Hand Over The Phone Kid: Teens Get New Rules For Instagram

🗞️ The News You Can’t Miss This Week

🚨 Instagram’s New Rules: Parental Control is Now Mandatory for Teens
Instagram is laying down the law kid. Users under 16 will now need parental controls on their accounts. Brands targeting teens: get ready, as the rivers of under-developed pre-fontal cortex attention may well be drying up.

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⚖️ Big Social In For Big Fines in Australia’s Misinformation Crackdown
Australia is stepping up its game against misinformation, threatening hefty fines for platforms that fail to moderate harmful content. This could force social media giants to rethink their moderation policies or face multi-million-dollar penalties.

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🧠 OpenAI Just Became A Much Better Calculator
OpenAI’s latest model, o1, takes a massive step forward with enhanced reasoning capabilities, specifically in the realm of mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. So yes, your half-decent headline copywriting work is not yet obsolete.

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🤌  Choice Marketing Finds This Week

🍏 How Those Devilish Apple Peeps Manage To Upsell You Everytime
An insightful breakdown of Apple’s pricing strategy, revealing how they subtly nudge product pricing to make you spend more without realising it. Learn how these subtle tweaks to pricing can put more zeros in your account.

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🗺️ Plan, Don’t Guess: How Better Planning Leads to Killer Ads
Discover the methods to improve your advertising strategy with careful planning. A must-read for anyone looking to generate fresh and impactful ideas through structured advertising processes.

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💥 6 Steps To A Criminally Good Content Strategy
Crafting a killer content strategy doesn’t need to be a nightmare. This guide gives you six actionable steps to develop a powerful content strategy that drives growth and engagement for your startup.

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🔗 LinkedIn’s MVPs This Week

🍾 Why Hasn’t Anyone Fixed The Angostura Bitters Label Already?
Kevin Stone dives into the quirky backstory behind the oddly oversized label on Angostura Bitters bottles. It’s a branding mistake that became an iconic feature.

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🐴 The ‘Power’ Is In Understanding Perspectives
Rory Sutherland highlights how James Watt revolutionized the way steam engines were sold by inventing “horsepower” as a relatable unit of measurement.

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🤦 The Massive Cost of Being Massively Annoying
Mats Georgson sheds light on how overly intrusive marketing tactics can backfire, leading to a loss in brand trust and customer engagement.

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