TREND REPORTS
(PDF) BCG - Decoding Global Talent
[Consumer]
2019/05/16 08:34
This report is the latest in the Decoding Global Talent series about workforce changes and skills of the future.At a time when companies find themselves badly in need of people with expert digital skills, these same people are more willing than those without digital expertise to move to another country to gain work experience or better their careers. This makes for a talent pool that is either...
Snapchat’s Gender Swap AR Face Filter Is A Big Hit
[Product]
2019/05/16 08:34
Snapchat unleashed their new AR gender swap face filter over the weekend, and the internet has been thrown into a tizzy as users reimagine themselves, their friends—pretty much any image of a face they can get their hands on—as the opposite sex.In some cases, the AR filter—available now in your face filter carousal—has been giving users some surprising results, many of which so realistic it...
Unicorn Hunters : These Investors Have Backed The Most Billion-Dollar Companies
[Investing]
2019/05/16 08:33
Tiger Global Management has the highest number of unicorn portfolio companies, while SV Angel has made the most early-stage investments in $1B+ companies.[click to enlarge]There are 344 private unicorn companies globally valued at $1B+ as of 5/5/2019 — all featured on CB Insights’ real-time global unicorn tracker.Over the years, a total of 2,018 disclosed investors have backed those unicorns....
Meet the World’s Most Bio-Tracked Man
[Tech]
2019/05/16 08:33
Scientist Michael Snyder tracked his own basic measurements for years. Now he’s released a study of over 100 people using similar data to make lifesaving discoveries about heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.Michael Snyder might be the most bio-tracked man in the world. He’s tested 14 of his “-omes,” such as the standard genome and microbiome as well as the less-well-known metabolome, trans...
Target Now Carries a Non-Toxic Skincare Line Built on the Insights of 16 Million Women
[Product]
2019/05/16 08:32
The new brand comes from Clique Brands, the company behind women’s lifestyle blog Who What Wear, which recently spun off a fashion label also sold at Target. Last year, Clique announced it would begin incubating new startups through a holding company called Offspring, and Versed is the first fruit of this effort.If you asked 16 million women what they wanted out of their eye creams and face wa...
China's Mobile Payment Adoption Beats All Others
[Consumer]
2019/05/16 08:32
More than half a billion people in China will be paying with their phones in brick-and-mortar shops, cafes and restaurants this year, according to the Statista Digital Market Outlook. That equals a penetration rate of more than 35 percent, the highest in the world.China’s booming payment apps market is dominated by big players Alipay and WeChat Pay which have been adopted widely by shopkeepers...
What If Google's Services Could Revolutionize Business Conference Calls ?
[Design]
2019/05/16 08:32
Most people know Google to be an extremely popular customer-facing company, but a large part of Google’s empire lies in its enterprise solutions. From Google’s productivity tools to its business suite that unlocks the power of the drive, the email dashboard, calendar/organizer, all to streamline your business and your meetings, Google’s services play a very integral role in fostering collabo...
The Bubble Tea Cup Gets Reimagined As Eco-Friendly, No Longer Needing Straws
[Design]
2019/05/16 08:32
Boba, a national treasure of Taiwan, has—for lack of a better word—bubbled over to the rest of the globe. However, the banning of plastic straws in several parts of the world has bubble tea fans feeling guilty over something besides calories. Mickey Wu and Fang Shih, two industrial designers from Taipei, Taiwan, set out to reimagine the bubble tea cup such that it would no longer require a la...
(PDF) IAB - Video Advertising Spend Report 2019
[Business]
2019/05/15 08:41
Advertisers report that they expect, on average, to spend $18M in 2019 in digital video—nearly 25% over last year. We are seeing this growth occur across all categories—with Media and Entertainment reported up +75%, and Fashion and Apparel up +45%, since 2018.NewFronts are a prominent driver of this growth. According to this report, 84 percent of advertisers attending reported that the event...
