>\u00a0of MWC 2019. (Stay tuned for our take.) Once you have digested, see below for the latest and greatest digital and tech news outside of the mobile congress\u2026<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>HEADLINES<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/feb\/27\/bbc-and-itv-team-up-to-launch-netflix-rival-britbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Britbox\u2019 is here<\/a>. What is it? A joint venture from ITV and BBC that is vying to take on Netflix.<\/li>\n<li>Tik Tok have released a series of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/02\/27\/tiktok-is-launching-a-series-of-online-safety-videos-in-its-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brand safety videos<\/a>\u00a0to educate its users.<\/li>\n<li>Medium announced it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/02\/27\/medium-twitter-paywall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">removing its paywall<\/a>, but only for those users who visit via Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>YouTube has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/youtube-disables-comments-on-videos-with-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disabled comments<\/a>\u00a0on any video involving children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>INSIGHTS<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s official \u2013 Gen Z is the most\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warc.com\/newsandopinion\/news\/an_anxious_gen_z_looks_to_brands\/41753?utm_source=daily-email-free-link&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily-email-emea-subscribers-20190301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anxious generation<\/a>\u00a0yet.<\/li>\n<li>Why in-app viewability is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.emarketer.com\/content\/why-is-mobile-app-ad-viewability-so-hard-to-measure?ecid=NL1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">difficult to measure<\/a>\u00a0(and a plague to insights).<\/li>\n<li>The benefits of no ads: why Channel 4&#8217;s All 4 has launched with an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mediatel.co.uk\/newsline\/2019\/02\/28\/channel-4-to-trial-ad-free-vod-with-relaunch-of-all-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ad-free\u00a0platform<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>COOL<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s how KFC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/news\/2019\/02\/28\/kfc-creates-social-media-drive-thru-ad-so-feed-scrollers-get-fed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-invented\u00a0the drive-thru<\/a>\u00a0(sort of).<\/li>\n<li>And they\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrum.com\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/kfc-changes-logo-claudia-sanders-day-celebrate-womens-success-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reinvented\u00a0Colonel Sanders<\/a>, too.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/02\/28\/facebook-events-in-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added the invite\u00a0feature<\/a>\u00a0into its Stories format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>DEEP READS<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Are we all missing a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingweek.com\/2019\/03\/04\/dating-apps-advertising-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">targeting trick<\/a>\u00a0when it comes to dating (and data) apps?<\/li>\n<li>Read about Facebook&#8217;s subtle but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/03\/03\/regarding-facebooks-cryptocurrency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant move<\/a>\u00a0into cryptocurrency.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2019\/02\/momo-challenge-hoax\/583825\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Momo Challenge<\/a>: attempting to unpick the fake news and\u00a0disinformation culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are kicking off This Week in Digital with a\u00a0neat summary\u00a0of MWC 2019. (Stay tuned for our take.) Once you have digested, see below for the latest and greatest digital and tech news outside of the mobile congress\u2026 HEADLINES \u2018Britbox\u2019 is here. What is it? A joint venture from ITV and BBC that is vying [&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":[496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/lithuania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}