{"id":4187,"date":"2021-02-10T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T07:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:28:02","slug":"digital-monetization-update-feb-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/digital-monetization-update-feb-10-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Monetization Update \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Feb 10, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>1. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/shopify-expands-its-checkout-system-to-facebook-and-instagram-11612879201?reflink=share_mobilewebshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Shopify Expands Its Checkout System To Facebook And Instagram (WSJ)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Shopify Inc., a commerce platform for businesses, is bringing its checkout and payment processing system, Shop Pay, to Facebook and Instagram enabling customers to complete purchases from within these social platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>2. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/s22.q4cdn.com\/826641620\/files\/doc_financials\/2020\/q4\/FINAL-Q4%2720-TWTR-Shareholder-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Twitter Reports Q4 Revenue Of $1.29B, Up 28% YoY (Investor Relations)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Twitter reported their Q4 revenue to be way better than expected across all major products and geographies in the financial year. The fourth quarter of the social media platform had revenue of $1.29 billion, up 28% year over year. Moreover, the profit also increased with GAAP operating income of $252 million and GAAP operating margin of 20%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>3. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/netflixs-winning-formula-cutting-ad-spending-without-hurting-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Netflix Cut Ad Spending From $1.88B To $1.45B Globally In 2020 (The Information)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Netflix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance was impressive last year as it added subscribers even after cutting on their advertising spends. According to Pathmatics, Netflix cuts its US ad spending on Facebook by more than half last year, from $48 million to $21.6 million. The streaming giant also slashed spending on advertising from $1.88 billion to $1.45billion globally in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>4. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adexchanger.com\/tv-2\/fox-betting-big-on-tubi-becoming-a-billion-dollar-avod-business\/#more-150947\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">Fox Aims To Make Tubi The Platform Of Choice For Viewers And Digital Advertisers (AdExchanger)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#000000\"> Fox Corporation disclosed its plans to invest aggressively on Tubi to make it the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153AVOD platform of choice for viewers and digital advertisers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from $440 million last year to a billion-dollar AVOD business in just a few years, according to its CEO Lachlan Murdoch on the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Q2 earnings call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>5. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/360409\/wfa-report-finds-transformation-hampered-by-attitu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">WFA Report Finds Transformation Hampered By Attitudes, Corporate Cultures (MediaPost)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">According to WFA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new study on digital marketing transformation with Dentsu, 37% of multinational companies are just beginning their journey on digital transformation, while another 30% are progressing well. Only 22% are well advanced in this process. Factors like attitudes, corporate cultures, and ways of working are hindering the transformation process, as mentioned in the WFA report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>6. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/2\/9\/22274332\/instagram-algorithm-tiktok-watermark-recommendation-software-best-practices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\">No-More Recycled Tik Tok Videos On Instagram (The Verge)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Instagram issued new guidelines to creators not to post recycled TikToks to Reels as it is making changes to an algorithm that would not accept videos with TikTok\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s watermark. It has also issued new best practices on its creators account for Instagram users detailing tips on how to make content that is likely to be seen and promoted well on its platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>7. <\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/spotify-live-lyrics-united-states-test-ios-android-140045159.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#006325\"> Spotify Confirms Testing Its Live Lyrics Feature In US (Engadget)<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Spotify is ready to help its audience with impromptu singalongs. The company has started testing a new feature that displays lyrics synced with music in the United States. However, currently, only a subset of users will actually be able to use this feature. The whole point of this exercise is to comprehend the demand for lyrics in Spotify in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopify Expands Its Checkout System To Facebook And Instagram, Netflix Cuts Ad Spending From $1.88B To $1.45B Globally In 2020, 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-4187","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\/4187","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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}