Today, these problems are solved by machine learning algorithms run by centralized companies for the benefit of advertisers. My thesis is that what we require is, instead, a content market where we all collaborate to curate content and be rewarded for our good taste and our creativity.
According to @mosseri IG usage follows this pattern.
1. DMs
2. Stories
3. Feed
With the more photos and videos being shared in the DMs than either other surface.
How could this information change your creative strategy?
very interesting datapoints on instagram. it's not that 1:1 connection doesn't happen, it's just that it no longer happens in the feed
Active users of Discord have it on all the time, even when they are not playing games. It’s a passive way to have presence with your friends. And when your friends start playing games it makes it easy to with one click go join them in the game. Bringing your actual social graph across all games. Finally, voice chat makes it possible to talk with yo... See more
1. It doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be fresh.
The toy brick was invented (and patented) by British toymaker, Hilary Fisher Page in the 1950s. But when LEGO released its own riff on the brick, they made some very important changes to ‘freshen up’ the idea for the Danish market. One of those important changes was the little tubes underneath ... See more