These are the 29 most interesting advertising execs to follow on Instagram (FB, GOOG, TWTR, KO) | ||
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While many people in ad land claim their lives are not like the "Mad Men" days of the 1960s, their lifestyles still tend to be glamorous. Plane-hopping to clients' overseas offices, parties, long Martini lunches, and the biggest calendar event of the year — the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity — you can follow it all through the lens of Instagram. We've picked out some of the best advertising and marketing executives' accounts to follow on Instagram. We've weighted our rankings using a (not entirely mathematical) scale of how often the user posts, and whether their pictures are beautifully shot/aspirational/offer an insight into their working life/or simply brighten up people's Instagram feeds. 29. Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO. WHY? Armstrong only first started posting on Instagram 11 weeks ago, and it's mostly been work-related to date. But life at AOL is about to get a lot more exciting after Verizon's acquisition.
28. Robin Grant, founder and global managing director at We Are Social. WHY? He goes to all the best social media parties.
27. Darren Herman, VP of content services, strategy, revenue generation, and business development at Mozilla. WHY? Tennis, tech, food, and more tennis.
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I asked everyone I know with an Apple Watch whether they were happy with it — here's what they said (AAPL) | ||
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It has been two months since everybody got their hands on the Apple Watch. I bought one at launch and, to be honest with you, I regret it. Here's why: For me, the Apple Watch is just a watch that shows me text messages. It flashes with notifications throughout the day that save me from having to take my iPhone out of my pocket. Essentially, I paid £300 ($477) for a nicer watch that makes it more convenient to read text messages. I'm feeling rather short-changed. But do other Apple Watch customers feel the same? I asked all the other Apple Watch owners I know to find out what they think. The barrister
"I didn't wear a watch before, so I'm really enjoying it as a watch. I also love it for the health metrics. I find the call-answering feature quite handy, too. Best of all is the alarm. Amazing." Myers uses his watch in a rather unusual way. Instead of leaving it on to charge every evening while he sleeps, he wears it to bed and uses the silent alarm to wake up in the mornings. He says he charges his watch for 30 minutes every morning, and that's it. The tech CEO
Another thing Spencer has found since using an Apple Watch is that he pays more attention to the weather. "I'm more aware of the weather weirdly because of the temperature complication," he says, referring to the small temperature display that can be added to most watch faces. He also uses the watch to monitor his heart rate, though he says he hasn't used digital touch messages or Siri as much as he thought he would. The journalist
Yarow eventually sold his Apple Watch for $465, meaning he got a tiny profit on the watch. But what would tempt him back? Yarow says the Apple Watch would need to be "thinner, faster, and more useful" for him to feel happy wearing one. The PR employee
"It's a really nice thing," he says. "But it adds no value to my life." Crowley says he uses it to monitor his fitness through the Activity app, but seeing his activity hasn't really changed how much he exercises. But he goes on to explain the things that Apple can do to win him back. He's looking forward to the launch of Apple Pay in the UK and wishes he "could use Siri for even some basic functions without having my phone nearby." Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Here's what happens when you drop an Apple Watch face down on cement  | ||
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Jay Yarow is Business Insider's executive editor, and he sold his Apple Watch on eBay. 
These are the 29 most interesting advertising execs to follow on Instagram (FB, GOOG, TWTR, KO) | ||
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While many people in ad land claim their lives are not like the "Mad Men" days of the 1960s, their lifestyles still tend to be glamorous. Plane-hopping to clients' overseas offices, parties, long Martini lunches, and the biggest calendar event of the year — the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity — you can follow it all through the lens of Instagram. We've picked out some of the best advertising and marketing executives' accounts to follow on Instagram. We've weighted our rankings using a (not entirely mathematical) scale of how often the user posts, and whether their pictures are beautifully shot/aspirational/offer an insight into their working life/or simply brighten up people's Instagram feeds. 29. Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO. WHY? Armstrong only first started posting on Instagram 11 weeks ago, and it's mostly been work-related to date. But life at AOL is about to get a lot more exciting after Verizon's acquisition.
28. Robin Grant, founder and global managing director at We Are Social. WHY? He goes to all the best social media parties.
27. Darren Herman, VP of content services, strategy, revenue generation, and business development at Mozilla. WHY? Tennis, tech, food, and more tennis.
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Shoreditch Grind wants to build the Soho House of coffee | ||
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Grind, the trendy London chain of coffee shops started by a DJ and a tech entrepreneur, has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to try and raise £1.5 million ($2.34 million). Independent coffee chain Grind, which has four branches across London, is hoping loyal customers will buy its bond on website Crowdcube, which gives investors 8% interest in return for lending their cash to the business. Co-founder and CEO David Abrahamovitch told Business Insider: "I love disruption. Rather than just borrow from the banks I love the idea that people can put their money into something they really care about." The four year old chain epitomises London's current cultural renaissance, combining technology, music, start-up culture and artisan produce. Abrahamovitch was working at a technology start-up when he decided to set up the first Grind on Old Street Roundabout — now the heart of London's so-called Tech City — with his friend Kaz James, a DJ from group Bodyrockers. It was a side project for the pair for two years before Abrahamovitch went full time. As well as offering hip, artisan coffee, Abrahamovitch and James opened a recording studio above the shop at its Shoreditch Grind site. The studio has been used by artists like Sam Smith, Idris Elba and Tinnie Tempah. It's all painfully cool and Abrahamovitch says the company aims to be "young, Shoreditch and fun." But Grind has struck a chord with coffee lovers as we hispters. Abrahamovitch told Business Insider he believes Grind's custom blend is the best coffee in London and the flat white I had at Shoreditch Grind with him last week was definitely a great coffee. Abrahamovitch plans to put the money the company hopes to raise towards opening its own coffee roasting facility in East London near its original site in Shoreditch, which will allow it to sell its coffee wholesale. Abrahamovitch also wants to open new Grind sites across London in trendy areas like Brixton, Peckham, Dalston, London Fields, Vauxhall and Islington. It currently has branches in Shoreditch, Holborn, Soho and London Bridge, with a Covent Garden site opening in the summer.
Grind made £2.4 million ($3.74 million) in sales last year and is forecasting sales of £4.4 million ($6.85 million) this year. Its Shoreditch branch made £1 million ($1.56 million) in 2014 alone, selling around 800 coffees a day. As well as great coffee, Grind's branches sells cocktails in the evening and also offers food at its new London Bridge site. Abrahamovitch says he wants Grind to be "a lot more than a coffee brand." He and James are considering taking the chain abroad, possibly to LA, saying: "It's about taking it to places we want to spend time. We did this from the start a little bit for us. We only set up sites in places we go to." He added: "I'm not interested in putting these into glass boxes is shopping centres. I don't want a faceless chain of 50 sites, that's not what the brand is, that's not what we are." He says he is looking to private members club Soho House for inspiration, saying: "Soho House have done a fantastic job of becoming a global brand while staying true to themselves. What they do is a very different thing but what they do is excel at whatever they do. We want to do that too." Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Forget the Apple Watch — here's the new watch everyone on Wall Street wants  | ||
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I asked everyone I know with an Apple Watch whether they were happy with it — here's what they said (AAPL) | ||
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It has been two months since everybody got their hands on the Apple Watch. I bought one at launch and, to be honest with you, I regret it. Here's why: For me, the Apple Watch is just a watch that shows me text messages. It flashes with notifications throughout the day that save me from having to take my iPhone out of my pocket. Essentially, I paid £300 ($477) for a nicer watch that makes it more convenient to read text messages. I'm feeling rather short-changed. But do other Apple Watch customers feel the same? I asked all the other Apple Watch owners I know to find out what they think. The barrister
"I didn't wear a watch before, so I'm really enjoying it as a watch. I also love it for the health metrics. I find the call-answering feature quite handy, too. Best of all is the alarm. Amazing." Myers uses his watch in a rather unusual way. Instead of leaving it on to charge every evening while he sleeps, he wears it to bed and uses the silent alarm to wake up in the mornings. He says he charges his watch for 30 minutes every morning, and that's it. The tech CEO
Another thing Spencer has found since using an Apple Watch is that he pays more attention to the weather. "I'm more aware of the weather weirdly because of the temperature complication," he says, referring to the small temperature display that can be added to most watch faces. He also uses the watch to monitor his heart rate, though he says he hasn't used digital touch messages or Siri as much as he thought he would. The journalist
Yarow eventually sold his Apple Watch for $465, meaning he got a tiny profit on the watch. But what would tempt him back? Yarow says the Apple Watch would need to be "thinner, faster, and more useful" for him to feel happy wearing one. The PR employee
"It's a really nice thing," he says. "But it adds no value to my life." Crowley says he uses it to monitor his fitness through the Activity app, but seeing his activity hasn't really changed how much he exercises. But he goes on to explain the things that Apple can do to win him back. He's looking forward to the launch of Apple Pay in the UK and wishes he "could use Siri for even some basic functions without having my phone nearby." Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Here's what happens when you drop an Apple Watch face down on cement  | ||
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Seven-star Yasir leads Pakistan to Test win | ||
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Galle (Sri Lanka) (AFP) - Leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed a career-best seven for 76 as Pakistan stunned Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in the first Test on Sunday to take the lead in the three-match series. Yasir spun a web around the Sri Lankan batsmen to skittle them for a paltry 206 in their second innings just before tea on the fifth and final day. Pakistan, set a victory target of 90, raced home in 11.2 overs with Mohammad Hafeez unbeaten on 46 and Ahmed Shehzad on 43 at the Galle International Stadium. It was Pakistan's first Test win in Sri Lanka since the eight-wicket triumph in Kandy in 2006. The second Test starts at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Thursday. Pakistan's remarkable recovery from 96-5 in the first innings came after the entire first day's play had been washed out and just 64 overs were bowled on the second day. Opener Dimuth Karunaratne top-scored with 79, Lahiru Thirimanne made 44 and and Dinesh Chandimal was last man out for 38, but the rest of the batsmen folded against Pakistan's incisive bowling. The 29-year-old Yasir, later named man of the match, ripped through the batting as Sri Lanka lost their last five wickets for 39 runs after being 167 for five at one stage. Sri Lanka took their overnight score of 63-2 to 144-4 by lunch, before a further six wickets fell on a dramatic afternoon in front of some 1,000 home fans. Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq, who had gambled by electing to field first after winning the toss, was jubilant by what he described as a "big win". "It was very clear in our minds that the only one way to win this Test was if we got them out early in the first innings," the 41-year-old said. "We took our chance and it worked. There was a bit of moisture which helped our spinners, because the ball turned and bounced. "Hats off to everyone. It began with the fightback by Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed from 96-5. This really is a big win for us and boosts our confidence for the remaining matches." - 'A pretty bad loss' - A disappointed Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews hoped his team will recover from the defeat. "This was a pretty bad loss for us, but the Pakistanis deserved to win," he said. "The idea was to bat through the day, but we kept losing wickets. "We have two more games to bounce back and don't need to panic. It was just a one-off game. We have got to keep trust in the players we have got." The hosts lost nightwatchman Dilruwan Perera off the first ball of the day, clean-bowled by Yasir, but the left-handed pair of Karunaratne and Thirimanne put on 69 runs for the fourth wicket. With the hosts just 15 runs ahead, left-arm seamer Wahab Riaz had Thirimanne caught low at first slip by Younis Khan to keep the interest alive during the lunch break. Sri Lanka suffered a massive blow off the second ball after resumption when Mathews was controversially given out caught at short leg by TV umpire Chris Gaffaney. The New Zealander upheld on-field umpire Richard Illingworth, who had ruled that the batsman was caught at short-leg off Yasir even though replays proved inconclusive on whether the ball had come off the bat. Mathews, who had called for a review as soon as the umpire raised his finger, was visibly furious as he returned to the pavilion. Neither hot-spot or snickometer technology is part of the Decision Review System for the series. Karunaratne's patience after a vigil of more than four hours at the crease ran out when he attempted a big hit off Yasir, missed the line and was smartly stumped by an agile Sarfraz. Join the conversation about this story »  | ||
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The collapse in US oil rigs might be leveling off | ||
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The weekly Baker Hughes oil rig count was released Friday, and for the 28th straight week, the number of active rigs in the US dropped. But those 28 weeks of declines were not equally dismal. From December through early May, the number of active oil rigs dropped by double digits each week, with the biggest decline — 94 rigs taken out of commission — coming the week ending January 30. Since the week ending on May 15, however, we've only seen one double digit decline in the number of rigs. In their "Weekly Oil Rig Monitor" notes, Goldman Sachs analysts Damien Courvalin and Raquel Ohana have been projecting that there will be a brief dip in production over the next several months. But, improving conditions for oil drillers will then likely lead to a rebound by the end of this year or early 2016. From their June 12 note, they suggest (emphasis ours) "Despite this decline [in oil rigs], we believe that should WTI prices remain near $60/bbl, US producers will ramp up activity given improved returns with costs down nearly 30% and producers increasingly comfortable at the current costs/revenue/funding mix." Maybe the worst is over for the fracking industry, or perhaps this is just a temporary reprieve.
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