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Exclusive: Sotheby’s Launches Secondary NFT Marketplace
The Alpha: Today, legacy auction house Sotheby’s launched its own secondary marketplace for fine art NFTs, according to information shared exclusively with nft now. The marketplace is an expansion of Sotheby’s Metaverse, the company’s digital artwork and collectibles platform. The peer-to-peer marketplace will feature fully on-chain sales showcasing a rotating selection of high-profile Web3 artists curated by Sotheby’s specialists. All transactions will take place on the Ethereum and Polygon networks. Collectors will be able to purchase works on the platform with ETH or MATIC. To inaugurate the marketplace’s launch, Sotheby’s is offering collectors a chance to buy and list works […]
Mad Lads: What To Know About the Project Reviving Solana
The Solana NFT ecosystem has been facing a few challenges as of late. With the larger-than-life DeGods and y00ts collections opting to migrate off of the blockchain and top Solana marketplace Magic Eden finding it hard to appease both collectors and creators simultaneously, many of the chain’s devout supporters have been left wondering what’s next. Yet, sometimes, all it takes is a single NFT project to act as a catalyst for a major market shift. We’ve seen it happen on the positive end of the spectrum with Bored Apes, Azuki, Checks, and more. All of these helped revive ETH at […]
Next Up: Five Ones to Watch in May 2023
In 2021, a new creator economy was born on the blockchain. Since NFTs took center stage, artists have achieved NFT superstardom, billion-dollar brands have been forged in just a few months, and lives have been utterly transformed time and again. Yet, the most inspiring thing about the NFT space is the number of artists of all creeds and mediums who have found community and support by embracing this technology. In keeping with our mission to empower creators, we present Next Up — our monthly franchise dedicated to showcasing rising artists. Although the NFT space has changed significantly over the last […]
Google’s John Mueller Tackles “Dumb” SEO Questions On Reddit via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s John Mueller demystifies SEO tactics in a Reddit Q&A, emphasizing unique content, dismissing geotagging, and discouraging shortcuts. The post Google’s John Mueller Tackles “Dumb” SEO Questions On Reddit appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Brave Search Cuts Ties With Bing & Goes Independent via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Brave Search achieves full independence, operating solely on its own index, bolstering user privacy and transparency in search results. The post Brave Search Cuts Ties With Bing & Goes Independent appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Bolsters Advertising On YouTube Shorts via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google is enhancing YouTube Shorts advertising, introducing new features for brand visibility amid platform growth and broader revenue challenges. The post Google Bolsters Advertising On YouTube Shorts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
How AI Will Revolutionize the Future of Business, According to HubSpot’s CMO
Artificial intelligence will change how businesses operate. At this point, that statement won’t surprise you. In fact, AI’s impact on the workplace is already happening. 62% of business leaders have already invested in AI and automation tools for their employees, according to our State of Artificial Intelligence survey. What’s more, 65% of survey respondents believe AI innovations will be comparable to the industrial revolution. At its core, this means one big thing for the future of business: Marketing, sales, and service professionals now have more time to work on complex, higher-impact work. AI enables creativity and innovation to supersede tedious […]
Why Consumers Still Hesitate to Shop on Social Media Platforms [New Data]
If you’ve been on social media lately, you know shopping has taken center stage on most platforms. But, social commerce a controversial topic — some people love it, others are exhausted by product placements everywhere. And, in our latest research, we discovered that people don’t trust the social media apps they use daily to handle their purchases. How Consumers Feel About Social Media Shopping For starters, just 41% of social media users feel comfortable buying products directly on social apps, and only 37% trust platforms with their card info. And when it comes to the products sold directly on social […]
How to Use Digital PR to Improve E-E-A-T Signals
If there is poor quality information being served up in the SERPs, Google will have a big problem: Users will stop searching, and this hits Google where it hurts — in their advertising revenue. So it makes sense that Google is keen to push forward authoritative and trustworthy sites when it comes to ranking in the results. Towards the end of 2022, Google updated three key areas of the algorithm that it uses to judge where it ranks websites within search engine results pages. The helpful content update, link spam update, and E-A-T — which is now known as E-E-A-T. […]
WordPress Vulnerability Hits +1 Million Using Header & Footer Plugin via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Vulnerability discovered in WPCode – Insert Headers & Footers WordPress plugin – Second one this year The post WordPress Vulnerability Hits +1 Million Using Header & Footer Plugin appeared first on Search Engine Journal.