A concise roundup of what brands are doing in web3 and the metaverse
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Meta money moves:
Sony and Lego areinvesting $2BN in Epic Games to create a metaverse for kids
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says he is "excited to come together and build a space in the metaverse that's fun, and made for kids and families"
Interesting report on how brands are using virtual marketing, including metaverse tie-ins, NFTs, virtual memorabilia and more, at Coachella and other summer music festivals
Interesting new Morning Consult survey on people's enthusiasm for different aspects of the metaverse - e.g. 61 percent of millennials say they'd attend a live virtual concert and the same number say they'd be interested in having a digital avatar represent them
Crypto dogs!! Get your own good boy best friend for the metaverse 🐕
The Brandtech Group founder and CEO David Jones gave a keynote presentation, Unpacking the metahype, at the recent WFA Global Marketer Week in Athens.
"I personally think it will be the biggest technological revolution I see in my career - no one knows - but I think it has the potential to be that big, and because it has that potential, as marketers we have a responsibility to know about it and have a strategy,” he says.
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