The Future of Commerce - Issue #181
Creativity
Sophia the Robot's Hand-Painted NFT Self-Portrait Fetches Over $700,000 USD — hypebeast.com
As part of a Nifty Gateway collection that amassed over $1 million USD in total sales.
Line Between NFTs and Fine Art Gets Even Blurrier in Baranoff Auction — www.bloomberg.com The family of Russian modernist Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné is auctioning off a non-fungible token that happens to come with a 100-year-old painting.
Business/Marketing/Adv
Sir Martin Sorrell warns Kwasi Kwarteng on business red tape as S4Capital surges through lockdown and buys ad agency Jam3 | Evening Standard — www.standard.co.uk Ad guru says his agency is booming as companies switch to digital
Porsche Taycan electric sedan joins brand subscription model — www.cnet.com Subscribing to the car won't be cheap, though.
Interestingness
The adidas x Peloton Apparel Collection Is Here — blog.onepeloton.com This is adidas x Peloton Apparel: a powerful celebration of our communities, in a collection designed by Peloton instructors and modeled by our Members.
Gucci designed virtual sneakers for hypebeasts in Roblox and VRChat — www.theverge.com Gucci has launched an exclusively virtual pair of designer sneakers called The Gucci Virtual 25 for use in augmented reality and games like Roblox.
Wellness
Bouquets of flowers are now 'substitute hugs', says booming florist Online firm Bloom & Wild doubled sales thanks to the pandemic and its letterbox-sized packages
The Covid-19 pandemic ruined America’s idea of work-life balance — www.vox.com How capitalism and the pandemic destroyed our work-life balance.
Platform News
The URL Renaissance: Linktree Raises $45 Million To Fuel 'Link In Bio' Social Commerce — www.forbes.com The Series B round was led by Index Ventures and Coatue, and comes just months after the Australia-based startup's $10.7 million Series A round.
Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment — www.theverge.com One of Twitter’s best-known personalities, Chrissy Teigen was subjected to years of harassment and abuse on the platform and off. She deleted her Twitter account, saying it was affecting her "negatively."