YouTube is the internet’s second largest search engine, meaning that advertisers have significant potential when it comes to reaching audiences and driving conversions. In this post, discover essential YouTube advertising statistics you need to know in 2022. YouTube Advertising Reach Statistics YouTube advertising revenues reached 7.34 Billion USD in Q2 of 2022, a 5% YoY…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s parent company Meta is heading into another political battle over the planned introduction of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in its Messenger chat platform. The UK’s home secretary, Priti Patel, makes this clear in an op-ed for Tory mouthpiece The Telegraph this week, saying it would be a “grotesque…
At right, Jonas Salk, the doctor behind the first polio vaccine, administers a shot to a kid in the in Pennsylvania in 1955. Bettmann/Getty Images With COVID, monkeypox, and West Nile virus, New York has had an onslaught of outbreaks this summer, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Polio is spreading in the…
In space, no one can hear you scream – unless you’re a supermassive black hole. NASA made this very apparent on Sunday, sharing what the agency described as the sound of a black hole, available to human ears in listenable format. And if you’re wondering how the hell does sound travel in the vacuum of…
It wouldn’t be a Game of Thrones spinoff without at least one Easter egg now, would it? With 200 years separating House of the Dragon from the show that kick-started all this, we didn’t think people would need to have seen Game of Thrones to watch the new spin-off — but maybe we weren’t entirely…
Right now there’s a lot of focus on the new iPhones that Apple is due to unveil in September, but we’re also expecting a new entry-level 10.2-inch iPad 2022 and two new iPad Pro 2022 models in the coming months – and we just got some more information on the upcoming slates. As per well-known…
At Siggraph 2022 – a tech event where researchers can show off their latest projects – I had the opportunity to try out a prototype VR headset that Meta will never release to the public. This isn’t the first time Meta has showcased its prototype headsets. Back in June, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and members…
Investigators work at the site of a suspected car bomb attack that killed Darya Dugina, daughter of the nationalist Russian ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, in the Moscow region on August 21, 2022. Investigative Committee of Russia/Handout via REUTERS The daughter of an influential Russian intellectual was killed by a car bomb, Russia said. Who is behind…
Apple is asking staff to return to the office for at least three days a week. Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images A group of staff at Apple has launched a petition to demand more flexible working arrangements. Earlier this month, the company asked staff to return to the office for at least three days a…
Welcome back, readers. Phil Rosen here — did you miss markets as much as I did? I can get antsy on weekends when the stock exchange closes, but nowadays we can check in on the 24-7 crypto market. Or, maybe more interesting to monitor is the way social media reacts to the crypto market. Beneath…