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FuFWD: 2018 Year In Review / #0056 2018 - in Review. News. Tech. Politics. Automation. Social Media. Web Video. Facebook. Amazon. Netflix. Winners and Losers. A look back this week on Future Forward. I’m Steve Rosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose, let’s Launch. The Year In Review: 1. News. Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business from 2018 http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/12/newsonomics-18-lessons-for-the-news-business-from-2018/ 2. Automation 19 Artificial Intelligence Technologies That Will Dominate In 2018 https://blog.adext.com/en/artificial-intelligence-technologies-2018 3. Tech and Politics. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/20/tech-companies-social-media-voter-initiatives/1592854002/ 4. Amazon vs. Netflix - Game On: Netflix vs Disney: A Year of Warfare Likely Will Escalate In 2019 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-netflixs-war-disney-will-escalate-next-year-1170646 5. Facebook https://www.techspot.com/news/77955-mark-zuckerberg-gets-roasted-guardian-year-review-video.html 6. NYC becomes a Tech Hub (amazon / google) 7. In Memoriam https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-failed-and-took-14-billion-in-venture-capital-funding-2018-10#theranos-blood-testing-technology-1

FuFWD: 2018 Year In Review / #0056 2018 - in Review. News. Tech. Politics. Automation. Social Media. Web Video. Facebook. Amazon. Netflix. Winners and Losers. A look back this week on Future Forward. I’m Steve Rosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose, let’s Launch. The Year In Review: 1. News. Newsonomics: 18 lessons for the news business […]

Today: Video Is Eating the Web. Really. Netflix is 15% of all Internet Traffic. And as YouTube’s 14th Birthday approaches, it’s feeling growing pains. Today - FutureForward unpacks Video. I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum… let’s Launch. Rundown: Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide (Study) https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-15-percent-internet-bandwidth-worldwide-study-1202963207/ YouTube? The Power and Peril of The Video Network: How YouTube’s Year-in-Review ‘Rewind’ Video Set Off a Civil War https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/technology/youtube-rewind-video.html SR YouTube removed 58 million videos between July and September this year because they broke community guidelines. More than 7.8 million of those videos were taken down because they violated community guidelines. The other 50.2 million were taken down as YouTube removed 1.67 million channels. YouTube removed 58 million videos in the latest quarter https://thehill.com/policy/technology/421106-youtube-removed-78-million-videos-in-latest-quarter Popular YouTube Streamer Promotes Channel That Publishes Anti-Semitic Content http://fortune.com/2018/12/11/pewdiepie-esemicolonr-controversy/ PewDiePie’s ties to white supremacy spell serious trouble for the future of YouTube https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries-links-to-white-supremacist-alt-right-redpill Video Future: OTT vs. Cable? Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast for First Time, FX Reports https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/number-of-streaming-shows-basic-cable-broadcast-fx-report-1203089218/ Nielsen’s Q2 Audience Benchmark Shows How Connected Devices Are Reshaping Media https://adexchanger.com/data-exchanges/nielsens-q2-audience-benchmark-shows-how-connected-devices-are-reshaping-media/ Television is still the most dominant media, but more young adults are connecting via internet https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/media/2018/12/12/cutting-cord-2018-tv-dominates-but-younger-users-connect-via-web/2276207002/ Video Trends that don’t look like TV TikTok, a Chinese Video App, Brings Fun Back to Social Media https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/technology/tiktok-a-chinese-video-app-brings-fun-back-to-social-media.html Facebook Expands ‘Watch Party’ Video Co-Viewing to Users and Pages Worldwide https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/facebook-watch-party-social-video-pages-1203037244/ Vyng Hits $7 Million After Series A Funding, To Upgrade Generic Ringtones With Viral Videos https://www.forbes.com/sites/samarmarwan/2018/12/13/vyng-hits-11-million-after-series-a-funding-to-upgrade-generic-ringtones-with-viral-videos/

Today: Video Is Eating the Web. Really. Netflix is 15% of all Internet Traffic. And as YouTube’s 14th Birthday approaches, it’s feeling growing pains. Today - FutureForward unpacks Video. I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum… let’s Launch. Rundown: Netflix Eats Up 15% of All Internet Downstream Traffic Worldwide (Study) https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/netflix-15-percent-internet-bandwidth-worldwide-study-1202963207/ YouTube? The Power and […]

The Fuse Has been lit on digital media. It’s just a matter of time before it explodes.  How big a bang? How many digital companies are beyond saving? Today - The Media Meltdown - An Future Forward Look into the abyss  SR: I’m StevenRosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose, and this is Future Forward, Let’s Launch! The Media Meltdown Mic / the story behind the story. Mic shuts down, a victim of management hubris and Facebook’s pivot to video https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/mic-layoffs.php Mic looking for investors amid cash woes https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/mic.php EVERYONE’S FOR SALE: “EVERYONE’S FOR SALE”: A GENERATION OF DIGITAL-MEDIA DARLINGS PREPARES FOR A FRIGID WINTER https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/a-generation-of-digital-media-darlings-prepares-for-a-frigid-winter Founder’s Big Idea to Revive BuzzFeed’s Fortunes? A Merger With Rivals https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/business/media/buzzfeed-jonah-peretti-mergers.html Hard Times: Left-Wing New Media Look to Mergers, Paywalls, Selling Companies https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/12/05/hard-times-left-wing-new-media-look-to-mergers-paywalls-selling-companies/ Vice Devalued: Disney Writes Off $157 Million of Its Stake in Struggling Media Company https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/disney-writes-off-vice-stake-valuation-1203024272/ REMEMBERING AOL: Verizon Confirms Oath CEO Tim Armstrong Will Leave at End of 2018 https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/oath-ceo-tim-armstrong-exiting-verizon-1202938480/ Verizon's Oath Looks To Non-Advertising Revenue https://adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/monday-12032018/ The fallout from Tumblr’s porn ban https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18129532/tumblr-nsfw-porn-ban-fallout-storystream-updates-news The Facebook / Conundrum - Andrew Anker . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5UKvhBajMA

The Fuse Has been lit on digital media. It’s just a matter of time before it explodes.  How big a bang? How many digital companies are beyond saving? Today - The Media Meltdown - An Future Forward Look into the abyss  SR: I’m StevenRosenbaum and I’m Gene DeRose, and this is Future Forward, Let’s Launch! […]

Have any spare change? Probably not - because if you’re like most of us, you’ve gone cashless. As credit cards and Apple pay turn dollars into digits - the world of money is changing. But is cashless good? What does it mean for the poor? And is it safe? Today, a special edition of Future Forward: The Future of Money.

Have any spare change? Probably not - because if you’re like most of us, you’ve gone cashless. As credit cards and Apple pay turn dollars into digits - the world of money is changing. But is cashless good? What does it mean for the poor? And is it safe? Today, a special edition of Future […]

-Has the Internet ruining our ability to read anything more than 140 characters? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf -Video is Killing Reading: Nine in 10 consumers prefer visual content over text https://www.inc.com/amy-balliett/this-1-type-of-content-will-dramatically-increase-traffic-to-your-website.html -Social media is killing reading. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/08/21/teens-social-media-study_a_23506393/ -Audio is killing reading. Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say http://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/ -Hope? Update on MEDIUM: Trying to reinvent the compact between readers and writers in the digital age. http://studyhall.xyz/blog/2018/6/12/mediums-mess-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-site-that-was-supposed-to-save-journalism

-Has the Internet ruining our ability to read anything more than 140 characters? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf -Video is Killing Reading: Nine in 10 consumers prefer visual content over text https://www.inc.com/amy-balliett/this-1-type-of-content-will-dramatically-increase-traffic-to-your-website.html -Social media is killing reading. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/08/21/teens-social-media-study_a_23506393/ -Audio is killing reading. Are Audiobooks As Good For You As Reading? Here’s What Experts Say http://time.com/5388681/audiobooks-reading-books/ -Hope? Update on MEDIUM: […]

This week - Big Tech Giants Bulk Up on New York City. Then - is Fake News Now Standard at The White House. And the changing face of urban transit. UberPool and Micro Transit. and more. That’s what we’ve got in store for this week's Future Forward, I’m Gene De Rose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum - let’s launch

This week - Big Tech Giants Bulk Up on New York City. Then - is Fake News Now Standard at The White House. And the changing face of urban transit. UberPool and Micro Transit. and more. That’s what we’ve got in store for this week's Future Forward, I’m Gene De Rose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum […]

This week - Google Employees walk out worldwide. Then, the battle between Bumble, Match and Tinder gets ugly and Apple news doubles down on Politics - and Humans. that’s Future Forward for this week I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum let’s launch - The Google Walkout - What it means: Google walkout organizer: ‘I hope I still have a career in Silicon Valley after this’ https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/google-walkout-organizer-i-hope-i-still-have-a-career-in-silicon-valley-after-this/ Google employees worldwide walk out over allegations of sexual harassment, inequality within company https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/01/google-employees-worldwide-begin-walkout-over-allegations-sexual-harassment-inequality-within-company/?utm_term=.3a8b1646593f WHY THE GOOGLE WALKOUT COULD BE A TURNING POINT FOR TECH https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/why-the-google-walkout-could-be-a-turning-point-for-tech Battles in Dating Land: Tinder and Bumble Are Seriously at War https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/style/tinder-bumble-lawsuit-explainer.html Bumble drops its $400M lawsuit against Match, but this battle isn’t over https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/02/match-says-bumble-is-dropping-its-400m-lawsuit-but-this-battle-isnt-over/ Apple News Gets Real Apple News’s Radical Approach: Humans Over Machines https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/apple-news-humans-algorithms.html Apple News will launch real-time election results section on November 6 https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/02/apple-news-will-launch-a-real-time-election-tracker-on-november-6/

This week - Google Employees walk out worldwide. Then, the battle between Bumble, Match and Tinder gets ugly and Apple news doubles down on Politics - and Humans. that’s Future Forward for this week I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum let’s launch - The Google Walkout - What it means: Google walkout organizer: ‘I […]

It’s hard to be philosophical when the world has gotten so dam real. the line between digital hate and real-world bombs and carnage is gone. This week on Future Forward, a bit less forward-looking, and a bit more about now. I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steve Rosenbaum. Here we go. This is Future Foreward