Amazing! The inaugural John Greene Mentorship Award goes to my #avtweeps bff, @thesmoothfactor! She is a mentor to so many of us. Thank you, Alesia, for all you give to our community and our industry fam!
#BLC2024
Life is a series of tradeoffs, and greater results usually require greater tradeoffs.
The question is not, “Do you want to be great at this?”
The question is, “What are you willing to give up in order to be great at this?”
#AVNews: Rants & rAVes — Episode 1296: Here’s an Exclusive Interview with Xyte CEO Omer Brookstein on Its $30M Funding
@xyte_io https://t.co/AUlJTvaLwu #AVtweeps
Learn how @xyte_io will introduce a new application for its ecosystem, Xyte Connect, at @ISE_Show 2024 in this episode of Rants and rAVes. Xyte VP of Sales Andrew Gross shares the details with @gkayye. Watch here: https://t.co/jxvr0twaQP
Find Xyte at stand/booth 5J620 at the show. #sponsored #ISE2024 #AVtweeps
Stop letting your potential go to waste because you don’t feel confident or ready enough. People with half your talent are making serious waves while you’re still waiting to feel ready. 🙌🔥🤘#TuesdayMotivaton
Congrats to @xyte_io on raising $30M! 🎉 Xyte’s platform empowers hardware manufacturers to transform their connected devices into #hardware, software, and service solutions. Read more in Stephanie Cope and @RoiBarKat’s blog: https://t.co/MigV1vZPbg
We’re thrilled to announce our $30 Million Series A!🎉🎊
Led by @intelcapital, this reinforces our mission to lay the foundations for manufacturers to move to as-a-Service business models.
Thanks to our amazing team, customers, partners and investors!
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Every year that Spotify does wrapped all I can really think about is that a Black girl intern created the entire concept. So when you speak on what brilliant Marketing it is, don’t leave that part out.
social media updates you *NEED* to know:
🫠 LinkedIn is REMOVING any previously posted carousel posts from the platform next month (your PDF carousels are safe)
🥳 Instagram is rolling out the ability to preview what your post will look like in your grid
👀 Instagram is allegedly working on the LAUNCH of Threads in Europe
🦾 Elon Musk has launched Grok, an AI chatbot for X Premium+ subscribers
🧪 Meta has launched new tools for Reels creators, including A/B testing options where they can compare up to FOUR versions of each Reel with different captions/thumbnails
From there, the top performer will be shown to more users outside of that initial test pool.
🤖 YouTube is testing generative AI features, including comment summaries and a video chatbot
🥹 LinkedIn is removing all profile videos from the platform
🗣️ Instagram is working on the ability to reply to Notes with voice messages, GIFs, photo, video & stickers
📲 YouTube channels are getting their own TikTok-style For You feeds
🫶 Instagram is working on the ability to archive Stories while they’re still active
⌚️ X, aka Twitter, has launched timestamp links for videos
👋 TikTok is KILLING its Creator Fund, and replacing it with its new Creativity Programme
🤓 Instagram is testing a new feature that lets you turn off read receipts in DMs
🎙️ YouTube Music is rolling out the ability to add podcasts via RSS
💬 Instagram is rolling out the ability to share comments in Stories
💸 Telegram has launched a giveaways feature in Channels
👯♀️ X, aka Twitter, subscribers can DM the Premium account for support
🛍️ Google is rolling out new features to help businesses “stand out this holiday season” including the ability for merchants to add a small business attribute on Search and Google Maps
and that’s all for now folks! see ya’ll next week 💜👋
@HowdyitsLex A bottle of water is worth 25 cents at a grocery store, $2 at a gas station, $4 in an airport and $7 at a Taylor Swift concert. Same water. The only thing that changed was its value. Be somewhere where people value you like you value yourself.