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Fluent Fiction - Catalan: The Botanist's Secret: A Quest for the Healing Herb Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/ca/episode/2025-05-21-22-34-01-ca Story Transcript:Ca: En un racó amagat del bosc, sota les copes exuberants que brillaven amb la llum de primavera, hi havia un laboratori secret.En: In a hidden corner of the forest, under the lush canopies that shone with the spring light, there was a secret laboratory.Ca: Allí, la Núria, una botànica meticulosa amb una curiositat insaciable, es trobava absorta en els seus estudis.En: There, Núria, a meticulous botanist with an insatiable curiosity, was absorbed in her studies.Ca: Buscava una herba rara que, segons rumors, podria guarir malalties que la medicina moderna encara no comprenia.En: She was searching for a rare herb that, according to rumors, could cure diseases that modern medicine still did not understand.Ca: No ho feia només per curiositat científica, sinó per ajudar una amiga que patia una estranya malaltia.En: It was not just for scientific curiosity, but to help a friend who suffered from a strange illness.Ca: Un matí assolellat, la Núria va sentir parlar d'un mercat secret on es venien plantes exòtiques.En: One sunny morning, Núria heard about a secret market where exotic plants were sold.Ca: Sense dubtar-ho, va decidir visitar-lo.En: Without hesitation, she decided to visit.Ca: Sempre duia amb ella un petit amulet que li havia regalat la seva àvia, un talismà que valorava molt.En: She always carried with her a small amulet that her grandmother had given her, a talisman she greatly valued.Ca: Sabia que aquell amulet podria ser útil per aconseguir l'herba.En: She knew that this amulet might be useful in obtaining the herb.Ca: Quan va arribar al mercat, va quedar meravellada pel bullici i els colors vius de les plantes exposades.En: When she arrived at the market, she was amazed by the bustle and the bright colors of the displayed plants.Ca: Un lloc ple de misteri, on es barrejaven el perfum de les flors i les converses en veu baixa.En: A place full of mystery, where the scent of flowers mingled with whispered conversations.Ca: Allà va veure una parada que destacava per l'aire de clandestinitat que desprenia.En: There she saw a stall that stood out for the air of secrecy it exuded.Ca: Darrere del taulell hi havia l'Àngel, un botànic rival conegut per les seves intencions poc nobles.En: Behind the counter was Àngel, a rival botanist known for his less than noble intentions.Ca: La Núria es va apropar amb cautela, sabent que l'Àngel també desitjava aquella herba per als seus propis fins.En: Núria approached cautiously, knowing that Àngel also desired the herb for his own purposes.Ca: La tensió entre ells era palpable.En: The tension between them was palpable.Ca: Amb paraules mesurades i mirada ferma, va iniciar la negociació.En: With measured words and a firm gaze, she initiated the negotiation.Ca: L'Àngel volia el doble del que la Núria estava disposada a oferir.En: Àngel wanted double what Núria was willing to offer.Ca: Va ser llavors que la Núria va tenir una idea brillant.En: It was then that Núria had a brilliant idea.Ca: Va proposar un intercanvi, oferint el seu amulet a canvi de l'herba.En: She proposed an exchange, offering her amulet in return for the herb.Ca: L'Àngel, atret pel misteri de l'amulet, va acceptar a contracor.En: Àngel, attracted by the mystery of the amulet, reluctantly accepted.Ca: La Núria, amb l'herba finalment a les seves mans, va esbossar un mig somriure.En: Núria, with the herb finally in her hands, gave a half-smile.Ca: Havia guanyat no només el preuat remei, sinó també la confirmació que estava disposada a fer el necessari per ajudar els altres.En: She had gained not only the precious remedy but also the confirmation that she was willing to do what was necessary to help others.Ca: Amb renovada energia, va tornar al seu laboratori secret.En: With renewed energy, she returned to her secret laboratory.Ca: Sabia que la seva amiga tindria ara una nova oportunitat gràcies a aquell intercanvi.En: She knew that her friend would now have a new opportunity thanks to that exchange.Ca: La primavera, amb la seva frescor i novetat, ressonava dins la Núria, que havia après el valor d'arriscar per una causa noble.En: Spring, with its freshness and novelty, resonated within Núria, who had learned the value of risking for a noble cause.Ca: I així, en el profund del bosc, entre fulles verdes i promeses de curació, la història de la Núria va arribar a una harmoniosa conclusió.En: And so, deep in the forest, among green leaves and promises of healing, the story of Núria came to a harmonious conclusion. Vocabulary Words:corner: el racócanopies: les copeslight: la llumcuriosity: la curiositatherb: l'herbadiseases: les malaltiesmedicine: la medicinaopportunity: la oportunitattalisman: el talismàrumors: els rumorsexotic: les exòtiquesbotanist: la botànicaamulet: l'amuletsecret: el secretillness: la malaltiabustle: el bulliciwhispered: les converses en veu baixastall: la paradanegotiation: la negociacióexchange: l'intercanvirival: el rivalnovelty: la novetatleaves: les fulleshealing: la curaciómystery: el misteriintention: les intencionsfriend: l'amigaenergy: l'energiaconfirmation: la confirmacióconclusion: la conclusió

Fluent Fiction - Swedish: Spring's Secret: A Story of Trust and Cures in Sweden Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/sv/episode/2025-05-21-22-34-02-sv Story Transcript:Sv: Det var den spirande våren i Sverige.En: It was the budding spring in Sverige.Sv: Den svala luften doftade av blommor och nyklippt gräs.En: The cool air smelled of flowers and freshly cut grass.Sv: Under jorden, i ett hemligt laboratorium, arbetade Ebba intensivt.En: Underground, in a secret laboratory, Ebba worked intensively.Sv: Laboratoriet var fyllt med avancerad utrustning och mystiska maskiner.En: The laboratory was filled with advanced equipment and mysterious machines.Sv: Ljuset från de lysande bildskärmarna dansade över väggarna.En: The light from the glowing screens danced across the walls.Sv: Ebba, en briljant men mystisk vetenskapskvinna, höll sina experiment hemliga.En: Ebba, a brilliant but mysterious scientist, kept her experiments secret.Sv: Hon litade inte på någon utanför laboratoriet.En: She didn't trust anyone outside the laboratory.Sv: Men Lukas brydde sig inte om det.En: But Lukas didn't care about that.Sv: Hans bästa vän, Axel, hade nyss fått veta att han hade en sällsynt sjukdom.En: His best friend, Axel, had just found out that he had a rare disease.Sv: Lukas var orolig.En: Lukas was worried.Sv: Han visste att Ebba arbetade med något som kunde rädda Axel.En: He knew that Ebba was working on something that could save Axel.Sv: Men hur skulle han få Ebba att samarbeta?En: But how would he get Ebba to cooperate?Sv: Lukas var modig och mycket lojal.En: Lukas was brave and very loyal.Sv: Hans mål var klart: han måste övertyga Ebba.En: His goal was clear: he had to convince Ebba.Sv: På Kristi himmelsfärdsdag, när många i Sverige firade helgdagen med familj och vänner, sökte Lukas upp Ebba i hennes underjordiska laboratorium.En: On Kristi himmelsfärdsdag, when many in Sverige celebrated the holiday with family and friends, Lukas sought out Ebba in her underground laboratory.Sv: "Lukas," sa Ebba kyligt, när han klev in, "vad gör du här?En: "Lukas," said Ebba coldly as he stepped in, "what are you doing here?Sv: Du vet att jag inte litar på folk utanför."En: You know that I don't trust people from outside."Sv: "Snälla, Ebba," bad Lukas.En: "Please, Ebba," Lukas pleaded.Sv: "Axel är sjuk.En: "Axel is sick.Sv: Vi tror att du kan hjälpa honom."En: We believe you can help him."Sv: Ebba tittade skeptiskt på Lukas.En: Ebba looked skeptically at Lukas.Sv: "Och vad får jag i utbyte?"En: "And what do I get in return?"Sv: frågade hon.En: she asked.Sv: Lukas stod tyst en stund.En: Lukas stood silent for a moment.Sv: Sedan sa han bestämt, "Jag hjälper dig med dina experiment.En: Then he said firmly, "I'll help you with your experiments.Sv: Tillsammans kan vi skapa botemedlet."En: Together, we can create the cure."Sv: Efter ett ögonblicks tvekan nickade Ebba.En: After a moment's hesitation, Ebba nodded.Sv: "Okej, men du måste följa mina regler."En: "Okay, but you have to follow my rules."Sv: Deras allians var osäker, men de började arbeta tillsammans.En: Their alliance was uncertain, but they began working together.Sv: Dag och natt i det högteknologiska laboratoriet.En: Day and night in the high-tech laboratory.Sv: Maskiner surrade, och data visades på skärmarna.En: Machines whirred, and data appeared on the screens.Sv: Lukas följde noggrant Ebbas instruktioner.En: Lukas carefully followed Ebba's instructions.Sv: Efter många dagar av hårt arbete var tiden knapp.En: After many days of hard work, time was running out.Sv: Axels tillstånd blev värre.En: Axel's condition worsened.Sv: Men en dag, precis innan hoppet skulle överges, utropade Ebba, "Jag tror vi har det!"En: But one day, just before hope would have been abandoned, Ebba exclaimed, "I think we have it!"Sv: De hade funnit botemedlet.En: They had found the cure.Sv: Lukas sprang till Axel med det färdiga läkemedlet.En: Lukas ran to Axel with the finished medicine.Sv: Axels hälsa förbättrades snabbt.En: Axel's health improved rapidly.Sv: Det fungerade!En: It worked!Sv: Axel var räddad.En: Axel was saved.Sv: Den vårdagen lärde Lukas sig något viktigt.En: That spring day, Lukas learned something important.Sv: Det handlade inte bara om lojalitet och mod.En: It wasn't just about loyalty and courage.Sv: Samarbetet med Ebba hade lärt honom vikten av tillit och samarbete.En: Working with Ebba had taught him the importance of trust and collaboration.Sv: De hade övervunnit hinder tillsammans och funnit vänskap i det mest osannolika av platser.En: They had overcome obstacles together and found friendship in the most unlikely of places. Vocabulary Words:budding: spirandesecret: hemligtintensively: intensivtadvanced: avanceradmysterious: mystiskaglowing: lysandebrilliant: briljantskeptically: skeptiskthesitation: tvekanalliance: alliansuncertain: osäkerscreens: bildskärmarnacollaboration: samarbeteequipment: utrustningloyal: lojalunderground: underjordiskaconvinced: övertygabrave: modigcondition: tillståndrapidly: snabbtimproved: förbättradestrust: tillitobstacles: hinderunlikely: osannolikasought: sökteabandoned: övergesexclaimed: utropadecure: botemedletmachines: maskinerrules: regler

Fluent Fiction - Spanish: Mateo's Secret: Journey from Rumor to Science Triumph Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/es/episode/2025-05-21-22-34-02-es Story Transcript:Es: En la primavera, cuando los días se volvían más cálidos y las flores brotaban, un rumor se deslizaba entre los estudiantes del instituto: un laboratorio secreto escondido bajo el suelo de la escuela.En: In the spring, when the days were getting warmer and the flowers were blooming, a rumor spread among the students of the instituto: a secret laboratory hidden beneath the school's ground.Es: Al frente de esta aventura estaba Mateo, un joven estudiante con una pasión ardiente por la ciencia, siempre con los ojos brillantes de curiosidad.En: Leading this adventure was Mateo, a young student with a burning passion for science, always with eyes shining with curiosity.Es: Mateo no podía perder la oportunidad de usar este lugar escondido para su proyecto de la feria de ciencias.En: Mateo could not miss the opportunity to use this hidden place for his science fair project.Es: Su objetivo era claro: crear un invento revolucionario que lo coronara como el mejor estudiante de ciencias del instituto.En: His goal was clear: to create a revolutionary invention that would crown him as the best science student in the instituto.Es: Pero había un obstáculo que lo inquietaba, su rival, Lucía, también estaba en la competencia, y ella nunca fallaba.En: But there was an obstacle that unsettled him, his rival, Lucía, was also in the competition, and she never failed.Es: Un día, mientras Mateo trabajaba en el laboratorio secreto, sus pensamientos se llenaron de preocupación.En: One day, while Mateo worked in the secret laboratory, his thoughts were filled with worry.Es: Había oído hablar de sabotajes a proyectos de otros estudiantes.En: He had heard rumors of sabotage to other students' projects.Es: Mientras ajustaba los cables de su máquina, pensaba si debía compartir sus sospechas con su amigo Diego.En: While adjusting the wires of his machine, he wondered if he should share his suspicions with his friend Diego.Es: Diego era confiable, pero Mateo temía que involucrarlo pudiera ponerlos a ambos en peligro.En: Diego was trustworthy, but Mateo feared that involving him might put them both in danger.Es: Finalmente, llegó el día de la feria de ciencias.En: Finally, the day of the science fair arrived.Es: Mateo, con el corazón latiendo rápido, lo tenía todo listo.En: Mateo, with his heart beating fast, had everything ready.Es: Luego, algo inesperado sucedió: justo cuando empezaba su presentación, un zumbido extraño emergió de su invento.En: Then, something unexpected happened: just as he began his presentation, a strange buzzing emerged from his invention.Es: ¡Los cables habían fallado!En: The wires had failed!Es: Los jueces y el público miraban expectantes.En: The judges and the audience watched expectantly.Es: Mateo mantuvo la calma.En: Mateo remained calm.Es: Recordó los consejos de su abuelo: “La ciencia es como la vida, llena de problemas.En: He remembered his grandfather's advice: "Science is like life, full of problems.Es: Resolverlos es la clave.En: Solving them is the key."Es: ” En lugar de rendirse, Mateo improvisó.En: Instead of giving up, Mateo improvised.Es: Explicó a los jueces el error y comenzó a reparar el equipo en frente de todas las curiosas miradas.En: He explained the error to the judges and began to repair the equipment in front of all the curious eyes.Es: Utilizó su ingenio para reemplazar las conexiones y, con un movimiento final, su máquina cobró vida nuevamente.En: He used his ingenuity to replace the connections and, with a final move, his machine came to life again.Es: Los jueces aplaudieron.En: The judges applauded.Es: No por el invento perfecto que había imaginado, sino por su gran demostración de solución de problemas bajo presión.En: Not for the perfect invention he had imagined, but for his great demonstration of problem-solving under pressure.Es: Lucía, sorprendida, le dio a Mateo una mirada de admiración.En: Lucía, surprised, gave Mateo a look of admiration.Es: Mateo entendió entonces que la ciencia no era solo sobre el resultado perfecto, sino sobre el viaje del descubrimiento y la capacidad de superar obstáculos inesperados.En: Mateo then understood that science was not just about the perfect result, but about the journey of discovery and the ability to overcome unexpected obstacles.Es: Con este nuevo entendimiento, Mateo se sintió lleno de confianza.En: With this new understanding, Mateo felt full of confidence.Es: Sabía que, pase lo que pase, su verdadero triunfo había sido aprender a enfrentar los retos con valentía.En: He knew that, no matter what happened, his true triumph was learning to face challenges with courage.Es: Al final, no solo impresionó a los jueces, sino que también ganó el respeto de sus compañeros, incluida Lucía.En: In the end, he not only impressed the judges but also earned the respect of his classmates, including Lucía.Es: Más allá del premio, Mateo se dio cuenta de que había ganado algo más valioso: la certeza de poder enfrentar cualquier desafío con ingenio y perseverancia.En: Beyond the prize, Mateo realized he had gained something more valuable: the certainty of being able to face any challenge with ingenuity and perseverance. Vocabulary Words:spring: la primaverarumor: el rumorground: el sueloopportunity: la oportunidadobstacle: el obstáculorival: el rivalcompetition: la competenciathoughts: los pensamientosworry: la preocupaciónsabotage: los sabotajesdanger: el peligrojudges: los juecesaudience: el públicobuzzing: el zumbidowires: los cablesadvice: los consejoserror: el errorequipment: el equipoingenuity: el ingenioconnections: las conexionesmoves: el movimientoadmiration: la admiraciónjourney: el viajediscovery: el descubrimientounderstanding: el entendimientoconfidence: la confianzatriumph: el triunfochallenges: los retoscourage: la valentíacertainty: la certeza

Fluent Fiction - Danish: Underground Hope: A Scientist's Race to Save Christmas Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/da/episode/2024-12-18-08-38-20-da Story Transcript:Da: Under de travle gader i København ligger et hemmeligt laboratorium.En: Beneath the busy streets of København lies a secret laboratory.Da: Dette laboratorium var skjult bag gamle mursten og frostede vinduer.En: This laboratory was hidden behind old bricks and frosted windows.Da: I denne særlige tid var sneen faldet tungt, og vinteren bragte en rolig stilhed over byen.En: At this particular time, snow had fallen heavily, and winter brought a calm silence over the city.Da: Inde i laboratoriet arbejdede Mikkel, en dedikeret videnskabsmand, som kæmpede mod tiden.En: Inside the laboratory, Mikkel, a dedicated scientist, was racing against time.Da: Mikkel havde en brændende passion og et hemmeligt motiv: at finde en kur til sin søster Astrids sygdom.En: Mikkel had a burning passion and a secret motive: to find a cure for his sister Astrid's illness.Da: Astrid var Mikkels lys og håb, men hendes sygdom truede med at tage hende fra ham.En: Astrid was Mikkel's light and hope, but her illness threatened to take her away from him.Da: Sygdommen delte symptomer med en ny, sjælden virus, som nu spredte sig hurtigt gennem byen.En: The illness shared symptoms with a new, rare virus, which was now spreading rapidly through the city.Da: Mikkel arbejdede dag og nat, omringet af højteknologisk udstyr, men også de kolde, gamle sten gav ham kuldegysninger.En: Mikkel worked day and night, surrounded by high-tech equipment, but even the cold, old stones gave him chills.Da: Hans kollega, Lars, havde andre planer.En: His colleague, Lars, had other plans.Da: Lars ønskede berømmelse og ønskede at offentliggøre deres fund.En: Lars craved fame and wanted to publish their findings.Da: Tiden nærmede sig jul.En: The time was approaching Christmas.Da: Mens sneen udenfor faldt stille, voksede spændingen indeni.En: While the snow outside fell quietly, tension grew inside.Da: Mikkel ønskede at give Astrid det største gave: håb og helbredelse.En: Mikkel wanted to give Astrid the greatest gift: hope and healing.Da: Men Lars pressede på for at kontakte pressen.En: But Lars was pressing to contact the media.Da: Mikkel var i tvivl.En: Mikkel was uncertain.Da: Skulle han samarbejde med Lars og risikere, at deres arbejde blev offentliggjort for hurtigt?En: Should he collaborate with Lars and risk their work being published too soon?Da: Eller skulle han fortsætte alene og måske forsinke opdagelsen af en sand kur?En: Or should he continue alone and perhaps delay the discovery of a true cure?Da: På selve juleaften, mens lysene i København glimtede som stjerner, fandt Mikkel et gennembrud.En: On Christmas Eve itself, while the lights in København twinkled like stars, Mikkel made a breakthrough.Da: Han kunne næsten føle kuren i sine hænder.En: He could almost feel the cure in his hands.Da: Men i det samme øjeblik opdagede han, at Lars allerede havde kontaktet pressen.En: But at the same moment, he discovered that Lars had already contacted the press.Da: Med et tungt hjerte konfronterede Mikkel Lars.En: With a heavy heart, Mikkel confronted Lars.Da: Han forklarede, hvor vigtigt det var, at de ikke skyndte sig.En: He explained how important it was not to rush.Da: Liv og helbred stod på spil.En: Lives and health were at stake.Da: Lars lyttede, og for første gang indså han alvoren og vigtigheden af deres arbejde.En: Lars listened, and for the first time, he realized the seriousness and importance of their work.Da: De blev enige om at trække pressemeddelelsen tilbage, indtil de var sikre på kuren.En: They agreed to retract the press release until they were sure about the cure.Da: Sammen arbejdede de hele natten, mens julens klokker begyndte at ringe.En: Together they worked all night while the Christmas bells began to chime.Da: Ved daggry havde de stabiliseret situationen og fundet en lovende behandling.En: By dawn, they had stabilized the situation and found a promising treatment.Da: Det var den største gave, Mikkel kunne have ønsket, ikke kun for Astrid, men for hele samfundet.En: It was the greatest gift Mikkel could have wished for, not only for Astrid but for the entire community.Da: Mikkel lærte, at nogle gange er det værd at risikere hemmeligheden for at opnå noget større.En: Mikkel learned that sometimes it's worth risking the secret to achieve something greater.Da: Han fandt ud af, at tillid og samarbejde kunne føre til større mirakler.En: He discovered that trust and collaboration could lead to greater miracles.Da: Mens sneen udenfor stille fortsatte med at falde, smeltede isen mellem Mikkel og Lars, og en ny begyndelse var på vej.En: While the snow outside continued to fall quietly, the ice between Mikkel and Lars melted, and a new beginning was on the horizon.Da: Astrid ville få sin chance for et nyt liv, og byens glæde over en sikker jul blev delt af dem alle.En: Astrid would have her chance at a new life, and the city's joy over a safe Christmas was shared by them all. Vocabulary Words:beneath: undersecret: hemmeligtlaboratory: laboratoriumhidden: skjultbricks: murstenfrosted: frostedededicated: dedikeretmotive: motivillness: sygdomthreatened: truedespreading: spredtehigh-tech: højteknologiskequipment: udstyrchills: kuldegysningercraved: ønskedepublish: offentliggøretension: spændingcollaborate: samarbejdedelay: forsinkebreakthrough: gennembrudpress: pressenconfronted: konfronteredestabilized: stabiliseretpromising: lovendetreatment: behandlingtrust: tillidcollaboration: samarbejdemiracles: miraklermelted: smeltedehorizon: himmel

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Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Cracking the Code: A Night of Discovery in Nederland Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/cracking-the-code-a-night-of-discovery-in-nederland Story Transcript: Vocabulary Words:densely: dichtforest: bebostproudly: met trotsbreeze: briesjescent: geurshimmering: glinsterendecurious: nieuwsgierigeflicker: flikkerenmysterious: geheimzinnigeencrypted: versleuteldefurrows: fronstbrow: wenkbrauwenbreakthrough: doorbraakformula: formulecareful: voorzichtigvaluable: kostbaredetermined: vastberadendeadline: deadlinedusk: schemeringstorm: stormclatters: klettertresolute: vastbeslotenskeptical: sceptischcuriosity: nieuwsgierigheidanalyze: analyserenincredible: ongelooflijkcalm: kalmteappreciation: waarderingchallenge: uitdagingautumn: herfst

On Episode 409 we discuss...→ No rules, just vibes→ Hidden bone ring theory→ Harry is such a Gryffindor that he can't use any more spells→ Snape trying to save Harry in spite of himself→ "Keep your mouth shut and your mind closed"→ Remembering how we felt about that big reveal→ One of the greatest fandom debates of all time→ Check out the "Noble House of Black" seriesAlohomora! 's Final 100 is sponsored in part by Secretlab. Award-winning comfort that feels just like magic. From adjustable lumbar support that fits perfectly into the curve of your lower back to an ergonomic pebble seat base shaped to accommodate every sitting posture — the Secretlab TITAN Evo Harry Potter Edition is crafted to support wizards and muggles alike. Pay homage to the fantastical world of charms and spells with the Secretlab Harry Potter Collection, including lumbar pillows and premium chair sleeves inspired by the four Hogwarts houses.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/alohomora-the-original-harry-potter-book-club--5016402/support.

Fluent Fiction - Dutch: Unmasking Amsterdam: Secrets Beneath the Streets Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/unmasking-amsterdam-secrets-beneath-the-streets Story Transcript:Nl: Onder de drukke straten van Amsterdam, verborgen en onbekend, ligt een laboratorium.En: Under the bustling streets of Amsterdam, hidden and unknown, lies a laboratory.Nl: Dit is geen gewoon laboratorium.En: This isn't just any lab.Nl: Het is een geheim onderkomen vol met geavanceerde apparatuur en duistere, zwak verlichte gangen.En: It is a secret refuge filled with advanced equipment and dark, dimly lit corridors.Nl: Hier werkt Maarten, een briljante maar teruggetrokken wetenschapper.En: Here works Maarten, a brilliant but reclusive scientist.Nl: Zijn werk is zijn leven, maar het brengt ook gevaar met zich mee.En: His work is his life, but it also brings danger.Nl: Op een zonnige zomerdag sluipt Yara, een nieuwsgierige onderzoeksjournalist, rond in de buurt.En: On a sunny summer day, Yara, a curious investigative journalist, sneaks around the area.Nl: Ze heeft gehoord over mysterieuze verdwijningen in het laboratorium en ruikt een groot verhaal.En: She has heard about mysterious disappearances in the lab and smells a big story.Nl: Yara heeft een neus voor mysteries en is vastbesloten de waarheid te ontdekken.En: Yara has a knack for mysteries and is determined to uncover the truth.Nl: Ze wil de gemeenschap waarschuwen als er iets niet klopt.En: She wants to warn the community if something is amiss.Nl: Ondertussen buigt Maarten zich over zijn laatste experiment.En: Meanwhile, Maarten is bent over his latest experiment.Nl: Hij heeft een doorbraak bereikt, maar het is gevaarlijk en controversieel.En: He has reached a breakthrough, but it's dangerous and controversial.Nl: Hij weet dat als de wereld het ontdekt, hij in grote problemen komt.En: He knows that if the world discovers it, he will be in serious trouble.Nl: Maarten wil zijn experiment geheimhouden.En: Maarten wants to keep his experiment a secret.Nl: Nog even, denkt hij.En: Just a little longer, he thinks.Nl: Gewoon tot het werk af is.En: Just until the work is finished.Nl: Yara besluit geen tijd te verliezen.En: Yara decides to waste no time.Nl: Ze zoekt een manier om het laboratorium binnen te komen.En: She looks for a way to enter the lab.Nl: Haar vastberadenheid overwint haar angst.En: Her determination overcomes her fear.Nl: 's Avonds, als de stad stil is, vindt ze een geheime ingang.En: At night, when the city is quiet, she finds a secret entrance.Nl: Ze sluipt naar binnen en maakt haar weg door de gangen, haar hart klopt in haar keel.En: She sneaks inside and makes her way through the corridors, her heart pounding in her chest.Nl: Ze weet dat ze dichtbij is.En: She knows she is close.Nl: Terwijl Yara door de gangen beweegt, werkt Maarten door.En: While Yara moves through the corridors, Maarten continues his work.Nl: Hij weet dat hij bijna klaar is.En: He knows he is almost done.Nl: Maar dan, een fout.En: But then, a mistake.Nl: Een klein detail over het hoofd gezien.En: A small detail overlooked.Nl: Het experiment gaat vreselijk mis.En: The experiment goes terribly wrong.Nl: Alarmen loeien, lichten flitsen aan en uit.En: Alarms blare, lights flash on and off.Nl: Maarten rent naar de controlekamer, zijn gezicht bleek van angst.En: Maarten runs to the control room, his face pale with fear.Nl: Op dat moment bereikt Yara het hart van het laboratorium.En: At that moment, Yara reaches the heart of the lab.Nl: Ze ziet Maarten in paniek.En: She sees Maarten in panic.Nl: Voor haar ogen ontvouwt zich een ramp.En: Before her eyes, a disaster unfolds.Nl: Het experiment dreigt alles en iedereen te vernietigen.En: The experiment threatens to destroy everything and everyone.Nl: Plotseling beseft Maarten dat hij hulp nodig heeft.En: Suddenly, Maarten realizes he needs help.Nl: Hij heeft geen keuze meer.En: He has no choice.Nl: Hij roept naar Yara. "Help me dit te stoppen!"En: He calls out to Yara, "Help me stop this!"Nl: Yara twijfelt, maar de urgentie in Maartens stem overtuigt haar.En: Yara hesitates, but the urgency in Maarten's voice convinces her.Nl: Ze weet nu dat de wereld het verhaal nog even niet hoeft te kennen.En: She now knows that the world doesn't need to know the story just yet.Nl: Samen rennen ze naar de machines.En: Together, they run to the machines.Nl: Maarten geeft Yara snelle instructies.En: Maarten gives Yara quick instructions.Nl: Met iedere seconde tellend, werken ze zij aan zij.En: With every second counting, they work side by side.Nl: Uiteindelijk lukt het.En: Finally, they succeed.Nl: De crisis is afgewend.En: The crisis is averted.Nl: In de nasleep van de chaos beseffen ze beide iets belangrijks.En: In the aftermath of the chaos, they both realize something important.Nl: Maarten leert dat ethiek belangrijker is dan welke ontdekking dan ook.En: Maarten learns that ethics are more important than any discovery.Nl: En Yara ziet in dat wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen soms moeilijker zijn dan ze doen vermoeden.En: And Yara understands that scientific breakthroughs are sometimes more complex than they seem.Nl: Ze besluiten samen verder te werken om te voorkomen dat er nog een ramp zal gebeuren.En: They decide to continue working together to prevent any further disasters.Nl: Het laboratorium blijft verborgen, maar nu met een nieuw doel.En: The lab remains hidden, but now with a new purpose.Nl: Maarten en Yara werken aan veilige en ethische oplossingen.En: Maarten and Yara work on safe and ethical solutions.Nl: Ze beschermen geheimen, maar bewaren ook de veiligheid van de mensen.En: They protect secrets but also ensure the safety of the people.Nl: En diep onder Amsterdam, wordt er hard gewerkt aan een betere toekomst.En: And deep beneath Amsterdam, they work tirelessly towards a better future. Vocabulary Words:bustling: drukkehidden: verborgenrefuge: onderkomenadvanced: geavanceerdeequipment: apparatuurdimly lit: zwak verlichtebrilliant: briljantereclusive: teruggetrokkencurious: nieuwsgierigeinvestigative: onderzoekssneaks: sluiptdisappearances: verdwijningensmells: ruiktknack: neusdetermined: vastbeslotencontroversial: controversieeloverlooked: over het hoofd gezienblare: loeienflash: flitsencontrol room: controlekamerpale: bleekpanic: paniekunfolds: ontvouwtthreatens: dreigturgency: urgentiehesitates: twijfeltcounting: tellentcrisis: crisisaftermath: nasleepethical: ethische

Fluent Fiction - Danish: Revolution in the Lab: Freja's Secret and a Life-Saving Truth Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.org/revolution-in-the-lab-frejas-secret-and-a-life-saving-truth Story Transcript:Da: Freja arbejdede dag og nat i sit hemmelige laboratorium under København.En: Freja worked day and night in her secret laboratory beneath Copenhagen.Da: Laboratoriet var skjult under jorden, fyldt med avanceret videnskabeligt udstyr.En: The laboratory was hidden underground, filled with advanced scientific equipment.Da: Freja var en genial, men indelukket forsker.En: Freja was a genius but reclusive researcher.Da: Hun ville revolutionere medicinsk teknologi med en ny opdagelse inden for biomedicinsk teknik.En: She aimed to revolutionize medical technology with a new discovery in biomedical engineering.Da: Men Freja havde et problem.En: But Freja had a problem.Da: Hendes helbred blev hurtigt dårligere.En: Her health was rapidly deteriorating.Da: Hun havde brug for en akut organtransplantation.En: She needed an urgent organ transplant.Da: Freja havde skjult sine helbredsproblemer for at fortsætte sin forskning.En: Freja had hidden her health issues to continue her research.Da: Henrik, hendes eneste fortrolige, anede ikke noget om hendes tilstand.En: Henrik, her only confidant, had no idea about her condition.Da: En sommerdag blev Frejas situation værre.En: One summer day, Freja's situation worsened.Da: Hun svedte og havde smerter.En: She was sweating and in pain.Da: Men hun nægtede at stoppe.En: But she refused to stop.Da: Hendes forskning var for vigtig.En: Her research was too important.Da: Henrik bemærkede hendes svaghed.En: Henrik noticed her weakness.Da: "Freja, du ser træt ud.En: "Freja, you look tired.Da: Er alt okay?"En: Is everything okay?"Da: spurgte Henrik bekymret.En: Henrik asked worriedly.Da: "Jeg har det fint, Henrik.En: "I'm fine, Henrik.Da: Jeg er bare lidt træt," løj Freja.En: I'm just a bit tired," Freja lied.Da: Freja vidste, at hun skulle fortælle Henrik sandheden.En: Freja knew she had to tell Henrik the truth.Da: Men frygten for at miste tid og ressourcer holdt hende tilbage.En: But the fear of losing time and resources held her back.Da: Hun arbejdede videre, mens Henrik så til med stigende bekymring.En: She continued working while Henrik looked on with growing concern.Da: En dag, mens Freja arbejdede på et nyt forsøg, kollapsede hun pludseligt.En: One day, while working on a new experiment, Freja suddenly collapsed.Da: Henrik skyndte sig hen til hende og så hendes blege ansigt.En: Henrik rushed to her and saw her pale face.Da: "Freja!En: "Freja!Da: Vågn op!"En: Wake up!"Da: råbte Henrik desperat.En: Henrik shouted desperately.Da: Han ringede straks efter hjælp og fik hende transporteret til hospitalet.En: He immediately called for help and got her transported to the hospital.Da: På hospitalet opdagede lægerne hendes tilstand.En: At the hospital, the doctors discovered her condition.Da: Hun blev hurtigt opereret og fik en ny nyre.En: She was quickly operated on and received a new kidney.Da: Efter operationen besøgte Henrik hende.En: After the surgery, Henrik visited her.Da: "Freja, hvorfor sagde du ikke noget?En: "Freja, why didn't you say anything?Da: Jeg kunne have hjulpet dig," sagde Henrik med tårer i øjnene.En: I could have helped you," Henrik said with tears in his eyes.Da: Freja så op på ham, stadig svag, men taknemmelig.En: Freja looked up at him, still weak but grateful.Da: "Jeg var bange for at miste tid.En: "I was afraid of losing time.Da: Min forskning er min passion.En: My research is my passion.Da: Men jeg indser nu, at jeg ikke kan klare alting alene."En: But I realize now that I can't handle everything alone."Da: Henrik nikkede forstående.En: Henrik nodded understandingly.Da: "Du er ikke alene, Freja.En: "You're not alone, Freja.Da: Vi skal arbejde sammen.En: We need to work together.Da: Sammen kan vi opnå store ting."En: Together we can achieve great things."Da: Efter Frejas helbred blev stabiliseret, vendte de tilbage til laboratoriet.En: After Freja's health stabilized, they returned to the laboratory.Da: Men denne gang arbejdede de som et team.En: But this time, they worked as a team.Da: Freja lærte at stole på Henrik og værdsatte hans hjælp.En: Freja learned to trust Henrik and appreciated his help.Da: Sammen gjorde de store fremskridt i deres forskning.En: Together, they made significant progress in their research.Da: Freja indså, at hun ikke behøvede at bære sine byrder alene.En: Freja realized she didn't need to carry her burdens alone.Da: Samarbejde og tillid var nøglen til succes.En: Collaboration and trust were the keys to success.Da: Og med Henrik ved sin side vidste hun, at de kunne nå deres mål.En: And with Henrik by her side, she knew they could reach their goals.Da: Slut.En: The End. Vocabulary Words:reclusive: indelukketrevolutionize: revolutionerebiomedical engineering: biomedicinsk teknikdeteriorating: blev dårligereurgent: akutconfidant: fortroligesweating: svedteweakness: svagheddesperately: desperatoperative: opereretkidney: nyrecollaboration: samarbejdeadvanced: avanceretscientific equipment: videnskabeligt udstyrgenius: genialhealth issues: helbredsproblemercondition: tilstandsituation worsened: situation værrepain: smerterresources: ressourcerexperiment: forsøgcollapsed: kollapsedepale face: blege ansigtdiscovered: opdagedehospital: hospitaletgrateful: taknemmeligpassion: passionstabilized: stabiliseretburdens: byrderappreciated: værdsatte

On Episode 408 we discuss...→ "I think I was in heaven" - Buffy→ We dare you to check out our fairytale episode→ Jim Jensen Storyteller vibes→ Harry is all the Houses by Book 7→ The cloak is a copout→ Conspiracy theories→ Rowan and elder wood→ Wizards are combative and arrogantAlohomora! 's Final 100 is sponsored in part by Secretlab. Award-winning comfort that feels just like magic. From adjustable lumbar support that fits perfectly into the curve of your lower back to an ergonomic pebble seat base shaped to accommodate every sitting posture — the Secretlab TITAN Evo Harry Potter Edition is crafted to support wizards and muggles alike. Pay homage to the fantastical world of charms and spells with the Secretlab Harry Potter Collection, including lumbar pillows and premium chair sleeves inspired by the four Hogwarts houses.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/alohomora-the-original-harry-potter-book-club--5016402/support.

On Episode 407 we discuss...→ Universal group text→ Sirius rips our heart out→ Cho Chang in her Taylor era→ The Mauraders are trash - do you really want that prequel?→ Peter is a natural born coward→ Pure blood privileged wrecks→ Teenage triggers and trauma→ Single and alive→ Grease and grief of Severus SnapeAlohomora! 's Final 100 is sponsored in part by Secretlab. Award-winning comfort that feels just like magic. From adjustable lumbar support that fits perfectly into the curve of your lower back to an ergonomic pebble seat base shaped to accommodate every sitting posture — the Secretlab TITAN Evo Harry Potter Edition is crafted to support wizards and muggles alike. Pay homage to the fantastical world of charms and spells with the Secretlab Harry Potter Collection, including lumbar pillows and premium chair sleeves inspired by the four Hogwarts houses.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/alohomora-the-original-harry-potter-book-club--5016402/support.

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0:00 Sony takes Call of Duty deal 1:24 Who cares about the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB? 2:19 Secretlab 3:53 QUICK BITS 4:01 Corsair buys Drop, or part of it? 4:34 China funds GPU startup using CUDA 5:06 Elon Musk unveils xAI 5:45 EU mandates user-replaceable batteries 6:20 OLED screens repaired by laser beams News Sources: https://lmg.gg/MV5LP

Good morning from London where Friday is off to a bit of a slow start, with traders still ruminating over yesterday's 0.5% UK base rate hike. Big name mortgage lenders are due to meet chancellor Jeremy Hunt today in what is described as “collaborative” event after the government resisted calls to intervene directly in the mortgage market. On the FTSE 100 GSK is the biggest gainer this so far this morning, after the pharma giant settled a cancer lawsuit for heartburn treatment Zantac that had been due for US trial. Hotel Chocolat has issued its second profit warning in as many months, and is warning of a "minor loss" this year as consumers continue to seek out cheaper alternatives. Audioboom has also had a tough start to the day, warning of lower than expected profits this year as the pandemic podcast craze continues to unwind. Among the small caps, David Beckham-backed Guild Esports has signed a one-year partnership deal with the gaming chair specialist Secretlab. #ProactiveInvestors #FTSE100 #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

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0:00 doesn't make any sense! 0:07 Microsoft enforces Xbox emulator ban 1:28 Samsung cuts chip production 2:55 Rogers - Shaw merger 4:20 Secretlab 4:53 QUICK BITS 5:00 Tesla employees shared owner videos 5:40 iOS Wi-Fi auto-join can't be disabled 6:14 Twitter suppresses Substack links 6:51 AMD Alveo MA35D encoding card 7:25 Sony Remote Play handheld News Sources: https://lmg.gg/eGUzy

Filmed March 15, 2023 Special thanks to our podcast partner Secretlab ✨ https://bit.ly/3i2LB7X TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Tech issues00:08 - Intro00:35 - OTV win at The Streamer Awards04:42 - The Streamer Awards 2023 vs 202209:03 - The Streamer Awards stream11:11 - The Oscars13:11 - Racial discourse around The Oscars14:43 - How does The Oscars voting work?17:06 - Movies from 202220:04 - Best Picture23:20 - Austin Butler24:33 - Pete Davidson27:03 - VCT Brazil trip29:45 - Leaving Toast behind in Brazil32:27 - John's awesome Brazil travel experience33:28 - Bus tour in Brazil36:13 - OTV is going to Japan again!37:09 - Soapland...?38:20 - Soapland vs a strip club38:55 - John's goal to play video games in Japan39:45 - Mori Museum in Japan43:26 - OTV art museum idea44:07 - VALORANT Champions in LA44:40 - Next OTV party during VALORANT Champions45:10 - INVITING 10 FANS TO THE OTV PARTY???46:20 - Would you go to a celebrity party solo?47:45 - Influencer product businesses50:21 - OTV soju?50:42 - Golden ticket to an OTV party52:40 - Which celebrity's party would you want to go to?55:03 - Which celebrities would we sleep with? Find out in our Patreon-only After Dark segment :)55:40 - Outro 

Dennis ist im Urlaub und wird zum Instagram-Influencer. Um den Spielekeller vor einer Sommerpause zu bewahren, hat sich Chris Stefan Krumme eingeladen. Stefan arbeitet aktuell als Head of Backforce für Interstuhl Büromöbel GmbH & Co. KG. Backforce stellt Gaming-Stühle her und hat unter anderem Partnerschaften mit BIG und NaVi. Stefan spricht darüber, was einen guten Stuhl ausmacht und unterhält sich mit Chris über unterschiedliche Ansätze von Marken wie zB DXRacer, Secretlab, Noblechairs und IKEA. Welche Unterschiede gibt es und worauf sollte ihr achten? Im Anschluss greift Chris Fragen aus der Community auf, die in den meisten Fällen auf Stefan's Sammelleidenschaft für Kolex CS:GO Sammelkarten abzielen. Die beiden sprechen entspannt über ihr Sammelhobby und eine Stunde verging wie im Flug.

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Save money on your phone plan today at https://www.mintmobile.com/wanshow Check out Secretlab at https://lmg.gg/SecretLabWAN Buy an Electro-Voice RE320 Cardioid Dynamic Broadcast Microphone from Sweetwater: https://lmg.gg/RE320 Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119) Note: Timing may be off due to sponsor change: 0:00 Chapters 1:44 Intro 2:08 Linus's busy week 2:53 Topic #1 - Extreme Tech Upgrade is no more 4:50 Discussing XTU's appeal 9:18 LMG's work history with Intel 11:32 AMD's Ultimate Tech Upgrade, a nice budget 14:26 Linus's old setup video idea, Jank Luke 17:14 Linus's & Luke's full red setups 19:30 Total XTU's views, Linus hasn't met all employees 23:12 LTTStore's track jacket & joggers 26:42 Showcasing amazing photos, limited stock 28:14 Luke on past WAN's shirt fitment & tall shirts 31:11 Blank shirts ratings, T-shirt printer update 33:25 Topic #2 - Bing's conversational chatbot 34:38 Linus tries a spicy Bing search 37:02 Linus calls out Dan's post it 38:26 Luke on the faster wait list requirements 40:16 Linus tries asking about what happened to Luke 43:39 How many LTT backpacks fit in a Tesla? 46:18 Asking about LTT tracksuit, suggests fitting pants 49:10 Chatbot suggests "fitting colors" LTTStore's joggers 52:12 Linus's & Luke's reactions, chatbot watches videos 55:12 Lanyard's durability, chatbot reads reviews 56:04 Negative lanyard reviews, chatbot summarizes 58:20 Water Bottle color that matches the tracksuit? ft. LTT red logo 1:04:26 Luke provides reasons behind bad answers 1:05:12 Rephrasing question, focuses on workshop jacket 1:08:14 LTTStore customer service, recalling Cortana 1:11:12 LTT screwdriver's quality, user feedback 1:15:08 Valheim's "biomass," autocorrects to Bonemass 1:17:22 Microsoft's Prometheus, Google's Bard 1:22:54 BAidu's Ernie, Opera to include ChatGPT 1:23:29 Challenges with implementing ChatGPT? 1:25:15 Concerns when companies construct their own AI? 1:26:04 Sponsors 1:35:28 GoT Season 8, Jim Carrey Liar Liar equivalent 1:40:42 Merch Message #1 1:57:36 Topic #3 - Chinese phones loaded with malware 1:59:24 Topic #4 - Samsung update has 55 GB uninstallable bloatware 2:01:06 Looking at S23 apps, consumed storage, wear leveling 2:08:08 Topic #5 - xQc computer build collab 2:08:22 Linus on having an assistant & CSF video 2:10:00 Learning from xQc, Amazon Basic's wishlist 2:13:20 xQc constantly streams, Linus on security & fans 2:22:40 Topic #6 - Ubisoft partners with police to monitor harassment 2:23:05 Merch Messages #2 2:26:52 Do you keep or sell old technology? Which do you regret selling? 2:50:00 Are Brick-and-Mortar stores still needed? 3:15:16 Would LTT merch get you laid? 3:14:09 Topic #7: Date wore a LinusTechTips underwear Cont Merch Messages #2 3:27:49 Why is the word "so" banned? 3:29:57 Outro

0:00 I remember... 0:08 Samsung SSDs failing rapidly 1:16 Dept. of Justice sues Google 2:14 Apple VR headset leaks again 3:35 Secretlab 3:58 QUICK BITS 4:05 Macbook Pro SSD performance drop 4:37 League of Legends source code hack 5:13 NASA, DARPA nuclear rockets 5:41 playing Elden Ring with brainwaves 6:15 No one connects smart appliances News Sources: https://lmg.gg/KwdWC

0:00 The footage for the intro got messed up 0:05 New York Right to Repair bill passed 1:15 AMD RTX 7900 XTX support backlash 2:20 Make Sunsets break science rules 3:21 SecretLab extended Christmas Sale 3:49 QUICK BITS 3:57 Experts weigh in on Lastpass leak 4:29 Samsung TikTok fridge 5:04 400M Twitter accounts for sale 5:34 Google Home spy bug patched 6:04 SALT FRIDGE! News Sources: https://lmg.gg/iuh3l

In this Weeks Show Shawn tells us about getting his Synology NAS System in and setting it up. Shawn shares how he received not one bad three bad hard drives. He is now waiting for the replacement drives to come in before being able to get it completed. He has discovered how full featured with options the Synology NAS is and now ever more excited about getting it set up. Justin and Shawn discuss Parity drives and how it can be set up. Shawn tells us about Soldering a Wyze product, the Wyze Wall Switch and why he chose to rework the feature. He found the step by steps on Reddit. Giving the gift of Tech isn't always appreciated, the guys talk about knowing if the recipient is open to home assistants and if they already have a home setup with Amazon or Google. Justin is participating in a White Elephant Party and decides to get the TP Link Casa Smart Bulbs for the event however it doesn't go over to well with the Misa. Andy tells us about the iXplore SanDisk Flash drive perfect for the mobile devices. Shawn decided to spend some money on new products from Wyze such as the Colored bulbs. The guys talk about their wish list for this holiday, for Shawn it's the El Gato Streamdeck, DJI Avata FP Drone and a Gaming Chair from IKEA. Justin talks about his Chair from Secret Lab and how he was happy with the purchase he made. Andy gets some time and takes up the DJI Mini 3 Pro drone up for a flight and is terrified at the first flight, Justin lets him know it not unusual. Andy tells the story about Axl Rose of Gun's N Roses and why he is banning drones from their Concerts. Justin buys himself a Smoker for the outdoor cooking experience. The Master Built Electric Smoker. Justin shares with us the experience and the guys talk about new digital thermometers. Andy talks about shopping for a new refrigerator and found an LG that he really likes and it features Smart Wi-Fi. The guys talk about the Lifespan of a Controlled Colored LED Bulb. Epic Games announces Free Daily Digital Downloads for the Holidays coming December 15 through January 10th. Justin tells us about RyanHallyall on YouTube and how he delivers the Weather information while Shawn shares Map Info from FAA for Drone Pilots. FAA.maps.arcgis.com Connect with Us on social media! Facebook @techtalkers YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/techtalkradio Twitter @TechtalkRadio Instagram techtalkradio Web: TechtalkRadio.Com Subscribe and Like on Spreaker! Spotify, YouTube, Audacy, iHeart and Apple Podcast

In this episode Scott and Luke discuss the Secretlab Titan Gaming Chair. Find out what Luke thinks of the gaming chair and learn how he scores it on a number of categories.Consider following us on social media and checking out our podcast and YouTube channel!Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/androidguysInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/androidguysPodcast: https://feeds.simplecast.com/Euu8HkMQWebsite: http://www.androidguys.com

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[0:58] Intro ft. "slow news day" [1:56] Topic #1: EVGA leaves the GPU market. > 4:20 EVGA's sales revenue, > 5:52 No plans to work with AMD or Intel. > 7:11 NVIDIA controlling prices & projects. > 9:12 CEO claims no employees to be laid off. > 10:44 NVIDIA's shady history, Linus's notes. > 18:24 Advantages of NVIDIA having many AIBs. > 21:08 Discussing EVGA's move & products > 22:40 Linus called it 12 years ago. > 24:05 Reading EVGA's quote, NVIDIA the bully. > 28:02 Recalling NVIDIA blocking Hardware Unboxed. > 34:42 More of NVIDIA's shady history. > 42:22 NVIDIA is hard to work with, RIP EVGA. > 46:22 With EVGA GPUs gone, which AIB to buy from? [47:18] Topic #2: Etherium merger was a success. > 49:02 ETH & BTC price drop, ETH's CEO quote. > 49:52 White House's framework on regulating crypto. [51:18] Topic #3: NVIDIA leaks, tightening stock. > 53:21 Leaked specifications of RTX 4xxx. > 54:10 Excitement towards the GPUs, modded Cyperpunk. [55:32] LTTStore myshopify test, 64oz bottles. > 1:02:32 New waffle long-sleeve colors. [1:03:36] Sponsors. > 1:03:55 KIOXIA's CM7 series NVME SSD. > 1:05:12 Squarespace site builder. > 1:06:40 Secretlab chairs. [1:07:24] Discussing LTX2023 floorplan. [1:08:20] Topic #4: Result of Linus-Dennis fight. > 1:09:22 Dennis spent a month training, Linus's leg injury. [1:13:30] Topic #5: Stray cats update. [1:17:53] Topic #6: Google experiments with ads. > 1:18:52 Up to 10 ads, discussing midrolls. > 1:21:08 Ads impact on Google. [1:25:08] Merch Messages #1. > 1:25:43 UniFiDream Machine V.S. PfSense. > 1:26:30 Steam Deck & streaming as a setup. > 1:27:40 Quadro works on Linux, not Windows. > 1:28:36 SC pants for hoodie idea. > 1:28:55 LTT's apocalypse PC, mesh filter. > 1:34:52 Best water blocks for watercooling. > 1:38:01 Would EVGA move to Intel or AMD? > 1:39:38 Linus's pet goat story. [1:42:25] Topic #7: Amazon sells dangerous cords. > 1:46:02 Difference between defects & dangerous. > 1:47:04 "Water-proof", misleading specs. > 1:50:07 Power cords, discussing Labs size. [1:52:23] Topic #8: Sponsoring a "part" of a video. [1:57:11] Topic #9: Intel "rebrands" low-end laptop CPUs. [1:59:36] Merch Messages #2. > 1:59:58 Linus's plans for the PVC pipes. > 2:00:39 Internet to a detached garage. > 2:01:58 Getting your SO tech-savvy. > 2:03:01 3D printers & other round-ups. > 2:04:32 Second monitor effects on a PC. > 2:05:58 Worst tech purchasing experience? > 2:08:31 Updates on the WAG hoodie. > 2:09:36 Shameless fanboying for companies. > 2:12:42 Proudest gamer dad moment. > 2:14:28 Camera-focus for backpack. > 2:15:42 Measuring performance for benchmarks. > 2:17:35 Linus's favorite pony. > 2:18:18 What to look for in a riser cable. > 2:19:10 Recommendations for rackets below 50. > 2:20:09 Sequential invoice numbers for FP. > 2:20:45 Stealth desk pad, exciting data science. > 2:22:07 Favorite musicians. > 2:23:33 Rackmount PC with Sliger. > 2:24:14 Balancing life & hobbies as a dad. > 2:25:32 Plans for LTT screwdriver colors. > 2:27:15 Raising tech-savvy kid without being tech dependent. > 2:27:50 Using LTT screwdriver underwater. > 2:29:18 RTX 4000 V.S. AMD's 7000 series. > 2:30:17 Wire management product, Luke's favorite LTT product. > 2:30:48 Prediction on the 4000 series stock. > 2:31:15 Why don't PSUs have standard cables? > 2:32:00 Hobbies Linus & Luke want to get into. > 2:33:54 Star Wars, Star Trek or Stargate? > 2:35:18 GPU market, 1080Ti upgrade. > 2:35:48 PSU brand recommendations. > 2:36:10 Best cable for next-room PC. > 2:36:32 Vancouver's real estate prices. > 2:39:12 Why Apple dropped NVIDIA. > 2:40:14 Userbase model for ad partners. > 2:41:26 Breakdown of screwdriver shafts. [2:42:38] Outro. [Cont.] Merch Messages #2. > 2:43:02 Any other collabs?

Get a $100 60-day credit on your new account at: http://linode.com/wan Save your time and sanity with New Relic at https://www.newrelic.com/wan Save money on your phone plan today at https://www.mintmobile.com/wanshow Timestamps: (Courtesy of NoKi1119 - Timestamps may be off due to change in sponsors) 0:00 Chapters. 1:08 Intro. 1:33 Topic #1: Lenovo sends Frameworks a cease & desist. 2:53 Legion logo compared to Mercedez-Benz. 4:10 Linus & Luke agree with Lenovo. 6:04 Topic #2: Apple restricts third-party tracking. 7:42 Ads sold on applications, hypocritical Apple. 10:50 Luke setting up an iPhone to check tracking. 11:10 LTTStore's RGB hoodie. 13:56 Lambo edition LTT bottle. Cont. Topic #2: Apple restricts third-patry tracking. 15:13 Reading Apple's "transparent" when setting up. 17:28 Topic #3: Discussing Metaverse's look. 19:16 Horizon Worlds, making avatar via Readyplayer. 25:26 Merch Messages #1. 26:32 Important lessons Linus teaches his kids. 29:38 Secret shopper for cell service provider. 30:54 Do writers have partial ownership of channels? 33:24 Favorite daily-driver phone. 37:18 How much damage Denis (& Colton) did to Linus's house. 44:22 Trust Me Bro Limited Lifetime Warranty. Cont. Merch Messages #1. 47:00 Trust me bro shirt was requested on Twitter. 47:51 Sponsors. 48:05 Squarespace site maker. 48:53 XSplit live streaming. 49:42 Secretlab gaming chair. 50:52 Topic #4: DOOM ran on tractor display. 53:12 Is there a more anti-consumer company? 58:46 How John Deere hurts everyone. 1:00:16 LTTLabs is not LTTLab, discussing domain. 1:04:02 Lab32, reason behind the number. 1:06:26 Merch Messages #2. 1:06:34 Camera bag for the backpack, domain Strawpoll. 1:07:58 What games would Linus & Luke install on the tractor. 1:09:44 Steam alternatives. 1:12:30 "All domains I own" segment. 1:15:28 Frameworks' used hardware market. 1:16:30 Project Farm screwdriver testing. 1:17:28 LTTStore Screwdriver pop-up. 1:19:38 Linus calls about backpack's availability in the pop-up. 1:21:54 LTX, Linus recommends against early booking. 1:22:54 Merch Messages #3. 1:23:02 More home server, automation & labs. 1:24:45 What Linus plans to leave behind for the new owners. 1:25:37 NCIX's impact on Linus & LTTStore. 1:29:10 Hiring experienced V.S. learners. 1:33:14 Topic #5: Tesla accused of false autopilot advertisement. 1:38:02 Merch Messages #4. 1:38:12 VPS company suggestion ft. Linus's birthday. 1:39:40 Valve Index features & suggestions. 1:40:28 What do Linus & Luke eat? 1:41:58 Coolest case Linus & Luke built in. 1:44:00 Take on Samsung's Z Fold 4. 1:44:30 Labs on repairability or jailbreaks. 1:45:25 Labs on mics, interface, XLR & TRS. 1:48:12 Linus on long time format. 1:49:47 Any cool projects for computer vision? 1:49:56 What business help Linus got. 1:50:29 Budget server rack. 1:50:54 Benefits of gaming to buy consoles. 1:52:18 Floatplane QOL features & motivation. 1:54:32 Why Colton is always fired. 1:56:08 Do LTT employees get discount on merch? 1:58:28 DOS gaming PCs build in the future. 1:58:42 LTT RGB merch idea. 1:58:58 Linux-like challenge with Apple. 1:59:38 Linus on Beat Saber technique. 2:00:06 Selling YouTube videos for revenues. 2:02:52 Recommendations for rack-mount gaming 2:03:22 Linus's Epson projector. 2:04:22 Outro.

0:00 come on, boys!! 0:07 Ryzen 7000 prices up 1:10 CPU shipments down 2:05 RTX 3080 re-releasing 3:11 SecretLab 3:47 QUICK BITS 3:55 Android 13 launches on Pixels 4:22 TikTok DALL-E 4:44 LG tiny OLED displays 5:11 YouTube Store 5:37 Apple-Facebook partnership

Protect your eyes and headset with Reloptix at https://lmg.gg/Reloptix Visit https://www.squarespace.com/WAN and use offer code WAN for 10% off Save up to $130 during Secretlab's mid-year sale at https://lmg.gg/SecretLabWAN Timestamps: (Courtesy of NoKi1119) 0:00 Chapters 1:20 Intro 1:53 Topic #1 - Linus's haircut 3:27 Summarizing the ChannelSuperFun video 9:20 FP's new poll system, "fake" videos 12:54 Luke's story on hairdressers 14:10 Linus struggles with polling, is Luke mean? 15:20 Topic #2 - YouTube battling bot spam 16:22 Blame the platform, not the victims 20:43 YouTube's update, why this is not enough 23:22 Scamming is a large industry 26:07 Bot comment examples on LTT, blocking users 32:16 Problems with removing bot comments 35:18 Linus planning to chat with a Telegram scammer 38:20 "Trend" dashboard, lack of informative metrics 46:18 Linus is done repeating himself to YouTube 50:25 LTTStore new sweatshorts & hoodie, editing comments 55:33 LTT deskpad promo, JRE's razor knife 1:00:04 Topic #3 - YouTuber Technoblade passed away 1:03:55 Sponsor - Reloptix 1:05:30 Sponsor - Squarespace 1:06:32 Sponsor - Secretlab 1:07:25 Merch Messages #1 1:07:45 Old & new milestones for LMG 1:12:31 New smart home tools 1:13:40 Harmony remote issues & alternatives 1:16:49 Home theatre second-row solution 1:17:31 HPE ProLiant RL300 & ARM in the server space 1:19:07 Linus's "free Microsoft Windows" prediction 1:22:06 Cel-Fi repeater update 1:23:03 Pros of Linus's haircut 1:23:40 LTX booth or panel in VidCon 1:27:14 Topic #4 - Intel's Blockscale ASIC 1:27:32 Specifications, performance 1:28:08 Luke does not thinks it's too late 1:29:11 Power efficiency, costs to run 1:32:47 Linus's PSA on the LTTStore screwdriver 1:34:44 FP's Poll, live stream & comparing with other brands 1:38:47 Topic #5 - Nvidia releases GTX 1630 But for who? 1:39:20 Specifications & pricing 1:40:16 Recalling AMD R7 240, stop wasting money 1:43:07 Linus uses Telegram 1:43:48 Topic #6 - Sony now sells headsets & monitors 1:46:26 Topic #7 - SSD oddities on Macbook Pro & Steam Deck 1:48:28 SSD cooling issues on Steam Deck 1:49:20 Telegram issues, attempting to call the scammer 1:51:38 Topic #8 - GSuite is not the same as the free versions 1:54:32 Telegram now works, contacts the scammer 1:58:48 Merch Messages #2 1:59:10 VR gaming as GPU prices dropping 2:01:49 Labs update content-wise 2:02:38 Space science, Mars probe upgraded after 20 years 2:03:46 Best and worst thing about Linus's house 2:05:02 AMD fusing multiple dies on next-gen GPUs 2:05:45 Hopes for Nothing Phone 1 & headphones 2:06:39 Linus on Sony & Pixel phones 2:07:21 LTTStore coffee mugs, an idea overdue 2:07:36 Advices on running software development remotely 2:09:38 Thoughts on used server parts for home server/NAS 2:10:53 Why does LMG place employees under probation? 2:12:12 Outro

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Another great weekly episode covering all things gaming led by #Tarkov, #Halo, #Myth, #Pokemon #Metaverse and #Gaymers What we played this week: Tarkov, Football Manager, Metro Exodus, Destiny 2, Vigor, and of course Apex Legends You Love To See It: Halo Infinite's cosmetics will be cheaper across the board starting next week NRP Sports: TSM Myth no longer TSM.... 4TheCulture: LA Cops fired for ignoring a robbery in progress to catch a Snorlax on Pokemon Go Business Games: Yahaha Studios raised $50m for a no-code game creation metaverse Game Talk: Gaymers, the community + culture + Headlines -> LA cops get fired for ignoring a robbery to play #PokemonGo #Xbox boss Phil Spencer wants your banned players list to follow you everywhere #GPU stolen in California end up in a trailer in Vietnam retailer #Razer lied about its #Zephyr Mask Farmer using V#R on cows to produce more milk #GodofWar PC's new accessibility ‘laid the groundwork' for God of War #Ragnarok #FaZeTemperrr vs #KingKenny at USA vs UK boxing event March 5th #DisguisedToast gets banned for watching ‘Death Note' #LoganPaul $3.5 million box of Pokemon were actually a box of G.I Joe cards #Take-Two Interactive is buying #Zynga for $12.7 billion Chief Revenue officer #JeffPabst departs from #FaZeClan #TSM CEO under Investigation #Fortnite gets back onto ios via #Geforce #Sony to make more #PS4 due to shortage of #PS5 #Valve and #Geico team up for a Portal-themed insurance ad #EnvyGaming acquires operating rights for Esports stadium Arlington #GalaxyRacer to invest $10 million into #Malaysia eSports ecosystem #TableTop Simulator studio kills global chat for good, makes $10k donation to trans advocacy group #Krafton sues Google, YouTube, and Apple over alleged #PUBG Clones #Ubisoft hiring for Splinter Cell remake #Konami Sells one #NFT for $26,538 #Lego delays #Overwatch2 set over #Activision #Blizzard allegations #RedDeadOnline players mad over no major updates in months Fan made an adapter that allows you to play #PS5 with one hand #Nintendo Switch getting #AssassinsCreed Trilogy Gavin Raeburn is leaving #Playground Gaming Mobile game #Forza Street shutting down it servers #MyHeroAcademia is getting a battle royal game #GTA6 in the works but possibly won't be out till 2024 #AmongUs is Crossing over with SCREAM #Bandai Namco could be working on a new Killer Instinct for Xbox #Respawn working on a new game #MYTH leaves #TSM #Barcelona #Esports partners with Gamers Hub Media Events Europe Team #Vitality and #Adidas join forces to launch semi-pro team OR Esports teams up with #KFCIndia Cem Bolukbasi makes jump to #Formula2 Championship #Madden x #Nickelodeon #TeamSpirit announces partnership with #Secretlab

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In the latest weekly news and podcast after-show (sponsored by http://yougov.com/gaming-esports (YouGov)), we discuss Incheon International Airport opening an esports arena, Japan planning to launch an esports high school, China banning the global version of Steam, Baidu laying off 100 employees, Secretlab creating Pokemon gaming chairs, Bauhutte developing a gaming finger massager, Fanatec quickly selling out of its BMW sim-racing wheel, Nintendo dominating Amazon's top sellers in the gaming category, Tesla implementing restrictions on in-car gaming, CCP Games' CEO talking about how gaming should be a viable retirement plan, and so much more!

In the latest weekly news and podcast after-show (sponsored by http://yougov.com/gaming-esports (YouGov)), we discuss TikTok developing a live-streaming desktop application, CD Projekt settling a $1.85 million lawsuit, Secretlab launching a gaming chair based on The Witcher, 100 Thieves' President saying the company isn't worried about profits, China's gaming regulations causing slowing growth, PlayVS exiting the collegiate space in failure as expected, one of the lead people behind Arcane getting into tabletop gaming, Rec Room securing $145 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, and so much more!

Get a 60-day free trial of stress-free shipping by going to https://shipstation.com Don't forget to click on the microphone at the top of the page and type in "WAN"! Check out the WAN Show & Podcast Gear: https://lmg.gg/podcastgear Check out the They're Just Movies Podcast: https://lmg.gg/tjmpodcast Timestamps: (Courtesy of NoKi1119 - NOTE: Timestamps may be slightly off due to sponsor change) [0:00] Chapters. [1:29] Intro. [1:59] Topic #1: PC wins Best Gaming Hardware. 3:32 Comparing PCs with consoles. 7:54 Dark Souls wins Ultimate Game of All Time. 11:55 Other candidates for the award. 17:06 Linus's & Luke's "best" of genres. [29:34] Topic #2: Tesla records YOU. 31:33 Tesla using non-validated self-driving. 34:15 Inaccurate promises by Tesla. [39:24] LTTStore Black Friday deals. [40:42] Sponsors ft technical difficulties. 41:03 Ridge Wallet. 41:42 Secretlab chairs. 43:00 Humio dashboard logging. [48:50] Topic #3: GPU prices increasing again. 51:00 Samsung's potential 3nm chips. [53:24] Topic #4: iBuyPower & Gamers Nexus. 57:26 A terrible deal is NOT a lie. 58:54 Linus's experience with rebadged GPUs. [1:03:05] Topic #5: Qualcomm's exclusivity deal ending in 2022. 1:05:09 Linux topic, Windows is better at gaming than Linux. 1:10:32 SteamOS 3.0 & arch-based distros. 1:14:53 The intended point of the series. 1:19:28 Candy Crush, PUPs in Windows. [1:20:24] LTTStore leak #1: LTT backpack. [1:24:46] Ayaneo 2021 Pro. [1:28:24] Merch Messages. [1:31:25] LTTStore leak #2: LTT stealth circuit deskpad [2:01:28] Outro.

Save up to 40% site-wide on Ekster wallets with their Black Friday sale at: https://shop.ekster.com/wanshow Check out TEAMGROUP's Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals at: https://lmg.gg/TEAMGROUPBlackFriday Check out the WAN Show & Podcast Gear: https://lmg.gg/podcastgear Check out the They're Just Movies Podcast: https://lmg.gg/tjmpodcast Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119 NOTE: Timestamps may be off due to sponsor change): [0:00] Chapters. [1:49] Intro. [2:18] Early Merch Messages. [3:02] Topic #1: Apple's Self Service Repair. 5:38 Summarizing new service. 7:16 Was Apple forced into R2R? 10:44 Expectations & reality. 12:05 Louis Rossmann's response. 13:11 LTTStore gift cards. 15:46 Would repairability increase buyers? 18:30 SteamOS 3.0 & Linux challenge. 21:24 Linus cheats back into Windows. [22:52] Topic #2: Streamlabs & OBS controversy. 25:00 Streamlabs copying Lightstream. 29:56 Is OBS in the right? [30:54] Sponsors. 31:06 Ekster smart wallet. 31:58 Squarespace site builder. 32:40 Secretlab gaming chairs. [33:16] Topic #3: Mystery box reveal. 34:55 Page & pricing. 35:28 Live unboxing. 43:04 Linus's overspending habits. [48:22] Topic #4: TheNFTBay NFT piracy. 50:07 Showcasing website. [51:54] Topic #5: Halo Infinite is back. [1:02:33] Topic #6: The fall of Activision Blizzard. [1:05:45] LTTStore newsletter. [1:07:46] Merch Messages. [1:10:13] Topic #7: Linus's house video discussion. [1:21:00] LTTStore socks & WAN joggers. [1:28:06] More Merch Messages. [1:47:50] Outro.

In the latest weekly news and podcast after-show (sponsored by http://yougov.com/gaming-esports (YouGov)), we discuss Tim Sweeney renewing his attack on Apple, Netflix sharing some revenues with Apple, Call of Duty: Vanguard sales being down in the UK, Roblox surpassing Activision-Blizzard as America's most valuable gaming company, Xbox launching a free multiplayer beta for Halo Infinite, Gucci and Xbox partnering with one another, Secretlab making an April Fool's Joke a reality, Valve delaying the Steam Deck, and so much more!

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Creating an influencer or affiliate program is a huge headache for most brands. Vetting the people you let in, assigning them links and promotions, keeping an eye on their posts. And then what about tracking performance and understanding conversions? Sounds like a nightmare But it doesn't have to be. Shibo Xu is the Co-Founder and COO of Refersion, which was built on the idea that you could completely flip that process on its head. Instead of the burden falling on the brands, influencers have to prove their worth. And rather than getting lost in vanity metrics or other out-of-date KPIs, place value only in a select few areas. These ideas helped launch Refersion to success and helped the brands that work with Refersion, like Puravida, Impossible, and 19,000 others remove some of the challenges of influencer marketing that have plagued them for years.Shibo talks about all of that on this episode of Up Next in Commerce, which was guest-hosted by Albert Chou!Main Takeaways:What's My Motivation: Despite what you might think, cash is not always the biggest motivator for influencers. Some are driven by a desire to be closer to a brand, to explore new products or to get products for free.And Your Total Is…: Total order value, total revenue and total conversions driven are the main metrics that will help you determine how influencers stack up against each other. When you accurately measure those three KPIs, you get a fuller picture of how an influencer is working, and whether or not they are worth continued investment.It's On You: Rather than vetting influencers before letting them into your affiliate network, Refersion's strategy is to let anyone in who fills out the form, and then make them prove their worth through their performance. By putting the burden on the self-appointed influencer, brands can focus only on reviewing results and turning affiliate codes on and off based on that.For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length.---Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we're ready for what's next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce---Transcript:Albert:Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Up Next In Commerce, and if you hear my voice, it definitely is different. This is no longer Stephanie. My name's Albert Chow. I work at The Mission. I am guest hosting today for the COO and co-founder of Reversion, Refersion, excuse me, Shibo Xu. Shibo, welcome to the show.Shibo:Hey, Albert. Nice to meet you.Albert:Hey, Shibo. Nice to meet you as well, and before we go any further, please tell everyone exactly what is Refersion, what does it do, and why does it matter to commerce sellers.Shibo:Sure. Yeah. Refersion is an affiliate tracking and influencer tracking platform. So, we help merchants measure and sign up influencers and affiliates and figure out, of the thousands of orders you have every month, which ones came from who, and how much commission you owe them. So, we help you run that entire process.Albert:All right. Now, I want to dive into the technicalities of this product really quickly because I want to come at this conversation from the perspective of a merchant who's been burned. I think you are familiar with what I'm talking about. So, for a lot of merchants and sellers, they have experience with affiliate marketing, but their experience has largely been, I would say, less than ideal. There's a lot of, I call them clickjacking, clickjackers, that are in the affiliate world. They'll just set up sites, or they'll actually buy PPC traffic at a number that's just low enough to make an arbitrage commission. There's low-quality traffic. There's a lot of positives, certainly, but there's also a lot of negatives, and so I'd love to hear how Refersion... What makes it unique? What makes it different? Because it sounds like you're working with more... You mentioned influences, so I'd love to hear what makes it unique, that makes it a little different from what maybe a merchant who's been burned by affiliate marketing before has experienced.Shibo:Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's a good question. It's a wild world out there, for sure, and what we try to do is just focus on the data. We try to give the merchant all the data that you need to make a good decision, like is this clickjacking? Is this coming from a coupon site? Did this referring URL actually come from CouponCabin instead of clicking onto the page itself and landing there and actually completing a purchase. So, we really try to take a step back there and give the merchant all the information they need to make these decisions and decide whether or not they want to credit this influencer and affiliate.Shibo:On another level, though, I think it's interesting to think about what kind of product you have. If they're able to make the marketing math work, what are they doing, and how are they making that math work, and why can't you beat them at their own game as a PPC? So, I think there's a lot of strategies to be learned there, and you can always pull back the affiliate program anytime. So, I think working with influencers and affiliates and learning some of those strategies can uncover a lot of insights for your brand that could be quite useful.Albert:Have you identified or do you have any anecdotal stories of people that got a materially different result from using Refersion versus... There's a lot of affiliate programs out there. So, imagine I just signed up for CJ or LinkShare, and I just did it. You know what I mean? I didn't really [crosstalk]Shibo:Yeah.Albert:You know what I mean? I signed up. I approved some affiliates. All of a sudden, I see my commission payouts are going up, my revenue is flat. All of a sudden, I'm like, what am I doing here?Shibo:Yeah.Albert:I've seen the interfaces of all those tools I just mentioned. I mean, they're hideous. The world of affiliate somehow forget UI matters. I don't know how this happened, but the whole world of UI... The affiliates don't care about UI. I don't understand. But it can be a daunting task for a merchant sometimes to manage their own systems. I mean, there's actually even... As you know, there's a subculture of business that does affiliate management, so I think people sign up for an affiliate program, they've got to hire an affiliate manager, they've got to pay commissions, so it's really complicated. I'd love to hear [crosstalk] you'd have of someone who's in that struggle, and then your data to help figure this out.Shibo:Yeah. So, that's always a hard problem, and it's kind of case by case. There's one case study with Pura Vida that I really like sharing where he looked at the total number of affiliates and influencers and realized, "Okay, I have all these signups. Most of these guys aren't doing anything except the top two or three." So, he kind of thought about this, and him, [Griffon], and Kelly from Pura Vida team thought about, "Okay, how do we motivate these folks?" They talked to a few of them and realized, okay, it's not actually cash that motivates these folks. They actually love the brand. They want to feel closer to it. So, they started sending bonus rewards, motivating the first sale, third sale, fifth sale, and that really helped actually lift up the entire kind of long-tail of their influencers, and now they're seeing a lot more traction.Shibo:So, that was one of those things that I thought was very interesting, and we rely on the merchant looking at the data to understand, hey, we have this long-tail. How do we kind of motivate them? How do we identify them, talk to some of them, and figure out a strategy that works? I would also say that the thing about affiliates, and I didn't know this because I didn't come from the affiliate background, I actually came from a tech consulting background, kind of building tech products, and the affiliate world is old in a certain way. It started, I think, in the 2000s and the '90s with bloggers, and you mentioned CJ, and I think in that world there's a lot of tactics, a lot of strategies, but there's also... The same technology is being used to track influencers as well. So, there's a lot of mixing, and it's hard to figure out what's good and what's not. Measuring apples to apples, figuring out, looking at conversions, referring resources, is probably the best thing we've found.Albert:So, one of the things that's obviously on the rise, you've kind of already mentioned it with your use case from Pura Vida, is the rise of influencers, and I've heard from the merchant side it's frustrating because everyone says they're an influencer, of course, and they're hitting every merchant up, like, "Hey, go get me some free products. I'll be a great influencer for you." One of the things that becomes very, very cloudy is who is and who is not, and one of the things that you've kind of mentioned a couple times now is this idea of how it's better... Your technology can help you better track influencers. I'd love to understand a little bit more about what you're doing, how you're helping to identify those, like you said, those top 1% to 2% influencers, which that makes sense to me. They're not motivated by money. They just love the brand so much, and so people align to them, their lifestyle or... I don't know what they're doing, but I don't fully understand influencers that much. But I'd love to hear how the data is helping identify who is worth investing in, beyond the commission. You know?Shibo:Yeah. So, the strategy that we kind of give to merchants is that, "Look at your few KPIs, your total revenue from an individual person. Just rank that across all your influencers to see who the top people are, and then work with them to understand what strategies they're employing, and then kind of bring that into the rest of the network." When thinking about who to let in, I think it really depends on what phase of the network and what phase of your product it's in. So, for example, what I mean by this is that I've seen merchants build funnels of influencer strategy, so they would start with awareness, and for that to work well you would need an influencer that's maybe a bit bigger, more of a little celebrity within your network.Shibo:Then you move from awareness over to consideration, where you work with people who maybe have smaller followings, and can demonstrate your product a little more, show how it fits into their lives, and then finally, work with brand ambassadors or smaller micro-influencers to do more of the conversion activation, performance-based kind of incentives, and that funnel seems to work relatively well. Now, it's really hard to figure out who is a celebrity, who is the person who's going to give you the other stuff, and for that I really recommend... There's all these kind of vanity metrics of followers, of comments and engagement, and we all know those can be fake to a certain extent.Albert:Yep.Shibo:So, I will look at those, but really think, look at the content. Just pick out a few and really just look at their content. Make sure that they're real people, and communicate with them. Just a very simple drip campaign can really suss out a lot of information about, "Hey, I saw you just signed up. Thank you. Tell me what your favorite product is," and something like that just to help qualify a little bit can go a long way.Albert:Okay. I mean, I agree. I think you do need to do a little labor to figure out, is someone actually interested, or are they just signing up for... Because you've been on the other side. When you sign up for an affiliate program, you can be like, "I want to be in this, this, this, this." You can just sign up for hundreds of them, right?Shibo:Right.Albert:So, I agree. It does require a lot of the manual contact and, let's say, influencer development to figure out who's going to be a good influencer for your brand. I didn't know, do you have any types of rating systems or things like that that allow merchants to make it easier for them to identify people, such as, "Hey, this person has a..." Because some of the things I think about because I've been on the merchant side trying to find influencers, things I care about beyond commission, of course, follower engagement, but there's other parts. For example, I would love to know how fast you reply to email. I would love to know how many campaigns have you worked on for more than a period of maybe six months, because one of the things that you find with influencers, or a lot of influencers today, and I think you'd agree, is that they're not really responsive. Most of them are not responsive. It's amazing how little they respond. They're like, "I want to be in your program." "Oh, cool. You're going to market my stickers," and they're like, "Yeah. No." They don't say a word after that.Shibo:Right, right. I think we have to remember that influencers are kind of consumers in a certain way, and you have to market to them. So, what I encourage merchants to do is actually to get them into the program at a low commission rate, or just suss out the signup, and then market to them, create a drip campaign, see who engages, and then move them into different offers. At the end of the day, Refersion still likes to look at total order value, total revenue, total conversions driven. That to us is the apples to apples that we're measuring across all influencers and people who sign up. But you can kind of put them in different offers, different segments, and kind of market to them differently. For the top performers, you might tell them about new things. For the bottom performers, you might want to keep just giving them strategies to try to give them an incentive and a way to kind of build and start creating content, because they need help getting started.Albert:Yeah.Shibo:So, I think you can't approach influencers as master marketers. I think they're just trying to figure it out like everybody else, and so a human approach there I think goes a long way.Albert:That makes sense. So, it's not quite an install it, and then all of a sudden your relationships with these influencers is magical, but you do have good tracking, so I know that I'm getting exactly what I'm paying for. One of the things I want to ask you about, though, is there's a huge wave where Apple... We already know that Apple iPhone accounts for a substantial amount of traffic from most merchants. That's just how it is, and the privacy rules or the privacy objectives that they have are now making it harder to track... It's harder to track traffic over periods of time. That's reality.Albert:How is that impacting your ability to track these affiliates and influencers? Because that's one of the things... For example, if I was... So, I'm an avid, I say it in every show, I'm an avid surfer, so if someone I follow is like, "Hey, this is a good leash to use," I might click on the leash. You already know this, but from the moment I hear about it to the moment I buy might be quite a long time. Of course, these influencers want to get credit. Of course, you want to be able to track them and see their influencer. How are you guys approaching the new privacy rules or privacy features of iPhone and other operating systems who follow as well?Shibo:Yeah.Albert:They're trying to prevent traffic monitoring over time, or behavior monitoring over time.Shibo:Well, I don't think that they're actively trying to stop tracking, because they have an advertiser ID. They just want you to do it in a more respectful way, right?Albert:Mm-hmm (affirmative).Shibo:If the person says, "I don't want to be tracked," they don't want you doing it, and I agree with that. I think that's probably the right way to move forward. We've been tracking with first-party data for the longest time, and what I mean by that is we embed data just like Google Analytics. You know?Albert:Sure.Shibo:You land on the page, and it embeds data against your own domain. So, from our perspective, it's your data. It's not our data. A lot of times, affiliate companies, some of the incumbents have built their tracking systems on redirects, and so this is what it prevents this kind of constant jumping, and the problem with the constant jumping is that it also creates situations where you can have clickjacking and things like that. So, from the ground up we always built with first-party data in mind, embedding the JavaScript onto your page so that you own it.Shibo:So, as long as Google Analytics is giving you traffic, we're able to kind of do the same thing. We're not necessarily reading from your browser. We're actually generating data, embedding it in there, and then looking at that artifact of data on the order so that we know this all kind of comes through. So, that model is kind of what we work on, and the advertiser information that Apple is providing is helpful, but we're still looking at our own data on that way and just embedding these tags. It doesn't matter if I call you number 10, number 15, number 15-A. As long as it shows up on the other side, I know that this chain wasn't broken.Albert:All right. So, let's walk our listeners through what's happening so that they can kind of better understand what's unique about it. So, let's use that example. I see an influencer. They're showing me this product. They say, "Hey, smash my wink in the bio." So, I go to their bio, I'm on Facebook, I smash the link, as they requested me to. I'm now on the merchant site, but I don't buy. So, what record are you recording, and how do you ensure that you're connecting the dots? Because let's say... What's a person going to do next? They're probably going to go do a little homework, or they're going to talk to some people. Imagine it's a seven-day window before I see that product and I buy it. Tell me what your guys are doing on the technical side. You don't have to reveal any secrets, but give us an idea so we know that you can correctly attribute that to that influencer.Shibo:Yeah, sure. So, once you click a link, a lot of times, like I said, sometimes you would bounce. Maybe it's a Bitly link, right?Albert:Yeah.Shibo:If it's a Bitly link, you'll bounce to Bitly first. Bitly will embed some data, and then you'll go through a merchant site. We provide links that... It can be Bitly, so the affiliate can track as well, but really, we start tracking once the user lands on the merchant's site, and they would land with a parameter at the top, just like a Google Analytics, like source, their UTM. We have our own parameter that we read from that tells us which affiliate that parameter belongs to. You come in, you land, we use that parameter to embed some data into your browser so that when you come back to the site, the data exists. This doesn't use cookies. It's called local storage, which is a more modern way of embedding data, and more compliant. It's what browsers prefer as well. The big difference is that local source doesn't have an expiration period, although you can wipe it if you'd like.Shibo:So, now you are a user with a browser that has some of this data embedded that would stick if you revisit this website. You might consider this information, come back, add a cart. If you add a cart, we create another data piece, throw it into your browser, and it's important to send to your browser because your browser then sends that data back to us and says, "Hey, these are all the different local storage value variables and values that we have." So, we look at that. Now we have your click ID, we have a cart ID that matches to that click ID, and then our system actually has a listener with. So, we're looking at every single order in the system, we're trying to match those cart IDs with the cart IDs with clicks that we have. So, once we are able to make that chain of the click ID, cart ID, and then cart ID and order ID, we're able to say, "Hey, this affiliate created this conversion for you." So, it kind of goes all the way through.Albert:Very cool. When you're doing this, I'd love to hear some of the results that some of your clients are seeing. They've done well, and I agree. It's like any other program. You can buy the world's best email program, and if you don't set up a good email campaign, it's going to do nothing. Every program a merchant can do still requires some user input, no different from if you buy, I don't know a hammer. It doesn't mean you can build something. But for the people that you're seeing be meticulous about the data, getting rid of low-performing affiliates, or clickjacking affiliates that are not leveraging a material lift in revenue, what are you seeing as a percentage of sales? Are they seeing lifts? Are they seeing explosions? I'd love to hear some of the stories of what clients are getting when you narrow, I guess, your affiliate pool or your influencer pool to just these high-power influencers, and of course, get rid of the arbitrage guys. What is happening to top-line?Shibo:Yeah. I would say that in the large companies, like let's say you're a 1-800-Flowers, a lot of their business is actually influencers and referrals. You can see as much as 20 to 25 percent of total revenue being attributed back to referral revenue or influencer or affiliate revenue. It really depends on the brand that you have. I mean, we see Glossier and other brands that build completely off influencers, and these are people who basically approach their marketing strategy not as, "Hey, I'm going to buy all these ads to compete with my network," but, "Let me just give it all to my network and let them do all the promotions for me," and that's a very different model in terms of how you market the product, and I would argue that that's driving most of your revenue in that situation. So, I think it really depends on how you approach it, and I think there's something that I kind of started realizing as I'm talking to you, is that I think there's a kind of, not incorrect, but a different strategy that has been employed by the incumbents. Right?Albert:Yeah.Shibo:When you work with CJ and you work with ShareASale, you kind of work with an account manager on that side who then helps put your product in front of their network of people, and then tries to get their adoption.Albert:Yeah.Shibo:We approach it very differently. We say, "Hey, let everybody in, then market to them because they're people who are interested in your product, and figure out what works and what doesn't work." Right?Albert:Okay.Shibo:Instead of, "Here's this product. Let me sell..." You're not selling through CJ to them. I'm hoping that more merchants kind of interact directly with their network, create marketing campaigns, "Hey, we're having a Christmas sale. What does that mean for your commissions?" things like that to help motivate.Albert:Yeah. So, how do you facilitate that, then? Because that is true. Most people do come from the... Let's say if they've been in the game for a little bit, that's what they think. They think they sign up for an affiliate program, they're going to be accessed to all these affiliates, influencers, whatever they say is on the other side. It's a marketplace. I can recruit them. They can sign up for me. But to your point, they have to be in that program. If they're not in that program, it's not available to you. Okay. So, this is definitely different, what you're talking about with Refersion. You're saying, hey, you have tools, but you can enable anyone to become an influencer or affiliate for you, and it sounds like you can do this without too much signup. Is that accurate? I'd love to hear, what do you mean on the recruiting side? Because that is true. I noticed recently when we tried to sign up a couple influencers, they had no idea what these tools were. They were like, "What? I don't know what that is. I make TikTok videos and I crush it. Okay?"Shibo:Yeah, exactly.Albert:"Tell me how I'm going to get paid."Shibo:Exactly, exactly. So, we create a registration form that you can embed into your website, and that's your default form, and then we also have a custom offer. So, every offer has its own commission rate, and its own registration form too. So, you have a public one and you have a ton of private ones that you can send over, and you can also switch affiliates between offers and different kind of segments very easily within Refersion. So, you send them this registration form-Albert:Okay. This is very different.Shibo:Yeah.Albert:This is very different.Shibo:Yeah. It took me a lot because I'm not actually from the industry either, and we kind of just thought about it very differently. But yeah, you give them all a registration form. You can make that form as easy or as complicated as you want, "Give me your Instagram profile. Give me your followers. Give me your life story." You can do any of those things and customize a profile, and that's the way to start getting a mass-market program of, "Hey, we have this program. Look at it." You can even invite ads to that web page if you want to.Shibo:At the same time, a lot of merchants also start by looking at their customer lists and seeing the top customers, do they have social followings? Do they have any sort of profile with Google? They'll go to Social Blade and look them up. Can I find something? Then give them a private offer and go to them and say, "Hey, you're a great customer. I'd like to give you more credit on your purchases. I'd like to give you money back on your purchases. I can give you store credit on your purchases that you drive. Can I help you do that?" So, I think it's a way of working with your brand's fans and just figuring out a way to motivate them.Albert:Okay. So, they sign up for the program. You let them in. That's pretty awesome. So, it's still based on... You say appended links, right? Do you give them tools to let them easily make their own links, or do they have to remember to paste links and stuff?Shibo:So, they have to remember to paste links, but they can also create a link to a specific product if they want to. Any-Albert:Okay. So, I don't have to create it for them?Shibo:No, no. You don't have to create a huge list of links. They should be able to-Albert:Wow. This is so much better.Shibo:... pull some stuff. Yeah.Albert:This is basically everyone who's ever managed an affiliate program. Okay. So, I'm an influencer. I like something. Let's say I like... Well, I'll just keep using... I always want to come up with examples that are not actually my hobbies, but I can't do it because I only know my hobbies. So, again, we'll go back to surfing. I like surfing, and so I'm on an equipment company's site and I could be like, "Hey, I really like this," like I said before, "this leash. I like these sets of fins. I want to promote them because this is what I like." So, I'm in control. I go and create my link. I go and create everything, and then I do what I want with it?Shibo:Exactly. Yeah, and it's a one-to-one program. So, we have Refersion Marketplace, so if you're working with multiple Refersion merchants, you can work with that, but generally speaking, if I'm the affiliate, I go to the surfboard website, I see this leash, I'm going to sign up with the brand. I'm not thinking I'm signing up with Refersion. I sign up with the brand, I get my own dashboard and coupon codes, if they provided any links, and I can generate my own. I can track my sales and do all that stuff, and then I might find another surfboard company, and I'll join them as well. So, it's more of an individual brand-based kind of approach, because I'm not going to CJ. I'm not going to Refersion.com and signing up. I'm signing up through the merchant website.Albert:That's completely different. That is great. So, I got to ask now... Talk a little bit about... Were you, yourself... So, you don't have experience with affiliates, so how did you know this was the problem?Shibo:I didn't, actually. So, I followed the data. So, Alex and I, this is a wild story, but we met in an Adtech meetup, and it was just a one-time meeting. I was on my way out. He was just standing there, and we just kind of chatted, and he had experience in affiliates because he used to work at LinkShare. Everybody had these ecommerce sites, and he knew ecommerce and affiliates work really well together, and he saw that there was no affiliate software. So, he started building one, and he built it the way that he thought affiliate software should work in terms of tracking, in terms of letting people do their own then, and then I met him, and I noticed that there was some success. We had some traction already, and I just started doing customer service, sales, marketing, trying to round out all the different skillsets.Shibo:What ended up happening was that because we took this approach of integrators, we wanted to focus on a few things really well, like our tracking, our data reporting, giving merchants their dashboards, things like that. We tried to offload as much as possible, so we wanted to build apps and make integration easy. We built integrations to Klaviyo to do email on the other side. So, what ended up happening was that merchants now can sign up influencers, affiliates really easily. They couldn't do it on CJ or on other businesses, on other incumbents, because they were asked for tax information. You're asking a 16-year-old Instagram user, "Fill out this W-9 and give me all this information," and it kind of scares them. What we found is that merchants used our platform to sign up a lot of influencers, affiliates, and just paid them with PayPal.Albert:Very cool. Very cool. So, you had no idea how bad or jacked up the existing world was. It sounds like your co-founder was the one that knew that there was a problem.Shibo:Yeah. I think that he looked at it, that there was a problem, but I think it's also how you approach SaaS. I think a lot of times... We were founded maybe five, six years ago. Around that time, a lot of VCs would go to you and say, "Hey, you need to have a platform," or, "You're just an app. You're not a platform in and of itself."Albert:Sure.Shibo:I think that's the wrong way to think about software as a service. Software, I think, is strong because of interoperability. My software is able to work on Windows and Macs, or works on all Windows machines. Right?Albert:Yeah.Shibo:So, I think this integration is really important. So, I think a lot of the businesses did not build with this integration in mind, and we kind of started with that. We started by building and trying to just offload as much of the work as possible, make it as [inaudible] clicking a few buttons and get integrated with all the different ecommerce platforms. So, I think our ideas of what makes good software is kind of what led us to this route.Albert:Now, how about as a... Have you and your business partners, have you guys ever sold anything online? I'm curious if you have any experience on the merchant side.Shibo:No. My background is actually in tech consulting.Albert:Okay.Shibo:So, I worked with ecommerce businesses. I worked with a big one called Sigma-Aldrich at the time, and that was back in 2013, and they were already doing a billion dollars online. But they sold fine chemicals, and you need to have a real profile to buy from them. Alex actually ran his own hosting company for a bit.Albert:Okay.Shibo:So, he sold hosting. A few other developers at Refersion also did that as well. It seems to be a common developer entrepreneurship path, I guess. But yeah, we learn a lot from our merchants. So, we focus on the tech, the measurements, making sure the data flows well, and our entire account management team is here to support merchants on the data, but also learn from them and figure out, okay, what's not working? What do we need to measure for you better? What doesn't make sense?Albert:Yeah. So, I'd love to hear that. So, in the beginning when you were developing this product, what were the merchants, I guess, saying that you were interviewing? Because, again, you guys don't have... It's hard to build something for someone when you don't have that seat, but it's also good that you don't have the experience because then you can not make the same mistakes or get, basically, a knowledge bias, like, "Well, I know this," so it starts putting you in a box. So, you have no box. You're building software, but you are hearing the merchant problems. Talk about those first few conversations. What was that like? What were the merchants talking about that let you say, "Okay, I'm going to go about this in a different way"?Shibo:I think, honestly, merchants just said, "We want an affiliate program," and I looked into it and figured out what an affiliate program was. Right?Albert:Yeah.Shibo:I looked at the tracking technology. We looked at what they did, and a lot of it, to your point, didn't make sense to me. The [crosstalk], the flows, none of that made sense to me. So, we just kind of started building and doing what we thought was right and what we thought made sense. The fundamental ask, if you focus on the fundamental ask, is that I have these people who want to promote my business, and I have no way to incentivize them and run this process. I need a way to run this process, and once we understood that, we understand that maybe there's this concept of profiles, maybe this concept of payments, and then we're just looking at what's the smallest amount of clicks to go from one to the other. What's the most obvious information architecture that can help the merchant understand, okay, recruitment and setting up a registration page, building that, how do I give them all the breadcrumbs to teach them how to do the thing that I'm trying to get them to do?Shibo:So, that's kind of how we approach that, and my background is in tech consulting, as I mentioned, and I built products for a lot of different companies, and the reason I left consulting is because I wanted to work on products and dig into it and learn more and make it better and better. In tech consulting, you kind of building a product from one to zero and give it a way. So, I was really good at figuring out the fundamental problem and coming up with a software solution for it. What I wanted was to dig in deeper [crosstalk]Albert:Yeah, and then you had mentioned Pura Vida as one of your clients. I didn't know, do you have any other clients that you can share about who's leveraging your tools to get better influencers?Shibo:Yeah. Secretlab is using us, and we helped connect them with IDN, so that's been a fantastic relationship for them. DXRacer is also on our network as well. I'm kind of a gamer, so I just kind of get excited by the gaming brands that I find.Shibo:I mean, there's tons of great brands on Refersion. I just saw one called GLD Shop, which sells bling and chains, which I thought was pretty cool.Albert:Dude, all right. So, funny story about that. I'm looking it up right now, GLD Shop. All right.Shibo:Yep.Albert:Hip-hop jewelry, the GLD Shop. Oh, dude, they have... Oh, this is expensive. Okay. So, one of the things that... So, I'll just name the company. This company's called the Shotty, and they sell jewelry as well. It's funny you mentioned GLD Shop right before I was going to use this use case. Their claim to fame is that their pendants are like Alex and Ani pendants, which are... Each one has a story, but the Shotty necklaces are actually puncturing tools. It's for shotgunning beers. But they constantly have people... He doesn't know what to do, really.Albert:So, I didn't really know this existed, because I suggested what I knew, which was, "Well, you should make them sign up for an affiliate." He constantly has people coming forward, because that's the new way now. There's a lot of people coming forward and saying, "Hey, I'm an influencer." So, really, this kind of technology makes it easy for you to be like... I mean, I feel like you don't even have to personally vet too much, be like, "Hey, I have a signup form here. You can sign up. You can use whatever you want, get links. I'll pay you if you get me a commission." It's a pretty simple conversation.Shibo:It's kind of like... Yeah.Albert:Then I as a merchant can then, based on the data, as you suggested, be like, "Okay, these people are doing something for me. I want to get closer to them. These people aren't doing something for me. I think I can turn it off." You said you also have ways to identify these guys are just clickjacking somehow. These guys are literally trying to insert themselves after a Google Search process. He's running retargeting ads for the search term because he's a clickjacker, and I'm basically paying PPC for him to get a commission. I can cut him out of the pool.Shibo:Yeah, yeah. You can see that on the referring URL, the clickjacking. Either they try to hide it, so the referring URL is kind of weird, or it shows the Google-added, which has a GCLID parameter in it, but essentially, the idea is instead of looking at every affiliate and trying to understand whether or not they're successful before they enter your program, the idea is just let them in and then ask them to prove it. Right?Albert:Yeah, yeah. That's materially different, because like I said, he's constantly having people hit him up like, "Hey, I can be an influencer." Then they'll always have a catch. They'll be like, "Oh, I can make a story for you. It's going to cost you 500." It's like, oh, jeez. I don't know who to trust, who not to trust.Shibo:Yeah, yeah. The pay-per-post model is definitely tough because you don't know what you're going to... It's kind of like buying ads on PPC or anything, because you have to pay up front without knowing what's going to be the result, and it could be worth it for some of the higher-level influencers I mentioned, where you're talking about awareness or consideration. Yeah. That awareness post might actually get you a lot of awareness, which is great, and that can help your other influencers convert better. So, I think there's kind of like a strategy for each of those things, and you've got to try different strategies for different groups, and there's a funnel here that needs to be built out.Albert:Okay. Then based on what you know, based on what you just said, I want to ask you a question. I don't know if you've ever seen this post, but it was definitely done. We can look it up. You can Google it right now if you want. One of the Kardashians definitely got paid to post about Febreze, and she talked about how she loves Febreze, and she was in her bed, her luxurious 35-foot bed or whatever, and she's got all these bottles of Febreze lined up next to her. She's like, "When I want to clean, I use Febreze." This probably cost a million dollars. I don't know what Febreze paid for this, but it's probably pretty expensive. I want to ask, do you think that worked?Shibo:I think for her audience, yeah. I think that's one of the cool things about it, is merchants sometimes, and this is... I always tell merchants, "You should not do this," but sometimes merchants find an influencer, and they give them content and say, "Hey, post this," but that kind of defeats the whole purpose. The goal is to work with content creators and have them create content for you and give them the messages so that they can be enabled to do that for you. So, I think this is one of those examples where if you're not a big fan, maybe it doesn't appeal to you, but if you're a huge fan of hers and you consume her content like that every day, this might work. I don't know. I need to go home and ask my wife. She's kind of a fan.Albert:Yeah. Kardashian Febreze. I mean, just look it up, see does this-Shibo:If I start seeing a lot of Febreze in my house, I'll know that's where it came from.Albert:Listen. I mean, I have no idea, does it work or not work, but I'll say this. They continue to pay that family. So, you're absolutely correct. At that size and stature, with that kind of reach, sometimes it can be worth it. For smaller merchants, we already talked this, it's very difficult to invest your money because you only have so many marketing dollars to go with, but I really like this idea of let people organically, who already like your brand, instead of going to... We already talked about how the old way of doing it was you go into this database, almost, of randomness. It's very difficult to figure out who's going to work for you. It takes quite a bit of an effort, actually.Shibo:Yeah. So, when they ask you, "Hey, can you pay for this post?" you say, "I can't necessarily do that, but I like your audience. I like your postings. I like your content. Why don't I send you maybe a product, and then I'll pay you after it if your post generates any revenue?"Albert:Very fascinating. All right. Before you go, Shibo, it was awesome having you on the show, but we got to transition over to the next segment, and that segment is the Lightning Round. The Lightning Round is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and what we'd like for you to do is answer each question in a minute or less. Are you ready?Shibo:Sure.Albert:Okay. What's the one thing that you think will have the biggest impact on ecommerce in the next year?Shibo:I think it's going to be influencer marketing. Everybody's talking about it. This is just the beginning.Albert:Will TikTok surpass Facebook in attributed sales?Shibo:That's a really good question. I don't think so because Facebook has just more properties. I think TikTok would need to acquire more, like more WhatsApps, or build it on Instagram in order to get that. I think Facebook just has way too much reach, and they basically have a profile on every single person on the planet.Albert:Yeah. We ran some TikTok ads, just for your reference. We had five million views and $2,000 in sales, and then we ran the same Facebook campaign, and it gave us way less views, but it actually had more sales, so we're like, well... People keep saying they don't use Facebook anymore. They're lying.Shibo:We're all using Facebook, just like how we're all using Microsoft.Albert:Yeah, yeah. People go, "Well, I don't use Facebook." Okay, you lie, though. What ecommerce tools or technologies, besides your own, that you're most excited about?Shibo:I really like some of these data aggregation comes. Glue is really cool because it helps you kind of do what we believe in, which is figuring out apples to apples, how do I measure things all consistently? So, a lot of data products are really fun for us. I also really like Recharge. I think they are [crosstalk]Albert:Where everything's subscription?Shibo:Yeah.Albert:Subscription billing, Recharge?Shibo:I think so. I think it's interesting. I think it's interesting for merchants to have this kind of recurring billing business side. I think it's fun. They're a great group of folks, and they're very focused on building really good software as well.Albert:What's something that happened in 2020 that you hope sticks around for the rest of 2021 and beyond?Shibo:Well, I guess [crosstalk]Albert:We're looking at the positive. We're trying to look for the positive.Shibo:Yeah. I think ecommerce. I don't think that's going to go down. I think those in the ecommerce space have seen a good growth, and I hope that continues, and it looks like it is.Albert:With that being said, is it going to be easier to harder to start your own ecommerce business going forward? Is it going to be easier because the tools are easier, or is it going to be harder because there's going to be more competition than ever?Shibo:That's a good question. I'm not sure. I do think the tools are going to be easier. Fundamentally, it's going to be more niches and more people selling to their small audiences. Everybody's going to become a little brand.Albert:Okay. Then that begs the next question. It sounds like it's going to be harder, though, to succeed.Shibo:Not if you have a good niche. If you have a strong audience, you might not sell billions of dollars, but if you sell consistently to your strong audience, it can be successful.Albert:I like that, both easier and more profitable if you focus on niches. Shibo, I want to thank you for joining us today on Up Next In Commerce. Your insight was awesome. I thought you did a great job explaining to old-school people like me what is different about your platform than others, and I'm with you. If it was available to me and I was selling things, I would give it a try. I will recommend... I'm going to give it a try. Listen, I'm going to give your product a try. Don't flood me with these clickjackers. Okay?Shibo:I'll do my best. I'll do my best.Albert:Yeah, I'm going to give it a try.Shibo:If you ever problems, email me.Albert:I'll report back and let you know how the influencer goes, because I'm telling you, these companies that I'm familiar with, they all have the same problem, which you're trying to solve right now, which is all these people, TikTok, it doesn't really matter whether they are influential. They're coming forward and saying, "Hey, I can influence your brand. How do I participate?" and they don't know.Shibo:Right, right. No, thank you so much for having me.Albert:Awesome.

Lunch With Sumiko Ep 26: Singapore's Entrepreneur of the Year Ian Ang runs his Secretlab company with life and death approach 5:02 mins Synopsis: The Straits Times' executive editor Sumiko Tan gets up close with newsmakers over lunch - and a selfie. In this episode, Sumiko Tan hosts Mr Ian Ang, the 28-year-old co-founder and chief executive of gaming chair maker Secretlab. He was named Singapore's Entrepreneur of the Year by professional services firm EY at a virtual awards ceremony on Nov 9, and he will represent Singapore to vie against entrepreneurs from more than 60 countries for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year award in June next year. 1. How no entrepreneur starts out with guaranteed answers (1:56) 2. Surprise at his success and how non-gamers started using his gaming chairs (2:20) 3. Qualities of a good entrepreneur (3:10) 4. Why planning is only done 12-36 months ahead at any one time and not for longer (3:42) Produced by: Sumiko Tan, ST Video team and Ernest Luis Edited by: ST Video team and Penelope Lee Follow the Lunch With Sumiko Podcast and rate us on: Channel: https://str.sg/J6hQ Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/J6hM Spotify: https://str.sg/J6hA Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/J6hd  Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Sumiko Tan's stories here: https://str.sg/Jbhe --- Discover more ST podcast series: Asian Insider Podcast: https://str.sg/JWa7 Green Pulse Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaN ST Sports Talk Podcast: https://str.sg/JWRE Life Weekend Picks Podcast: https://str.sg/JWa2 #PopVultures Podcast: https://str.sg/JWad Bookmark This! Podcast: https://str.sg/JWas Discover BT Podcasts:  http://bt.sg/podcasts Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lunch With Sumiko Ep 26: Singapore's Entrepreneur of the Year Ian Ang runs his Secretlab company with life and death approach 5:02 mins Synopsis: The Straits Times' executive editor Sumiko Tan gets up close with newsmakers over lunch - and a selfie.In this episode, Sumiko Tan hosts Mr Ian Ang, the 28-year-old co-founder and chief executive of gaming chair maker Secretlab. He was named Singapore's Entrepreneur of the Year by professional services firm EY at a virtual awards ceremony on Nov 9, and he will represent Singapore to vie against entrepreneurs from more than 60 countries for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year award in June next year. 1. How no entrepreneur starts out with guaranteed answers (1:56) 2. Surprise at his success and how non-gamers started using his gaming chairs (2:20) 3. Qualities of a good entrepreneur (3:10) 4. Why planning is only done 12-36 months ahead at any one time and not for longer (3:42) Produced by: Sumiko Tan, ST Video team and Ernest Luis Edited by: ST Video team and Penelope Lee Follow the Lunch With Sumiko Podcast and rate us on: Channel: https://str.sg/J6hQ Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/J6hM Spotify: https://str.sg/J6hA Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/J6hd Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Read Sumiko Tan's stories here: https://str.sg/Jbhe --- Discover more ST podcast series: Asian Insider Podcast: https://str.sg/JWa7 Green Pulse Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaf Health Check Podcast: https://str.sg/JWaN ST Sports Talk Podcast: https://str.sg/JWRE Life Weekend Picks Podcast: https://str.sg/JWa2 #PopVultures Podcast: https://str.sg/JWad Bookmark This! Podcast: https://str.sg/JWas Discover BT Podcasts: http://bt.sg/podcasts Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to East West Hurricane! 🌪We update you on the most essential news from Asia in tech, media, and business—the things you need to know that you probably haven’t heard in Western media.Follow us on Twitter and Instagram! ⚡️Real Names Required 🗣The Chinese government has created a new regulation that will require anyone playing a video game to log in with their real name, part of a state-run authentication system that will be ready by September. Tencent and Netease have already put in advanced verification programs, including facial recognition technology. In 2019, the Chinese government put restrictions on minors, limiting how much time and money people under 18 can spend on video games. There are also regulations on the level of violence and controversial content allowed in video game content. Despite these new actions by the government, I’m sure there will be loopholes or ways kids can get around the rules. There are many well-documented tactics that Chinese gamer kids already use — like fake ids, using parent’s accounts, and impersonating grandparents.The way your identity is represented on online platforms directly impacts your behaviour. Using a pseudonym on a platform like Reddit or Discord vs. your real name on a platform like Facebook can change user authenticity, civility of discourse, and more. Generally speaking, having people use their real names encourages more positive behaviour. Back in 2012, Youtube started to encourage users to use their real names to improve behaviour on the platform, especially within the often toxic comments section of a video. So even if minors can get around this new Chinese regulation, an added consequence of real names might be a more positive social environment for gamers.Southeast Asian Startup Funding 💰Despite challenges from the coronavirus, startups in Southeast Asia saw an increase in funding in Q2 between April to June. DealStreetAsia compiled data showing that the total value of startup fundraising deals has gone up 91% this year to $2.7 Billion. The number of transactions is also up year-on-year from 116 in Q2 2019 to 184 in Q2 2020. The biggest three startup verticals to receive funding were e-commerce, logistics, and fintech and the biggest deal was $500 Million invested into Indonesian e-commerce startup Tokopedia.This should paint an optimistic picture for startups in Southeast Asia. It’s been a tough year for everyone, and I’ve spoken to several founders across the US, Europe, and Asia who have struggled to fundraise in the current environment. Some of these successful fundraises in Southeast Asia could also be attributed to deals that were already being discussed before Covid. You can also see where people are betting on growth because of the coronavirus: e-commerce, logistics and fintech. This latest data from DealStreetAsia is encouraging, but there’s still a lot of economic uncertainty and pain we will likely experience in Q3/Q4.The Story of Secretlab 🕹In case you missed my interview with Andrew Baisley of Tech in Asia Studios, he mentioned an interesting Singaporean startup called Secretlab. This KrAsia profile explains their incredible story. Ian Ang and Alaric Choo were both professional e-sports athletes and became close friends after playing many games together like Starcraft. In 2014, they founded Secretlab to scratch their own itch. As professional gamers, they spent hours sitting in a chair playing games and never found appropriate ergonomic support. So they decided to build their own high-quality chair for professional gamers. Since then, their chair has been used in some of the world’s biggest gaming championships, their partners include Warner Bros, HBO, and Blizzard, and their company is worth over $200 Million. They manufacture over 500,000 chairs a year and over 50% of their sales comes from North America. With coronavirus forcing a larger percentage of the world’s population to work from home, Secretlab also saw a huge increase in demand for their chairs. It’s a great Singaporean success story that has found international success. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eastwesthurricane.substack.com