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Episode 133 — Outlook 2022 Trends: Embracing Entropy, Part 2

Welcome back to Floor 9! In this episode, the Lab’s strategy team will continue to walk you through the remaining two trends in our Outlook…

Welcome back to Floor 9! To kick off the year, the Lab’s strategy team will be walking you through each one of the key trends in our Outlook 2022 report with a two-part special. In this first half, y…

The Lab team assembles once again at the beginning of the year to take on CES, the biggest consumer tech event of the year. With Ryan Miller, manager of partnerships, as our MC, the Lab team recapped…

Join us as the Floor 9 team makes merry with our annual holiday special episode! Joined by UM’s Global Chief Innovation Officer, Chad Stoller, we bring you a special edition of a drafting game, in wh…

In this episode, we are delighted to chat with Kenton Langstroth, CMO at Decubate, a blockchain-powered social investing platform, all about how the DeFi movement impacted the personal investing spac…

In this episode, we are back to the basics with co-hosts Adam and Scott doing a deep dive into the current competitive landscape that is shaping up for the metaverse. Following Facebook’s splashy reb…

In this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with Gabriel Nicolau, Global Head of Vertical Ads Solutions at TikTok, to discuss the inaugural TikTok World event. Together with guest co-host Ryan M…

In this episode, we celebrate the launch of our 2021 UM Innovation Annual (the U.S. edition) by talking with Arielle Garcia, Chief Privacy Officer at UM Worldwide, about the latest news on the consum…

On Tuesday, Apple held its first fall event of the year to unveil some updates to its hardware lineup as well as a few notable features coming to its fitness service. In this Floor 9 episode, Adam an…

This week’s Floor 9 episode started out as a Twitter conversation between Adam and Kyle Turner over the value of the theatrical window. Kyle is a film critic whose work has been featured in NPR, Slat…

This week on Floor 9, Scott and Adam discuss three wide-ranging topics: the hype around Virgin Hyperloop triggered by the latest demo video released by the company; the drama surrounding Onlyfans ban…

This week on Floor 9, Scott and Adam round up the latest tech and media news of recent weeks. In particular, they discuss news from the cutting-edge domains of the metaverse, NFTs, and FinTech. News …

This week on Floor 9, we are delighted to present a special crossover episode with FIVE: AI for Marketers, a podcast by Ericsson Emodo. Floor 9 host Scott Elchison recently chatted with Jake Moskowit…

This week on Floor 9, Scott and Adam are joined by Richard Yao from our strategy team to discuss the diverging future of social media platforms — why Instagram is becoming a turducken of a platform, …

This week on Floor 9, Scott and Adam round up the latest tech and media news of the past two weeks, including the implications of Google delaying the planned phase-out of third-party cookies until 20…

This week on Floor 9, we welcome back Carolina Arguelles, head of Augmented Reality at Snap Inc., to chat all about the latest trends in AR. Together, Scott and Adam chat with Carolina about the bran…

This week on Floor 9, Adam and Scott went live on Twitter Spaces to discuss the latest Apple developer event. From new social features to privacy tools, from new additions to Apple’s Health and Walle…

This week on Floor 9, Adam and Scott recap the key takeaways from the 2021 Facebook F8 Refresh developer event. Listen to hear Facebook’s updates to business messaging tools, Spark AR platform, and m…

Welcome to another Floor 9 episode. In this second episode of the week, Adam and Scott discuss the announcement from the annual Snap Partner Summit that took place on Thursday. Together, they break d…

Google kicked off the 2021 tech conference season on Tuesday with its opening keynote for its annual Google I/O developer event. Over the course of two hours, Google focused entirely on its software …