This study from Stratix is a fountain of obviousness: just over 70% of companies lost revenue due to COVID; just under 70% had employees work from home; and priorities shifted to contactless technology and wearables. Most delightfully obvious of all: companies with a stronger IT foundation were most able to adapt to the new situation.
Hi, it’s Jamie, Senior Intern at CDP Institute’s Department of the Obvious. The office is officially closed today but I snuck down from my cot in the attic to write this. First we have a survey from Searchspring that found online sales grew during 2020 and most companies expect them to grow further in 2021. Slightly less obvious: 61% will invest in ecommerce personalization this year.
Finally, we have a report that hate speech and harmful content on Facebook fell sharply in the fourth quarter of 2020. You may not think that’s obvious, but the report was produced by Facebook itself so it must be true.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.