Pinterest, the Visual-Search Company That Quietly Became a Buying Platform
Pinterest is the most successful internet company that almost no technology journalist writes about. The application has more than five…
Duolingo and How an Owl Became the World’s Language Teacher
Duolingo is the consumer education company that worked. Its mobile application is downloaded more than thirty million times each month,…
How Bollywood and Indian Streaming Reshaped What “Most-Watched” Means on YouTube
For years, YouTube’s most-subscribed-channel rankings were dominated by Western individual creators — Felix Kjellberg’s PewDiePie at the top for most…
ChatGPT, Gemini and the Year Consumer AI Apps Became Default
Three years after the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, the consumer artificial-intelligence application has matured from a novelty into a…
Sertanejo: How Brazil’s Own Country Music Quietly Became the Most-Streamed Genre in the Country
Outside Brazil, the global music conversation tends to focus on funk carioca, axé, samba and Brazilian Popular Music — categories…