A tale of two cities: the City and the West End are still ghost towns... Brent Cross is nearly back to normal h/t McKinsey & Company

According to analysis by Activate Consulting there are now 31.5 hours in the day for the average American. Multitasking on tech is to blame, apparently.

US Cable TV is dying. Used to have 100m subs. Have lost 25m and expectation is that a further 25m will go in the next five years. Fat bundles are over. At 50m subs, the cord that held the industry together, made it viable, has been cut. cnbc.com/2020/10/24/big…

As the Western world embarks on Black Friday, it's worth remembering that Singles Day in China is much, much bigger. uk.reuters.com/article/uk-sin…

Peak processing volumes on Single Day for Alibaba increased 544,000 transaction per second in 2019 to 583,000 in 2020 all running 100% in cloud based systems. Wow!

Mobile gaming is HUGE... $85bn out of the $165bn global gaming industry

I'm guessing a lot of "substitute teachers" need a little help today

Cards' share of payments has been reducing for a while, driven down by new methods like wallets and Buy Now, Pay Later, but here's concrete evidence: 11% reduction in revenues, exacerbated by COVID paymentscardsandmobile.com/global-plastic…

Revolut: Valuation at last funding - £33bn NatWest: Valuation just now - £30bn Wow.

When people start using a payment method instead of Tinder, that's when you know that it's hit the mainstream. Go PIX! olhardigital.com.br/en/2021/01/19/…

eCommerce in China is different to the West. ‘Lipstick Brother’ Livestream Has Record $2 Billion Day bnnbloomberg.ca/china-s-lipsti…

In video streaming YouTube can be underestimated. In Q4-2021 its revenue was greater than Netflix's. hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…

Subscriptions for everything… Cars have been improving in quality for a while, so it makes sense to subscribe, rather than buy. As in so many other things. Better for buyers and sellers. techcrunch.com/2022/05/25/fin…

Even my best friends would never have me down as a Tiktok guy. I'm not a Tiktok guy, but look at this... Excel Tiktok. I might have to reconsider. tiktok.com/@exceldictiona…

The growth of real-time account to account payments like PIX and UPI is insane, eclipsing "mature" markets UK has 5.7 faster payments/adult/month. India has >6 p/a/m Launched <2 years ago, Brazilians make 12.9 p/a/m - 2X UK chart below shows totals

Amazing where you can get data from nowadays. A Wi-Fi router company can tell you that Peloton usage is down 23% YoY. Smart TVs and smart speakers appear to doing fine though (or maybe that’s just the smart speaker listening rather than being used). protocol.com/entertainment/…

Favourite fun fact from Tom Whitwell's "52 things I learned in 2022" post. In 1739, there were THREE times as many coffee shops per head in London compared to today. More here: medium.com/magnetic/52-th…

37% of the world's population have NEVER used the internet. itu.int/hub/2021/11/fa… Another TIL in 2022 from Tom Whitwell

Pix continues to grow like a weed. More than 64bn txns in 2024 80% more than cards