{"id":4160,"date":"2021-01-28T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/?p=4160"},"modified":"2021-01-29T09:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T09:40:19","slug":"digital-monetization-update-jan-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/digital-monetization-update-jan-28-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Monetization Update \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jan 28, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>1. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/27\/online-trading-app-usage-surges-as-redditors-take-on-wall-street.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Redditors Take On Wall Street Resulting In A Boom For Online Trading Platforms (CNBC)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Redditors taking on Wall Street appear to have created a windfall for share trading apps. The Reddit community r\/wallstreetbees, which has 2.8 million members, encouraged members to buy stocks of historically unloved companies like GameStop and Blackberry. As a result, prices of these stocks have surged, and trading apps like Robinhood and WeBull have climbed in US app rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>2. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/markets\/gamestop-frenzy-reaches-biden-and-powell-as-hedge-funds-squeezed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">GameStop&#8217;s Wild Surge Raises Awkward Questions For President Biden (Bloomberg)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The saga that is GameStop Corp. has turned into nothing short of a national sensation, reaching the doorsteps of both new President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Each found themselves on the receiving end of awkward questions about their takes on a business that sells five used video games for $10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>3. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/27\/apple-app-tracking-transparency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Tracking Restrictions Pushed Back To Spring 2021 (TechCrunch)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apple has delayed tracking restrictions on its iOS 14 update until 2021, saying it wanted to give developers more time to make the necessary changes. The App Tracking Transparency feature moves from the old method where you had to opt-out of sharing your Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA) to an opt-in model.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>4. <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-apple-results\/apple-sees-revenue-growth-accelerating-after-setting-record-for-iphone-sales-china-strength-idUSKBN29W2TD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Apple Sees Revenue Growth Accelerating After Setting Record For iPhone Sales, China Strength (Reuters)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apple Inc. on Wednesday reported holiday quarter sales and profits that beat Wall Street expectations, as new 5G iPhones helped push handset revenue to a new record and sparked a 57% rise in China sales. Apple&#8217;s revenue for the quarter ended on December 26 rose 21% to $111.44 billion.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>5. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/01\/27\/facebook-q4-earnings-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Facebook Q4 Results Soar, Predicts Obstacles In Ad Targeting And Revenue In The Prelude To An Uncertain 2021 (TechCrunch)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Facebook predicted uncertainty for 2021 and said its revenue in the latter half of the year could face significant pressure. Facebook is currently facing challenges in targeting advertisements, including Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming launch of privacy protections which could limit Facebook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ability to target ads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>6. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adexchanger.com\/platforms\/wonder-woman-1984-helped-double-hbo-max-activations-but-warner-revenues-drop\/#more-149738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> AT&amp;T Q4: HBO Max Activations Double To 17.2 Million, Warner Bros. Revenue Declines 21% (AdExchanger)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">AT&amp;T said the release of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wonder Woman 1984\u00e2\u20ac\u009d helped HBO Max double activations \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to 17.2 million \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in the fourth quarter of 2020. But a 21% decline in Warner Bros. revenue for Q4, as well as other COVID-related impacts, pulled the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revenue down for the quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>7. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onezero.medium.com\/nextdoor-is-quietly-replacing-the-small-town-paper-ca583962c15a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Facebook &amp; Twitter Face Scrutiny While NextDoor Is Set To Replace The Local Papers (OneZero)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Facebook and Twitter are getting the scrutiny while Nextdoor, a social network, is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time. Though it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t disclosed how many people use its service, a Chicago city official told OneZero that Nextdoor has 277,760 users within the city, accounting for about 17% of all Chicago households, by the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calculation. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop&#8217;s Wild Surge Raises, Redditors Take On Wall Street, Apple Sees Revenue Growth from China Sales, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4160\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}