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The Future. BuzzFeed is in final talks to sell Complex Media to social shopping platform NTWRK at a fraction of the price it bought it for just a few years ago. The discount deal isn’t a knock on Complex (which is a rare profitable digital media brand) but instead shows the pressure BuzzFeed is under […]
The Future. BeReal’s moment seems to already be over, with usage cratering 61% this year (which BeReal disputes). BeReal was what many expected it to be: a trend. And that’s because social media is really good at three things: connection, entertainment, and stalking. BeReal’s sidestepping of those three tenants may have built an expiration date […]
The Future. Software company Automattic has acquired message-aggregation platform Texts, making messaging a central part of its business. With support for DMs becoming the hottest new trend in social media, Automattic could provide both an easy solution for managing various apps and a potential way to actually monetize private communication. Universal messageThe company behind WordPress, […]
Big Tech takes a big hit
The Future. Dude Perfect — the trick shot group comprised of Tyler Toney, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and twins Cory and Coby Cotton — has launched a streaming service for their content called (you guessed it) Dude Perfect. If the economics no longer make sense to house content exclusively on YouTube, watch as more popular […]
The Future. X — at least in the Twitter days — was once the go-to platform for breaking news from a diverse roster of reputable sources and on-the-ground journalists. But as the fallout from Hamas’ attack on Israel spilled over into the weekend, many noticed the platform had become inundated with misinformation and fake media. […]
The Future. X is throwing a bunch of new features against the wall in hopes of boosting lost ad revenue (historically the big moneymaker for the company) and increasing engagement directly on the platform (the sign of a good user experience). But potentially without enough cash to fund and scale the projects, owner Elon Musk, […]
The Future. Tom Hanks and Gayle King were both recently the victims of deepfake scams over the weekend. It was only a matter of time before the celebrity deepfakes came out in full force. But with SAG-AFTRA just getting back to the negotiating table with the AMPTP — where tackling the abuses of AI is […]
Andorra has an influencer problem
The Future. While social media of the past decade has evolved from peer-to-peer social networking to influencer-driven entertainment, the next decade of evolution may be all about peer-to-AI social networking. Best-case scenario, the rise of chatbots will give us entertaining personalities that can answer anything on the fly… but they may also run the risk […]