Happy Friday! Swifties have officially broken the purchase flows for Live Nation and Ticketmaster. As a result of Taylor Swift’s concert tickets fiasco last November, the two companies have promised to Biden that they’ll move to disclose the full price of tickets upfront 🎫

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Uber will ship video ads for its US users later this week. For rides, video ads will be displayed while users wait for their Uber to arrive as well as while in-transit. Video ads will also show up in Eats after an order is placed, as well as in-between search results while browsing munchies 🍔

Advertising is becoming a bigger and bigger focus for Uber - they’re even starting to roll out in-car tablets that show ads. Given Uber’s ads GM believes they’ll hit over $1b in ad revenue next year, expect to see Uber increasingly utilize its product real estate for ads 📺

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

• Twitch announces a new creator tier with 70/30 revenue split 

• Instagram rolls out it’s Channels broadcast feature worldwide 

• Google to wind down Google Domains and sell to Squarespace 

• Amazon rolls out its Hey Disney voice assistant for Echo 

• Spotify tests offline mixes that auto download recent favorites

General and early-stage

• Post launches its Twitter alternative app on iOS 

• Nue Life rolls out Ketamine therapy tracking app 

• Glystn lets creators bulk reply across social platforms 

• Spill launches its text based social platform on iOS 

• Streamlabs ships a new podcast editor tool

🔍 Other good finds

• Impact first. How to crack the art of growth and SEO

• Dethroned. BYD overtakes Tesla in global EV shipments

• Moon $. Virgin Galactic to start commercial spaceflights in June

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- Amol