By Tim Pritchard, Executive Director, Joint Head of CREATE
Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of MG OMD FWD.
- Apple looks to build on its privacy with further privacy features planned for iOS15 alongside updates to Facetime, Apple Wallet and Health
- Twitter has launched Blue, a subscription service featuring ‘undo tweet’ and ‘reader mode’
- Pinterest takes a step closer to eCommerce with Shopping Lists
- Instagram extends Reels paid advertising options
- Facebook has launched multi peer AR for video calls
- Etsy has bought Gen Z favoured retail platform Depop
- TikTok has unveiled a suite of initiatives and creative tools for Pride Month
- The Chinese eCommerce company that silently overtook Alibaba
- Following its sale we explore ‘how the Depop generation thinks’?
- Chipotle used Discord, gaming forum/platform for a recruitment drive
- 21 Instagram creators under 21 from across music, sport, art, fashion and makeup
- Highlighting period poverty in India with an impactful Instagram Filter
- A pipe-smoking alien is the digital NFT Mona Lisa
- Cereal vending machines anyone?
- Facebook’s 28 page report on the future of AR/VR
- Twitch’s Rockonomics – how music will still be a big part of Twitch when live music returns
- How will people interact with one another in the social channels of the future?