Posted on September 29, 2023 9:46 am by Shel Holtz | Economics | Content | Death Watch | Web3
In late September, dappGambl—a site that analyzes Web 3 and cryptocurrency gambling platforms—released a report that found the value of NFT digital art collections has bottomed out. The report found that these once high-flying collections were trading at a value of around $80 million in July 2023, about 3 percent of its August 2022 peak.
Not surprisingly, the report went viral, propelled in part by…
Posted on August 9, 2018 3:55 pm by Shel Holtz | Economics | Books | Channels | Media | Publishing
Ten years is a long time.
In 2008, audiences were gushing over The Dark Knight and dissing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The iPhone was only a year old and people were still in love with their Flip video cameras. MySpace was still a popular social network. Passengers carried portable DVD players onto their flights. Justin Long…
Posted on September 23, 2016 1:05 pm by Shel Holtz | Chatbots | The Workplace Experience | Economics | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Advertising | Audio | Brands | Business | Crisis Communication | Ethics | Facebook | Instant Messaging | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | Politics | PR | Social Media | Twitter
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NewsFacebook overestimated video viewing times—The average time Facebook has told advertisers people spent watching videos was seriously overestimated for the last two years. The excessive figure resulted from only counting videos seen for…
Posted on December 4, 2015 8:48 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | Economics | Content | Visual Communication | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Twitter | Writing and Editing
The Friday Wrap is back after a Thanksgiving break. I hope your Thanksgiving was as rewarding as mine (with 18 family members gathering at my home). If you’re new to the Wrap, it’s my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items…
Posted on October 16, 2015 11:46 am by Shel Holtz | Virtual and Augmented Reality | The Workplace Experience | Sharing and Collaborating | Economics | Content | Instagram | Visual Communication | Pinterest | Advertising | Brands | Business | Channels | Ethics | Facebook | Location-based Services | Marketing | Media | Mobile | Podcasting | PR | Research | Social Media | Social networks | Video
The Friday Wrap is my weekly collection of news stories, posts, studies, and reports designed to help organizational communicators stay current on the trends and technology that affect their jobs. These may be items that flew under the radar while other stories grabbed big headlines. As always, I collect material from which I select Wrap stories (as well as stories…
Posted on May 15, 2015 7:45 am by Shel Holtz | The Workplace Experience | Economics | Content | Visual Communication | Wearables | Brands | Business | Channels | Facebook | Gamification | Legal | Marketing | Media | Mobile | PR | Search | Social Media | Trust | Twitter | Video | Writing and Editing
A special note on this week’s wrap photo. That adorable newborn wrapped up in a hospital blanket? That’s my granddaughter, Madeleine Ann Holtz, born yesterday. Now, on to business: The Friday Wrap is a review of news, posts, reports, and other items appearing in the last week that will help you stay on top of the forces shaping communication in this…
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