Things of note for the week ending March 3rd, 2017.
1. FACEBOOK VIDEO FORMATS – A ‘HANDY’ GUIDE
In its ongoing attempt to ensure that all its competitors’ features are available across all its apps and services, Facebook is launching vertical video (announced on its blog – you may’ve missed it among the noise re: autoplay ads w/sound on).
Anyway, the point is: Facebook video requirements are changing. And to help, it created this… er… handy reference guide.
Right click.
Save.
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2. MOAR VR STUFF
I met Sol Rogers shortly after I saw him speak at the inaugural ONE QUESTION conference (tickets for the second one are available now). Armed with an infectious enthusiasm and a brain to match, Rogers’ just happens to be founder and CEO of REWIND, a company specialising in VR experiences.
Here he is, writing for Little Black Book, asking the question: ‘Entertainment or Empathy – What do people really want from VR?‘. Minor correction to Sol’s piece, Samsung shipped 4.51m Gear VRs. I doubt very much they sold them all (many were given away as freebies with the latest devices / as an apology for the Note 7 kaboomzle problem).
I remain bullish on the future success of VR. Yes, we’re heading out of the peak of the hype cycle but I doubt the trough of disillusionment will be as deep as many predict.
As ever: we will see.
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3. OI. YOU. IMPOSTER. READ THIS.Â
Did you know that approximately 70 percent of us will experience a period of self-doubt at least once in our lives.
If you’re struggling to validate why you are where you are, worry not – here are five ways to help move past it.
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4. OPEN STRATEGY
The Open Strategy newsletter is excellent.
This post rounds up their most read articles over the past 12mths and covers everything from content strategy to MILLENNIALS (and all the guff in between), it really is an excellent resource for some interesting and challenging reading.
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5. DISNEY X MAKER = ?
If you’ve been paying attention, Disney-owned YouTube-talent-owners known as MAKER has been scaling back its operations to focus on less ‘stars’ and land with more impact.
Digiday has its own write-up. It makes for hella interesting reading.
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Bonuses this week are as follows:
- Big Red on the future of connectivity.
- The greatest thing on American Gladiators ever.
- The Atlantic Timeline. Neat.
- How to keep your messages secure. Teen Vogue, smashing it again.
- My favourite photo of my place of employment to date.
Until next week.
Stay cool.