{"id":19609,"date":"2019-01-10T16:01:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.phdmedia.com_\/nicaragua\/this-week-in-digital-159\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:01:57","slug":"this-week-in-digital-159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/this-week-in-digital-159\/?lang=es","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Digital in 2019. This week we re-cap on news from CES 2019,\u00a0how many Instagram users\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/27\/instagram-tap-through-posts-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">freaked out<\/a>\u00a0over the accidental feature test that was rolled out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-11\/verizon-writes-down-4-6-billion-of-value-of-aol-yahoo-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verizon&#8217;s impact<\/a> on the value of Oath, and much more. Read on for your fill on all things digital newsworthy.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong>HEADLINES<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Verizon admitted defeat with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-11\/verizon-writes-down-4-6-billion-of-value-of-aol-yahoo-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AOL and Yahoo value reduction<\/a>\u00a0due to the competition for digital advertising revenue.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/twitters-latest-change-to-the-timeline-is-just-screwing-1831180474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new feature on Twitter<\/a> called\u00a0\u2018Sparkle\u2019\u00a0gives users control over what appears on their newsfeed.<\/li>\n<li>Over the festive break\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/instagram-update-new-scroll-left-right-sideways-feature-explained-a8700786.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram accidentally published<\/a>\u00a0a new feature test where users horizontally scroll and click through the newsfeed (much like Instagram Stories) and\u00a0the internet\u00a0went into <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/27\/instagram-tap-through-posts-bug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meltdown mode<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>INSIGHTS<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Comscore and Nielsen are racing to become the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business2community.com\/social-media\/2019-social-media-trends-statistics-02156179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one true cross-platform<\/a>\u00a0measurement provider in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>The best of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/best-digiday-confessions-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digiday Confessions<\/a>\u00a0in 2018, with anonymous thoughts from the marketing industry.<\/li>\n<li>2019 Social Media Trends and Statistics: Stories are going to take over, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business2community.com\/social-media\/2019-social-media-trends-statistics-02156179\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this trend watch<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>COOL<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook is working on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-21\/facebook-is-said-to-develop-stablecoin-for-whatsapp-transfers\">strategy for\u00a0crypto-currency<\/a>\u00a0in WhatsApp. A team has reportedly been working on exploring blockchain technologies since 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Samsung revealed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/technology-46782199\/ces-2019-samsung-s-new-shape-shifting-tvs-revealed\">shape-shifting TV at CES<\/a>. The 75\u201d TV is made of modular micro-LED panels and it will mark the first time Samsung has been able to create such an advanced TV in a size small enough to fit into homes.<\/li>\n<li>Instagram is incorporating music into the platform even more with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialmediatoday.com\/news\/instagram-adds-new-music-sharing-option-question-stickers-to-live\/544676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Stories option<\/a> which allows friends to suggest songs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>DEEP READS<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/retail.emarketer.com\/article\/five-charts-state-of-retail-tech\/5c2d3ab3b979f10b7474d7d2?ecid=NL1014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five charts<\/a>\u00a0on eMarketer show the state of Retail Tech. According to Gartner, worldwide retail tech spending will increase 3.6% to $203.6 billion in 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Is Facebook taking on Tinder? Take a look inside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/55411182-0527-11e9-99df-6183d3002ee1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook\u2019s dating experiment<\/a>\u00a0in Colombia.<\/li>\n<li>How\u00a0social media\u00a0can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcthree\/article\/2817e670-56b7-4990-bb7f-39d7e4eaee1e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make people feel isolated<\/a> during Christmas.<\/li>\n<li>A look into how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/best-digiday-confessions-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marketing for plant-based milk brands<\/a>\u00a0has seen an increase over the years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Digital in 2019. This week we re-cap on news from CES 2019,\u00a0how many Instagram users\u00a0freaked out\u00a0over the accidental feature test that was rolled out, Verizon&#8217;s impact on the value of Oath, and much more. Read on for your fill on all things digital newsworthy. HEADLINES Verizon [&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-19609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-views"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phdmedia.com\/nicaragua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}