By Matt Taylor, Head of Digital, OmniGOV
A very merry welcome to December from FWD. Feeling festive? Make sure you read on for more seasonal wraps, annual predictions and what is putting Plymouth on the map…
- Facebook launches Facebook News to boost UK publishing
- Facebook’s Oversight board takes on first case
- Is this the return of Blackberry?
- Instagram launches ‘Giving Tuesdays’
- Amazon boasts of ‘biggest holiday season’ yet
- Spotify Wrapped, showing the trends that shaped streaming in 2020, is here
- Pandemic? Lockdown? Tiger King? What are the words that shaped 2020
- Here are the key trends of Thanksgiving from both Google and Instagram
- Plymouth is to become the epicentre for 5G and IOT (no really)
- Christmas Ads beware, there’s a new tearjerker in town
- DeepMind solves how a protein is formed which could inform drug treatments
- How Facebook is partnering with better Business Bureau to help reduce platform scams
- How Buzzfeed’s acquisition of HuffPost might be a contextual tour-de-force
- The first of many speculative social trends for 2021 have arrived