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Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad was so popular it crashed the app

The Verge

Coinbase just made its Super Bowl debut with a remarkable clever QR code ad that might have been too popular: the company’s “Less talk, more Bitcoin,” campaign appears to have temporarily knocked out its app following the ad airing during the broadcast. Click below for more info and RT to tell your friends!

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Four years later, we are all BBC Dad

The Verge

Four years ago yesterday, a meme was born: professor Robert Kelly, who will be forever known as “BBC Dad,” had the gall to get interrupted by his kids during a live video interview broadcast around the world. He had to lean into the meme, making his kids part of his public persona and even featuring them in later interviews.

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Women’s soccer fans are online, organized, and refuse to be ignored

The Verge

She tweets her way through games, dunks on the North Carolina Courage (perennial league villains), broadcasts her love for players like Emily Menges and Gabby Seiler, and has created interpretive dances to particularly dramatic player tweets. American soccer meme power rankings: 1. USL memes 3. Mistakes don’t go unnoticed.

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A streamer is staying live for as long as people keep subscribing

The Verge

Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren has been live since March 14th, and today marked the fourth continuous day of his broadcast. Ahgren’s stream is well on its way to becoming an event in Twitch’s history, akin to Twitch Plays Pokémon and any of its other site-wide memes. The reason? But historicizing can wait.

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The most innovative design companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

million times on Instagram, but a Brat Generator was visited more than 5 million times as fans built their own brat memes for the season. Code and Theory For building interfaces that offer clarity during uncertainty Digital agency Code and Theory is building the best data visualization tool in broadcast today.

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Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It isn't about broadcasting your message or lecturing. Size doesn't matter: It isn't how many people are in your network, it is how you well you know them and your relationship. It isn't about quantity or friend collecting. Grow your network slowly and get to know your friends and be helpful.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So there’s another feature of WhatsApp that’s broadcast so you have a list of all the people that you want to share your message with and every time something important happens you can just broadcast to your entire list. And every time you want to send a message to that same broadcast list, you can do it.