In the 1930s, people said television would kill broadcast radio. Similar predictions of radio’s demise involved the Walkman, MTV, the iPod, and online streaming.
Video never killed the radio star, as The Buggles famously claimed 40 years ago. We’re not sure, however, whatever happened to music videos.
Did you know the number of adults in the US who listen to podcasts has increased more than 40 percent in just the past three years, according to Nielsen?
More than one-quarter of podcast listeners have said they’re interested in registering for a health-related podcast, making it the eighth most popular format, ahead of business, arts, and sports.
While influencer marketing is closely tied to social media and the word “influencer” was just added to the dictionary in 2019, the concept has been around for much longer. Some say the first collaboration between a brand and an influencer occurred in 1760 when Wedgwood made a tea set for the wife of King George III and marketed the product as having “royal approval.”
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies originally emerged because they could be used as digital currency for financial transactions verified by algorithms, not banks. What later grabbed the attention of the business community, however, was blockchain, the technology used to process and record those transactions.