What’s happened this week:
- Instagram now supports landscape and portrait modes for images taken outside of the app
- Apple is rumoured to be launching their own original content for Apple TV, taking on traditional broadcasters and production houses, as well as Netflix and Amazon
- AOL acquired Kanvas Labs, a mobile app company specialising in photos and messaging
What we have learned:
- Miley Cyrus and Kanye’s presidency helped the 2015 VMAs become the most tweeted about non-sporting event ever, with over 21.4m US tweets during the event
- Facebook reached a new milestone – 1bn people (so 1 in 7 people on the planet) logged onto the platform in a single day
- Although 90% of mobile time is spent in apps, a large proportion of that is looking at web content – Flurry data attempts to revaluate the app vs mobile web debate
Cool stuff:
- Hyper is an app that curates the best of short form video from around the web
- Turn any photo into an expressionistic Picasso image with this clever algorithm
- Target in the US have created a Star Wars fansite that turns all your Star Wars UGC into star constellations in a galaxy far far away…
Where to find more:
- Teens on Snapchat, women on Pinterest…research from Pew suggests most of the social stereotypes are true
- The Top 5 technologies that have changed sports
- Five interesting perspectives on why we share what we share on social?
