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The New World of Social Networking: How Emojizing is Redefining Online Branding

• Due to COVID-19 and the various lockdowns across the world, brands were faced with a sink-or-swim phenomenon, increasing their social media and online footprint to remain relevant.

• Emojizing, the premier creative social platform, has created a purpose-driven system to help businesses grow and dramatically increase their online presence through the innovative use of emojis as a URL shortener.

• Founded in 2021 by Gauthier Piarrette, Emojizing creates unique shortened links for URLs by implementing the underrated power of emojis.

Can Tiktok Stars Build Brands for Digital Natives?

• Abercrombie & Fitch is launching a standalone apparel brand, called Social Tourist, with TikTok stars and sisters, Charli and Dixie D’Amelio, in an effort to reach always-on generations.

• Charli became the first TikTok user In November 2020 to surpass 100 million followers on the platform.

• The full 80-piece collection is available online at Hollister.com and socialtourist.com

The Case for Low-Code in the Post-Covid Landscape

• New gaps in the market and shifting working patterns have given budding entrepreneurs the inspiration to break out on their own – and they are doing so in droves.

• Data shows that business incorporations were up 30% in the four weeks to mid-December 2020, compared with the same period the year before.

• For years, the demand for highly skilled developers has far outstripped the supply, and many teams will simply lack the in-house expertise needed to drive effective product development, or else the resources to enlist the help of third parties.