This is the first edition in a while and focuses on what is happening in digital globally due the Putin's invasion of Ukraine. We hope that the war can be stopped and no more lives have to be lost.
Thomas Steiner announced two new lenses showing you what is on peoples minds in Russia and The Ukraine. Some of the trends phrases in Ukraine are IBM, Paralympics, Liverpool West Ham, Demilitarization while in Russia it's VPN, Samsung, Coursera, Zara, Adobe, Coca-Cola most of which have suspended operations or product support in Russia.
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Yandex which previously had a market value for USD$17.4 billion and controlled around 60% of the search market in Russia has announced it might be unable to pay creditors due to financial market meltdowns. The $1.25 billion in convertible notes have a right to be paid in full + interest if Yandex shares are suspended from trading for more than 5 days. Yandex's parent company is based in The Netherlands but due to sanctions and Putin introducing capital controls the Russian subsidiaries can't help fund their parent company and won't be able to redeem the convertible notes.
In a statement, the festival’s owner Ascential said: “Despite our desire to celebrate creativity from wherever it comes, we have made the decision not to accept submissions or delegations from Russian organizations into Cannes Lions or its associated awards programs.” Cannes organisers said it will welcome all Ukrainian delegates free of charge and honour full refunds on awards submissions for Ukraine agencies if requested. It will also make a “significant donation” to the charities working in the region.
Cloud based crawler and log analyzer for doing Technical SEO work is asking search folks using their tool to donate to an approved charity https://mkip.gov.ua/en/content/volonterski--organizacii.html and they will extend your JetOctopus subscription for double of that. Please send proof of your payment to support@jetoctopus.com. Apart from that, JetOctopus is transferring 15% from all the transactions till the moment of big victory of Ukraine! Signup here for a free trial and support Ukrainian companies.
Tim Soulo announced last week that any Ahref customers can make a credit card payment to the National Bank of Ukraine https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi and contact support@ahrefs.com with the receipt and a/c details and they will extend your subscription for double that donation.
Google said last Thursday that it had stopped selling online advertising in Russia. This ban that covers search, YouTube and outside publishing partners. This does not yet cover other Google services such as Google Analytics or Google Cloud but Google Keyword planner has also remove all Russian data at some point during today.
Facebook said it is halting all ads in the country, stopping state-controlled media from monetising their content and refusing to run any ads from Russian marketers which should reduce the amount of misinformation on the platform around the war. Russia earlier today blocked access to Facebook likely in retaliation for limiting their ability to fund misinformation.
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