If you need respite from last week’s social media Can(nes)tics, or the new World Cup rules have you bewildered, take a break with the latest weekly digital round-up…
HEADLINES
- Instagram is officially a broadcast video channel
- YouTube promptly announces channel memberships and premieres
- WhatsApp is trialling its payments feature with 1m users in India
INSIGHTS
- Facebook wants to tell you all the time you’re wasting…on Facebook
- The future of music and the singles chart is changing
- Further evaluation of what the trends were at Cannes Lions (not that you really need it)
COOL
- Watch how the Weather Channel is creating a mixed reality to liven up its weather reports
- HQ Trivia attempt World Cup half-time quiz ‘special rounds’ to increase their audience, while Facebook want more gameshows of their own
- Why AutoTrader cared more than most about the state of the Panama defence
DEEP READS
- Introducing Ping, and how it (and Shopify) could solve a cross-platform CRM need
- Introducing Crown, and whether it stacks up against existing dating app behemoths
- Just how big is voice-activated search for purchases