Carlos Pacheco

YouTube and content strategist, news addict, disrupting media, tech, start-ups, video games, self-quantifying addict.

Carlos Pacheco
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The Personal Brand Is Dead
The Atlantic - Kaitlyn Tiffany
Gen Z would rather be anonymous online. When I was 21, the cool thing to be was famous on Instagram. Now the cooler thing to be is a mystery. Anonymity is in. The youngest adult generation and the most online generation is frustrated with being surveilled and embarrassed by attention-seeking …
Carlos Pacheco
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YouTube Music for Wear OS rolls out 'Recently Played' tile
9to5Google - Abner Li
As we previously spotted, YouTube Music’s ‘Recently Played’ Wear OS tile is now available to let you quickly start listening to a previous album/song on your watch. Once added, the tile shows what you recently played with the album and artist name, as well as artwork in the background (with an …
Carlos Pacheco
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Influencers want Instagram to take action as fake accounts impersonate them to scam their followers
Business Insider - Amanda Perelli
Fake accounts impersonating influencers abound on Instagram. The accounts copy various aspects of creators' real accounts, like their photos and Stories, making it hard for followers to decipher which account is real. It's seemingly also hard for influencers to do anything about it. After flagging …
Carlos Pacheco
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Exclusive: YouTube's plans for podcasting
podnews.net - James Cridland
• Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of …
Carlos Pacheco
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MrBeast's 'Real Life Squid Game' and the price of viral stunts
TechCrunch - Amanda Silberling
First, everyone was talking about “Squid Game,” the Korean psychological thriller that became Netflix’s biggest series launch ever, with 142 million viewers. Now, everyone’s talking about YouTuber MrBeast’s recreation of the show’s titular fight-to-the-death, which racked up 142 million views in …
Carlos Pacheco
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Investing Directly in People Is the Future of VC. Here’s How to Do It.
theinformation.com - Sam Lessin
Earlier this year I wrote about the idea of investing directly in people versus companies—something my venture capital firm, Slow Ventures, has …