By Tim Pritchard, Executive Director, Joint Head of CREATE
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of FWD.
- Jeff Bezos has announced he will step down as CEO later this year, does this mark the end of era of the founder-CEO?
- TikTok readies for a significant eCommerce expansion
- Google has scaled back it’s in-house game development capability, marking a change in strategy and push to third party development
- Tesla plan to accept bitcoin payments
- Online sales tax reportedly being explored by the UK Government
- 8 viral moments that defined the Super Bowl and a roundup of all of the ads.
Highlights include, Reddit’s 5 second spot, Ocean Spray’s ‘doggface’ ad and The Weeknd getting lost in his own set - Know your SoCs from your SaaS with the Nasdaq tech trends report
- The Great Unbundling – Benedict Evans 2021 view of global eCommerce
- How to burn a million $… of VC money? @Millions is an online lottery on Twitter
- TikTok partners with Quizlet to make learning fun
- 3D audio is the next big podcasting trend
- Behind the flywheel, the ‘relentless Jeff Bezos’ a great retrospective on Amazon and its founder
- How Black communities have shaped the internet