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Facebook Shops: the timing couldn’t be better but it's not a play for Amazon — www.thedrum.com

Facebook this week launched a new e-commerce service, primarily aimed at smaller businesses and brands, which allows them to sell directly from the Facebook platform. This is a really smart analysis by Charlotte McEleny that explores why it's not necessarily a threat to Amazon, and instead how Facebook are aiming to become the WeChat of the west. This could have an unexpected knock-on effect on publisher's own ecommerce efforts, but could also open alternative avenues to promote subscriptions. Early days, but expect this to rocket once Facebook have sorted out the complexities of processing payments through the platform.

Here’s how CCM organised one of the largest virtual U.S. journalism events to date — www.niemanlab.org

Some useful, practical tips from the Center for Cooperative Media on how they moved their 2020 Collaborative Journalism Summit online, from managing sponsors and speakers to using Zoom as a 'virtual stage'.

Consumer behaviour will never be the same again — digitalcontentnext.org

I don't know about never, but this piece from DCN neatly summarises some recent research from Accenture about the mark the crisis will leave on consumer behaviour, at least in the short to medium term.

Next-generation media brands — www.vidamedia.co.uk

Our friends at Vida Media have put together a list of 20 of the most interesting and relevant startup media businesses in the UK. It features some well-known names like gal-dem and Tortoise, but also picks out some lesser-known titles that should definitely be on your 'ones to watch' list.

Podcast:

Stylist Group CEO Ella Dolphin on transforming the free print magazine to digital subscriptions — voices.media

Coming up later today: Stylist Group CEO Ella Dolphin on transforming the free print magazine to digital subscriptions. Live late Monday morning at voices.media or wherever you get your podcasts.

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