The Weekly Widget ~2.10.20

Quick Bytes ????

Pahaha. Brilliant. ??

Can’t stop watching. So damn awkward.??

Abba comes on… ??

X Games mode. ??

The 2020 fake smile ??

How the Wii Sports song was made. ??

Things You Should Know?? 

Another acquisition? Epic Games has splashed the cash on kid-tech platform SuperAwesome.

Interesting to see if it remains as a separate entity, or if they use the tech in their games & apps.

Facebook are ditching the 28-day window, moving to 7-day post-click attribution. Here we go ??

The Insights API will continue to supply a 28-day window ‘until browser limitations go into effect’

Cool Stuff??

Data Driven. People-based. Or…you could hit everyone 15 times with a platform burst?? Sign me up.

Snapchat is after your video budgets, with their new offering feeling very 2012. Hit everyone.

Introducing the Big Tech WAP challenge…The Wise Approach to Politics. Mind out the gutter guys.

TikTok jump on the election bandwagon, to quell misinformation and encourage voting.

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OHH the shade! Google turns to comedy to explain the News Media Bargaining code in 1 minute.

Hats off, a fantastic smear campaign. Changing tact from ‘help us, the government took our lunch money’

What We’ve Learned ??

Sex Cookies sell. OnlyFans has a bad rep, but it’s not just for hanky panky.

An insightful look into an app that’s hit the jackpot during lockdown.

Another deep dive into the TikTok’s secret sauce - it’s algorithm, and I mean deep.

Long read, but fascinating how many signals it captures in order to learn & optimise.

The Nerd Corner??

Palantir has just gone public and has a tonne of hype. It’s also riddled with privacy concerns

If you thought Cambridge Analytica was bad. Read this! Speaking of. They finally leaked the data.

Noooo, anything but FarmVIlle. 2020 you monster! Sleep tight prince.

Fond memories of checking my crops once a day in my Uni library.

And Finally ???♀?

Every day at 7am a Welsh towns internet would shut off. The reason? An old TV.

Great story about an 18-month issue that was down to electrical interference.