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As companies like Google and Microsoft expand power-hungry AI models, there’s an opening for startups to provide sustainable data center solutions.

The service has lowered subscription costs in over 30 countries, including Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, as it aims to retain users who have a choice of various streaming options. In some countries, subscription costs were cut by up to 50%.

Worldwide ecommerce sales growth has declined to all-time lows, and digital ad spending growth has followed in its tracks. What can we learn from existing trends and the long-term outlook for these two key metrics?

TikTok’s GMV in Southeast Asia hit $4.4 billion in 2022, a fourfold increase over 2021. But UK consumers have been less receptive, and TikTok’s efforts there have come under fire for poor-quality goods and low payouts to influencers. Livestreaming’s appeal in the US remains limited.

Summit is nearly 14,000 feet above sea level. That's about, what, about 9,000 miles. But its base is on the sea floor. And from there, the summit is 30,000 feet, three zero, which is cruising altitude for planes, making it taller than Mount Everest, in fact. Debbie, it's erupted 33 times since 1843, the date of the first recorded eruption. On average, that's one eruption every five and a half years.

Facebook has been much more popular among internet users in Latin America compared with any other world region, aside from Southeast Asia, for the better part of a decade. However, the tide is rapidly turning as the platform struggles to remain relevant to younger users. Facebook is shedding users at an alarming rate in Latin America.

And both YouTube and Google Search are experiencing a sea change in the market that they operate in. For Google search, that's obviously AI and we're still early days there, but it's clear that AI will revolutionize the way that consumers interface with the internet through search. For YouTube the sea change is more consumer driven.

Like those sort of things which create sea change or just a tremendous change, it wasn't able to predict that. Jacob Bourne (08:42):. I mean, I think we also have to make a distinction between predictive AI and generative AI, and I think we're increasingly seeing them being used in tandem with each other. Rob Rubin (08:42):. Good point. Jacob Bourne (08:51):.

On today's podcast episode, we discuss the size of sports betting markets, what happens when regulation gets too tight, and the potential problems associated with marketing within the gambling universe. Tune in to the discussion with our Principal Analyst and host Bill Fisher, Principal Analyst Paul Briggs, Senior Director of Podcasts Marcus Johnson, and Vice President of Content Paul Verna.

It far surpassed 2021 levels—a rarity in a sea of reduced investments across both fintech and tech. Sizing Web3 shows a nascent but promising opportunity. The primary opportunity for financial services providers today lies in offering decentralized finance (DeFi) products. In 2021, total assets committed in DeFi applications skyrocketed, with total value locked (TVL) peaking above $250 billion.

On today’s podcast episode, host Bill Fisher, forecasting writer Ethan Cramer-Flood, and analysts Matteo Ceurvels and Man-Chung Cheung discuss why there are so many different types of advertising bans in different countries, if they work, and the economic costs.