Morning! All the parents out there can rejoice - Baby Shark has officially landed an exclusive podcast deal. There's now eight episodes out on Apple Podcasts, and they've gone so far as to paywall premium episodes behind a $3 monthly subscription 🦈👶

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Visa unveiled Visa+, partnering with Paypal, Venmo and others to power interoperable digital payments. Users set a "payname", allowing them to send and receive money from users of other participating services in real-time ⏱️ 

The move looks to be specifically targeted at use cases around payments associated with the gig and creator economies, where an interoperable platform for instant payments decreases friction between folks on both sides of the demand and supply equation 💸

 ♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• WhatsApp ships merchant payment functionality in Brazil 

• Google TV launches 800+ free channels including Tubi and Plex 

• YouTube starts presales for NFL Sunday Ticket subscription

• TikTok ships a GIF-like 'video stickers' feature for DMs 

• TikTok tests replacing the 'friends' tab with a 'discover' tab

• Instagram launches new API access to its creator marketplace  

General and early-stage

• Artifact adds 'reputation scores' to its social app 

• Turo blocks access to third-party fleet-management services 

• Substack ships its Notes feature to all users 

• Hotjar launches an API for its behavior analytics product

• Chatbase ships a custom ChatGPT website widget tool 

🔍 Other good finds

• Standing out. Common mistakes PMs make in product reviews

• Round 2. Bytedance's CapCut app beats TikTok in US downloads

• Impermanence. The case of Playrix and why PMF is a moving target

🧈 Twitter nugget

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-  Amol