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2024.05.14 15:23 jeezIamNotHearing NEED URGENT HELP IN WRITING CITATIONS IN PROPER FORMAT

I have written a review paper on VR integration with AI, all that remains is for me to write citations in proper format. Please anyone help me. the deadline is in 5 hours and I have to submit it before then. Anyone. I have procrastinated harshly this time around and am literally crying.
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2024.05.14 15:16 jamesfly562 The Misconceptions About Private Jet Charter Services

Introduction:

That's awesome if you are flying in a Private Charter from London to Dubai. If it's your first experience of chartering in a private jet, you obviously must be excited. What if we say to be careful with common myths people have about private flying services? Yes! Do read the blog to know more about it.
1. Private Charters Only For Business Tycoons, Celebrities, And Millionaires: If you also think this, you are completely mistaken. Private jet chartering is affordable, not expensive, and you can experience it. Of course, it will be a little pricy compared to commercial flights, but still reasonable to budget for.
2. Private Chartering Is Only For Elite: No! That's unfair to say so. Private jet charters were elite impressions, but now it's for all. Private jet companies have packages with aircraft types and amenities for all customers to enjoy fly time. Celebrities, families, sports teams, and business tycoons can approach private charter companies and get similar respect and treatment.
3. Looking Is Difficult Then Booking Commercial Flight: That depends only. If booking a commercial flight ticket is far easier, then go for it. It's a low-cost travel experience, but private jet services are the greatest if you need luxurious travelling. This gives zero hassle to stand up in crowded, long airport queues to board. Just look for a private jet company that is licensed and reputable and enjoys travelling on personalized dates, days & times.
4. Commercial Flights are Safer: They are safer, but that doesn't mean private jet charters are not secure. In fact, they are safer and more comfortable. A well-known private jet company will ensure a comfortable, satisfactory, and confidential flying experience for the client.

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2024.05.14 15:01 aznpersuazion A Review Of GoldBelly in 2023. Is it Safe to Use?

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Food safety and regulations..
After numerous orders with Goldbelly, it is safe to say that their product works as intended. I know there are a lot of negative complaints about Goldbelly online about food arriving spoiled, but I can assure you that after dozens of orders, food has always arrived on time and safely refrigerated. The complaints that you see online are likely the minority.
When delivering food via popular mailing services, companies like Goldbelly don't have a ton of control as to if the food arrives on time. But from my experience, the regulation around the amount of insulation and dry ice/ice packs the company makes restaurants has gotten a lot better in recent years. This makes it so food generally can last at last 24 hours after their intended arrival date.
If you're considering giving Goldbelly a chance, the product is trustworthy.
Overall review..
Goldbelly is definitely expensive. You're paying 2-3 times more sometimes, and some of the food won't be as fresh as having the option to dine in. Goldbelly is useful if you're really trying to splurge, or send someone the gift of some food they normally don't get to eat.
I would stay away from shops that have a 4.2 review or lower.
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Greetings,
We have updated our Course Schedule with classes out to September, 2024.
Upcoming Classes Include:

New Jersey Permit To Carry (PTC) Qualification

Saturday, May 25, 2024
9:00 AM 1:00 PM
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The New Jersey Permit To Carry (PTC) Qualification course is an instructor-led and live-fire shooting qualification course intended to equip you with the training and documentation necessary to apply for your New Jersey Concealed Carry Permit.
UPDATE: This course meets the CCARE Protocol requirements for NJ Concealed Carry as published by the NJSP (September, 2023).
Course Fee is $150.00

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Saturday, May 25, 2024
1:30 PM 6:30 PM
Indian Mills Deer Club (map)

The NRA Basics of Pistol Course (Instructor-Led) introduces students to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for owning and using a pistol safely.
Note: IF you wish to take this class AND the NJ Permit To Carry Qual this same day, May 25th, you may wait to shoot the NJ PTC Qual until AFTER the Basic Pistol Class is over (shoot the qual at the end of the full day).
In this course we will cover basic firearms safety, fundamentals of pistol shooting (aiming, grip, stance & trigger control), ammunition components, malfunctions, and we will review the core elements of modern pistols & revolvers. We will practice loading and unloading firearms safely. We will cover how to recognize and clear malfunctions. We will discuss and demonstrate proper firearm maintenance and selection criteria.
Then we’ll head out to the range and put these principles in action.
Course Fee is $165.00

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Friday, May 31, 2024
9:00 AM 3:00 PM
Jersey Devil Outfitters (map)

By Invitation Only
Each month we will host a Running & Gunning Training day. This 6 hour session will continuously evolve and no two sessions will be the same.
Each session will be focused on pistol, rifle, shotgun or a combination of disciplines.
These sessions will be all range time, with high round counts.
We will focus on balancing speed and accuracy, multiple targets, multiple distances, dynamic movements, obstacles, steel targets, timed exercises/drills, performance-based shooting, and much more.
Invited Ironsights Alumni will be asked to bring their own training drills to share/use in addition to what the instructor provides.
Course Fee: $150.00

NRA Basic CCW

Saturday, June 1, 2024
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Indian Mills Deer Club (map)

Introduce the students to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to carry a concealed firearm for self-defense. This course focuses on the psychological, emotional, social, and physical needs of preparing to carry, carrying & using a firearm for self-defense, and how to manage the aftermath of a self-defense encounter. Significant and dynamic range time included.
Course Fee is $185.00

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Sat, Jun 1, 20242:00 PM Sun, Jun 2, 20246:00 PM
Indian Mills Deer Club (map)

The NRA Certified Pistol Instructor Course is intended to teach the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to conduct the NRA Basic Pistol Course. Following the completion of this course, you will become a Certified NRA CCW Instructor.
Course Fee is $400.00

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Saturday, June 15, 2024
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The Beyond the Basics (BtB) series is the natural progression for shooters once you have completed the NRA Basics of Pistol Shooting Course. In the BtB - Pistol Level I course, we focus on refining your pistol handling skills, building muscle memory, honing your shooting accuracy, and we take you to the next level of firearms training…beyond the basics.
This course is 100% range time with copious amounts of hands-on instruction.
Course Fee is $185.00
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Hope to see you out there on the range!

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2024.05.14 13:53 forest-of-ewood Roaring Kitty tweet roundup - A humble apes opinion.

Hello Apes.
Long time holder and sleeper over the last few years, just quietly holding and buying after believing in the DD of previous much more intelligent apes than I, no more so than the absolute chad who kicked this all off, DFV.
Although I should be working right now, I wanted to round up all of the tweets from yesterday and understand the messages behind what was being tweeted. It seems to me that although DFV has to be cryptic with his memes, he has had so long to line this up that there must be intentional messaging behind the tweets too.
This is pure speculation on my part and i've tried to go through the original tweet posts on here and pick up on anything in the comments that others might have picked up on.
11am - https://x.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790034263603139012
Description: I'm not a massive Marvel watcher so maybe people can help me expand but the Thanos scene is taken from the ending credits of Scene of Age of Ultron where he has the infinity gauntlet in his hand saying "Fine, Ill do it myself" and the Wolverine scene is taken from X-Men origins where Wolverine is brought back to life and in remembering previous life events, went into a full on rage taking out everybody.
Speculation: The first tweet of the market day and a real statement of intent from DFV. Announcing to the world that he is truly back and he is still in. Lots of speculation about whether he would post a YOLO after hours (he did not) but certainly a statement of intent.
11.30am - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790041813379850491
Description: First part is the final scene of Ferris Bueller's Day Off I believe after the credits roll breaking the 3rd wall to ask why you are still here. Next we have Breaking Bad and this is where Saul wants out of the operation as it's becoming high risk but Walter tells him that they are done when he says they are done. Then we have a cat waking from a slumber with the Radiohead song Exit Music (for a film) playing and finally we have the beginning piano music to 'Light of the Seven' from Game of Thrones.
Speculation: I believe the first part is a joke that a lot of people have probably asked you over the years and will certainly ask you over the coming days, "oh are you still holding that GME stock?", "why are you still doing that?" but it could also be directed towards DFV as well from SHFs, why are you still here? (what's an exit strategy huh?). The Breaking Bad reference is an excellent rebuttal to that, "we're done, when i say we're done" (SHF's are fk). The Cat waking slowly can describe DFV slowly waking from his slumber, remember his last tweet to sign off years ago of a Cat going to sleep? The song has some interesting lyrics which i won't post in full but you can see for yourself here Here. Just to pick a few lines out; "Today we escape", "Breathe, keep breathing, Don't lose your nerve", "I can't do this alone". The final part is probably my favorite scene from GoT, Cersei's plan comes to full fruition with sweet revenge when she blows up the temple of a cult that had embarassed her beforehand and threatened her rule. She makes them pay with a giant green explosion so take from that what you will. If you want to check out the scene you can find it here.
12pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790049362846117942
Description: First we have V for Vendetta with "first the overture". Next we have a person driving in reverse from Ready Player One and then we have another scene from GoT where Daenerys (The Mother of Dragons) is facing confrontation from a murderous clan who are fighting against her claim over their city and her dragon waking up.
Speculation: The overture is an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera and generally means an introduction to something more substantial, no need to expand further on that. I haven't seen Ready Player One but from looking at comments in other posts: The Ready Player One scene, he wins the race by beating the system. The GoT scene was the waking up Drogon to come to the aid of The Mother of Dragons while a group attempted to assassinate her, all looked lost until Drogon rode in to save the day. I tried to find the episode the check back but I'm pretty sure the actual dragon waking up scene is taken from an episode further into GME where the Dragon originally has blue eyes so I think that clip has been changed to include red eyes (GME red button anyone?)
12:30pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790056912664601031
Description: Firstly, this is taken from Gangs of New York where Amsterdam's father is giving his son a shaving knife and stating "the blood stays on the blade" building up to a confrontation with Bill where he will eventually kill him with it. Then we go to the scene just before that happens but everyone has their faces painted in green. Finally we have the music video for Ludacris - Stand Up.
Speculation: I haven't seen Gangs of New York but from doing some research online about the significance of the hunting blade i came across this:

The shaving knife is symbolic.
"The blood stays on the blade" can be interpreted as "you can't wash away your sins."
One of the major themes of the film is that history repeats itself if we don't learn from its lessons.

Seems like a pretty simple message that SHFs haven't learnt their lessons and history is repeating itself right now, sign of things to come perhaps? Then we have Stand up, DFV having some fun here but the lyrics again have some interesting lines, "Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless", "What's wrong? The club and the moon is full", "One sure shot way to get 'em outta them pants". You can find the full lyrics Here
1pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790064464357724451
Description: Some car scenes here: Firstly we have a car driving off into the sunset taken from the Wiz Khalifa - See you Again music video (part of the Furious 7 soundtrack), then we have a car chase with a car pulling off a highway (not sure where this is from or if its a highway (i'm a UK ape) and finally we have another car chase but this one the driver has beaten the police cars and is pulling up.
Speculation: I like the take from u/ tajwriggly here where it could be that DFV is saying everyone thought he was driving off into the sunset for the life of ease... and who could blame him if he was? But no... he's right off the path and in the thick of things with the rest of us. I think all 3 scenes put together tell a short story, DFV seemingly riding off, then DFV giving it the big turn in a big chase and then DFV giving it the slip in his zen like state.
1.30pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790072011810812231
Description: First scene shows a woman on the verge of being beheaded before being spared at the last minute then we cut to a scene with 'Ain't no mountain high enough' coming in then finally Florence & the Machine with Dog Days Are Over.
Speculation: GME is going to run, there ain't no mountain high enough that's going to stop what this can reach and the DOG days are over, it's the days of the cat now.
2:00pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790079562866360327
Description: A beautiful cut scene of the avengers initiative charging as a team to save the world. All kinds of superheroes big and small.
Speculation: Whilst we are all individual investors we all do share in one common interest, we love the stock. There could be a case here for basket theory but I won't speculate on that further as I'm personally only interested in one stock but take from that what you will.
2:30pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790087112282239085
Description: The first scene is taken from the final duel in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly only some crowd cheering has been dubbed into the background. Then we have Thor coming down hard to smash everyone.
Speculation: There is a nervy standoff happening maybe between different short positions, who is going to blink first and close up knowing that making a move means bloodshed only...it doesn't matter because they are all going to get absolutely smashed anyway by the supreme hammer of Thor.
3:00pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790094668237259040
Description: First scene, "make no mistake it's not revenge he is after it's a reckoning", then we have a shotgun wielding man "you tell him i'm coming, and hells coming with me you hear?" and finally we have Narco with some baddass horse riders taking shots.
Speculation: As u/ strikeeagle points out, the Narco trumpets are synonymous with Mets fans as they bring in Edwin Diaz "Narco" to close up, usually when it's "Game over" for the opposing team. The reckoning is coming! Oh and Steve Cohen owns the Mets of course, trading is a tough game don't ya think?
3:30pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790102212619669909
Description: Pirates of the Caribbean scene where Captain Barbossa asks what has become of his precious and infamous ship, The Black Pearl. Then we have Men in Black where they press the red button and jet off.
Speculation: The captain is back to take back the ship and he is pressing the red button to send this into the stratosphere.
4:00pm - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790109766389477525
Description: Peeky blinders, Tommy Shelby, leader of the Shelby crew is prepping his family to be on their best behaviour just before they fleece a load of the elite at the races then we have another Peeky Blinders scene in which Tommy has another plan up his sleeve but in the end keeps it simple to achieve their goals for revenge.
Speculation: DFV has a plan and all that is required from GME loving people is just to keep your plums in order and enjoy the ride, don't make it more complicated than it needs to be, everything is already happening.
Edit: Sorry i missed one (i was in bed by this time 1am in UK)
8pm: - https://twitter.com/TheRoaringKitty/status/1790170162265460831
Description: The scene from Snatch where the Gypsy takes revenge on the gang that killed his mother after a continuing conflict throughout the film by taking to them with shotguns then we have the music video of BANG! by AJR and finally the Glengarry Glen Ross speech by Alec Baldwin with "oh, have i got your attention now?"
Speculation: Along the common theme here, Snatch is showing a big revenge with lots of shots fired and this is continued with lots more BANGS directed from Roaring Kitty. Finally the most interesting part of the video in my opinion, quoting the Glengarry Glen Ross Speech, I recommend you give it watch here but if you don't have time, ABC (ALWAYS BE CLOSING), YOU CLOSE OR YOU HIT THE BRICKS. Full scene here.
Let me know if you have anything to add below and hope you found this helpful. I really should do some work now.
Buy - Hodl - DRS
Love ya DFV x

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2024.05.14 13:22 lazymentors Marketing & Social Media News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

Meta launches AI tools for ad creative creation and paid subscription tiers.
TikTok sues US Government over divest-or-sell law.
Pinterest launches Media Buyer Certification Course.
X will soon allow advertisers to use AI for audience creation.
Youtube launches a promotions tab for Creators & SMBs to run quick ad campaigns.
Reddit is planning to launch search ads and a mixed feed. * Using ‘keyword + reddit’ on google > using reddit search.

Sam Altman debunks the rumours of gpt-5 and search engine launch, announcing new updates to GPT-4. The launch of GPT-4o.
Google’s CEO responds to Search Quality Issues.
Constellation Brands launches creative review for Corona Extra.
Apple’s Safari 18 is expected to introduce webpage summarization, web eraser and more.
Reddit’s Q1 2024 report showed strong user and ad revenue growth, 48% YoY increase in revenue.
Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky Board sharing the company is making the same mistakes he and his team at Twitter.
Ofcom is pushing for better age verification, filters and other checks in new online child safety code.
Apple apologies for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ ad campaign.
Ocean Outdoor and Battersea Power Station launch new premium DOOH network.
OpenAI’s pitch deck for publisher partnerships gets leaked.
Hubspot posts $617.4 million revenue for the first quarter of the year.
Temu and Meta are being blamed by marketers for ruining performance and paid social marketing.
Instacart and NBCUniversal’s new partnership connecting CPG with Streaming, changing retail.
Sony and Apollo are in talks to acquire paramount.

TikTok 🎶

TikTok is working on a collaboration feature similar to IG.
TikTok shares new insights about brand and search experience on platform.
TikTok to start auto-labeling AI-generated content to combat misinformation.
TikTok is having ‘Creative Made Simple’ webinar for SMBs on May 16th.

Instagram & Threads 🗂️
Instagram continues to gamify content creation experience, to make people publish more.
Threads adds view counts on posts.
Instagram’s new ‘Meme it’ DMs feature capitalises on Gen-Z’s heavy use of DMs for chats and content sharing.
Influencers see more Instagram engagement with still images than Reels.
Instagram is teasing a new creator revenue program ‘Spring Bonus’.
Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally.
Instagram is testing an new UI for Carousels, with no dots.
Despite IG adding 3-minute reels, they were found discouraging creators from creating long reels.

Meta 😅

Meta’s newly launched AI creative tools for advantage+ campaigns.
The feature to create reels from existing content is coming to Meta Business Suite.
Meta’s turn away from the news industry has lead to 50% traffic drop to publishers.
Error: Meta shares detailed targeting exclusion alert sent to advertisers was a mistake.
Meta Business Suite adds ‘review’ feature to request post to be reviewed by other admins before publishing.
WhatsApp launches new UI elements, giving the platform a new look.
WhatsApp makes it easier to find new channels with categories.

X (Twitter) 🕹️

X working on Analytics for X communities.
Nintendo ends their X integration for Switch.
X’s new algorithm update has lead to prioritisation of smaller accounts, says Elon.
Chat History is now live for Gork AI on web.
X is adding a ‘cast’ button to the iOS app.

Youtube 🕹️

YouTube outlines its measures to ensure EU Election Integrity.
Youtube expands testing of ‘Jump Ahead’ premium AI feature.
MrBeast is parting ways with Night Media, Talent Management Company.
Youtube testing a new shopping feed in Youtube Shorts.

Google 🔦

Google launches new ‘Saved Comparisons’ feature for Analytics.
Google Shopping Ads get conversion annotations.
Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25%.
Google hides search results count under tools section.
Google shares Disavow link tool will go away at some point.
Google is defending lack of communication around Search Updates.
Google’s site reputation abuse policy enforcement started on Monday May 6th.

Agency News

Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media unveils Ensemble, a branded entertainment company.
Omnicom is shuttering Honey & Sparks and the talent is being distributed.
Nestlé Canada appoints Citizen Relations as Confectionery PR AOR.
GE Lighting, a Savant company appoints Bakery as Social AOR.
Rocket Cos. Puts its media account in review.
We Are Social US partners with Valerie Moizel, CEO of The Woo to form Hello US.
Virgin Active appoints We Are Pi for global brand transformation.
Famous Footwear appoints Yard NYC and THE MAYOR as Creative AOR.
Warner Bros appoints BigSmall to launch streaming service Max.
Lovesac appoints Hearts & Science as media AOR.
BUNTIN appoints Trex as Media Agency of record.
IPG Health consolidates agency brand roster, launch of new Rise & Run brand.
THIRD EAR appointed by Nissan North America and INFINITI USA as Multicultural AOR.
Indie Agency Boathouse creates supplier diversity program, expanding external DEI efforts.

Brands & Ads 🏓

My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

New Balance’s seven-minute film shares seven stories of its influence in subcultures.
Coca-Cola’s new ad ‘Coke Spills’ celebrates the joyous moments of coke spilling.
The Ordinary and Uncommon’s new OOH campaign embraces science instead of celebs.
Jung von Matt’s UK ad debut for Wayfair takes a very simple approach but the vibe matches.
Volkswagen’s new brand platform ‘Your Wagen’ celebrating customer journeys.
PG Tips launches their first campaign in eight years, starring Ashley Walters.
Another Ad campaign featuring dogs but this time it’s for dog food from the brand tails.com.
Currys new ad spot is funny and aligned with Euro 2024 vibes, you can’t miss it .
Budweiser uses song lyrics mentioning the brand to launch new Spotify ad “UninterruptAds”.
Impossible Foods new ad campaign sticks out with very digestible message to make people vegan.
Nescafé’s kettle ad campaign speaks sustainability and stands out as a loner, but on a broader look, it doesn’t align with Nespresso.
EasyJet goes into Eurovision mode for the new ‘All Aboard the Orange Plane’ ad campaign.
Peroni 0.0% joins Formula 1 as Ferrari Team Partner, hoping to ride the non-alcoholic beer growth train.
McDonald’s new plan to invest more dollars (Millions) in Digital marketing and its reward program.

AI 🤨

OpenAI increase AI content transparency with launch of new detection tools.
Etsy’s plan to improve delivery tracking using new ML model.
Absolut & Copy Lab launch copyright-free diverse images for fashion content.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow announced an API partnership.
OpenAI introduces Model Spec to better the model behaviour and explores how AI can generate explicit content.
Eleven labs preview their music AI model.

Reddit & Pinterest

Reddit announces new Public Content Policy, setting new parameters for data usage.
Pinterest hires Former Levi’s CEO to Board of Directors.

Microsoft & LinkedIn

Microsoft is building a bigger and better LLM ‘MAI-1’ to fight Google.
Bing tests clear distinction between free and paid search results.
LinkedIn shares new insights on measuring B2B marketing campaigns.

Marketing & AdTech

Bluesky adds new features; DMs, Improved custom feeds, Video and more.
Shopsense launches retail media platform for second-screen shopping.
GAP names Fabiola Torres new global CMO.
Ocean Outdoor becomes official OOH supplier to London Fashion Week.
Curb, a ride/hailing app launches Curb journey Connect, one-stop ad solution.
Constant Contact launches new AI feature for Brandkit and Campaign Builder.
160over90 launches Integrated Creator Commerce service with Lumanu.
Omnicom announces major expansion in India.
Kantar Media hires Lucy Bristowe as CEO for UK & Western Europe.
Instacart and Uber Eats partner, allowing customers to order Uber Eats food via Instacart.

I hope this helps to plan your week ahead. All the sources can be found in the newsletter archive post.

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2024.05.14 13:20 lazymentors Marketing News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

Meta launches AI tools for ad creative creation and paid subscription tiers.
TikTok sues US Government over divest-or-sell law.
Pinterest launches Media Buyer Certification Course.
X will soon allow advertisers to use AI for audience creation.
Youtube launches a promotions tab for Creators & SMBs to run quick ad campaigns.
Reddit is planning to launch search ads and a mixed feed. * Using ‘keyword + reddit’ on google > using reddit search.

Sam Altman debunks the rumours of gpt-5 and search engine launch, announcing new updates to GPT-4. The launch of GPT-4o.
Google’s CEO responds to Search Quality Issues.
Constellation Brands launches creative review for Corona Extra.
Apple’s Safari 18 is expected to introduce webpage summarization, web eraser and more.
Reddit’s Q1 2024 report showed strong user and ad revenue growth, 48% YoY increase in revenue.
Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky Board sharing the company is making the same mistakes he and his team at Twitter.
Ofcom is pushing for better age verification, filters and other checks in new online child safety code.
Apple apologies for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ ad campaign.
Ocean Outdoor and Battersea Power Station launch new premium DOOH network.
OpenAI’s pitch deck for publisher partnerships gets leaked.
Hubspot posts $617.4 million revenue for the first quarter of the year.
Temu and Meta are being blamed by marketers for ruining performance and paid social marketing.
Instacart and NBCUniversal’s new partnership connecting CPG with Streaming, changing retail.
Sony and Apollo are in talks to acquire paramount.

TikTok 🎶

TikTok is working on a collaboration feature similar to IG.
TikTok shares new insights about brand and search experience on platform.
TikTok to start auto-labeling AI-generated content to combat misinformation.
TikTok is having ‘Creative Made Simple’ webinar for SMBs on May 16th.

Instagram & Threads 🗂️
Instagram continues to gamify content creation experience, to make people publish more.
Threads adds view counts on posts.
Instagram’s new ‘Meme it’ DMs feature capitalises on Gen-Z’s heavy use of DMs for chats and content sharing.
Influencers see more Instagram engagement with still images than Reels.
Instagram is teasing a new creator revenue program ‘Spring Bonus’.
Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally.
Instagram is testing an new UI for Carousels, with no dots.
Despite IG adding 3-minute reels, they were found discouraging creators from creating long reels.

Meta 😅

Meta’s newly launched AI creative tools for advantage+ campaigns.
The feature to create reels from existing content is coming to Meta Business Suite.
Meta’s turn away from the news industry has lead to 50% traffic drop to publishers.
Error: Meta shares detailed targeting exclusion alert sent to advertisers was a mistake.
Meta Business Suite adds ‘review’ feature to request post to be reviewed by other admins before publishing.
WhatsApp launches new UI elements, giving the platform a new look.
WhatsApp makes it easier to find new channels with categories.

X (Twitter) 🕹️

X working on Analytics for X communities.
Nintendo ends their X integration for Switch.
X’s new algorithm update has lead to prioritisation of smaller accounts, says Elon.
Chat History is now live for Gork AI on web.
X is adding a ‘cast’ button to the iOS app.

Youtube 🕹️

YouTube outlines its measures to ensure EU Election Integrity.
Youtube expands testing of ‘Jump Ahead’ premium AI feature.
MrBeast is parting ways with Night Media, Talent Management Company.
Youtube testing a new shopping feed in Youtube Shorts.

Google 🔦

Google launches new ‘Saved Comparisons’ feature for Analytics.
Google Shopping Ads get conversion annotations.
Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25%.
Google hides search results count under tools section.
Google shares Disavow link tool will go away at some point.
Google is defending lack of communication around Search Updates.
Google’s site reputation abuse policy enforcement started on Monday May 6th.

Agency News

Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media unveils Ensemble, a branded entertainment company.
Omnicom is shuttering Honey & Sparks and the talent is being distributed.
Nestlé Canada appoints Citizen Relations as Confectionery PR AOR.
GE Lighting, a Savant company appoints Bakery as Social AOR.
Rocket Cos. Puts its media account in review.
We Are Social US partners with Valerie Moizel, CEO of The Woo to form Hello US.
Virgin Active appoints We Are Pi for global brand transformation.
Famous Footwear appoints Yard NYC and THE MAYOR as Creative AOR.
Warner Bros appoints BigSmall to launch streaming service Max.
Lovesac appoints Hearts & Science as media AOR.
BUNTIN appoints Trex as Media Agency of record.
IPG Health consolidates agency brand roster, launch of new Rise & Run brand.
THIRD EAR appointed by Nissan North America and INFINITI USA as Multicultural AOR.
Indie Agency Boathouse creates supplier diversity program, expanding external DEI efforts.

Brands & Ads 🏓

My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

New Balance’s seven-minute film shares seven stories of its influence in subcultures.
Coca-Cola’s new ad ‘Coke Spills’ celebrates the joyous moments of coke spilling.
The Ordinary and Uncommon’s new OOH campaign embraces science instead of celebs.
Jung von Matt’s UK ad debut for Wayfair takes a very simple approach but the vibe matches.
Volkswagen’s new brand platform ‘Your Wagen’ celebrating customer journeys.
PG Tips launches their first campaign in eight years, starring Ashley Walters.
Another Ad campaign featuring dogs but this time it’s for dog food from the brand tails.com.
Currys new ad spot is funny and aligned with Euro 2024 vibes, you can’t miss it .
Budweiser uses song lyrics mentioning the brand to launch new Spotify ad “UninterruptAds”.
Impossible Foods new ad campaign sticks out with very digestible message to make people vegan.
Nescafé’s kettle ad campaign speaks sustainability and stands out as a loner, but on a broader look, it doesn’t align with Nespresso.
EasyJet goes into Eurovision mode for the new ‘All Aboard the Orange Plane’ ad campaign.
Peroni 0.0% joins Formula 1 as Ferrari Team Partner, hoping to ride the non-alcoholic beer growth train.
McDonald’s new plan to invest more dollars (Millions) in Digital marketing and its reward program.

AI 🤨

OpenAI increase AI content transparency with launch of new detection tools.
Etsy’s plan to improve delivery tracking using new ML model.
Absolut & Copy Lab launch copyright-free diverse images for fashion content.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow announced an API partnership.
OpenAI introduces Model Spec to better the model behaviour and explores how AI can generate explicit content.
Eleven labs preview their music AI model.

Reddit & Pinterest

Reddit announces new Public Content Policy, setting new parameters for data usage.
Pinterest hires Former Levi’s CEO to Board of Directors.

Microsoft & LinkedIn

Microsoft is building a bigger and better LLM ‘MAI-1’ to fight Google.
Bing tests clear distinction between free and paid search results.
LinkedIn shares new insights on measuring B2B marketing campaigns.

Marketing & AdTech

Bluesky adds new features; DMs, Improved custom feeds, Video and more.
Shopsense launches retail media platform for second-screen shopping.
GAP names Fabiola Torres new global CMO.
Ocean Outdoor becomes official OOH supplier to London Fashion Week.
Curb, a ride/hailing app launches Curb journey Connect, one-stop ad solution.
Constant Contact launches new AI feature for Brandkit and Campaign Builder.
160over90 launches Integrated Creator Commerce service with Lumanu.
Omnicom announces major expansion in India.
Kantar Media hires Lucy Bristowe as CEO for UK & Western Europe.
Instacart and Uber Eats partner, allowing customers to order Uber Eats food via Instacart.

I hope this helps to plan your week ahead. Follow for more.

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2024.05.14 13:16 lazymentors Advertising & Agency News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

Meta launches AI tools for ad creative creation and paid subscription tiers.
TikTok sues US Government over divest-or-sell law.
Pinterest launches Media Buyer Certification Course.
X will soon allow advertisers to use AI for audience creation.
Youtube launches a promotions tab for Creators & SMBs to run quick ad campaigns.
Reddit is planning to launch search ads and a mixed feed. * Using ‘keyword + reddit’ on google > using reddit search.

Sam Altman debunks the rumours of gpt-5 and search engine launch, announcing new updates to GPT-4. The launch of GPT-4o.
Google’s CEO responds to Search Quality Issues.
Constellation Brands launches creative review for Corona Extra.
Apple’s Safari 18 is expected to introduce webpage summarization, web eraser and more.
Reddit’s Q1 2024 report showed strong user and ad revenue growth, 48% YoY increase in revenue.
Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky Board sharing the company is making the same mistakes he and his team at Twitter.
Ofcom is pushing for better age verification, filters and other checks in new online child safety code.
Apple apologies for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ ad campaign.
Ocean Outdoor and Battersea Power Station launch new premium DOOH network.
OpenAI’s pitch deck for publisher partnerships gets leaked.
Hubspot posts $617.4 million revenue for the first quarter of the year.
Temu and Meta are being blamed by marketers for ruining performance and paid social marketing.
Instacart and NBCUniversal’s new partnership connecting CPG with Streaming, changing retail.
Sony and Apollo are in talks to acquire paramount.

TikTok 🎶

TikTok is working on a collaboration feature similar to IG.
TikTok shares new insights about brand and search experience on platform.
TikTok to start auto-labeling AI-generated content to combat misinformation.
TikTok is having ‘Creative Made Simple’ webinar for SMBs on May 16th.

Instagram & Threads 🗂️
Instagram continues to gamify content creation experience, to make people publish more.
Threads adds view counts on posts.
Instagram’s new ‘Meme it’ DMs feature capitalises on Gen-Z’s heavy use of DMs for chats and content sharing.
Influencers see more Instagram engagement with still images than Reels.
Instagram is teasing a new creator revenue program ‘Spring Bonus’.
Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally.
Instagram is testing an new UI for Carousels, with no dots.
Despite IG adding 3-minute reels, they were found discouraging creators from creating long reels.

Meta 😅

Meta’s newly launched AI creative tools for advantage+ campaigns.
The feature to create reels from existing content is coming to Meta Business Suite.
Meta’s turn away from the news industry has lead to 50% traffic drop to publishers.
Error: Meta shares detailed targeting exclusion alert sent to advertisers was a mistake.
Meta Business Suite adds ‘review’ feature to request post to be reviewed by other admins before publishing.
WhatsApp launches new UI elements, giving the platform a new look.
WhatsApp makes it easier to find new channels with categories.

X (Twitter) 🕹️

X working on Analytics for X communities.
Nintendo ends their X integration for Switch.
X’s new algorithm update has lead to prioritisation of smaller accounts, says Elon.
Chat History is now live for Gork AI on web.
X is adding a ‘cast’ button to the iOS app.

Youtube 🕹️

YouTube outlines its measures to ensure EU Election Integrity.
Youtube expands testing of ‘Jump Ahead’ premium AI feature.
MrBeast is parting ways with Night Media, Talent Management Company.
Youtube testing a new shopping feed in Youtube Shorts.

Google 🔦

Google launches new ‘Saved Comparisons’ feature for Analytics.
Google Shopping Ads get conversion annotations.
Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25%.
Google hides search results count under tools section.
Google shares Disavow link tool will go away at some point.
Google is defending lack of communication around Search Updates.
Google’s site reputation abuse policy enforcement started on Monday May 6th.

Agency News

Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media unveils Ensemble, a branded entertainment company.
Omnicom is shuttering Honey & Sparks and the talent is being distributed.
Nestlé Canada appoints Citizen Relations as Confectionery PR AOR.
GE Lighting, a Savant company appoints Bakery as Social AOR.
Rocket Cos. Puts its media account in review.
We Are Social US partners with Valerie Moizel, CEO of The Woo to form Hello US.
Virgin Active appoints We Are Pi for global brand transformation.
Famous Footwear appoints Yard NYC and THE MAYOR as Creative AOR.
Warner Bros appoints BigSmall to launch streaming service Max.
Lovesac appoints Hearts & Science as media AOR.
BUNTIN appoints Trex as Media Agency of record.
IPG Health consolidates agency brand roster, launch of new Rise & Run brand.
THIRD EAR appointed by Nissan North America and INFINITI USA as Multicultural AOR.
Indie Agency Boathouse creates supplier diversity program, expanding external DEI efforts.

Brands & Ads 🏓

My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

New Balance’s seven-minute film shares seven stories of its influence in subcultures.
Coca-Cola’s new ad ‘Coke Spills’ celebrates the joyous moments of coke spilling.
The Ordinary and Uncommon’s new OOH campaign embraces science instead of celebs.
Jung von Matt’s UK ad debut for Wayfair takes a very simple approach but the vibe matches.
Volkswagen’s new brand platform ‘Your Wagen’ celebrating customer journeys.
PG Tips launches their first campaign in eight years, starring Ashley Walters.
Another Ad campaign featuring dogs but this time it’s for dog food from the brand tails.com.
Currys new ad spot is funny and aligned with Euro 2024 vibes, you can’t miss it .
Budweiser uses song lyrics mentioning the brand to launch new Spotify ad “UninterruptAds”.
Impossible Foods new ad campaign sticks out with very digestible message to make people vegan.
Nescafé’s kettle ad campaign speaks sustainability and stands out as a loner, but on a broader look, it doesn’t align with Nespresso.
EasyJet goes into Eurovision mode for the new ‘All Aboard the Orange Plane’ ad campaign.
Peroni 0.0% joins Formula 1 as Ferrari Team Partner, hoping to ride the non-alcoholic beer growth train.
McDonald’s new plan to invest more dollars (Millions) in Digital marketing and its reward program.

AI 🤨

OpenAI increase AI content transparency with launch of new detection tools.
Etsy’s plan to improve delivery tracking using new ML model.
Absolut & Copy Lab launch copyright-free diverse images for fashion content.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow announced an API partnership.
OpenAI introduces Model Spec to better the model behaviour and explores how AI can generate explicit content.
Eleven labs preview their music AI model.

Reddit & Pinterest

Reddit announces new Public Content Policy, setting new parameters for data usage.
Pinterest hires Former Levi’s CEO to Board of Directors.

Microsoft & LinkedIn

Microsoft is building a bigger and better LLM ‘MAI-1’ to fight Google.
Bing tests clear distinction between free and paid search results.
LinkedIn shares new insights on measuring B2B marketing campaigns.

Marketing & AdTech

Bluesky adds new features; DMs, Improved custom feeds, Video and more.
Shopsense launches retail media platform for second-screen shopping.
GAP names Fabiola Torres new global CMO.
Ocean Outdoor becomes official OOH supplier to London Fashion Week.
Curb, a ride/hailing app launches Curb journey Connect, one-stop ad solution.
Constant Contact launches new AI feature for Brandkit and Campaign Builder.
160over90 launches Integrated Creator Commerce service with Lumanu.
Omnicom announces major expansion in India.
Kantar Media hires Lucy Bristowe as CEO for UK & Western Europe.
Instacart and Uber Eats partner, allowing customers to order Uber Eats food via Instacart.

I hope this helps to plan your week ahead.

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2024.05.14 13:15 lazymentors Marketing News you should care about today!

Top 6 Updates of last Week:

Meta launches AI tools for ad creative creation and paid subscription tiers.
TikTok sues US Government over divest-or-sell law.
Pinterest launches Media Buyer Certification Course.
X will soon allow advertisers to use AI for audience creation.
Youtube launches a promotions tab for Creators & SMBs to run quick ad campaigns.
Reddit is planning to launch search ads and a mixed feed. * Using ‘keyword + reddit’ on google > using reddit search.

Sam Altman debunks the rumours of gpt-5 and search engine launch, announcing new updates to GPT-4. The launch of GPT-4o.
Google’s CEO responds to Search Quality Issues.
Constellation Brands launches creative review for Corona Extra.
Apple’s Safari 18 is expected to introduce webpage summarization, web eraser and more.
Reddit’s Q1 2024 report showed strong user and ad revenue growth, 48% YoY increase in revenue.
Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky Board sharing the company is making the same mistakes he and his team at Twitter.
Ofcom is pushing for better age verification, filters and other checks in new online child safety code.
Apple apologies for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ ad campaign.
Ocean Outdoor and Battersea Power Station launch new premium DOOH network.
OpenAI’s pitch deck for publisher partnerships gets leaked.
Hubspot posts $617.4 million revenue for the first quarter of the year.
Temu and Meta are being blamed by marketers for ruining performance and paid social marketing.
Instacart and NBCUniversal’s new partnership connecting CPG with Streaming, changing retail.
Sony and Apollo are in talks to acquire paramount.

TikTok 🎶

TikTok is working on a collaboration feature similar to IG.
TikTok shares new insights about brand and search experience on platform.
TikTok to start auto-labeling AI-generated content to combat misinformation.
TikTok is having ‘Creative Made Simple’ webinar for SMBs on May 16th.

Instagram & Threads 🗂️
Instagram continues to gamify content creation experience, to make people publish more.
Threads adds view counts on posts.
Instagram’s new ‘Meme it’ DMs feature capitalises on Gen-Z’s heavy use of DMs for chats and content sharing.
Influencers see more Instagram engagement with still images than Reels.
Instagram is teasing a new creator revenue program ‘Spring Bonus’.
Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally.
Instagram is testing an new UI for Carousels, with no dots.
Despite IG adding 3-minute reels, they were found discouraging creators from creating long reels.

Meta 😅

Meta’s newly launched AI creative tools for advantage+ campaigns.
The feature to create reels from existing content is coming to Meta Business Suite.
Meta’s turn away from the news industry has lead to 50% traffic drop to publishers.
Error: Meta shares detailed targeting exclusion alert sent to advertisers was a mistake.
Meta Business Suite adds ‘review’ feature to request post to be reviewed by other admins before publishing.
WhatsApp launches new UI elements, giving the platform a new look.
WhatsApp makes it easier to find new channels with categories.

X (Twitter) 🕹️

X working on Analytics for X communities.
Nintendo ends their X integration for Switch.
X’s new algorithm update has lead to prioritisation of smaller accounts, says Elon.
Chat History is now live for Gork AI on web.
X is adding a ‘cast’ button to the iOS app.

Youtube 🕹️

YouTube outlines its measures to ensure EU Election Integrity.
Youtube expands testing of ‘Jump Ahead’ premium AI feature.
MrBeast is parting ways with Night Media, Talent Management Company.
Youtube testing a new shopping feed in Youtube Shorts.

Google 🔦

Google launches new ‘Saved Comparisons’ feature for Analytics.
Google Shopping Ads get conversion annotations.
Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25%.
Google hides search results count under tools section.
Google shares Disavow link tool will go away at some point.
Google is defending lack of communication around Search Updates.
Google’s site reputation abuse policy enforcement started on Monday May 6th.

Agency News

Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media unveils Ensemble, a branded entertainment company.
Omnicom is shuttering Honey & Sparks and the talent is being distributed.
Nestlé Canada appoints Citizen Relations as Confectionery PR AOR.
GE Lighting, a Savant company appoints Bakery as Social AOR.
Rocket Cos. Puts its media account in review.
We Are Social US partners with Valerie Moizel, CEO of The Woo to form Hello US.
Virgin Active appoints We Are Pi for global brand transformation.
Famous Footwear appoints Yard NYC and THE MAYOR as Creative AOR.
Warner Bros appoints BigSmall to launch streaming service Max.
Lovesac appoints Hearts & Science as media AOR.
BUNTIN appoints Trex as Media Agency of record.
IPG Health consolidates agency brand roster, launch of new Rise & Run brand.
THIRD EAR appointed by Nissan North America and INFINITI USA as Multicultural AOR.
Indie Agency Boathouse creates supplier diversity program, expanding external DEI efforts.

Brands & Ads 🏓

My Fav; Liquid Death’s latest campaign ‘The Adventures of Murder Man’ is a creative masterpiece as usual and a corporate parody.

New Balance’s seven-minute film shares seven stories of its influence in subcultures.
Coca-Cola’s new ad ‘Coke Spills’ celebrates the joyous moments of coke spilling.
The Ordinary and Uncommon’s new OOH campaign embraces science instead of celebs.
Jung von Matt’s UK ad debut for Wayfair takes a very simple approach but the vibe matches.
Volkswagen’s new brand platform ‘Your Wagen’ celebrating customer journeys.
PG Tips launches their first campaign in eight years, starring Ashley Walters.
Another Ad campaign featuring dogs but this time it’s for dog food from the brand tails.com.
Currys new ad spot is funny and aligned with Euro 2024 vibes, you can’t miss it .
Budweiser uses song lyrics mentioning the brand to launch new Spotify ad “UninterruptAds”.
Impossible Foods new ad campaign sticks out with very digestible message to make people vegan.
Nescafé’s kettle ad campaign speaks sustainability and stands out as a loner, but on a broader look, it doesn’t align with Nespresso.
EasyJet goes into Eurovision mode for the new ‘All Aboard the Orange Plane’ ad campaign.
Peroni 0.0% joins Formula 1 as Ferrari Team Partner, hoping to ride the non-alcoholic beer growth train.
McDonald’s new plan to invest more dollars (Millions) in Digital marketing and its reward program.

AI 🤨

OpenAI increase AI content transparency with launch of new detection tools.
Etsy’s plan to improve delivery tracking using new ML model.
Absolut & Copy Lab launch copyright-free diverse images for fashion content.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow announced an API partnership.
OpenAI introduces Model Spec to better the model behaviour and explores how AI can generate explicit content.
Eleven labs preview their music AI model.

Reddit & Pinterest

Reddit announces new Public Content Policy, setting new parameters for data usage.
Pinterest hires Former Levi’s CEO to Board of Directors.

Microsoft & LinkedIn

Microsoft is building a bigger and better LLM ‘MAI-1’ to fight Google.
Bing tests clear distinction between free and paid search results.
LinkedIn shares new insights on measuring B2B marketing campaigns.

Marketing & AdTech

Bluesky adds new features; DMs, Improved custom feeds, Video and more.
Shopsense launches retail media platform for second-screen shopping.
GAP names Fabiola Torres new global CMO.
Ocean Outdoor becomes official OOH supplier to London Fashion Week.
Curb, a ride/hailing app launches Curb journey Connect, one-stop ad solution.
Constant Contact launches new AI feature for Brandkit and Campaign Builder.
160over90 launches Integrated Creator Commerce service with Lumanu.
Omnicom announces major expansion in India.
Kantar Media hires Lucy Bristowe as CEO for UK & Western Europe.
Instacart and Uber Eats partner, allowing customers to order Uber Eats food via Instacart.

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2024.05.14 12:45 Errora403 PUBG MOBILE VERSION 3.2 UPDATE ANNOUNCEMENT

Report bugs here and earn rewards: https://pubgmobile.live/support

PUBG MOBILE will begin pushing out the update on 5/13 at 2:00 (UTC+0). Service will not be interrupted. To ensure a quick and smooth update, please be in a good network environment and make sure you have enough available storage on your device.
Update Reward: Update the game between 5/13–5/27 (UTC+0) to get 3,000 BP, 100 AG, and a Mecha Warship Theme (3d).

Key Updates

New Themed Mode "Mecha Fusion": Engage in thrilling battles in a brand new battleship themed area with new mecha vehicles!
World of Wonder Updates: Bring your competitive experience to the next level with new mecha gameplay!
Firearm and Vehicle Updates: P90 and Skorpion have been rebalanced. QBZ added to Erangel and Miramar. Select vehicles now have a delayed explosion mechanic. Experience a different kind of battle!
Collection System: The Collection System is here! Start growing your collection today!
Home: The mysterious Elegant Ancient Capital resource pack is coming soon! Build your dream Home and show off your creativity in the Home Competition!

New Themed Mode: Mecha Fusion

Available: 2024/5/13 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2024/7/9 at 20:59 (UTC+0)
Supported Maps: Erangel, Livik, and Miramar (Ranked and Unranked)
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New Mecha Vehicles

Strider: A two-seater vehicle with the ability to jump. It's armed with missiles that can be used to bombard designated areas. Missiles can be replenished at the Repair Station in the Assembly Base.
Levitron: A special vechile that can switch between a speed form and a magnetic form. Serves as the upper-body component that combines with a Strider to form the Armamech.
- In speed form, the maximum speed and hover height will be increased, and the vehicle gains a "collision acceleration" ability: it will not slow down when it hits an obstacle. Instead, it will accelerate using the stored magnetic energy.
- In magnetic form, the maximum speed and hover height will be reduced, but it can activate a "Magnetize" ability to grab and toss characters, vehicles, and specific objects.
Armamech: A four-seater vehicle combined from a Levitron and a Strider. It can also be directly summoned from the Steel Ark.
- It possesses 2 weapons that it can freely switch between: the Strider's missiles, and the Levitron's "Magnetize" ability.
- It has a boosted jump that enables it to leap high and far with the assistance of jets.
- Bring a Levitron and a Strider close together to combine them. After combining, the pilot of the Levitron becomes the pilot of the Armamech. It can also be separated at any time.

Brand New Environments

Steel Ark:
- A giant space battleship that will land on the map at the start of a match. You can enter it and explore inside. The core of the Steel Ark is a platform where you can summon the Armamech from the skies! You can launch yourself into the air in this mecha for everyone to see.
- The ark consists of many areas. You can find all kinds of supplies and Supply Crates at the Command Post, Dormitory, Warehouse, and more.
- From the landing pad, you can board an evacuation Wingman, which will take you straight to the Playzone!
- You can use elevators and ziplines in the ark to get around.
- Steel Ark Air Drop: A Steel Ark loaded with supplies will fly around during the match and drop supplies consisting of an Air Drop Crate and several Supply Crates at specific drop points.
Assembly Base:
- The Assembly Base contains a Mecha Repair Station. Approach it in a mecha to replenish the mecha's health, fuel, and missiles.
- On the top floor of the Assembly Base, there is a detector that can determine the location of crates within the Assembly Base. An Access Card can be found in one of the crates, which can be used to open the door to the Secret Room and get loads of supplies.

New Items

Jetpack: Pick it up and equip it to increase movement speed. It possesses the ability to hover in the air for a short duration. It consumes Energy rapidly when lifting off. Energy will only be replenished when you reach the ground. The Jetpack has a Health bar that protects you from damage to your back and arms. It will be destroyed after taking a certain amount of damage. When reaching a certain speed while moving forward, it can switch to a speed form. You will perform a special action when you tap "Lift Off" as it switches to the speed form. The Jetpack comes with the "Magnetize" ability, but you will not be able to fly fast when using it.
Personal AED: If you have this item, you can tap self-rescue after being knocked down. Once successful, you will recover from the knocked down state. Each player can only carry one of these items. Self-rescuing will be interrupted if you move while using this item.
Magnet Gun: This is a downgraded version of the Levitron's "Magnetize" ability in gun form. Switch to it by tapping on the firearm bar. It works the same as the Levitron's "Magnetize", but with reduced values.
Respawn Beacon: Throw the beacon on the ground to mark a location that the plane will pass over. Recalled teammates can parachute into the match again at the cost of a respawn chance. Teammates who have used up all their respawn chances cannot respawn.
Quick Parachute: When parachuting, a quick parachute button will appear at a certain height in the air. Tap it to immediately deploy the parachute which can also be freely put away.
Repair Station: Approach the Repair Station in a mecha to replenish its health, fuel, and missiles.

New Legendary Pilot Challenge

Get themed items, special vehicle cosmetics, Armamech dance emotes, special Elimination Broadcasts, and more by completing this difficult themed mode challenge.

World of Wonder

Available: Releases with the version
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World of Wonder Updates

Fuzzy search is now supported. You can search for maps by creation ID, creator UID, creation name, and description.
Added the friends tab to check what creations your friends have made at a glance.
Gift Access Point: You can now send Space Gifts from the creation details page and the creator's profile page.
You can view your play data and creation data in WOW on your player information page.
Ranking Improvements: Added support for more variables. Matches will now announce when a ranking player is in the match.
Copied Creations Limit: The number of copied creations you can have (including creations that are already published or those under review) is limited based on your Creator Level. When the limit is reached, you can only publish original creations unless you take down an existing copied creation.
Improved map recommendations and showcasing. Updated the WOW Creator page.

New Gameplay Devices

Contested Object Device: Use this device to spawn a contested object, which players can hold in their hands similar to "capture the flag".
Contested Object Handover Device: Contested objects can be handed over to this device for rewards.
Defensive Tower Device: Use this device to generate a fixed defense tower and configure its weapon type.

Gameplay Device Improvements

PvE Enemy Spawn Device: Supports spawning PvE enemies at random, configuring the PvE enemy's type, and randomizing their weight. You can also configure the PvE enemy's team.
Random Action Device: Supports storing the result of a random integer in a custom variable.
Special Vehicle Device: Added mechas.
Map Indicator Device: Supports real-time display of icons and text in the game.
Area Trigger Device: The action of the specific object entering the zone can be detected by the Area Trigger Device.
Overall Action Device: The action of players leaving the match can be detected.
Humanoid Enemy Spawn Device: Can now add buffs to spawned humanoid enemies.
Grouped Object Action Device: Supports configuring grouped objects. Loading any one of them automatically removes the others.
Item Issuance Device, Item Spawn Device, Custom Shop Device: Added 5.7mm ammo and the MG3.

New Interactive Objects

Target Dummy: A target dummy from the single-player training stage that shows damage numbers when hit and has several poses.
Soccer Ball: A soccer ball that moves upon contact.

Interactive Object Improvements

New Dynamic Moving Object Actions: Every new movement method for moving objects has a corresponding action. They can be activated by the detectable actions of other devices.
Guiding Lines: Launch pads and trampolines have guiding lines that show the trajectory of the player being launched into the air.

Controls & Interaction

Guiding Lines When Placing Objects In Midair: When placing objects in the air, guiding lines that project the current object's position on the ground can be shown.
Backpack Objects Can Be Interactized: You can take out interactized attachments such as a spinning ferris wheel from your backpack.
Object Interactization—Collidable Interactization: Set whether interactized objects move when hit by characters, vehicles, bullets, or throwables.
Object Interactization—Holding Interactization: Interactized objects can be held and tossed by characters.
Coordinate Editing in Free Editing Mode: In Free Editing Mode, you can select an object directly and move, rotate, or resize it by modifying its coordinates.
Object Editing Interface: Each object has an editing interface where you can directly edit the object's orientation, scaling, interactization type, or gameplay device parameters.
Object Placement and Alignment Improvements: Improved the usability of object snap and area grid, as well as added more object alignment parameters.
Auto Snap Option When Re-Editing: In the previous version, objects automatically snapped to their initial position when brought close to it during re-editing. This setting can now be toggled on and off in the editor's parameter settings interface, and is off by default.
Object Movement and Rotation Increment: Added movement and rotation increment settings to the editor's parameter settings interface.
Free Editing Top View Now Perfectly Flat: In Free Editing Mode, the previous top view editing was not perfectly flat, resulting in inaccurate positioning when placing objects from midair. Now, the editing view has been changed to be perfectly flat.
Added temporary resources. They will be replaced with default resources when they expire.

Game Parameters

Retaining Shop Tokens: Shop Tokens can now be kept during a match or across matches.
Overall Action Management: Added tag customization and filter features. You can create tags for gameplay devices to classify and filter them based on the tags.
Armed AI Customization Interface: Attributes for armed AI and defense towers can be customized, including health, attack, and more.
Match Log Interface: In-game logs now include the save feature. You can save and view all logs generated during play tests.

Other Updates

Group Editing: The team leader can edit the permissions of team members for better team management.
Enchantopia Updates: You can invite friends to Enchantopia and edit your team there. Added more interesting gameplay to the stages.
Cost Calculation Improvements: Fine-tuned how the system determines the cost of an object.
New map templates.

Classic Updates

Livik Map Updates

Added 4 new XT Upgrade Crates on top of the existing ones. New firearm upgrades are for the UMP45, SKS, DP-28, and M762. Upgrade Crates for these 4 firearms can be found in Livik or purchased from the Shop for 10 tokens.
- UMP45 Upgrade: Reduced hip fire bullet spread by 20%.
- SKS Upgrade: Faster recoil recovery after firing.
- DP-28 Upgrade: Faster reload speed.
- M762 Upgrade: Reduced muzzle shake.

Erangel Map Updates

Improved the quality of models seen by players at high altitudes, and resolved the issue of buildings disappearing.

Home Updates

The Home System is permanently available, and will be updated each version with interesting gameplay and building cosmetics.

Home Competition

Submission Period: 2024/5/13 at 00:00–2024/6/1 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
Selection Period: 2024/6/1 at 9:00–2024/7/1 at 9:00 (UTC+0)

You must reach at least 200 Home Prosperity before you can register for the Home Competition.
If players miss the submission period, they can still register during the selection period. After registering, they will be placed in the next round's matchmaking pool.
After registering, the selection criteria will be based on the current look of the player's Home.
During the selection period, you'll be matched with players of similar Home Prosperity at random every 3 days, for 10 rounds in total.
During the face-off, the player that obtains more votes wins. The winner gets to loot points from the loser.
Participate in Home Face-Offs to win Home Points and increase your Home Face-Off Level. The higher the Home Face-Off Level, the better the rewards.
Home Votes can be obtained by completing missions and by sending Home gifts. Note: Regular Popularity gifts do not grant Home Votes.
Home gifts given during each face-off round of the selection period will count towards Home Votes. Home gifts given outside a face-off round will not count towards the number of votes.

Home Events

Elegant Ancient Capital Style Event:
- Available: 2024/5/18 at 2:00 (UTC+0)
- Purchase Elegant Ancient Capital Home items during the event to get Style Points that can be redeemed for amazing rewards.
Ancient Capital Theme Debut Celebration:
- Available: 2024/5/18 at 00:00 (UTC+0)–2024/5/31 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
- The Event Center is launching an event to celebrate Elegant Ancient Capital's arrival. Get a Congratulatory Ancient Capital Object Pack when you reach Home Lv. 3, and use it to build an Ancient Capital Style Home in an instant!
- Visit your Home and upgrade your Home Level to get additional rewards, including Home Coins, Classic Crate Coupons, AG, Ancient Capital themed items, and more.

Home Building Updates

Build With Blueprint & Group Editing:
- Improved the process of building with blueprints. You can now go to More - Save Blueprint to copy and save the draft.
- The Home Level required to build with blueprints and publish blueprints has been reduced to Lv. 3.
- You can set the level of the blueprint you want to edit with a tap.
- The Home Level required to access group editing has been reduced to Lv. 5. You can go to Blueprint Editing - More - Group Editing to invite your friends to build your Home together.
Home Resource Updates:
- The mysterious Elegant Ancient Capital resource pack will be coming soon, along with a surprise event that will reward the Elegant Ancient Capital doorplate and exclusive background music for a limited time.
- Reach Home Lv. 3 to get a basic Elegant Ancient Capital object pack.

Home Resource & Content Updates

Added an access point to the Home Shop in Home. Not only can you browse and edit freely in your Home, you can also enjoy the fun of shopping at any time.
Added an access point to the Home Lucky Spin in the Home Shop, so you can more conveniently acquire your favorite items:
- Upgraded the Lucky Spin event. There are now multiple Lucky Spins available at once, providing you with more diverse shopping options.
- Elegant Ancient Capital themed items will be available in the Home Lucky Spin.
The Elegant Ancient Capital themed items are now available in the Home Shop. Give your Home style a unique twist.
Upgraded the Home's lighting effects so players can take more quality photos.
Added customizable atmosphere modules that can be adjusted in visit mode.
Added privacy settings so you can now control who has access to your Home. Additionally, after reaching Home Lv. 15, you can enable the private channel feature to enjoy private time with your friends.
Improved object interactions. Added new facial expression changes after sitting down. Added new interactive objects: Smith Machine, Treadmill, Bathtub.
Improved butler actions. Butlers can now turn around and look at the player when they are within a specific range.
Home Tree Status Notification: When coins can be collected from the current Home Tree, you will see a notification icon on the Friends tab, the Enter My Home button, and the Home details page.

Metro Royale Updates

Available: 2024/5/15 at 1:00 (UTC+0)
Matchmaking: 2024/5/15 at 2:00 (UTC+0)

Collectibles Cabinet Updates: New Chapter 20 Collectibles
After obtaining specific Fabled collectibles, they can be displayed in the player's Personal Space.
After obtaining specific Fabled collectibles, turn in collectibles to get certain Fabled collectible decorations for the Home.
New Honor Rewards: Chapter 20 Elite Avatar, Chapter 20 Hero Avatar Frame, and Chapter 20 Legendary Name Tag. These rewards can be claimed after reaching the corresponding Honor level.
New elite PvE enemy in Misty Port and Arctic Base: Strider.
New firearms: P90 (Cobra), P90 (Steel Front).
Player EXP can now be earned via Metro Royale matches.
Companion EXP can be earned by bringing companions to Metro Royale matches.
You can now tap to repair all items at once on the loadout page.
You can now tap to open multiple inventory gift packs at once.
Improved the firearm status at the preparation stage at the start of the match. Firearms will be reloaded by default and set to full auto firing mode.
Fixed the issue of incorrect models for some drop items.

Firearm & Vehicle Improvements

Firearm Adjustments:
- P90 damage adjustment.
- QBZ added to Erangel and Miramar.
- Skorpion Improvements: Base damage increased from 22 to 24, 15% faster reload time, 20% faster aim down sights time, 30% reduced bullet spread when moving, 10% less sway when shooting.
Delayed Explosion Mechanic for Select Vehicles: When a vehicle's health reaches 0, it won't explode right away. Instead, its engine will stop working and it will catch on fire before exploding after 5 seconds. If the vehicle is damaged by an explosion during this period, it will explode immediately. (Some special vehicles aren't affected by this change.)
Mobile Shop Vehicle Modification: Added a new item to the Mobile Shop in Erangel, Livik, Miramar, and Sanhok. Use Shop Tokens to purchase its key and turn the Mobile Shop into a drivable vehicle. Items can only be purchased from the Mobile Shop when it's parked. If the vehicle is destroyed, it can no longer be used as a shop.

General Improvements

Victory Dance: The A7 Victory Dance comes with an exclusive camera view. Select it from Creation Mode's Victory Dance tab.
In-game Mark: When marking supplies with universal mark/quick chat, the quantity of the marked supply will also be shown.
Customize Buttons: When customizing controls, you can now quickly copy your Arena Mode layout to use in Classic Mode.
Improved Highlights:
- Companions that you bring into matches will now show in highlights.
- When recording highlights, all emotes that meet the requirements will be recorded and displayed during playback.
- Adjusted the retention priority of highlights and the recording conditions of some clips to make it easier to retain them.
- Teammate numbers now show in highlights.
- Smoke from exploding grenades now shows in highlights.
Auto Pick Up: You can now choose whether to discard or put your previous melee weapon into your backpack after picking up a new one.
Sprinting Interrupts Peek Mode: This new setting is enabled by default. When disabled, if you perform a sprint while peeking, it won't interrupt peek mode and you won't start sprinting.
New Individual Companion Display: Players can now choose to display their companions, and companions added to the companion system will take turns showing off. This can be done in the Lobby or in a match.
Device Update: 120 fps and 90 fps are now available for select devices for you to enjoy a smoother gaming experience.

System Improvements

New Collection System: Collect firearms, finishes, and more to get awesome rewards.
Themed Event Shop additions: Mecha themed gameplay cosmetics, social items, fun items, and more.
Chat Room Feature Updates:
- Improved the list of featured chat rooms and added filters for chat room type, language, and more.
- Added Speaking Mode: In regular mode, the host's permission is required to speak. In free mode, any player can freely speak.
- Added new discussion topics to the chat room. Share your thoughts to increase the interactive atmosphere.
- Added new ways to send Space Gifts.
- Added chat room status updates in the Friends List.
Birthday Care System: You can now add your birthday to your Social Player Card as part of the new birthday care system. You'll receive surprise care rewards when you log in on your birthday.
Synergy: Complete missions such as adding friends and teaming up during the event to get Synergy items and the Underworld Outlaw Set (time-limited).

New Season: Cycle 6 Season 18

Available: 2024/5/18 at 2:00 (UTC+0)–2024/7/15 at 23:59 (UTC+0)
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Reward updates: New legendary items: C6S18 Glasses, C6S18 Set, C6S18 Mask, C6S18 Cover, C6S18 - DBS
Season Token Event Shop Update: C6S18 - Parachute

All-Talent Championship S19

Available: 2024/5/20–2024/7/4 (UTC+0)

New Event Shop Rewards: Pop Sensation Set (Epic), Elven Tracker Cover (Legendary), Elven Tracker Set (Legendary), Finest Flavors - QBZ (Epic)
New All-Talent Championship S19 Crate Rewards: Pop Sensation Set (Epic), Elven Tracker Cover (Legendary), Elven Tracker Set (Legendary), Finest Flavors - QBZ (Epic), Labyrinth Scale - M24 (Epic), Inked Battleground Parachute (Epic)
New First and Second Runner-Up Rewards: Ducky Fighter Set (Legendary), Ducky Fighter Cover (Legendary), Time Traveler - Kar98K (Legendary), Round Parachute (Camo) (Epic), Mr. Bronze Set (Epic)

Popularity Gift Events

New Redemption Shop

Popularity Gift Redemption Shop: The Redemption Shop is permanently available and its rewards will be continuously updated. Use tokens earned from Popularity Battles and Team Popularity Battles to redeem rewards.

Popularity Battle Event

Registration Period: 2024/5/14 at 00:00–2024/5/19 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
Battle Period: 2024/5/19 at 9:00–2024/6/18 at 9:00 (UTC+0)

Main Updates:
- New widget tool: Popularity Battle progress can now be synced to your device.
- New rewards: Popularity Coin, Stickers
- Lowered the points required to reach each level so obtaining rewards is easier.
Rules:
- Register to participate in the Popularity Battle event. During the battle period, get randomly matched with a powerful opponent every 3 days for a popularity contest. Lasts 10 rounds in total.
- During the battle period, the Popularity of both competitors will be compared. The one with the highest Popularity wins.
- The winner can claim some of their opponent's points.
- Participate in Popularity Battles to win Battle Points and increase Battle Level. The higher the Battle Level, the better the rewards.

Team Popularity Battle Event

Registration Period: 2024/6/17 at 00:00–2024/6/23 at 8:59 (UTC+0)
Battle Period: 2024/6/23 at 9:00–2024/7/9 at 9:30 (UTC+0)

Main Content:
- New widget tool: Popularity Battle progress can now be synced to your device.
- New reward: Popularity Coin
- Lowered the points required to reach each level so obtaining rewards is easier.
Rules:
- Matchmaking: There will be a total of 8 rounds. Teams of similar strength will be matched every 2 days. Players within each team will be ranked by Popularity through 1v1 Popularity Battles.
- Battle: Both sides will compete to see who can gain the most Popularity during this phase.
- The total score will be determined by the win-loss record of each player on the team. In the event of a tie (2:2), the total Popularity of both teams will be compared.
- The team with the higher total score will be declared the winner, and can loot Battle Points from the defeated team.
- If all players within a team have the same score, they can jointly claim the level rewards and ranking rewards.
- Teams that have registered can have their team leader create an exclusive Nickname Badge for the team, which serves as a symbol of the close bond between team members and gift recipients.
- Nickname Badges support custom text and are unique.
- Players can obtain a Nickname Badge by registering a team or by completing gift missions.

Security & Game Environment Improvements

Account Security

Players who are conducting video reviews will now show the status, "Reviewing Video", on the Friend List.
You can now log in via QR code with accounts linked to certain platforms.
Improved account protection system with better account linking and unlinking procedures, and improved security verification and abnormal login reminders. Enhanced in-game notifications for better player awareness on how accounts are stolen to minimize their occurrence.
Improved account recovery tool to enhance account retrieval and self-unlinking, to help more account owners in retrieving their accounts.

Security Strategy Improvements

Improved cheat detection for X-Ray vision, auto aim, no recoil, speed hacks, modified resource files, and more.
Improved violation detection for unfair cooperation and teaming up with cheaters.
Improved the in-game detection and countermeasures against account farming, prohibited transactions, escorting, botting and other violations to better regulate in-game behavior and improve players' gaming experience.
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2024.05.14 12:40 Specialist_Bake6514 Vapiano P3: Italian Food Made in Germany

The kitchen is on fire. Welcome to the final part of the Vapiano story where the tables are turning. In the first two episodes we followed Mark Korzilius' journey from setbacks to founding Vapiano, a groundbreaking restaurant concept, highlighting its fresh ingredients, dynamic atmosphere, and data-driven operations that drove rapid success. While achieving initial profitability and garnering attention from industry giants like McDonald's, Vapiano's global expansion has led to stellar revenue growth. However, it has also resulted in the emergence of numerous side projects (or distractions), operational challenges, increased costs, significant investments, and a notable accumulation of debt. This underscores the prioritization of top-line growth over profitable growth. We will continue on this thread and see how the story ends, but I would encourage you to read part one and two for better context. Vapiano P1: Italian Food Made in Germany (substack.com). Let's dig in.
Before Going Public
We are now in 2015 and the year is a disaster for Vapiano's PR department. Employee time stamps are being manipulated, endless overtime for employees and high turnover in managerial roles are reported; mice in the kitchen and even rotten food allegedly found.
The company is confronted with allegations of exceeding working hours among trainees in an article published by Welt am Sonntag, while the same outlet accuses Vapiano of manipulating punch times. The auditing firm PwC is commissioned to investigate the allegations and finds that there is no systematic approach but rather misconduct by individual employees, a mistake that’s being corrected. Internal however, investigations into stamp times are carried out regularly now and beyond its obvious reputational impact, this sucks up valuable management time and attention.
In the summer of 2015 CEO, co-founder and investor Gregor Gerlach, who has been running the group since 2011 is stepping down and Jochen Halfmann is taking over. A new Vapiano People Program with an App is being developed with the aim to better interact with customers that will incorporate innovate features such as mobile pay. The German website sees a launch of new magazine to further promote the brand and there is now a full inhouse blogger and Instagram team being installed. In October the company buys seven restaurants from original co-founder, former co-investor and ex-president previously responsible for internation expansion Kent Hahne (2x Bonn, 3x Cologne, 1x Koblenz and one in Cologne that’s under construction). This package of Vapiano restaurants is very successful and generates net sales of more than 20 million euros in 2014. Hahne opened his first Vapiano restaurant in Cologne in August 2006 and in 2015 with his company apeiron AG, Hahne operates six L'Osteria franchise restaurants, a direct Vapiano competitor, and two self-owned restaurants GinYuu.
Then in November of 2015, the next public relations bomb goes off with allegations regarding the company's quality standards. The company immediately investigates the issue through internal and external specialists but finds no evidence of any quality issues. Nevertheless, knowing that the group is now being closely watched, the company’s already in place hygiene standards are being reinforced. Additional audits and inspections are performed nationally. Further, all Vapianos worldwide are being audited twice by the partners SGS Institut Fresenius and SAI Global. Auditing software is purchased to simplify the implementation of the audits and the resulting measures. Apart from the external examinations, there is a food sampling plan in place being performed continuously. Again, all of this sucks up costs, management time and attention. With all these tumultuous developments the company’s growth engine is undeterred. Revenue grows by a whopping 50 million euros to 202 million euros, an increase of 33%. Impressive. While average spent per customer increases in all countries, the number of customers per day in Germany decreases by 3.3% partially due to the negative press towards the end of the year. Five own, four JV and 19 new franchise restaurants are added that year to the group, the total number of own managed restaurants grows to 51, there are 31 JVs and 84 franchises which bringing the total to 166 Vapiano restaurants. Global restaurant sales are now above 400 million euros.
But while revenue grows by an astronomical 50 million euros, operating profits, alarmingly, shrink again. Gross margins are staying perfectly healthy above 75% but operating costs keep growing disproportionately fast. The Company’s outstanding debt jumps by almost 30 million, close to 85 million euros by the end of the year. With operating profits at 9.5 million euros, alarm bells should be going off right now.
In Q4 of 2015, new CEO Jochen Halfmann introduces Strategy 2020. The new strategy includes five essential points. One, profitable growth in the newly defined core markets of Germany and Austria as well as in the UK, Netherlands, France and USA. Two, operational excellence through strict “best practice” management. Three, further development and digitalization of the concept considering guest feedback. Four, greater focus on long-term employee retention and five, building a modern and sustainable IT landscape. Sound’s good on paper but let’s see how things pan out.
Vapiano's investments (capital expenditures) that year are primarily directed towards new restaurant openings, renovations of existing establishments, and share acquisitions in other Vapiano restaurants from franchisees or JV partners. A significant portion of funds is allocated to the digitalization of the guest experience, including the development of a new app scheduled for market release in 2016 and the implementation of a time recording system across all group restaurants. The world's first standalone Vapiano restaurant with a delivery service that year is built in Fürth, Germany. The company keeps expanding its presence in both inner-city locations and international markets, such as Shanghai, China.
To finance all of this, the group has its own operating cash flow which comes in at 18 million while capital expenditures are 26 million euros plus 14 million for acquisitions. The funding gab is filled with 26 million euros of new debt and a seven-million-euro equity raise. At that end of the year and after the equity raise Gregor Gerlach (through his AP Leipzig GmbH & Co. KG entity) holds 30.1%, Hans-Joachim and Gisa Sander through their Exchange Bio GmbH hold 25.5% and the Tchibo heirs, Herz through their Mayfair Beteiligungsfonds II GmbH & Co. KG hold 44,4%.
But for the first time the restaurant’s concept that was so successful to date is being questioned. Some customers are starting to mislike the operational flow of the concept itself. If you want pasta, you must queue for pasta. If you want pizza you stand in a different queue. A small side salad, yet another queue. "You spend more time carrying trays than an actress in Berlin-Mitte. The audience in the pasta limbo can only consist of people who have worked for an insurance company for a long time and, like Stockholm syndrome, they can no longer get away from the industrial canteen feeling," writes TV host Beisenherz provocatively. While overly harsh in his assessment he's not entirely wrong judging by customers venting their frustrations in forums and social media channels. It isn’t uncommon for those who ordered pizza to have already finished eating while there is little movement in the pasta queue. Long term that doesn't go down well, QSRs competitors like L’Osteria are handling this process differently, with much success.
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Tipping Point

Where are now in the year 2016 and things start to deteriorate visibility. Perhaps not for the leman’s eye but any business minded observer can see that there are problems under the hood. Yes, revenue grows yet another whopping 50 million to almost 250 million euros but half of that growth, comes from acquisitions of restaurants that the group didn’t already own 100%, which is now being fully consolidated within the group’s accounts. Here is a concrete example. In the past, Vapiano SE, the group’s top holding company held an indirect 50% stake in a French subgroup via the subsidiary VAP Restaurants SA, based in Luxembourg, and included this as an associated company in the Vapiano SE consolidated financial statements using the equity method. Due to the acquisition of additional shares in September of 2016, Vapiano SE's indirect share in the French subgroup increased to 75%. This means that Vapiano SE takes control of the French subgroup, which is therefore included in the group’s financial statements as part of the full consolidation. The revenue from the acquired subsidiary now recorded in the consolidated income statement amounts to 12.8 million euros. While that’s great for the top line, the loss of the fully consolidated entity equates to 0.2 million euros. Yes, you are buying revenue, but there are losses attached to them, not profits. A similar case is the Swedish entity that runs eight restaurants with revenue of 11.5 million euros but has losses of 235 thousand euros. So much for Strategy 2020 and “profitable” growth.
That year the group’s operating profits are absolutely tanking, halving to 3.5 million euros. Operating profits are now a mere 1,4% of revenue. Remember original founder Mark Korzilius who talked about operating margins of 25% to 28% at the restaurant level? Yes, there are overhead costs for the organization that sits above the chain of restaurants, but operating margins that low indicates a course correction is needed. What’s telling is that in the annual report, in the management discussion section, the company starts talking about EBITDA as a proxy measure of profitability, rather than operating profit or net income. This wasn’t the case in the years before. Is this window dressing for an upcoming IPO? EBITDA is short for earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization. How can you measure profitability of a restaurant chain that absolutely and unequivocally needs capital investment to maintain its restaurant operations, the very source of cash generation, by simply excluding this maintenance charge (depreciation in the income statement)? Vapiano’s own annual report talks about the fact that existing restaurants must be rejuvenated from time to time and that new interior designs have to be implemented every few years. These things wear and tear, they go out of style, kitchen equipment breaks and needs replacement. This business absolutely needs maintenance capital expenditure, why anyone talks of profits before these maintenance costs is beyond me. Fun fact: in the previous annual report EBITDA is mentioned seven times, mostly around restaurant acquisitions and financing, not however as a profit indication for the group. In the new annual report, EBITDA is mentioned 28 times. Maybe it’s just me but belated Charlie Munger liked to call EBITDA: bullsh*t earnings. When in doubt I stick with Charlie. Interestingly, EBITDA for Vapiano keeps growing while operating and net profits keep falling.
Operating cashflow for the group that year is about 21 million euros, but capital expenditure is 30 million and acquisitions for subsidiaries another 20 million. To finance these expenditures another 28 million euros of debt and 16 million of equity is raised. Net debt rises above 130 million euro. The operating cashflow of the group before any capital expenditures is 21 million euros. I am not sure free cash flow would be significantly positive after maintenance capex is paid out; it’s not broken out so we can’t be sure. Granted, I am not on the ground during this time, and I am not in the board room, I am simply reading what’s in front of me, but to me this is starting to look like a distressed situation. Regardless, the following year the company goes public.

IPO

Where are now in the year 2017 and its Vapiano’s first year as public company. The company’s annual report reads the following “Sales revenue, like-for-like growth (LfL) and the earnings figures EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA are used as the most important financial performance indicators for controlling operational business activities.” The very same report however also says: “The majority of the group's investments regularly go towards opening new restaurant locations and modernizing existing restaurants. The latter are differentiated into regular replacement investments that occur during ongoing operations (Maintenance CAPEX) and fundamental investments in the renovation of a restaurant (Remodeling CAPEX). On average, a restaurant remodeling takes place nine years after opening.” It says it right there in their own report; every nine years a remodeling is taking place. Remodeling and updating is not cost free, so why exclude depreciation charges which reflect capital expenditures? I understand that perhaps you would want to strip out one-off opening costs, that’s fine and fair, but don’t go overboard.
The number of restaurants increases by 26 (previous year: 13) to a total of 205. The increase consists of 27 new openings and one closure. Group revenue grows to an astonishing 325 million euros but here comes the shocker, operating profits turn negative to 25 million. Fine, strip out foreign exchange losses of 3 million, IPO costs of 5.8 million and new opening costs of 6.1 million and you still have 10 million euros of operational losses. All the while the debt load of almost 130 million hasn’t materially changed, so those operating losses are before a six-million-euro interest payment. 184 million euros are raised through the IPO of which 85 million go to the company. This money is earmarked for further expansion as the group has ambitions to almost double the footprint to 330 restaurants by the end of 2020. The company is currently not profitable on an operating basis, and still wants to expand aggressively? I don’t get it. The remaining 100 million euros of the IPO money raised is distributed to co-founder Gregor Gerlach and Wella heirs Hans-Joachim and Gisa Sander. The family office of the former Tchibo owners Günter and Daniela Herz with a 44% stake, don’t sell a single share. After the IPO, 32% of all the company’s shares are now in free float.
One year later, in 2018, things get even worse. Revenue grows to 371 million, but operating losses mount to 85 million euros, that’s before interest expenses of 9 million. Even the beloved EBITDA figure turns negative, meaning the operating business before any expansionary or even maintenance capital expenditures is loss making. All regions are experiencing significant deterioration in their earnings profiles. Like for like sales are down 1% across the board. That’s revenue, not profitability. The question naturally arises: is the Group approaching its natural saturation point here or this operational by nature? The operating cash flow is now 9 million while financing cost are close to 7 million. That leaves 2 million for maintenance capital for 74 own restaurants and 76 joint ventures ones. Describing this as financially tight, would be an understatement.
Things are not looking good at this point. Yet the company still grows restaurants by 26 new sites. 64 million euros are spent on acquisitions, new openings, and maintenance costs, financed through a 20 million-euro equity raise and 72 million of new debt. The Company now has net debt outstanding of over 160 million euros. After the equity raise and by the end of the year 2018, Mayfair owns 47.4%, VAP Leipzig, Gregor Gerlach’s entity owns 18.9% and the Sander couple own 15.5% of the company. Yes, the Sanders and Gerlach may have taken 100 million euros off the table, but they still have substantial skin in the game. Plus, Mayfair hasn’t sold a single share and instead injects more money into the company through the equity round. The stock has now fallen from its IPO price of 23 euros per share to under 6 euros by the end of 2018. Something must be done here. And indeed, there is pivot in strategy and a hard push for change. At last, the management team abandons its aggressive growth plan and curtails new openings significantly. Additionally, the team wants to run a thorough analysis of weak locations to then either discontinue or sell sites. In Europe, the operating focus will be put on corporate restaurants and joint ventures in major cities to ensure the ideal size and location to match the respective demographic target group. Outside of Europe, the franchising business is being expanded and at the same time a consolidation of the existing corporate and joint venture markets is being sought. All future investments will be reviewed to achieve higher rates of returns on new openings. Investments are also being made in the renovation of older restaurants. The goal in the future is to also open smaller formats, like Mini-Vapianos (less than 400 square meters) or Freestander at prominent transportation hubs outside city centers (currently in Fürth and Toulouse) to cater to individual location requirements, and to enter new partnerships. I am not sure why management hasn’t stopped all expansion altogether, bringing the ship in order first, getting profitable, clean up, all hands-on deck before considering any further expansions whatsoever. But again, it’s easy to comment from the sidelines; maybe they saw white spaces that would be covered by competing concepts if they weren’t moving fast and aggressively enough. Although pushing internationally means competing with local players such as Jamie's Italian, Prezzo, Pizza Express, Wagamama, Nando's and many more which brings in its own dynamic.
Management also aims to enhance guest satisfaction. This involves refining operational processes, reorganizing the support center, and refocusing on the core offering: providing fresh and high-quality Italian food at affordable prices for a broad audience. The group also aims to reduce waiting times, especially during lunch, while also improving the evening atmosphere. There is even what I would call an evolution, away from Vapiano’s original concept, reorientating the customer journey. The ordering flow is being changed, offering guests synchronized preparations of all dishes while eliminating wait times at the cooking stations. The open show kitchen remains, staying true to original mantra of freshness and transparency but now guests can choose their preferred method of ordering through a mobile app, using a digital order point (kiosk), or by personally placing an order with a waiter. Guests can still freely choose their table and are then informed about the complete preparation of their order through a pager or their smartphone. This is a substantial deviation from the original concept, but a needed one. The group is also exploring and implementing the expansion of take-away and home delivery services but only at suitable locations, not universally across new openings. I am not sure why home delivery is even a priority here; it adds operational complexity. It’s better to clean up shop first and get back to the basics before adding new complexities. To be fair management does try to simplify. There are 49 different permanent dishes on the menu and additional 10 seasonal ones. Customers can choose from eleven different types of pasta. There is simply too much choice, and it makes orders complicated. The company announced to slim the menu down to its most popular and typical Vapiano dishes. There’s no need for an Asian salad at an Italian restaurant. "We have to go back to the roots, i.e. classic, honest Italian cuisine" says COO Everke. Regardless, in November of 2018, the supervisory board pulls the plug on CEO Jochen Halfmann and replaces him with Cornelius Everke. Everke himself has just become COO five months ago. Since 2017 he was responsible for international expansion. From 2011 to 2017 that role was filled by Mario Bauer – put a pin in that name, he’ll play a key role in the groups fate later. Then nine months later, in the middle of 2019, Cornelius Everke quits. He essentially concludes that his skillset and experience in the areas of internation expansion is no longer needed in the foreseeable future. To put it differently: Vapiano has moved from a growth story and has become a restructuring case, and other skills are required for that job. In June of 2019 Everke says the following “(we’ve) made a bit of a mistake when it came to foreign expansion”. No sh#t. Vapiano postpones the presentation of the 2018 annual financial statements three times in the spring of 2019, citing negotiations over an urgently needed loan of 30 million euros. It’s not until the end of May that a binding loan commitment comes through from the financing banks and major shareholders.
We are now in August of 2019 and the corona pandemic is just around the corner. Supervisory board chief Vanessa Hall takes over as interim-CEO and things are unravelling. Visitor numbers are declining; originally, it was planned to sell the US business but halfway through the year the buyer cannot come up with the money. But not all restaurants are performing poorly. The group's poor figures contrast starkly as an example with the experiences of the Swiss-German franchisee, who runs six restaurants. The Sodano family in Switzerland pays Vapiano a royalty of 6% of sales for the use of the brand. Enrico Sodano explains in an interview that they operate largely autonomously from the licensor. If an “accident” were to occur, he could immediately replace the Vapiano sign with Sodano, he says. The family concluded the rents and contracts with employees and suppliers independently. The Sodano family have six locations in Bern, Basel and Zurich, around one million guests every year and 350 employees. Things are going well on the ground. The delivery service they’ve built is offering them a second income stream. Expansion into Winterthur, St. Gallen and Lucerne are being planned; small locations with 150 to 250 square meters and an attached delivery service. Originally, Vapiano restaurants used to be huge but for such a large restaurant to be profitable, 800 to 1,000 guests per day are needed. That’s possible in medium-sized cities, but not in smaller towns which is why the Vapiano group now also supports smaller formats. Back to our corporate drama. The 2019 annual report would be the last report the group files. By the end 2019 the outstanding debt of the company is at an astronomical 450 million euros. Revenue has grown by another 7%, produced by four net new openings through two JVs and two franchise restaurants but operating losses come in at 317 million euros. That sound like an absolute shocker at first but depreciation and amortization charges are 345 million, so that operating cash flow is actually positive but unfortunately capital expenditures and interest payments are so large that they are eating up all of the company’s operating cash flow. Then in the beginning of 2020 Corona hits with full force and the world shuts down. As a result of the measures to prevent further spreading of the virus, the group is forced to cease all global business operations (except in Sweden). While all these shutdowns are happening, the group is the middle of negotiating with its lending banks and main shareholders. There are additional financing needs for restructuring measures, even without a pandemic happening in the background. The situation is so dire that the company starts pleading to the German government to roll out the package of financial help more quickly. Unfortunately, it’s to no end. The rapid closure of restaurants and the resulting lack of operating cash inflows in conjunction with the additional financing requirements, lead to the company’s final knockout punch. In April of 2020, the Vapiano group officially files for insolvency proceedings. The end of an era.

New Beginnings

Because of the pandemic, the majority of the group's subsidiaries in Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United States, Sweden, and China also file for insolvency or seek liquidation. The US business never gets sold in the end and is wound down. In the summer of 2020, significant group divestments occur, including the sale of 75% shares in the group's French subsidiaries, shares in franchisor companies, Australian subsidiaries, German subsidiaries, associated companies, self-managed restaurants in Germany, and insolvency-related sales in the Netherlands, Great Britain, and Sweden. The buyer of the Vapiano brand and one of these bundles of Vapiano restaurants is company named Love & Food Restaurant Holding, a consortium led by Mario C. Bauer – a name I told you to remember. Bauer was a former Vapiano board member and led the national and international expansion, opening 200 sites in 33 countries from 2011 to 2017 until he was succeeded by Cornelius Everke. Bauer didn’t feel comfortable with the IPO at the time but clearly has a lot of managerial and entrepreneurial talent.
The buyer consortium is an absolute A-Team comprised of European QSR top league hitters, including the founder of the Pret A Manger chain Sinclair Beecham; Henry McGovern, the founder and Ex-CEO of the giant international restaurant and foodservice operator AmRest; the Van der Valk Family that runs hotels and Vapiano restaurants in the Netherlands, and co-founder and ex-CEO Gregor Gerlach. The acquisition value is 15 million euros and entails 30 Vapiano restaurants in Germany, albeit that’s just the purchase price which comes on top of any capital investment needed to refresh and return the sites to its former glory. Nevertheless, just as a thought experiment, if you can get each site to 2 million euros of revenue and 400,000 euros in operating profit on average, which wouldn’t be an overly aggressively assumption given the company’s history, you’ve got yourself a package that can deliver restaurant-level operating profits of 12 million euros or more. It’s not disclosed how much capex was needed to refresh the operations, just that fact that the overall investment plus purchase price was a middle double-digit million-euro figure. Stil, it probably was a decent purchase. The same consortium buys Vapiano’s French business for 25 million euros just two weeks prior. After the transaction concludes, the master franchise is given to Delf Neumann and his Gastro & Soul GmbH. Neumann is an experienced operator, and he is ambitious to revitalise the brand with new services and products. For example, instead of pizza, the restaurants will be serving pinsa - a flatbread made from sourdough, wheat and rice flour, topped similarly to a pizza. It targets a more health-oriented customer base looking for a less calory heavy option. The menu overall is expanded by including a variety of vegan and vegetarian dishes.
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Today Neumann’s Gastro & Soul GmbH operates 18 Vapianos on its own account and has 29 franchise sites, amongst other brands. By the year 2021, Vapiano operates 191 restaurants in 34 countries. This is around 50 fewer sites than before the bankruptcy. The number of branches is particularly thinned out in Germany – from 80 to 55. Nevertheless, Vapiano's home country remains by far the largest market, followed by France with 35 restaurants and Austria with 15 locations. “We have shrunk ourselves to health,” says Bauer in the aftermath and there is no further shrinking planned. Quite the opposite, the smell of expansion is in the air again – pun intended. Not as aggressively as before and with a new menu and ordering process.
Overall, the team around Bauer is filled with industry experts with knowledge and networks gained over decades who have a great track record, a long-term view, and the staying power to let Vapiano breath and finds its way back to success. The pressure of being a public company with all the associated quarterly, half-year and yearly disincentives have been removed. The menu is changed and extended with new types of pasta and sauces with significantly more vegetarian and vegan dishes available. Guests can order with restaurant staff, at terminals or on their phones and there are barcodes attached to the tables identify the respective seat. The food is brought to your table, all at the same time if you are in a group, no more annoyances with waiting in line. There is a plan for smaller, 350 square meter locations, with half the number of guests and significantly fewer staff and less set-up costs required to make the economics work. Locations that capitalize on remote work and increased demand for local lunch options, higher population density with shorter delivery routes and therefore cost-effective in house delivery services are targeted. And Bauer is testing the concept of ghost kitchens, which operate without a dining room or service staff, focusing solely on preparing food for delivery services, which for obvious reasons have a very different operational set up and footprint. Original founder Mark Korzilius however is not entirely convinced. He is not a fan of the pinsa for instance and he considers Vapiano's pizza as its cash cow, flagship product and believes that the core Vapiano proposition of Pizza, Pasta, Bar that has given the company its original success is being diluted. He instead admires the competitor L'Osteria, saying they’ve done a better job by focusing on Italian classics, especially the impressively large pizzas that sticks out beyond the plate is leaving every customer in awe. The guys who run L’Osteria are the same guys who have built Vapiano with him in the first place. Bauer on the other hand, like a true business leader, remains undeterred, stating that he is frequently asked whether Vapiano's restart was bold or foolish. He believes in entrepreneurship, franchising, in his experienced fellow partners and importantly the Vapiano concept. By the year 2024 you can find over 140 Vapiano branded restaurant in 27 countries across the globe, including locations far away from its birthplace like Australia, USA, Columbia, Chile, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. And why not? Italian food is, and will remain to be, incredibly popular. Vapiano offers fresh and tasty food at affordable prices in a good atmosphere. This combination of attributes should attract a lot of customers. It certainly has in the past.
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2024.05.14 10:44 FalconRhino7 Delayed flight and refused refund - EasyJet.

A Hoy there.
Me and the family were flying back from Egypt a few weeks ago and were told right at the boarding gate that the flight had been cancelled and delayed until the next day..
easyJet put us up in a hotel for the night and we were back home the day after.
Once home, we put in a claim for a refund given how the flight was delayed/cancelled for well over 3 hours.
They have replied with the below explaining that the circumstances mean they don't have to pay out. Is this right or do I need to keep fighting?
The below in brackets is what EasyJet have said.
(We always review claims fairly and in keeping with EU/UK regulation. We know how frustrating delays can be. We always aim to provide the best possible experience when flying with us, however, from time-to-time situations arise which are outside of our control and unfortunately when this happens we are unable to offer compensation.
To further explain what happened on the day; there was a disruptive customer who posed a risk to the welfare of other customers on an earlier flight. The delays knocked on to the rest of the flights for that day. Ultimately and in the case of this flight, the delays pushed our crew into their maximum legal operating hours. There are strict industry wide rules on the number of hours our crew are allowed to work. To protect the safety of our customers and crew, these hours cannot be exceeded. We do take reasonable measures to avoid delays and cancellations to our flights by having replacement crews and spare aircraft available in our network. In the circumstances, these options were not possible as the delay to your flight was a direct result of an earlier passenger incident.)

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Controls & Interaction

Game Parameters