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Online news site The Messenger is closing down after just eight months, and much, much more. Daniel, I'll start with you though. What jumps out to you regarding the current backdrop of publishing? Daniel Konstantinovic:.

So what I wonder is if what's happening here is more of a case of shooting the messenger where Netflix overestimated itself and overestimated how much it could charge for its ad tier, and now the sort of stink of that is on Microsoft. There's no way we're going to know about what's what's going on internally, but it's definitely not surprising to hear that they're kind of revisiting it.

This is the new MSN messenger.". Minda Smiley:. Oh, okay. Marcus Johnson:. Then the point being made by this article that actually no, these are kind of mini TV like feeds with algorithms kind of pumping you with content. Minda Smiley:. Yeah, I mean, I think, what do people always say? Every generation thinks the new technology is big and scary. I'm sure when TV came of age, people had their concerns.

I would also say we see this internationally, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat around the world customers use these chat services to shop and interact with brands and for customer service reasoning. So it's a largely untapped market here and I think it's an exciting one. Marcus Johnson:. Yeah, that's a great point.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. 40 of the 100 would have access to one of those. And the last one, this is shocking. More people in the world would smoke than own a car. If the world was 100 people, 22 would smoke and 17 would own a car. Blake Droesch:. Wait, so does that mean 17% of the people in the world own a car, and 22% of the population smokes? Marcus Johnson:. Yep.

I know Meta has been working on designing this complete interoperability across all its apps, so I think that there's real potential here for an even larger walled garden in a way with services for users, businesses, across WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Blue and Instagram. So tons of potential there. Marcus Johnson:. All right. Max, you're up.

Great quote, definitely the wrong messenger. Let's go with Evelyn. Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. I have another takeaway that's not explicitly stated in the article. But for me, the biggest takeaway was that humor is hard. I don't think it should be news to any brand that funny ads are memorable.

There are over 300,000 ChatBots on use on Facebook Messenger. ChatBots have experienced a 92% increase in usage since 2019. And on average users post four inquiries to ChatBots within one chat session and bots contribute 39% of all chats between businesses and consumers. Marcus Johnson:. I wonder if the four queries is, I got my answer or I got fed up? Evelyn Mitchell-Wolf:. Good point.

They were messengers and I don't don't know if you guys ever heard anyone has. No. Okay, I thought you wouldn't. Super fascinating stuff. So the Inkans, they controlled a huge empire that ran from Columbia all the way down to Chile, tons of elevation of course, and they had really sophisticated road system.