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“inked heart” - jjk oneshot

genre: friends to lovers!au, fluff, a teensy dash of angst

pairing: tattoo artist!guk x tattoo artist!reader (f)

summary: jeon jungkook, a rising star in the tattoing world, is looking to take home best large black and white piece at the 25th annual milano tattoo convention. already one to watch from his previous wins as a young artist, pressures rise when his model for the competition cancels half an hour before the show. 

always there when he needs you, you offer to be his model but jungkook is reluctant, especially when the piece is in a more... intimate place. and the fact that he’s been in love with you for the better part of two years. jungkook isn’t too sure how he’s going to survive the next three hours, not when you ask him if he thinks you’re attractive. 

caught between a rock and a hard place, does he lie to you and himself when the prize is on the line? it’s go big or go home...

word count: 5.9k

warnings: some guk pining, cursing, mentions of heartbreaker jimin, the smallest dash of angst about not winning, tattoo artist yoongi

a/n: my first guk piece! thank you guys so much for the love on the preview, especially your comments. they honestly make my day. i hope this lives up to your expectations and you enjoy it just as much. this was a random idea i had and i love tattooed guk so here we are. i tried my best to make sure all the tattoo things were accurate so if they aren’t sorry in advance 😭 this was a lot of fun to write and i’m actually debating on writing some other things for this couple (especially for guk’s birthday), but i’m not sure yet. let me know if y’all are interested though and i’ll see what i can come up with. as always, thank you vi for supporting my shenanigans and reading this like four times lmao. feedback is always welcomed and highly appreciated. enjoy everyone! 

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Jungkook’s body buzzed with excitement as he squeezed past the bustling bodies at the 25th annual Milano Tattoo Convention. His fourth year at the world’s largest tattooing competition with a chance to take home the prize for “Best Large Black & White” piece against four hundred incredible artists had Jungkook amped up and ready to go. Some of his inspirations - legends in the game - were mere feet away from him as he browsed the almost endless stations filled with merchandise, displays of new tattoo designs, and occupied benches with models. There was almost nothing he enjoyed more than being around the sound of buzzing guns and filling sheets of half-filled paper with sketches his brain had no issues conjuring up but sometimes struggled to complete. Well, except food. And video games. And you. Not really the point though.

He’d been tattooing for almost six years now, from the moment he’d been able to convince Yoongi to let him be his apprentice. Jungkook had wasted no time in starting his own personal tattoo collection, quickly filling in a full sleeve on his right arm going across his right pectoral and another upper half sleeve on his left. Now, he was making his own name in the art world, commissioning pieces solely off his ability to execute various styles well with very little practice. Jungkook was a jack of all trades and very nearly a master of all. He was a risk-taker and it had paid off for him during his time at Milano, taking home “Best Small Black & White” his second year at the ripe age of twenty, and then “Best Medium Black & White” the following year. Yoongi could barely believe it when the judges called his name and announced him the winner but Jungkook knew his mentor’s chest was swollen with pride. This time, though, there were bigger fish to fry - “Best Large Black & White” in a style Jungkook had just begun feeling comfortable with: fine line tattoos.

He paused at the Killer Ink booth where Hori Kashi was working on a beautiful traditional koi fish upper half sleeve design as his phone buzzed. An Instagram notification.

_petuniablooms: hey jungkook! im so sorry this is last minute but i won’t be able to make the convention to be your model. I got a bad case of food poisoning from dinner last night. i hope this doesn’t cost you the comp. but when you’re back in the country, maybe i can schedule an appt? sorry again!

Jungkook blinked slowly. She couldn’t make it? This was not part of his plan. She was supposed to be here in the next half an hour so he would have enough time to complete his piece for judging in four hours. As one of the younger artists at the convention and with immense amounts of talent, people wondered how long Jungkook would be able to sustain his efforts, especially after taking home prizes in one of the major categories two years in a row. Most of them thought he would burn out after his second year or third year, but here he was. Competitive by nature, Jungkook wanted to prove them wrong - that he really did have what it took to be one of the best in the game. A legend in his own right. He shoved his phone back into his black cargo pants pocket and tugged on his curling brown locks. What was he going to do now?

“Guk! Hey, Guk!” He could barely make out your petite frame as you shoved and elbowed your way through the throngs of folk gathered around booths. You were set on getting to him though, your smaller form not holding you back from covering the distance, your brow set in determination whenever he did get glimpses of your face in the crowd.

That was something Jungkook admired about you: your no-nonsense-get-it-done attitude. Friends for almost three years now, he’d seen the way you’d taken charge of almost every opportunity that came your way. You didn’t take no as the final answer and if you couldn’t find a way to make it happen, you created your own. Either way, you got it done. As the first lead female tattoo artist at your shop, Sin City, you’d also made a name for yourself in the tattooing world as a specialist in black and white shading. Your signature though was the three-color-combination color style you developed for your color tattoos. That’s how the two of you had met - the year he’d won “Best Small Black & White”, you’d taken home “Best Medium Color” - and the two of you hadn’t looked back since.

“Gosh, there’s so many people here. It was so hard to find you. I knew I should have checked the Kashi booth first,” you said after finding a pocket of space next to him and hugging his torso.

“Y/N, it’s a convention. Of course there’s going to be a lot of people here,” he replied, wrapping his arms around you, subconsciously looking for comfort in your touch.

Though the two of you mostly had conflicting schedules due to the demand for your work, you did your best to make time for one another. Jungkook had grown accustomed to seeing you every few weeks for lunch or on Friday nights with beer and chicken for Marvel movie marathon weekends. He didn’t dwell on it too much - how ridiculously domestic a lot of your traditions were - not wanting to shake the table and send the precariously perched house of cards pyramid the two of you had created crashing to the ground, upsetting the balance of your friendship. No, Jungkook would leave those thoughts right where they were.

He more felt than saw you roll your eyes as you said, “Yes, Guk. Conventions have lots of people. This just seems like a health and safety hazard though.” Jungkook squeezed you as you pressed closer to him, slightly uncomfortable as more people gathered in the area.

“Alright, let’s go,” he replied, reminding himself to search for the finished koi design afterward as the two of you walked away. “How’d your piece go?”

“So fucking good!” you beamed and turned your face towards him. He couldn’t help but smile back. “Though I don’t know if it’ll win this year, the guy seemed to be really pleased and that’s all that matters. Plus, t-shirt sales have gone up. Like way up! Speaking of which, you should buy one. My t-shirt design on your body?” you did the chef’s kiss, “Impeccable!” you exclaimed and grinned.

Your smile was another thing Jungkook admired about you. The faintest dimples appeared when you did and there was almost never a moment when he couldn’t not smile with you. It was a smile that reached your twinkling eyes and illuminated your face with a glow. Like right now, as you’re striking poses and modeling your black and white cityscape background covered with your shop’s name in a candy red color, a tattoo gun positioned to finish the last line of the last letter on the white tee in the middle of the crowded aisle in some of the shortest shorts he’s ever seen you wear in public. When did you get those?

“You know what would look good on my body?” you asked as the pair of you carried on walking. Me, he thought, but knew where this conversation was really going. “One of your tattoo designs!”

Jungkook sighed. “Y/N, we’ve already talked about this -”

“I know, Guk, but you literally have no reason to not tattoo me,” you whined. “You’ve tattooed every single one of your other friends! Hell, even Yoongi has a tattoo by you.”

“Yoongi has what?” the older man asked as he bumped into you two as you passed the registration booth.

“A tattoo by Jungkook,” you pouted, arms crossed.

It wasn’t that Jungkook didn’t want to tattoo you. He just didn’t want to fuck up a design that would be permanently etched into your skin for the rest of your life. He wanted to create something that was beautiful for you, something that really conveyed the importance of your presence in his life, but every time he sat down to do so, nothing seemed good enough. You’d been seriously begging him for the better part of a year to do something - anything - but he’d refused saying that he didn’t have the time. Secretly, he just didn’t want to fail and let you down.

“Ah, that age-old debate. It’ll happen one day, kid,” Yoongi said as he patted your shoulder gently. “What time are you setting up, Jeon? Your model’s supposed to be here soon, right?” Yoongi asked.

“Fuck!” Jungkook shouted, tugging on his hair and startling a few people around him. “Fuck, fuck, fuck! I don’t have one. She can’t make it. I have to find someone else,” he yelled as he took off, no destination really in mind.

“Wait! Guk -” you called after him but he didn’t stop.

Sometimes, being around you was dangerous as Jungkook could quite literally forget what it was he needed to be doing. There was just something about you that made him lose focus, just a little bit. He couldn’t have that right now. Jungkook needed to be on his A-game, scouting a model that would give him consent in - he checked his phone - twelve minutes.

The one time Jungkook needed someone to be interested in his work, there wasn’t a single soul around. Where had all the people who were begging him to schedule them in for a quick session disappeared to? None of the people passing by were interested in getting a random, floral design done by Jeon Jungkook today, unfortunately. It was as though the devil of the tattoo underworld had cursed him the one time he could have used some luck for the sole purpose of being entertained. Circling back to the D-Town Tattoos booth, Jungkook was running out of options. Shit.

“There you are!” you wheezed as you came to a halt and rested your hands on the table in front of you. “Fuck, I forgot how fast you are.”

“Y/N, I don’t have time. I have to find a model -”

“Why don’t you just use Y/N?” Yoongi asked as he calmly took a seat next to his bench, a tall young man following behind him.

“I couldn’t -” Jungkook spluttered, eyes wide.

“Like you said, Jeon, you don’t have time,” Yoongi reminded him, setting up his work station for his client.

Jungkook looked over at you, still slightly hunched over and trying to catch your breath. This was not how he’d wanted to do this. “Are you sure, Y/N? I don’t know if -”

“Fuck yeah, dude!” you said interrupting him. “100%. Let’s do this!”

Jungkook watched as you made yourself comfortable on his workbench, waiting for him to get started. The fact that you weren’t nervous only added to his apprehension, the fear of potentially disappointing you resurfacing and rising in his gut. It felt like he was taking a risk with stakes much higher than he was willing to bet on, but the trust you had in him had him saying, “Okay. Fill out the consent forms and I’ll pull up the design.”

“What are we working with?” you asked curiously, handing the clipboard back over to him, not really reading it and only signing your name in the designated spots.

“Thigh piece,” he murmured, concentrating on finding the correct sketch on his iPad.

“Sounds fun. I know it’s going to be amazing, Guk. Don’t worry,” you reassured him. He smiled warily as you gave his shoulder a tender squeeze.

Nodding more to himself than you, he showed you the design. @_petuninablooms, like her name suggested, loved flowers. So much so, she’d wanted a full piece dedicated to that specific flower as well as whatever other floral arrangements she thought Jungkook could make look pretty against her skin. She’d won his Instagram contest to be his model for free at the convention because of her sentimental design and background as a botanist, something that piqued Jungkook’s interest. Though he was proud of the design, it didn’t seem to fit you.

“I don’t know, Y/N. I don’t know if it’ll fit your style,” he said, gesturing to your upper half sleeve. The three faces of Frida Khalo, Nefertiti, and Tomoe Gozen were beautifully designed and organized by you as a symbol of feminine unity - embodying passion, leadership, and grace. A much edgier piece than what currently sat on the screen of his iPad designed for his winner, he wasn’t sure how you’d feel about the softer image.

“I told you, Guk. You could tattoo anything on me and I’d be happy. Maybe even more happy than if you’d let me tattoo you. I just want to have something of yours on me - support your craft, you know? Besides,” you said zooming in on the flowers, your gold rings shining in the light, “I like petunias.” Jungkook wasn’t sure if you were only saying this to make him feel better, but he was grateful for your encouragement anyway.

“Uh, I’m going to need you to take your shorts off,” he said hesitantly. “Yoongi, this isn’t against the rules, right? Like having another artist sit for you?” Jungkook asked, turning to give you some privacy though anyone walking past would be able to see you shimmy out of them as there was no curtain or door to shield you.

“Nope. Not that I’ve read,” Yoongi replied, concentrating on his design. Jungkook nodded, steeling himself to focus and get the job done. What he wasn’t expecting was to see you adjusting the band of some very high-waisted, very skimpy, black panties. He nearly choked.

“Does this need to be further up? If not, I can take them off for you. I don’t -”

“No!” Jungkook cried out as he tore his eyes away from the curve of your ass. “I can just move the stencil. It’ll be fine,” he continued after clearing his throat.

“Okay,” you said awkwardly. Jungkook apologized for his outburst as he wheeled himself over to sit in front of you on his little stool. He was making a much bigger deal of this entire situation that it needed to be. He’d seen you in a bikini before, but something about seeing you in your underwear sitting before him was different.

“Relax, Jeon. It’s only a thigh!” Yoongi teased, his head down but his shit-eating grin very much present as he worked on the shading on his client’s forearm. Though Yoongi would never say anything to you out of respect for Jungkook, Jungkook knew Yoongi enjoyed putting him through the wringer whenever you were around.

“Not just a thigh! It belongs to me. My thigh is prime real estate, Min Yoongi. There’s a lot of artists that have been wanting to get in on this,” you joked. Jungkook laughed as he prepped your skin for placing the stencil with rubbing alcohol, hating the fact that he couldn’t feel your skin through the latex gloves but also grateful for the sensory blocker. He knew you were right though - lots of artists did want to work on you and have you walk around with their work as free endorsement of their skill. Honestly, this was a prime opportunity and he should make the most of it.

“Would you be okay with me changing this larger petunia into a mandala? I know you like those,” Jungkook suggested.

“Guk, this is your piece. I told you, I’m good with whatever,” you said cheerfully.

“Keep talking like that I’ll tattoo my name on your ass,” he quipped as he adjusted the design before placing it.

“Make it your face and we just may have a deal,” you shot back and Yoongi gagged from his corner. Jungkook did not want to think about the potential implication of those words.

He wasn’t sure if he’d be able to survive the next three and a half hours with you making suggestive comments while standing in your barely-there underwear, but he was going to have to. Of course, as friends, you’d always had the occasional flirty banter but the “Best Large Black & White” prize was calling his name and God did he want to win. He double-checked the placement of the design as it stretched from just above your hip bone to finish in the middle of your thigh. His adjustments were so precise, it covered the expanse of your thigh damn near perfectly. Jungkook grinned.

“Ready?” he asked, holding up a mirror as you checked out the placement, twisting from side to side.

“Yeah, looks great. How do you want me?”

Jungkook paused as he set up his rolling tray filled with his ink caps and laid out his sterilized needles. There were more than a few ways he could answer that but he settled on, “However you’re most comfortable. You’re going to be here for a while.”

You laughed and climbed onto the bench, giving Jungkook a perfect view of your ass, before you settled against the leather on your left side. Jungkook adjusted the height of his seat so he could position on your thigh with your bent knee resting against the bench and angled towards him. Confirming you were indeed comfortable, Jungkook gently rubbed the A&D ointment across the first section of the design, taking slightly longer than necessary, and got to work. There was a little over three hours to get it done.

He worked diligently as he traced the fine lines of the flower petals, slipping into his professional mode. A small crowd had gathered around the booth, intrigued to see him work on you. Most of the folks there knew about your friendship from social media and mutual community-work settings, how the two of you had bonded over your shared love of tattoos, but seeing the two of you together like this was a real treat. He didn’t feel any pressure as the cameras fought to get a glimpse of him working though. Jungkook did well under pressure but there was a lot riding on this one piece. For him and for you. He wouldn’t disappoint you though. He couldn’t. Not when you looked so peaceful as he worked on the tattoo. Jungkook would win and make you proud.

“Guk, I have a question.”

“What’s up?”

“Would you fuck me?” Jungkook was thankful he’d removed the needle from your skin to wipe off the extra ointment as there was no doubt in his mind he would have fucked up had it been there.

“What?” he asked, slightly breathless.

“Okay, maybe that was a bit vulgar. I guess what I mean is do you think I’m attractive? Like -” you tucked a loose strand of your hair behind your ear, “- a woman you’d spend the night with. Date long-term. That sort of thing,” you finished. Jungkook swallowed before he spoke.

“Uh, yeah. You’re an attractive person.” Jungkook replied, avoiding eye contact with you as he went back to tracing the lines and tried not to think of you under him, around him, on top of - “Why do you ask?”

“I don’t know. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a relationship - since anyone has even asked me on a date. Seokjin never called me back after we went for drinks that one time and Jimin - nevermind actually,” you sighed and Jungkook re-lived the memory of Park Jimin with you - the second man to break your heart in a matter of months. His face soured as he remembered how inconsolable you were the first few months after the breakup and how badly he’d wanted to take a baseball bat to Jimin’s very nice, very expensive car. “Maybe I’m unapproachable. Yoongi, am I unapproachable?” you called over to him.

“Yes,” he said dryly, not bothering to look at you. You scoffed in response.

“You’re never the best person to ask, you old man! People barely talk to you,” you murmured.

“Y/N, you’re great,” Jungkook said in response. “You’re more than great actually, but maybe now isn’t the time to get into a relationship?”

“Why not? I have a stable job, I’m cool -”

“Barely!” Yoongi called over. Jungkook watched you shoot Yoongi the finger before you began speaking again.

“- and I’m charming. It would be nice if someone could appreciate that too, someone that wasn’t only me.”

“Hey! I appreciate you!” Jungkook blurted out, slightly offended.

“Yeah, like a friend. Guk, you know you don’t -”

“Don’t say it. Don’t tell me I don’t count, Y/N.”

“But Jungkook -”

Jungkook paused and set his gun down. “No. No ‘but Guk’, Y/N. I appreciate you, more than you know or understand. I get that we’re friends and I know you value our friendship, but you don’t get to tell me I don’t count because you think you know how I feel about you. Please don’t let your perception of my words and actions let you label them “friendly” when they’re something else.” Jungkook picked his gun back up, avoiding your gaze again, slightly alarmed by his unplanned confession.

“What? What do you mean ‘something different’?” you asked, confused. “Was I supposed to read this any differently after you said -”

“You weren’t supposed to know. You weren’t supposed to find out - not like this at least,” he muttered. Taking a deep breath, he said, “Just don’t count me out okay, Y/N? Not this time. Can we talk about this later though? I just -”

Before he could finish, Jungkook’s alarm went off, signaling only an hour and a half left before he needed to be taking you for judgement. “Okay, Guk. I won’t count you out. Finish,” you said softly as you nodded to your tattoo and chewed your lip in thought.

With time against him, you and Jungkook no longer conversed, though the conversation rattled in his brain like loose change in a tin can. He would need much more than a penny for his thoughts if he wanted to get out of this situation. The hasty confession had Jungkook wondering if he’s said too much too soon. Had he finally sent the house of cards tumbling down? It’s not that he hadn’t wanted to say anything, but the fear of you not meaning what you’d said frightened him. Memories of the two of you curled up on his aging leather sofa flickered across his mind’s eye and he wondered if this fuck up was worse than the time he’d quickly denied having any romantic feelings for you the morning after a drunk confession and you’d reciprocated the feelings. It had taken a few months for things to return back to any type of normal, an uneasy tension having over you both whenever you’d met up. Every few seconds his eyes flitted to your face, hoping to catch a glimpse of whatever you were thinking sprawled across your forehead in your big, looping handwriting but your eyes were closed and your face fairly serene as you let him work in silence.

And work he did, shoving the thoughts to the back of his mind, finishing the last lines of the final petunia and filling in the mandala with various degrees of shading. He admired the delicacy of his work against your smooth skin, deciding it did suit you, much more than he could have hoped. Jungkook was actually slightly disappointed he was close to finishing, already missing the intimacy of working on you, but also eager to get you on stage so people could see his work. He’d gotten lost in the act like he usually did, concentration never breaking as the rest of the Milano Convention continued in full effect around him. Why had he waited so long to do this? You were a dream to work on, never flinching even as he finished up the minute shading of your tattoo, the worst part for many people. A true tattoo veteran with a hell of a pain tolerance. Roughly ten minutes left in the session, Jungkook wrapped up the piece.

“All done,” he said softly, wiping away the excess ointment and admiring his work briefly.

He heard you gasp as you propped yourself up to get a better view of it. “Holy fuck, Jungkook! It’s perfect. I love it!” you whispered in amazement and Jungkook smiled, relieved to not have disappointed you.

“Let me get some pictures, yeah?” You nodded and Jungkook snapped a few shots, promising to send them to you after the convention ended.

“Looks good, Jeon. And you got it done in time. You learned well,” Yoongi chuckled as Jungkook weakly punched his shoulder. “Are you happy, Y/N?” Yoongi asked as he packed up his spare equipment while his client waited patiently to be escorted to judging.

“Happy?” you scoffed, checking the tattoo out again in the mirror. “How about fucking ecstatic? I’m absolutely in love. Seriously Guk, thank you,” you beamed and launched yourself at him for a hug. Jungkook made eye contact with Yoongi as he held you tight in his arms, the older man relaying a silent message to his younger apprentice through raised eyebrows and crossed arms.

“Alright, alright. You can stare at it more later. We have to get to the judges and make it through all these people so,” Jungkook trailed off, letting you go while simultaneously ushering you out of their designated little space. Agreeing, you grabbed your teeny shorts and shoved your feet back into your sneakers. Jungkook stayed close behind you in an effort to cover your very visible, very exposed ass from peering eyes as you moved through the crowd. As much as he hated to admit it, he was really protective of you.

The trek to the judging station wasn’t as official as the name made it sound. It was really just a small stage raised a few inches above the ground with a table and enough chairs to seat the three judges as artists and their models were scored based on design, complexity, and overall execution. This year’s judges were Jung Hoseok of J’s Tailored Tattoos, Kim Namjoon of Mono & Moon, and Kim Taehyung of Vintage Vante. The three of them were rightfully deemed the gods of the tattoo world and Jungkook looked up to them immensely, each of them having numerous titles on the world stage in countries like Brasil, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Nerves rolled in Jungkook’s belly as he waited in the crowd with you for the host to call his name. A win with these guys as the judges would really put some of those naysayers in their place and Jungkook shuffled in place behind you, antsy.

“What’s wrong, Guk?’ you whispered to him as another artist and model headed on stage.

“What if they don’t like it?” he murmured anxiously.

“Do you like it?” Jungkook nodded. “Then that’s all that really matters. You’re insanely talented and I know they’re some of your role models, but they’re fucked if they don’t see how incredible you are. You’ve got this, Guk,” you said in a hushed tone as Yoongi took the stage with his model from earlier. Jungkook smiled into the back of your head as you stood in front of him and gave his hand a squeeze. Jungkook could always count on you.

It was now his turn. Standing with one hand tucked into his pocket and the other firmly gripping your shorts, Jungkook watched as the judges made their notes on their scoring sheets. You turned graciously to give all three of them the best view of the tattoo. And while he knows that there are probably a few people who’d be overjoyed at the challenges he faced to get to this moment, Jungkook didn’t care. Not when your uplifting words still wrapped around him, affirming his skill and talents. He was proud of what he’d accomplished today and while winning was the ultimate goal, he was also at ease because he’d succeeded in fulfilling one of your wishes and you were happy. Jungkook could only smile as you showered him with praise and tried to convince him to tattoo you again as the judging continued.

The two of you stood with Yoongi, chatting as the judges tallied up the scores. He tried to stay still as he watched the host organize the names of the winning artists, losing interest in the conversation as the judges confirmed the final results. One by one, the host read the categories and its corresponding champion. “For Best Medium Color,” the host paused for dramatic effect, “Min Yoongi!” Jungkook cheered loudly with you as his mentor took the stage with his model showing off the antique pocket watch and a royal flush poker hand on top of a wispy background.

Jungkook’s heart hammered in his chest, the sensation almost worse than his first year at the convention as Best Large Black & White was read out. Though he wanted to look calm and collected on the outside, Jungkook was sure he looked anything but. The audience created their own drumroll as the anticipation built - “Jeon Jungkook!”

Your squeal kickstarted Jungkook’s brain as he processed his win. He’d really done it? A few people around him clapped him on the shoulders in congratulations as he was pushed towards the stage to collect his prize and take his place beside the host. “Congratulations, Jungkook! One of the few artists to take home all three wins in one category,” the host announced. If only they knew what it took to get there. Jungkook felt like he was on cloud nine as he shook hands with the judges and took his picture with you and them, prize in hand. He knew he was positively glowing with pride.

“Guk, you did it! I told you that you could!” you cheered as you bounced up and down in happiness and excitement as they moved onto Best Large Color. He smiled down at you and unable to help himself any longer, he scooped you up into his arms, burying his face in your neck.

“Thank you, Y/N!” He repeated the phrase earnestly as if saying it over and over again would finally let you understand just how grateful he was but all it really did was make you giggle as his breath tickled your skin. “Seriously, I really couldn’t have done this without you.”

“I know,” you joked and flipped your hair. You both laughed and you pulled him in for another hug as you said, “Of course, Guk. I’m always here for you. Always,” you punctuated with a squeeze and a smile.

“Yeah, yeah,” he agreed. “You are always here for me,” he said vaguely as he stared down at you in his arms.

“Guk?” you queried as he stared off into the distance.

“This isn’t happening because I won. I don’t want you to think that I only do things like this when I’m any sort of intoxicated, okay?” Jungkook clarified as his confidence grew.

“Things like what?”

“Like confess and kiss you,” he stated.

“Kiss me? You’ve never-”

“Yes, I know I’ve never kissed you. But I want to. Is that okay?” Jungkook asked seriously.

“Yes. More than okay,” you whispered.

It was all Jungkook needed to hear. He was finally kissing you. A soft kiss that grew the longer you stood pressed together in the middle of the convention floor. Jungkook had had his fair share of first kisses, but yours was the one he’d remember for the rest of his life. Maybe because it was you. Maybe that’s why it would always be his favorite. He’d always refrained from putting himself in any situation where he’d be even the slightest bit tempted but now, after having you, he wasn’t sure he’d be able to let you go. The overwhelming sensation that it was actually happening was quickly quelled by the insurmountable joy he felt as you kissed because it was actually happening.

Jungkook may have ascended into another plane as your fingers curled into the hair at the base of his neck and you pulled him further into you. Though he really didn’t want you to think he was only doing this because he’d won, the courage it gave him really did help. The feeling of winning nearly paled in comparison from the brief, sweet taste that was you. Even if he’d never won tonight, he would have considered himself a winner regardless from the kiss alone. Jungkook sighed into you as he savored the moment. Through the pounding of blood in his ears, he could vaguely make out the hoots and hollers of passerbyers as he held you close. Lost in you once again, Jungkook forced himself to remember your earlier conversation.

“Did you really mean it though?” he asked, one arm still wrapped tightly around your waist and the other holding onto his golden plaque.

“Mean what?”

“Not counting me out.”

“Did you mean what you said?” you countered. “Even if I wasn’t supposed to find out this way.”

“Yes, and all the times before then,” he answered truthfully. “So, does this mean you’ll have me?”

“Absolutely. Totally. With my entire hea-” He pressed repeated kisses against your mouth, your teeth clashing as you both smiled, neither of you willing to break apart until a familiar voice cleared its throat.

“I leave for five minutes and this is how I find you. Took you long enough though. Be that as it may, are you done?” Yoongi asked, expression wry and his own prize peeking out of his duffle bag. “I could use some food before we head back to the hotel and Y/N is going to need that tattoo bandaged.”

“Right, right,” Jungkook answered and let you go albeit reluctantly. “We’ll meet you at the car?” Yoongi nodded.

“Don’t take forever. I will leave you. Both of you,” Yoongi warned as he headed off to the exit without any further questions.

Back at the booth, Jungkook applied a generous amount of ointment to the piece before securing it with a bandage and double-checking the tape. Helping you step into your shorts, he smiled at the tattoo. Not only would it be a great reminder of a great win, it would also signify the milestone in your friendship - relationship? - was taking. “Told you that you should’ve tattooed me sooner,” you quipped as you gingerly pulled up your shorts.

“Oh yeah? Why’s that?” he asked, playing along as he quickly packed up his things.

“You would have won much sooner,” you murmured, standing before him.

“Really? What would have been my prize instead? Because that plaque is pretty great.” Jungkook sat his bag on the ground and rested his hands on your hips.

“Better than me?” you grinned and he pressed his lips to yours again.

“Looks like I’ll have to come up with another design then,” he hummed.

“Or you can let me and I can tattoo you,” you suggested with a devilish grin.

“And what do you propose?”

“My name. Right here,” you pointed to the empty space on the left side of his chest.

“Only if you let me tattoo my face on your ass,” he joked and gave it a gentle squeeze.

“Deal,” you laughed.

Jungkook said nothing further, only smiled as he laced his fingers between yours and tugged you in the direction of the exit. “Great. I’ll have everything arranged,” he replied. Laughing with you in these moments meant so much to him and while he wasn’t sure what would happen between you after you left the convention and headed home, he would take pleasure in these moments for as long as you’d let him. As the two of you exited the building and hustled across the busy street to the parking garage so Yoongi wouldn’t have an excuse to leave you, Jungkook wondered if you’d known that your name had been inked over his heart a long, long time ago.

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The standard method for the production as well as the characterization of new BAPs consists in the selection of a substratum as well as a proteolytic enzyme or microbial/bacterial strain, followed by hydrolysis under details conditions. The resulting hydrolysate is analyzed artificial insemination for biological task and also recognition of BAPs. Nonetheless, this technique offers some restrictions such as the empirical selection of substratum and enzyme in addition to a lack of standard procedures for the artificial insemination assessment of the biological activities. All these results reveal that Lactobacillus strains have various hydrolytic specificities for healthy proteins as well as consequently may release really different BAPs. Some investigations are still needed to fully value the diversity in CEP activities. A current relative genomic study of 213 Lactobacillus genomes enabled the detection of 60 various genes presenting considerable homology with the presently understood CEP genes (amino acid identifications ranging from 100 to 20%). Regulative hurdles may also considerably postpone the scientific advancement of AMPs.

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Collagen hydrolysate supplements are abundant in a variety of amino acids that play an essential function in the creation of collagen. Externally of a single cell, MHC class I molecules offer a readout of the expression level of up to 10,000 healthy proteins. This selection is translated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes and also All-natural Awesome cells, permitting them to keep an eye on the occasions inside the cell and spot infection as well as tumorigenesis. Peptidoglycans, sometimes described as mureins, are glycoconjugates discovered only in bacterial cell walls.

When hydrolyzed, collagen comes to be very digestible and also bioavailable. Scientific studies have shown that collagen peptides kind 1 and also type 2 can contribute to numerous health and wellness advantages. They have actually published arise from scientific studies showing the advantages of Peptan for skin charm, joint health and wellness and also recuperation from exercise, as well as mechanistic information that describes exactly how Peptan conveys those effects at a cellular level. Rite-Flex Collagen Peptides with Peptan correspond the collagens located in human bones and also skin. It is a high-purity, all-natural bioactive product, including greater than 97% protein developed to supply multiple wellness benefits as well as useful residential or commercial properties. As an all-natural, non-allergenic and clean tag component, it can be quickly incorporated into foods as well as beverages without affecting taste or odour.

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As a result of its high resolution, this strategy of filtration is also particularly suitable for recognition of the certain peptides involved in a provided bioactivity. Peptide recognition is undoubtedly crucial to properly demonstrate that an offered activity is associated with a details BAP.

The next signal is the interaction in between CD80/86 on the APC and also CD28 externally of the T cell, adhered to by a 3rd signal-- the manufacturing of cytokines by the APC which totally turns on the T cell to provide a particular response. MHC course I complicateds at the cell surface area might dissociate as time passes and the heavy chain can be internalised. When MHC class I molecules are internalised into the endosome, they enter the MHC class-II presentation pathway. Some of the MHC class I particles can be recycled as well as existing endosomal peptides as a part of a procedure which is called cross-presentation. IUPAC-IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical Classification, Nomenclature and symbolism for amino acids as well as peptides, Referrals 1983, Biochem. No authorities classification of glycoproteins, glycopeptides and also peptidoglycans has actually been available hitherto.

The term 'glycation' is recommended for all such reactions that link a sugar to a healthy protein or peptide. The item of glycation is a glycoprotein, or, in the grandfather clause of the reaction with hemoglobin, glycohemoglobin. When appropriate, a much more accurate name such as (1-deoxyfructos-1-yl) hemoglobin may be utilized. Impacts of Lactobacillus helveticus fermented milk and also its bioactive peptides on bone specifications in automatically hypertensive rats. This constraint might be attended to deliberately boosted fermentation media. For example, a chemically specified medium was established to boost the proteolytic activity of Lb. A major issue with this method is the expense of removal and purification.

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In formulating today document, we follow the basic guidelines of biochemical language, especially the extra current ones on carbs [4-7] and also amino acids and also peptides. The terms 'protein glucosylation' and also 'glucosylated hemoglobin' have been made use of incorrectly to refer to the products of non-enzymic reactions in between glucose or other sugars and also free amino teams of proteins. Substances formed in this way are not glycosides, nevertheless, as they result from the development of a Schiff base complied with by Amadori rearrangement to 1-deoxyketos-1-yl by-products of the proteins. As an example, the product of the response between glucose and hemoglobin is not glucosylated hemoglobin however N-( 1-deoxyfructos-1-yl) hemoglobin.

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Numerous clinical research studies have actually revealed collagen's wellness benefits, it guarantees flexibility as well as regeneration of all our connective tissues including skin and also hair. collaborating using highgrade-labs UK sterile water 2ml are identical to the collagen located in human bones and skin. This tub of Ceremony Flex Collagen Peptides have no addictives whatsoever. As a matter of fact, when collagen is hydrolyzed, its three-way helix crumbles and also the lengthy amino acid chains are broken down into tiny peptides of amino acids which are taken in, absorbed and provided to their website of action in our body. So it does not actually make a difference where animal resource the collagen peptides are produced. The amino acid structure coincides for collagen from for instance fish, bovine or porcine.

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The organic molecules have 2 sorts of bonds, key and also second. The acidic and basic teams. in the side chains of amino acids either have a positive or unfavorable fee at the physiologic pH. Together they form solid attractions in the tertiary structure of proteins. In living microorganisms, the hydrolysis of the peptide bond is militarized by enzymes throughout the digestion of healthy proteins in GIT along with the normal turnover of healthy proteins within the cell.

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On the various other hand, AMPs presenting reduced MIC/MMC values in vitro may lack task in vivo due to their quick proteolytic deterioration and/or protein binding in the body. In recap, the poor correlation between artificial insemination antimicrobial task of AMPs as well as their in vivo effectiveness is just one of the technological obstacles, which has actually obstructed the progression of these medicine candidates towards clinical advancement. Lots of AMPs present a straight and also quick antimicrobial task by causing disturbance of the physical integrity of the microbial membrane layer and/or by translocating throughout the membrane into the cytoplasm of germs to act upon intracellular targets. Bacteria are typically divided right into 2 family members, Gram-positive and also Gram-negative, based upon the differences in cell envelope structure. In Gram-positive microorganisms, the cytoplasmic membrane layer is bordered by a thick peptidoglycan layer, whereas the cytoplasmic membrane layer of Gram-negative bacteria is bordered by a thin peptidoglycan layer along with an outer membrane. In a similar way, one little research study additionally located that taking a 15g vitamin C strengthened gelatin supplement together with brief ruptureds of activity increased levels of amino acids in the blood which are related to collagen synthesis.

However, there is little to no proof in people to support this. The Marketing Requirements Authority in the UK has actually likewise criticised promotions which suggest that eating collagen adds to vibrant skin, as a result of the absence of evidence supporting dental usage of collagen. In 2013, the European Food Security Authority also ruled that there wants evidence for a domino effect relationship in between supplements including hydrolysed collagen or collagen peptides as well as enhancements in skin health and wellness.

The cations get attracted in the direction of the favorable electrode and also the anions get drawn in towards the unfavorable electrode. Rite-Flex Collagen Peptides has 18 amino acids, the building blocks of our cells as well as the key component of healthy proteins. Glycine, proline and also hydroxyproline stand for around 50% of the complete amino acid content; the glycine and also proline focus is 10 to 20 times greater than in other healthy proteins. The common procedure of antigen discussion through the MHC I molecule is based upon an interaction between the T-cell receptor and also a peptide bound to the MHC class I particle. There is likewise an interaction in between the CD8+ particle on the surface of the T cell and non-peptide binding areas on the MHC course I molecule. Therefore, peptide offered in facility with MHC course I can just be recognised by CD8+ T cells. This interaction is a part of so-called 'three-signal activation design', and in fact represents the very first signal.

The CEPs launch protein break down in the extracellular media during fermentation. Fermentation, nonetheless, is not required to achieve peptide manufacturing, the CEPs can be used as cleansed enzymes for artificial insemination hydrolysis. Consequently, greater peptide concentrations can be reached in contrast with those obtained with fermentation methods. Due to their capabilities to hydrolyze various proteins, Lactobacillus species are also used to create fermented food from non-dairy sources.

It has actually been recommended that bacterial susceptibility to AMPs might be dramatically higher in the mammalian ionic atmosphere, which is not replicated in MIC/MMC assays. It has actually additionally been proposed that the in vivo anti-bacterial activity of some AMPs is mediated largely via their immunomodulatory impacts instead of direct bacterial killing.

Notably, a few of one of the most well defined AMPs-- omiganan and pexiganan-- have during their professional testing encounter regulatory obstacles. The balance in this "mix" may vary in various territories, which makes the regulative landscape, specifically in relation to chemistry, manufacturing, as well as controls, more complicated. Several feasible descriptions for this apparent mystery have actually been put forward.

Nevertheless, these actions are needed for research studies focusing on exploration and also identification of BAPs. Filtration is likewise required for specific nutraceutical or pharmaceutical applications where top quality completed products are called for. Ultimately, chromatographic approaches can be used to achieve peptide filtration. These methods consist of size-exclusion chromatography as well as ion-exchange chromatography. The main problem, particularly for industrial applications, is the extremely high expense of these techniques. For research applications such as peptidomics, chromatographic techniques are widely utilized. As an example, the filtration and the preparation of antitumoral peptides were performed by gel purification chromatography from a milk fermented by Pound.

Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-3-- a signal peptide-- was the first peptide that supplied a choice to retinol for anti ageing due to its outstanding efficiency on all skin types, including delicate skins. Research has actually shown this initial generation peptide reactivated the signal for collagen I as well as IV, which recovered the skin's thickness, without the same sensitivity. If you use them continually, peptides can reduce the look of expression lines as well as aid you preserve healthy degrees of collagen and also elastin in your skin for longer. These peptides are just one of one of the most popular skincare ingredients since they prevent acetylcholine-- the chemical that activates muscular tissue motions. So, neurotransmitter inhibitors are almost Botox in a tube-- they relax the contractions of facial expression muscle mass and consequently can significantly decrease particular kinds of wrinkles such as crow's feet and also laugh lines.

It is worth highlighting that this is simply one study, and it just consisted of 8 individuals. Other studies have actually found that vitamin C may help with recovery tendon as well as tendon injuries, although more human researches are required to investigate this. There are a few ways in which collagen can in theory increase nail or hair health. For example, collagen is a good source of the amino acid proline, which is one of the main amino acids used to produce keratin-- the major foundation of our hair and nails. There is likewise some proof that collagen which is originated from fish might function as an anti-oxidant in our body, which could possibly be advantageous for hair as well as nail health.

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the samsung galaxy s10 has been engineered to be a communique changer, a telephone that’s intended to turn everyone’s yearly question of “do i really need to upgrade?” right into a more exclamatory “do i really want to improve!” our palms-on time with the s10 proves that it does make this case, with some clean caveats. it’s the 6.1-inch infinity show that actually sells this telephone. it introduces a nearly-area-to-aspect look that stretches top to backside, with pixels spilling over the curved edges at the edges – there’s no room for huge bezels on samsung’s 2019 flagship smartphone. its new infinity-o display screen – also a function of the galaxy s10 plus and less expensive galaxy s10e – is so huge it absolutely displaces the front digicam, consigning it to a small ��punch-hollow’ inside the screen. all of the crucial sensors are smartly tucked behind this vibrant and bright superb amoled display.

additionally at the back of the glass is the new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. you gained’t find a fingerprint pad on the back anymore, or anywhere visibly at the phone. samsung positioned its sensor – now invisible – at the the front, where we sense it belongs. the s10 formally makes punch-hollow presentations a trend after the concept debuted on the honor view 20, and in-display screen fingerprint sensors more mainstream when they seemed at the oneplus 6t, huawei mate 20 pro, and some vivo phones. it’s all within the motive of achieving that brilliant 93.1% display screen-to-body ratio at the the front of the phone.

maximization is also the idea behind the galaxy s10’s rear-dealing with triple-lens digicam. samsung’s camera array has lenses to take everyday, telephoto and new extremely-extensive pix. the ultra-extensive camera is all approximately capturing more of what’s in front of you without having to returned up. sure, lg telephones have touted ultra-extensive digicam lenses for years, most these days the lg v40, but samsung’s cameras had been greater constant in low-mild situations. the feature is finally in a a flagship-degree smartphone you want.

the galaxy s10 also has features all and sundry can get. its wireless powershare characteristic helps you to use the returned of the s10 to qi rate some other smartphone or the new galaxy buds, cloning the opposite wireless charging idea inside the huawei mate 20 seasoned, a cellphone that’s not extensively to be had in sure territories, which includes the usa. the galaxy s10 is an amalgam of other handsets’ single hallmark functions packed into one cellphone, whilst samsung pioneers as many technical features as it could cram in – quicker wi-fi 6 and hdr10+ are each firsts for smartphones. and that’s what samsung does high-quality certainly.  there’s a hitch or two in samsung’s masterplan to get everybody to improve to this precise handset. the s10 is steeply-priced, even greater so than final 12 months’s galaxy s9, although it’s markedly higher value than the iphone xs, which is more high-priced and has a smaller five.eight-inch display. then there’s the truth that samsung’s largest opposition in 2019 can be samsung. the galaxy s10e is inexpensive and almost as true, at the same time as the galaxy s10 plus is the smartphone you’ll want if you could manage its charge and display length – and that’s to say not anything of the galaxy s10 5g and the samsung galaxy fold, which early adopters may additionally search for real innovation at a higher price. the samsung galaxy s10 marks a decade of galaxy s phones, and even as there’s been little innovation in recent years from the maximum famous telephone manufacturers, together with samsung (bixby and ar emoji don’t reduce it), the s10 has enough newness to tempt you to improve. we’re nevertheless trying out the digital camera, overall performance and battery existence, however it’s already shaping as much as be one among 2019’s high-quality  the samsung galaxy s10 release date is friday, march 8, that's one week in advance than last 12 months’s telephone. it changed into formally announced on february 20, with pre-orders beginning right away in some nations. in the us, galaxy s10 pre-order started out on february 21. the galaxy s10 fee is $899 / £799 / au$1,349 / aed three,199, meaning you’re going to be spending an extra $a hundred and eighty / £60 / aed 100 on this cellphone over the s9 launch fee. if you like the appearance of this telephone however think that price is a tad high, you've got two options: you may pass for the inexpensive galaxy s10e, which starts at $749 / £669 / au$1,199 / aed 2,699, or suck up the price hike, surprise at the new 6.1-inch screen and 128gb base garage, and recognise that apple prices $a hundred / £two hundred / au$430 greater for the smaller five.8-inch iphone xs with half of the inner storage, 64gb. ordering the galaxy s10 earlier of march 8 will net you bonuses in some nations. in the us, for instance, samsung is presenting loose wi-fi galaxy buds really worth $149 / au$249 whilst you pre-order either the galaxy s10 or galaxy s10 plus. show samsung galaxy s10 specifications weight: 157g dimensions: 149.nine x 70.4 x 7.8mm os: android nine display screen length: 6.1-inch resolution: qhd+ cpu: octa-center chipset ram: 8gb garage: 128/512gb battery: 3,400mah rear digital camera: 16mp + 12mp + 12mp front digicam: 10mp     samsung’s screens are so right “our competition are even using them,” samsung emblem manager paul guzek advised techradar, an all-too-apparent dig at apple. it’s difficult to disagree. in truth, the galaxy s10’s 6.1-inch incredible amoled display panel looks higher than some thing samsung sells its opponents. it has elegantly curved edges with pixels that spill over the perimeters, amped-up brightness for higher out of doors visibility, and hdr10+ aid for superior evaluation and colour. the brand new infinity-o show type is what sticks out – for better or worse. samsung has efficaciously avoided a notch reduce-out on the top of its flagship phones, instead the usage of a laser-cut hole within the pinnacle-right corner of the display screen to embed the the front-facing digital camera, as on the honour view 20. is a ‘punch-hollow’ camera greater or much less distracting than a notch? we’re going to order judgment for our very last samsung galaxy s10 evaluate, when we’ll placed the cellphone via its paces in daily use. one thing we can say right away even though is that it’s given samsung extra display real estate to play with than ever. don’t permit the bigger 6.1-inch screen length scare you off. the s10’s dimensions are 149.nine x 70.four x 7.8mm (it weighs 157g), so it’s simplest marginally taller and wider than the s9 with its five.eight-inch display, and surprisingly thinner and a piece lighter. those marginal will increase in height and width are due to the s10’s screen-to-frame ratio of 93.1% (last year became eighty three.6%). bezel does define the pinnacle and backside of this display, despite the fact that we stated it wasn’t massive. samsung’s top speaker still reigns, and there’s a skinny but major chin throughout the lowest; it’s less bezel instead of bezel-much less. and the reality that the bottom bezel is greater than the top one catches our eye – it may be more distracting than the punch-hole. there’s little to dislike regarding the brand new display – if the infinity-o doesn’t distract everyday, and as referred to we’ll replace this review when we have more hands-on time with the s10. layout  you’re no longer going to be overly amazed by the rest of the samsung galaxy s10 design, although there are a few extremely good improvements, two hidden surprises, and an vintage classic here. its thinner aluminum frame is sandwiched among easy glass, with the back coming on your choice of color: flamingo red, prism black, prism blue, prism white, canary yellow and prism inexperienced. samsung galaxy s10 colours will range by way of region, with the usa getting all however yellow and inexperienced. there’s the smallest of camera bumps on the again, housing the triple-lens digicam array, at the same time as we saw no signs of samsung’s invisible opposite wi-fi charging module below this. it’s a specifically smooth appearance in a international of digital camera bumps and rear-fingerprint sensors. we had no difficulty activating samsung’s wireless powershare feature after turning it on thru the short settings notification shade. we located our galaxy buds case at the decrease third of the s10 back and the earbuds commenced charging nearly immediately. it even charged our iphone xs max. samsung laid out two situations in which wireless powershare would be beneficial: charging a friend’s phone, or charging your galaxy buds at night, correctly making your plugged-in s10 a cell qi charger pad. samsung mentioned, although, that powershare received’t work whilst the telephone is underneath 30%. also invisible – this time around the the front – is the fingerprint sensor. while plenty of android phones have used a rear-going through fingerprint sensor, samsung caught with the the front-facing bodily sensor pad all the manner up to the galaxy s7. so the switch to the back felt foreign on samsung phones – but it’s come lower back to the the front in the s10, this time tucked underneath the glass. this is an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, one of a kind from the optical sensors on the oneplus 6t and huawei mate 20 pro, as an instance. samsung uses qualcomm-sponsored tech that’s stated to be better, and greater cozy, via creating a 3D test of your print, however we’ll have to test it out everyday. to date, it’s unlocked the smartphone while we put our thumb on the lower-0.33 of the tool. extra literal impressions to come in our full overview. and right here’s a welcomed traditional that hasn’t changed because the first s phone a decade ago: the three.5mm headphone jack. samsung is one of the few cellphone makers that includes the same old headphone jack in 2019 – and it’s doing it despite introducing the wireless galaxy buds. samsung wants you to take photographs at any perspective, so the galaxy s10 has a triple-lens camera on returned with a 12mp regular lens, 12mp optically zoomed telephoto lens, and a cutting-edge 16mp ultra-extensive lens. we got to test the s10 camera thru our s10 plus evaluate unit (they have the equal cameras), and got awesome effects. here's the gallery: here's the equal shot in stay recognition (samsung's portrait mode). it nicely blurs the history, and you can change the history blur depth even after the shot is taken. samsung additionally includes blur filters: creative, spin, zoom and shade factor (which in this case made the history black and white). they are really certainly cool searching. the galaxy s10 camera takes splendid pictures, even in combined and low mild conditions. it is not too dark on our concern, us mobile editor david lumb, and the brilliant shifting flames are captured with element with out being overexposed. shot hints helped us frame up the shot. this digicam reticle may be helpful and you do not should snap the picture. the shutter simply activates whilst you hover over the reticle 'excellent shot' dot. but it is now not constantly correct. occasionally it stuck the circle off-center in a group shot for no obvious motive. usual, it is a pleasant touch with a few room for improvement. in our ongoing galaxy s10 camera assessment, we have observed topics up near with enough light include outstanding detail. have fun meals picture takers. the scene optimizer ai works well for food. the 12mp digicam offers us plenty of element, and whilst vibrancy and saturation are cranked up a chunk in comparison to an iphone, samsung's digicam no longer makes food appearance oversaturated and alien searching. there was a time whilst samsung's cameras would make hotdogs, as an example, appearance fireplace engine red through amping up assessment. testing the blur effect of the main digicam (with out switching to portrait mode) proved to give us the depth effect we desired. robust detail in the foreground, with wealthy bokeh inside the background. we tapped the history to get that in recognition, and the bokeh gave our foreground some fine blur. the element inside the background is crisp – like the fried hen. the galaxy s10 digital camera now and again looks higher than actual existence. its blues and orangey-reds here sincerely pop, even as the white doesn't appear to be too heat to together with it (earlier than you frequently could not have one with out the other). we still sense the google pixel 3 night sight mode does a higher process, however samsung could be very near. greater comparisons to come. here is a nicely-lit vicinity of two subjects. the picture avoids being too warm, placing pretty appropriate shade and white balance. right here's the identical shot from the brand new extremely-wide digicam. the tough component approximately this sort of extensive camera is that there may be regularly needless extra in there. cropping or the usage of the everyday lens is just first-rate. now not every shot merits this digital camera lens, but it creates a neat effect within the situations. right here's any other extremely-huge picture we took using the s10 camera. this is a more suitable image demonstrating some of the factors you'll omit with the tighter regular lens. the s10 is right at lively tracking speedy-shifting topics. working example, it was able to seize those bright flames as they moved in the san francisco wind. they may be crisp, not blurry, and no longer overexposed notwithstanding the camera also desiring to seize the darkish stones. we nevertheless locate the samsung's digicam to amp up vibrancy and saturation, additionally making use of an instagram clear out ahead of time. this works well for us, however comes down to taste. the iphone xs we use often has genuine-to-lifestyles hues, but subsequent to the s10 or google pixel 3, they look alternatively drab. we’re going to take a difficult observe the digital camera, how it as compared to the elegance-leading pixel 3, and determine how accurate the extremely-wide photos look. samsung’s 123-diploma area of view is as an alternative extensive, which serves the purpose of now not having to again as much as get the whole lot in a shot. however which can bring about an unnatural fisheye look. this extremely-wide digital camera additionally lacks ois in comparison to the other  lenses. at the front, we have a single 10mp camera with dual vehicle-focuses. in case you upgrade to the s10 plus, you’ll additionally get an 8mp digital camera supposed for boosting intensity in portrait pics. scene optimizer gains 10 new categories, with samsung’s digital camera ai now able to tell the difference among a cat and dog to first-rate tune such things as white stability. shot hints is a new feature that makes use of the neural processor engine to nudge you to properly level your pictures or frame subjects better. on the video aspect, the software program has been upgraded to record in hdr10+ and offer virtual video stabilization. samsung says that this is supposed to make all of your extremely hd video as smooth as an action cam. shots fired, gopro hero7 black. specifications and battery existence the samsung galaxy s10 receives right under-the-hood improvements, touting the new probably the greatest snapdragon or exynos chipsets, relying on which u . s . a . you stay in.  it's plenty rapid. the qualcomm snapdragon 855 chipset we benchmarked got here back with a document-breaking multi-score velocity... for android. the iphone xs continues to be a bit faster, but samsung is very close at 11,002 to apple's eleven,481. it also comes with 8gb of ram – a extreme upgrade over the 4gb of ram in ultimate 12 months’s s9 – and consists of alternatives for 128gb or 512gb of inner garage. there’s no 64gb version to worry approximately here, and samsung still helps expandable garage. it includes a 3,400mah battery, an upgrade over the three,000mah capability of the s9. due to the bigger display, officially, samsung is still claiming all-day battery life if now not a chunk more. additionally onboard is subsequent-gen wi-fi 6, in order to aid seamless transition among wireless routers and is four instances faster than 802.11ax. it should supply a 20% velocity raise, however you’ll need a new router to honestly get any use out of this feature. what you gained’t get in this phone is the s10 plus and note nine-exceptional vapor chamber cooling. if you’re a gamer, you can need to improve to the larger telephone for extra than just the larger display. early verdict the galaxy s10 is a deserved tenth anniversary phone for samsung and its storied s series. its new show kind lays out greater pixels throughout much less frame, has a triple-lens digital camera so that you can now take extremely-wide pictures, and includes a larger battery surrounded via beefier specs. you’ll like any of those functions, even as your pals will like the new wireless powershare perk. the s10 marks an anniversary, however it additionally marks some thing a bit exceptional amongst smartphones. it disrupts the sameness of smartphones simply sufficient to turn out to be a tempting upgrade.  the fee, but, might also come up with second mind. that’s where the galaxy s10e plays an critical function. our galaxy s10 fingers-on review isn’t finished but. this phone requires loads greater checking out and daily use to determine if the 3-eyed rear camera is the fine within the international and the ‘punch-hole’ infinity-o show is the style of display screen we need to stare at in 2019.

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“there’s no such thing as plagiarism in fanfic”

what the hell was this then? (plus, why did she run out of ff.net with her tail between her legs, the same way daveigh/greendruidess sort of did with ao3 when it all started?)

and by the way, i really wish people would stop digging up posts talking about... that (you know... that), not because it’s old news, i’m still licking my wounds over it, and i got tired of hearing about it when i was making the amped and wired comic, but because no matter how i try to break it down and spell it out, people are going to argue with me about it for as the day is long (and i can tell that they either participate in it themselves or they didn’t first learn of it when they went to school - i don’t understand how you miss it, though; when i was that age, it was hammered into our heads starting in middle school) and i quite literally do not have the time for that. nobody does, like... you people in my notifications who are arguing with me about this to this day seriously need to get a life.

by the way, if you’re implying that “fanfic is plagiarism” (which is inexplicably what a lot of people on here believe? idk), no. just... no.

yes, you contribute to a community by being part of it and writing and sharing the story that you’ve been wanting to tell, not stealing other people’s work and saying it’s your own, which is what plagiarism is. and honestly, greendruidess as she goes by now, could literally write disclaimers about her “inspiration” for the rest of her life: it does not excuse the fact that she is not being herself when she writes, and that’s probably the one thing about her that offends me more than anything.

taking from me and other writers just comes with it, but i used to think of her as the amy schumer of fanfic, but now i’m starting to think of her as the iggy azalea of fanfic. first words out of her mouth were quite literally “first things first, i’m the realest” and then rattled off a bunch of shit that showed that, no, you are not. she built herself up on a bald-faced lie and no one sees anything wrong with that: that is and always will be the real problem at play.

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“L is For Luna”(Part 5): A Saluna Fanfic

A/N: Hey, guys! I’m so sorry for taking so long to update this story. I’ve been extremely busy lately and it really saddens me that I couldn’t get to it until right now. This part was definitely worth the wait though because I literally got the chills as I was writing it. Well, I hope you enjoy! :)

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Title: L is For Luna

Summary: When Luna finds a love letter in her locker, she hopes that it is her crush Sam, but is doubtful. With the help of her ten siblings, Luna will find out whether her dreams of being with Sam will ever be a reality or not.

Part: 5

Author: L-is-For-Loud-House

Fandom: The Loud House

Ship: Saluna (Luna Loud and Sam Sharp)

Timeline: A few months after “L is For Love”

Genre: Fanfiction/Romance

Word Count: 1,462

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“Thanks for inviting me to come over again, dudette!” Sam thanked Luna.

It was now 3:00 on Thursday afternoon. Sam and Luna had just gotten out of school and now were on Luna’s front porch. No one else but them were home. Luna’s parents were both at work and Lori had taken the rest of her siblings to the mall once again. Luna had invited Sam over for two reasons: to spend time with her while rocking out and to give Sam her token. Sam had only known about the first reason.

“No need to thank me,” Luna replied as she unlocked the door to let herself and Sam inside of the house. “You’ve got a friend in me and friends love to invite each other over each other’s houses.”

Sam chuckled as she and Luna placed their back packs down by the front door. “Really, Lunes?”

Luna just looked at Sam confusingly. “What?”

“Ok, you’re famous for always being able to make a song reference out of any situation, but really? Did you seriously just reference a song from Toy Story?”

“Well, I am musically well-rounded! And plus, I used to love watching that film when I was little! And I have younger sibs who watch it in front of me all of the time!”

“That’s true. It’s a rad kids’ movie. I just haven’t heard much about it in a while. Simon claims to be too old for those types of films now, so there’s no one in my house that watch it still.”

“Dude, you’re so lucky that you only have one sibling. Sometimes I just really can’t stand all of the baby ‘toons, movies, and shows that my baby sibs constantly have to watch.”

Sam just laughed. “Nah, I ain’t lucky. With Simon, it feels like I have ten sibs. He’s really a handful, yanno. He’s always buggin’ me about something, so all him and I ever do is argue mostly.”

Luna just giggled. “Yeah, my sibs and I can ever hardly agree on anything and we’re always buggin’ one another about random things, so I feel ya, mate. I guess everyone has their own issues with their family, but at the end of the day, deep down, everyone really loves one another.”

“Yeah, true. I still love my baby bro ‘though he can be really a little bugger at times.”

Suddenly, there was a loud, “Ding!” Luna peered down at the smartphone in her hand to see that the screen had been lit up with a new text notification. It was from Lola.

“DON’T YOU DARE FORGET TO GIVE HER THE TOKEN,” it read.

Suddenly, Luna received another text from Lola. “And don’t keep on complimenting her! Don’t just compliment her on her personality, compliment her on her looks too!”

Luna suddenly cleared her throat as she put her phone down and looked back up at Sam. “Sorry, dude. My little sister just texted me.”

“It’s completely fine,” Sam responded. “Is everything all right?”

“Yeah, totally! She just texted me about.. um.. where she is. You see, Lori decided to take the rest of my sibs to the mall again and Lola just wanted to let me know that she made it there safely.”

Sam smiled. “Ya know, that just shows how responsible you two are. You’re responsible to want to know that your sibs get to places safely and she’s responsible by letting you know about her whereabouts and that she and the rest of the sibs are safe. You’re a rockin’ big sis, Luna.”

Luna smiled. “Aw, thanks, Sammy. So are you!”

“Thanks, Lunes. Simon really gets on my nerves, but I try.”

Luna cleared her throat once more. She began to head towards her back pack. “But any ways, I have something that I’ve been meaning to give ya.”

Sam’s face lit up like a lightbulb. “Really? Aw, dude! You shouldn’t of have!”

Luna’s cheeks then turned slightly red. “No, I want to, luv.” Luna then knelt down on the ground and pulled something out of her back pack. She placed it within her palm. 

Sam began to twirl her hair as she giggled. “Aw, thanks, Luney-Tunes. So, what is it?”

Luna then stood back up and returned back to Sam. Her cheeks were now even more red. The butterflies in her stomach were so powerful that they were now more like soaring birds. “Well, I just wanted to say, that you are a wonderful chick. You’re the most sweet, kind, and caring person that I know. I love jamming out with you. You’re my best mate. And just because you’re so special to me, I would like for you to have something else that is also special to me.” Luna then opened up her palm to reveal a purple guitar pick. “This is my favorite pick— my lucky pick. It has brought me much luck through many shows and rehearsals. I would like for you too have it.”

Sam then giggled as she slightly covered her mouth with her one hand. “Aw, no, Luna. I could never take something that’s important to you as your favorite pick from you.”

“No, dude.” Luna then took Sam’s hand. It was a gentle grasp that sent sparks throughout the body. Luna then placed her pick within Sam’s palm and closed it for her. “I insist. The pick means a lot to me, but you mean even more, luv.”

Sam beamed as she twirled the ends of her blonde hair with her free hand. “Gee, Lunes, I have no idea what to say. This is very generous of you. I do feel bad to take your favorite pick, but I know how to make it up to ya.” She then broke away from Luna and walked over towards her own backpack.

Luna cocked her head out of curiosity. “Really? How?”

Sam smiled. She then unzipped her backpack and retrieved something out of it and placed it in her palm. She then stood back up and walked back over to Luna. “Luna, you are very special towards me as well. You are really sweet and you make the sickest jams. So, just like you gave something that was special to you to me, I would like to give you something that’s special to me. But it’s not more special than you, of course. Nothing can be more special than a rad best friend like yourself.” Sam then opened up her palm to reveal a teal guitar pick. “This is my favorite pick. Just like yours, it’s very lucky and has helped me through a lot. I’d love for you to have it.”

Luna gave a huge grin as her face somehow became so red that Luna was pretty sure that Sam could notice it. “A-are ya sure, dudette? You really don’t have to do this just because I gave you my pick.”

Sam smiled as she took Luna’s hand. It was the same gentle, yet powerful touch that could drive someone wild. Sam placed her pick in Luna’s palm and closed her hand up for her. “I’m sure. You’ve got a friend in me, luv.”

All Luna could do was laugh and blush. 

“Now, whataya say we go up to your room and rock out with our new picks and that new amp of yours?” Sam asked, smiling.

Luna nodded as she smiled back at Sam. As the two began to head towards the stairs, Luna noticed that her one hand was oddly warmer than the other. She looked down to see that Sam had never let go of her and that they were now holding hands. Luna’s smile became even larger and she suddenly felt confident.

“You know, Sammy,” Luna began as she turned towards Sam, her face becoming as red as it could possibly be. 

“Yeah, luv?” Sam replied cooly.

“You’re really pretty.”

It seemed to Luna that Sam was taken aback by that statement. Her jaw dropped slightly and Luna could of swore that her cheeks became a slightly darker color.

Sam then let out a small giggle. “No, you’re way prettier, dude.”

Luna began to giggle as well as she and Sam made it to the top of the staircase. “I’m sorry, but I disagree. You’re the prettiest chick in the school.”

Sam snorted as she began to twirl her hair. “No, you definitely have to be the prettiest.”

Luna laughed as she and Sam had finally reached her and Luan’s bedroom. “It seems like to me that we both think that the other is prettier than the other and I really don’t wanna argue with ya, so why don’t we just stop at the fact that we’re both pretty.”

Sam giggled once more. “Ok, sounds rad to me, luv.”

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Best PS5 Accessories For 2021: PlayStation 5 Headsets, Controllers

The PlayStation 5 launched with a range of first-party PS5 accessories, from the DualSense Wireless Controller to the Pulse 3D Headset and PlayStation Media Remote, but while each of these can enhance your experience in different ways, they're not the only accessories for Xbox worth picking up for your new console. Brands like Logitech, Razer, Samsung, and SteelSeries all have quality products designed specifically for the PS5 (or that will work via backwards compatibility), and now that the PS5 has been on the market for some time, you can find a PS5 accessory for pretty much any specific need at this point. With that in mind, we've rounded up the very best PS5 accessories worth picking up so far, from standard controllers and headsets to flight sticks, racing wheels, external storage, and more.

For more recommendations on PS5 software and accessories for playstation, check out our guides to the best PS5 games of 2021, plus the best PS5 headsets and controllers beyond just the first-party options.

Sony's PS5 DualSense controller is a fantastic upgrade over the PS4's DualShock 4, reshaping the controller to give it a more comfortable, ergonomic shape and more easily visible light bars on either side of the touchpad. Its standout feature is the haptic feedback that, when fully utilized in compatible games, creates immersive vibrations that really let you feel what's happening in the game. Adaptive triggers work in tandem with this as well to further enhance PS5 games, offering different levels of resistance in the L2 and R2 triggers to simulate the feeling of, for instance, drawing back a bowstring. This can also be used to make different weapons, like guns, feel different when switching between them. Overall, the DualSense is an excellent controller that feels kind of magical when its features are fully utilized, and now that two new colors, Midnight Black and Cosmic Red, are available, there's good reason to pick up a second one just to have for multiplayer or switching to while your first controller charges.

Sooner or later, you're probably going to want to pick up a charging station for your DualSense controller, and this official one from Sony can charge two at once, meaning you'll always have a controller ready to go when you get that low-battery notification. It takes a little getting used to, but when you slide a controller in, you'll hear a slight click and see it light up, letting you know it's connected and charging. In terms of convenience, this is easily one of the best PS5 accessories to pick up as soon as you can. No one likes messing with a charging wire.

Surprisingly, the PS5's first-party headset option, the Pulse 3D, is on the more affordable end of the spectrum for quality headsets; however, this is paired with a build that does feel somewhat flimsy, cheap, and easy to break. On the flip side, it delivers rich audio using Sony's proprietary Tempest 3D AudioTech, which really brings surrounding environments alive in PS5 games like Spider-Man: Miles Morales, letting you hear subtle sounds and get a better sense directionally of what's around you. It also supports both wireless and wired connectivity for not only PS5 but also PS4, PC, and Mac, with a battery life of up to 12 hours. At the end of the day, it's still one of the best PS5 headsets to buy, especially if you don't want to break the $100 mark, but there are even better third-party headsets we recommend that fall between $150 and $200.

SteelSeries headsets have been very popular for years, and the Arctis 7P is its next-gen headset designed specifically for PS5, though we like it for its versatility, as you can also use it with PS4, PC, Android, and Nintendo Switch thanks to an included USB-C dongle. Featuring 2.4GHz wireless audio and a low-latency connection, the Arctis 7P also pairs nicely with the PS5's 3D audio tech with excellent sound quality for such a versatile headset. Like the BlackShark V2 Pro, it's also a more durable and comfortable option than the Pulse 3D, with a lightweight steel frame and elastic ski goggle band for an adjustable fit. It also has a retractable, bidirectional microphone for clear voice capture and a 24-hour battery life to last during all-day gaming sessions.

For those planning on streaming their PS5 gameplay on Twitch or YouTube, the PlayStation HD camera is one essential accessory that'll make the entire process a breeze. Featuring 1080p capture, the PlayStation HD camera lets you record yourself and your gameplay by using the DualSense's share button, and by using the PS5's built-in background removal tools, you can add yourself to gameplay videos while streaming in picture-in-picture mode. You can crop the background or even lose it completely if you have a green screen.

The Razer Raion has long been one of our picks for the best PS4 controllers, and it still works great for playing backwards-compatible PS4 games on PS5. Though its layout may look strange, the Razer Raion is optimized for fighting games, and its six-button layout resembles what you'd find on a fight stick. It has a fantastic, clicky D-pad and is lightweight enough to comfortably hold in one hand, letting you tap on the rows of buttons piano-style. However, it also has digital buttons for every DualShock 4 shoulder button and trigger if you prefer to use it that way. Also convenient is the fact that you won't need to switch between the Raion and a more fully-featured Ps5 controller faceplate for things like character customization, as it lets you map the D-pad to the left and right analog sticks. Though the Razer Raion isn't for most PlayStation games and certainly not every type of gamer, for fighting game fans, it's a budget-friendly option that will take your experience in games like Mortal Kombat 11 and Tekken 7 to the next level.

The Victrix Pro FS is on the expensive end of fight sticks, but for hardcore fighting game fans, it's worth every penny, and it's forward-compatible with PS5. The Victrix Pro FS has a premium build made of durable aluminum and authentic Sanwa Denshi parts, its buttons are satisfyingly clicky, and the joystick is equally satisfying to use as well as accurate in its movements. In addition to all the essential fight stick buttons, it has several added features including three programmable buttons, customizable audio, lighting adjustments, and an easy access door for swapping out components. It's also a travel-friendly stick with a removable joystick, a plastic organizer to wrap your cables around, and handles for carrying. Costing as much as a console, the Victrix Pro FS isn't for everyone, but if you're serious about having the best fighting game experience on Ps5 dual charging and competitive play, this is an excellent investment.

As with fighting games, you can certainly use your regular old DualSense with racing games, but if you're passionate about the genre and want a more realistic experience with games like Gran Turismo Sport and Assetto Corsa Competizione, a racing wheel and set of pedals is designed for just that. Released in August 2020, Logitech's next-gen racing wheel, the G923, has everything you need for the best racing experience on dongle Ps5. Its TrueForce technology delivers next-gen force feedback with a physics engine that's directly connected to the wheel for heightened responsiveness. Essentially, the wheel synchronizes with your gameplay to deliver a more immersive and realistic experience. The downside is that right now, TrueForce is supported for only a handful of games: Grid, Assetto Corsa Competizione, iRacing, Gran Turismo Sport, Showrunner, and Dirt Rally 2.0.

The Logitech G923 also features a programmable dual clutch launch assist to get you off the starting line cleaner and faster, a progressive spring brake to simulate a pressure-sensitive brake system, a built-in rev indicator that can show you when you're redlining, and a whole set of customization options via Logitech's G Hub software.

Most flight sticks out there are designed for PC, but with flight sims having a bit of a resurgence recently thanks to games like Star Wars Squadrons and Microsoft Flight Simulator, we're starting to see more options for consoles. The official PlayStation-licensed Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS 4 is an affordable option that, crucially, is also widely available to buy. It'll work great with games like Star Wars Squadrons and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.

A great entry-level flight stick for those just dipping their toes into the flight sim genre, the T.Flight HOTAS 4 features adjustable joystick resistance, a detachable throttle, and a dual-rudder system that operates by rotating the handle with an integrated locking system or by the progressive tilting lever. The flight system has five axes, 12 action buttons, one rapid-fire trigger, and one multidirectional hat switch for navigation/panoramic view.

The democratization of music production has meant that just about anybody can make music from their personal computer. As a result, there's a lot of great music coming out from people who wouldn't have been able to create anything 10 years ago.

That said, whatever personal DAW (digital audio workstation) you choose as your preference, you'll need to use plugins in order to procure certain sounds that you'll need for your music. The Complete 2021 Synth & Sound Software Bundle from Applied Acoustics sets you off immediately with a collection of 10 software kits that include psychoacoustic effects, piano tones, strumming patterns, sound effects, arrangements, and more.

Specifically, you'll get the Objeq Delay filter, which grants effects ranging from echoes to modulations to loops. On top of that, the bundle includes a variety of arpeggiators from composer David Kristian, a collection of folk loops from Celine Dion's keyboardist, and a bunch of other stuff that, in total, almost completely encompasses every possible preset or filter you could ever want for creating your own music. You can go through the different plugins yourself, but suffice it to say that musicians have raved about the different features included here. Whether you are an accomplished musician, like many of the contributors to this bundle are, or a novice beginner who is looking to dip your toes into an ocean of different DAW software, there's something of value for everyone who purchases this expansive bundle.

To put the cherry on top, you can get the Complete 2021 Synth & Sound Software Bundle from Applied Acoustics for just $30. If you've bought music plugins online before, you know how expensive they can be, so the value of this deal stands out even more at an average price of just $3 per individual software pack within. Start creating at a higher level and invest in your musical career with Applied Acoustics.

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Best Player Music For Mac

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This best video player Mac is a universal media player that automatically recognizes the file format of the video or audio file you want to play. So you can count on it to reliably play the most popular audio and video file formats including AVI, MP4, MP3, WMA, WAV, FLV, MPEG, and more. Read definitive guide by audio software developer Yuri Korzunov about free and commercial hi res audio player software apps on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and other computers, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, online for audiophiles, F.A.Q., what is the best music player.

I recently decided to set up my Mac in this way, to deliver hi-res throughout the signal chain-from my music library, to the player, to the DAC, to my preamp, amp, and loudspeakers (or preamp to. Windows Media Player is the all-in-one media player that provides the best experience for discovering, playing, and taking your digital entertainment anywhere-on Windows XP-based PCs and the widest choice of portable devices. VOX Music Player for Mac — Absolute best sound quality and minimalist design are the perfect way to manage music on your Mac. Built-in Internet Radio app, Soundcloud player and streaming music.

There is certainly no dearth of third-party video Players for Mac. But the best players is certainly the one that supports the maximum number of video formats, is ad-free and with easy shortcuts.

We understand that it is not easy for to try your hands on each and every video player available on the app store. Therefore, we are listing 15 Best Video Players for Mac and their key features, so you can easily choose a video application less time.

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1. Cisdem Video Player for Mac

If you are looking for a lightweight player which can play most video formats, then Cisdem video player is a great choice. What makes Cisdem Video Player superior is its capability to play high-quality video formats such as 4K or 1080p. It is also 100% free from any ads or spyware. The user interface is kept clean and simple making navigation quite easy.

2. VLC Media Player:

Let us start the list of best Mac video players with VLC. It is already known as the best video player for Windows and Android devices it is known for its user-friendly interface and because of its easy keyboard controls, it is very popular among the users. You can get this amazing video player for your Mac. It can also be used as a default player for DVDs or CDs. You can even choose from different skins and teams. Some of the popular playback formats are MKV, M4V, AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV.

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3. RealPlayer:

Another best video player for Mac is a real player. It is one of the best known cross-platform video player. It offers many other user-friendly features such as locking videos with a Pin. You can also create fun videos and stories from the videos in your gallery. RealPlayer is known as the best player from the time we were using featured phones.

4. Plex:

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Plex is more than a video player. Plex on your Mac can manage music TV shows photos live streaming having parental controls file sharing and many other amazing features. It is the best choice for the users who particularly want to stream videos from one device to another. It shows your videos and Music organized in a better way and you can quickly play them in just few clicks.

5. Watch This:

Watch this is an application which is mostly for those who often watch movies and TV shows. You can subscribe your favorite TV shows and get a notification whenever a new episode releases for the show subscribed by you. You may find some of the video formats not playing in this player but if you love to watch online videos then nothing will delight you more than this video player

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6. Elmedia Player:

The player is having its two versions available the free version and the pro version. Player is also having an ability to play online videos. It seamlessly plays HD videos and with this you can perform some basic edits to your videos such as noise reduction brightness and saturation control. If you love to watch video songs or love to play music on your Mac then Elmedia player gives you a 10-band equalizer.

7. 5Kplayer:

Another powerful media player focusing on playing almost all the available formats in the market is 5K player it is capable to play ultra HD 4k and 5k video content. If we talk about other abilities of this player then what you will like the most about this player is that it is capable to download videos from online video sites such as YouTube. It supports online radio stations such as BBC, heart planet rock etc. You can also use this app download Music from SoundCloud. This makes it one of the best Mac video player.

8. DivX Player:

This player delivers high quality playback for your video formats including AVI, DivX. MP4 and MKV it can be considered as the best video player to watch 4k videos. The player comes with a free 15-day trial of DivX plus converter. So, if you want to convert some of your favorite videos in a format which can run on any device then you can make use of 15 days free trial to do this.

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9. Movist:

Next in our list of best Mac video player is Movist it supports FFmpeg and subtitles. The player also allows you to do some General and Advanced settings. It is very useful for those who need to encode and decode Quicktime and FFmpeg formats. Tough in this player can play limited video formats for you and does not support apple remote but still if you are looking for a replacement for Quicktime player then it will be a better choice.

10. MPlayerX:

Another video player which is best suited to those who love to watch online videos and movies. It automatically plays the next episode of the season you were watching. It can be controlled through Apple TV remote. For better audio experience, you can pair your Mack with home theater. If we talk about supported video formats then this player is capable enough to play video of almost every format.

11. NicePlayer For Mac

One of the most amazing Mac video player apps, NicePlayer is very powerful, and yet free for all. You can play songs, movies or any other video swiftly, which settles all over the screen and any border does not budge the attention. In fact, you get to queue the videos and create own playlist smartly.

12. IINA

Hey, modern Mac users, this video player for Mac is for you. Apart from having good GUI settings and user-friendliness, IINA supports features like Force Touch, Touch bar, Picture-in-Picture, etc. to cope with modern techniques. Most importantly, this Mac video player app can be customized in dark mode, and even lets you adjust colors, icons, textures and a unified look. Cool, isn’t it?

13. QuickTime Player

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Another cool video player for Mac, it exists as a one-in-all solution to watch different video files, DVDs, and much more. In fact, you can record videos quickly over here in a low-cost manner. Gamers especially love this software to get their gameplay footage, and its ease of use is simply worthy to keep in your Mac.

14. Brosoft Player For Mac

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Play your favorite videos anytime using this video player for Mac, and enjoy additional features like bookmarking the video from a certain point, capture screenshots, get videos recorded. In case, you need tutorials, get them all here! The goodness doesn’t end here, it supports video files like Blu-Ray, 3D, MKV, MP4, etc. for utmost comfort. Plus, ISO files are directly supported without the need for any third-party app!

15. Leawo

Absolutely free of cost, Leawo is one of the best video players for Mac with a focus on Blu-ray, DVD, 4k HD player on the top. The quality of a video remains absolutely refined and provides excellent movie enjoyment experience overall. Its user-friendliness is worthy to note down along with screen capturing capacity and in-built power manager. Happy users, right?

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So, these were the best video players for Mac. We hope our list will help you figure the best for your Mac and get the best video playback for almost all formats.

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8 Facts You Never Knew About Chrome Remote Desktop Mobile | chrome remote desktop mobile

Screen apery is a action that allows you to allotment the awning of your smartphone or book with accession accessory (like a PC), and best awning apery app makes it so abundant easier. There are several affidavit why you would appetite to do this. Firstly, it can advice augment your canvas, so to speak, as smartphones and tablets accept a bound affectation absolute acreage compared to a computer. So you adeptness appetite to mirror your smartphone’s awning assimilate a computer to get added assignment done. There are alien desktop apps that advice you mirror your PC awning on an Android device. This is appropriately advantageous and helps you bureaucracy a adaptable PC applicant on your smartphone or tablet.

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Did you apperceive that all of this can be accomplished with a simple application. However, there are a ton of apps out there that accord you admission to these features, although not every app is awful rated. Keeping this in mind, we’re activity to allocution about a few of these applications to accord you a bigger abstraction of the best awning apery apps attainable for Android.

This app helps you mirror the capacity of your Windows computer on an Android smartphone or tablet. Since the app comes from Microsoft, Windows Professional and Server editions are supported. Setting it up is as attainable as downloading the Alien Desktop software on your PC and absolution it do all the adamantine work. It takes a few account to setup, but already you’re done, there are no added changes or adjustments required. The app supports multi-touch gestures on Windows acknowledgment to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and RemoteFX support.

You additionally get aerial affection audio and video affection with this app, authoritative it acceptable to beck agreeable on the go. Customers of Windows Home will charge to advancement to the Pro adaptation afore appliance the app. Lastly, the Microsoft Alien Desktop additionally supports the AzureRemote app.

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This best awning apery app alms is chargeless to download and is bare of ads and in-app purchases.

Much like Microsoft’s offering, Google additionally has one up its sleeve. Aptly called the Chrome Alien Desktop (CRD), the bureaucracy action actuality is hardly acceptable compared to Microsoft’s offering. Set up takes almost a few account and all you accept to do is download the Chrome Alien Desktop app on your computer from the Chrome Web Store. After this, back you attainable the app on your Android smartphone, there will be a account of all the computers about you with CRD running.

You can ascendancy both Windows and Mac computers here, so its functionality is hardly ample compared to the aloft Microsoft app. Customers acclaim the aerial affection video and audio affection with CRD, while some users appointment problems with connection. But the accepted accord is that CRD is an accomplished advantage for awning mirroring, abnormally if you don’t appetite to absorb a affluence on added battling apps. Chrome Alien Desktop is a chargeless download on the Play Store and is accordant with smartphones and tablets active Android 4.0 and above.

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We’re now accepting into third affair apery apps. ApowerMirror is an accomplished appliance for agreeable mirroring, and it allows you to absolutely mirror your smartphone or book awning assimilate a computer. This finer agency that in accession to arena video and audio files, you can additionally adore your amateur on a bigger screen. It supports apery of Android and iOS accessories assimilate a Windows or Mac computer, authoritative it attainable to anybody about the world. The app additionally supports keyboard ascribe back you accept your buzz awning mirrored on the computer. This agency that you can blazon your letters on apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook etc appliance your PC keyboard.

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Best Anti Adblock WordPress Plugins. The nice part about ad blockers is that you can whitelist a website that provides you with great content and great user experience. In those cases, it can be helpful to use minimalistic ad blocking notification plugins. They would encourage your readers to whitelist your website.

BlockAdblock

BlockAdBlock is a free tool that publishers can use to defend their advertisements against adblock technology. In addition to detecting a variety of adblockers, you can customize how exactly you want the adblock notice to function and look on the frontend. Link

1. Monitor BlockAd

It shows a custom message and image for Adblock users and store insights in Google Analytics as if how many page views were for Adblock users.

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2. Ad Blocker Notify Lite

Detect AdBlock and notify users. Whether you are running a personal blog or a magazine website, Ad Blocker Notify will help you block AdBlockers (eg: AdBlock Plus) and increase your ad revenue. Ad Blocker Notify is a very easy to use plugin with get around options and a lot of settings. A smart dashboard widget with counter & statistics is included! Can I stop Ad Blockerer users? NO! This plugin does not completly block AdBlock users, it only uses a passive approach, and it will always be that way. Note: Plugin originally developed by Brice CAPOBIANCO, b-website.com Plugin Capabilities Detect AdBlock (eg AdBlock Plus)Random selectors and files name to prevent AdBlock to block the pluginCustom notification message with jQuery Popup or Javascript redirectReplace blocked ads by custom message3 available options to notify your usersHelp you increase your ads income with a passive approachResponsive design friendlyEnqueue scripts & CSS files only when necessaryFully integrated in your theme designUser FriendlyMany design options & custom CSS availableSmooth admin panel for an easy and fast setupStatistics on you WordPress Dashboard with chart.jsFollow WordPress best practicesSupport for all kind of ads, included asynchronousSupport Images and shortcodesUse cookie for a better user UICross browser detectionRemove settings from database on plugin uninstallAdmin pages translatable (EN & FR are currently available)

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3. Simple Adblock Notice

Simple Adblock Notice plugin shows a popup to whitelist your website if Adblock plus browser extension blocks your advertisements. This is not an anti adblock plugin but it just notifies your website visitors to whitelist your website from adblocker extension. Adblock plus is a widely used browser extension which blocks advertisements which affects the blog revenue. Simple Adblock Notice plugin shows a popup message to whitelist your website if it detects Adblock plus extension in your browser. Note: This plugin works with Google Adsense only Upgrade to PRO version and get the following features Set your own text for the adblock noticeChange adblock notice titleDisabled simple adblock notice for particular pages if you do not have the advertisement on themYou can show a sticky notice always on the screen to annoy the viewer and make him/her whitelist your website (non-closable popup in the corner of the page)You can opt for “Strict mode” to hide your entire website until your website is whitelisted Download

4. Ad Blocking Advisor

Ad Blocking Advisor adds a simple and elegant notification bar to your website that only displays to those visitors who are using ad blocking software with their browsers. The purpose of the notification is to ask (or advise) your visitors to whitelist your website. Whitelisting means your ads are displayed, and that’s more revenue to keep you motivated to create more content! What makes Ad Blocking Advisor different is that it is not limited to just one popular ad provider. In fact, the plugin uses a JavaScript file names ads.js which is popular among ad-blocking software to block! The ads.js inserts a hidden DIV in the footer of your site – you’ll never see it! If the div does not load because it is being blocked then the plugin will display the banner asking (advising) your visitor to whitelist your site! Features: Quickly change the text that’s displayed in the notification banner. Easily change the location on your site that the banner is displayed.Easily change the background color.Easily change the font color.Easily change the font size.Allow or disallow setting a cookie.Allow or disallow visitors to dismiss the banner by showing an (X) close icon.When the visitor clicks the close (X) icon to close your banner, if cookies are allowed, then the banner will remain hidden until the cookie expires.Easily change the cookie expiration date.Anti-caching in place with ads.js so that the banner will display more reliably.Uninstalling the plugin will clean up all data it has stored in the WordPress database.

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5. DH – Anti AdBlocker

This plugin can telling visitors who use adblocker on their browser, if any visitor who installed adblocker and open the website there will be a notification to disable their adblocker. If the adblocker active the website can not be accessed, and to access the website their adblocker must be disabled and the ads on the website will return.

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6. Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads

Ad management plugin with many advanced advertising features to insert ad codes at optimal positions. Supports all kinds of ads including Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager (DFP – DoubleClick for publishers), contextual Amazon Native Shopping Ads, Media.net and rotating banners. This plugin is more than AdSense plugin or plugin for ads. It provides many advanced options to insert opt-in forms, header scripts, Javascript, CSS, HTML, PHP, analytics, tracking or advert code anywhere on the page. Insert ads where other plugins fail. Features: AdSense integrationSupport for Google Ad Manager (DoubleClick for publishers)Syntax highlighting editorCode preview with visual CSS editorAutomatically inserts ads on posts and pagesInsert before or after postInsert before or after contentInsert before or after paragraphInsert before or after random paragraphInsert before or after multiple paragraphsInsert before or after imageInsert before or after commentsInsert before or after excerptInsert near any element on the page (using CSS selectors)Insert above the header (after tag)Insert in the footer (before tag)Insert at relative positions in postsInsert between posts on blog pages (in-feed AdSense)Insert between excerpts on blog pagesInsert between commentsInsert at custom hook positions (do_action () WP function)Insert before or after any HTML element using CSS selectorsVisual HTML element selector (DOM explorer)Avoid inserting ads near images or headers (AdSense TOS)Disable ads on individual posts or pagesInsert header ( section) and footer codeInsert raw HTTP response header linesInsert Google Analytics, Matomo (Piwik) or any other tracking codeInsert images, HTML, CSS, Javascript or PHP codeCode generator for banners and placeholdersAdSense code generatorVisual advert editor – create adverts from scratchManual insertion: widgets, shortcodes, PHP function callSticky (fixed) widgets (sticky sidebar – the sidebar does not move when the page is scrolled)Custom alignments and stylesInsert different ad codes on AMP pagesCustom CSS class name for wrapping divs to avoid ad blockersUse shortcodes from other pluginsUse custom fields as defined in postsUse post title, tags or category names to create contextual advertsPHP code processingAd labels – show customized label above advertsads.txt editorAd rotation (server-side and client-side – works with caching)Timed ad rotation – define times to rotate adverts in a single ad blockCreate rich media ads with standard WordPress TinyMCE editorAd blocking detection – popup message, page redirectionDesktop/mobile device detection (server-side and client-side – works with caching)Blacklist/Whitelist categories, tags, taxonomies, post IDs, urls, url query parameters, cookies, referrers, browsers, operating systemsEasy copying and pasting ads or settings using internal clipboardSimple troubleshooting with many debugging functionsFunction to visualize inserted blocksFunction to visualize AdSense ads with ad names and IDsFunction to visualize available insertion positionsFunction to visualize HTML tagsYou name it 🙂 Download

7. Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense

Are you looking for a simple ad manager plugin? These are the top arguments to use Advanced Ads: approved in 10 years of Publishing and Ad OptimizationGoogle AdSense Partnermost features to test and optimize adsunlimited ad unitsads.txt supportdedicated Gutenberg block for adsworks with all ad types and networks (e.g. Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, or Amazon ads)the only solution with Ad Health integration and Google AdSense violation checksbest rated free support Would you like to know if there is a certain feature, what the optimized setup would be, or how to implement your client’s demands? Just open a thread in the forum! Based on my experience as a publisher with millions of monthly served ads, I’ve developed this ad management plugin for WordPress when no other solution offered testing and optimization features. It allowed us to grow to 100 MM monthly ad impressions. Benefit from this knowledge about advertising and monetize your website today! Download

8. deAdblocker

Sick of low revenues due the increased number of visitors with adblock installed? Want them to whitelist your website? deAdblocker is your ultimate choice. The plugin detects the use of adblock and automatically creates banner notification asking users to turn it off. The text in the banner can be easily adjusted, so that you may demystify the side-effects of adblock use for the visitors. While deAdblocker is super handy to keep your advertisement revenues high, it does not decrease website’s loading speed a bit. What’s more, the code of the plugin is very robust, fast and clean, and implies no caveats. On top of all that, deAdblocker can be effortlessly integrated into any WordPress website.

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9. Ad Blocking Detector

Feature: Built-in Tool Publishers can serve alternative content that appears when users have enabled an adblocker. Ad Blocking Detector will intelligently determine which to display to the user. Check Screenshots tab for examples. Use this tool to feature content such as a sign-up form for your email newsletter in the place of a blocked ad. Don’t let adblockers waste prime real estate on your site. Feature: Hook In With JavaScript and CSS Easily modify the appearance of your site with CSS or execute JavaScript code based on adblock detection results. Additional Features: Detects all major adblocking browser extensions on all major web browsers. Including AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, and Ghostery.Compatible with WordPress multisite networks. Download

10. MailOptin

Along with its refined newsletter subscription and email marketing specialties, there is also a mega valuable adblock detection integrated into the plugin. Unfortunately, more and more people are using some sort of an ad blocker to ensure them a smoother and distraction-free experience while checking news pages and reading their favorite blogs. But this can cost website owners quite some money especially if they solely rely on any sort of visual advertisement. Very likely, you are not even able to display simple lead generation forms as the software blocks them. You can now effortlessly deliver super targeted messages to your users and potential clients to increase your revenue without a single drop of sweat. This plugin stops an ad blocker from preventing it from displaying your content and helps you continuously gaining new leads. Isn’t that something you want?

11. AdvertPlaces

AdvertPlaces also has an ad blocker detection feature that helps you keep your page monetized even if they are using tools like AdBlock or similar. Make sure you are always prepared with the right software even when it comes to folks who simply cannot stand advertisements. Well, on your website, they will need to deal with it. It is the extraordinary content that they cannot avoid what will keep them around even if ads are rolling. With AdvertPlaces, you can achieve great results, getting your website to grow in traffic and revenue steadily.

12. AdBlock X

Easy to install plugin allows you to track the visitors who have activated ad block software on your website(s). Sign in to the AdBlock X Portal to see real-time data and examine ad blockers’ impact on your website. Configure how you engage these visitors with your own custom messages and track the conversions/effectiveness. Ad block detection script has been tested on most common browsers with most common ad block extensions. Key features: Track unique visitors, returning visitors and page impressions with active ad blockers Track events, such as ad blocker turn offs and reactionsInteractive portal with sorting and filtering options View daily data as a grid and as graphical charts View visitors by device type (desktop, mobile, tablet)React to visitors with ad blockers by device typeView stats for multiple websites with a single accountSelect a date range and download data in spreadsheet formatSetup rules for visitors with ad block and prompt them to whitelist your siteCustomize your message text and how it is displayed Read the full article

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      We have witnessed some big changes in the SEO world in 2018. From big algorithm updates to mobile first indexing & changes in Google search console, there is a lot to catch up on.   Search ranking and algorithm updates Speed update. Google pre-announced that they will be launching the Speed update anytime soon in January but launched it five months later in June. At first, many website owners and SEO professionals were flipping out, thinking that it will adversely affect their site ranking, but Google confirmed that this update will only affect the slowest sites. Google said it “only affect a small percentage of queries.”   Medic update. Clearly the biggest search ranking algorithm update in 2018. Google launched the Medic update around August 1 & confirmed it after the SEO community took notice and approached them to get more information.  At first Google shrug it off saying that it just another “broad core algorithm update” that they do multiple times a year, but this update was different as it specifically impacted health and YMYL categories.   Other algorithm updates. Along with the Medic update, Google also launched March core Update and April core update.   Mobile-first indexing Google started hinting that they will be going mobile first very soon....in 2016. Yeah, they were planning to go mobile first since 2016 and fully shifted to mobile first indexing in 2018. For those who are unaware of it, Google finally decided to index the internet from the view of a smartphone instead of desktop. They started sending notifications via Google Search Console to inform the site owners about this shift. Today, Google claims that almost 50% of the websites have been shifted to mobile first indexing.   Here’s a Google guide on how you can prepare for mobile first indexing.   SEO changes Structured data. Google is putting a lot of emphasis on structured data & schema.  From speakable markup for voice search related queries, a brand new indexing API for job posting schema to image search changes, various updates to recipe markup, new job posting guidelines, Q&A schema, live stream support, datasets schema, how to, QA, FAQs schema and so much more.   Other changes. Google not only introduced new schemas & API but also dropped support for the old ones like news meta tag, the standout tag and editors pick in Google news. This move was seen as an attempt to appear unbiased because all of the internet giants are facing allegation of partial treatment from a lot of publishers & users.   Google’s effort around the dynamic rendering & lazy loading content and photos is an effort you’ve seen a lot around with JavaScript SEO in 2018 & will continue through 2019.   Personalization. As we mentioned earlier, the two internet giants Facebook and Google were accused of misusing personal data in 2018. However, Google said that they do not use personalization that much and it is limited to showing relevant local results. “BUT” the duck duck go founder says otherwise. He explained in a long Quora post that how Google misuses your personal data and how privacy becomes a myth when you use any of the Google products or services.   Google Search Console and other tools Google launched a brand new search console in 2018. Just like most of their updates, they first launched the beta version of it and then removed the beta tag and fully launched it for everyone. They also provided a way to import your old search console reports and data to the new one.   Google also started showing Search Console snapshots directly in the search results for site owners. They also changed the limits and quotas on crawling and indexing within search console, removed the ability to use the public URL submission tool & provided convenience to the site owners by automatically verifying them with their Google Analytics account.   Google also tested new form of domain properties for cross site reporting, added a number of reports for event listing, AMP, links, mobile usability and more. They also launched several tools in 2018, and one of the best from the lot was URL inspection tool. This wonderful tool gives a snap shot of how Google sees your page. Pretty awesome, isn’t it?   They also heard the demand of the SEO community and finally allowed us to view 16 months of historical data. Not only that but they also expanded the API to provide us with 25,000 rows of data. Google local Google Posts. Google spent a lot of time polishing Google Posts. They tested many UI around Google Posts on both desktop and mobile searches and also updated the My Business Console to enable Google Posts on the web or through the mobile app. However, all these efforts from Google didn’t yield the type of results they were expecting since many local SEO experts said that the Google posts traffic and engagement level is on the decline. Google My Business. Google not only updated the GMB API several times in the past year but also updated the GMB mobile app to allow business owners to manage their listing on the go. They added more insights data, analytics, branded searches, more query data and also launched an agency dashboard as well.   Mobile search and voice assistants The increasing popularity of voice assistants has made many SEOs take keen interest in voice SEO. Although Google Home is considered the smartest one out there, but the competition is neck & neck since all the tech giants like Apple, Microsoft & Amazon have their own home assistants. But we can give credit to Google home for being the first home assistant that comes equipped with a display.   From an SEO perspective, we couldn’t care less about which one is the best, but rather very much interested in how we can beat the competition & secure the number one spot in voice search results. We know that featured snippets play a big role in it, and as the usage will grow, so will the SEO tactics to outrank each other.   Google UI changes Google rolled out a new design for desktop searches, discover feed & more results button for mobile and did many changes to UI.   They also increased and then decreased their snippet length, expanded the autocomplete predictions and started showing cameos of famous people in search results. AMP. Coming to AMP, Google released a developer preview of showing the publisher URLs in search and not the Google AMP cache URL. They also launched AMP stories in search & a bunch of other AMP features.   Other big Google news In other news, Google is finally closing down Google Plus after 7 years due to many security incidents.   Continuing from the last year, our client’s rankings haven’t had any major impact after rollout of these algorithm updates and continue to rise as we shift to 2019.    

  It’s more than an obvious fact that consumers are most likely going to rely on newer reviews than the older ones. Also, in comparison with older people, younger individuals greatly depend on reviews for a number of things.   What’s so surprising in this, you would ask? A new study has not only proved these facts but has also come up with some insightful metrics indicating the year after year changes.   A Local Consumer Review Survey published by BrightLocal last month, revealed that reviews are critical to the decision making process of consumers choosing goods and services from local businesses.   The below screenshot indicates a strong correlation between the trends and the age of the consumer.  

  It’s nothing of a surprise that consumers aged 18-34 grew up in the online era. While those older than them grew up taking recommendations from friends and neighbors.   However, it all comes to the same point, people still consider reviews. The only difference over the years is that they are now digitized and available online for everyone to see other than just your friends or neighbors.   Key Findings of The Study 91% of 18-34 year old people trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations 40% of consumers only take into account reviews written within the past 2 weeks – up from 18% last year More consumers require multiple reviews to trust reviews 80% of 18-34 year old people have written online reviews – compared to just 41% of consumers over 55 Older consumers are more likely to be skeptical about online reviews   In case you are looking for stats and in depth details, read the Full Report and for takeaway points, follow our Actionable Strategy based on the findings of the report.   Keep your reviews fresh if you are planning to target younger customers. Reviews that are older than 90 days become less valid, those that are less than 2 weeks old are best and those within a couple of days are ideal. Bad reviews create a negative impact on customers, you must put in all your marketing strategies to action to turn them into good reviews. The more the reviews, more will customers believe in their authenticity. Make sure your product/service has LOTS of reviews or at least more than 10 reviews. Having No reviews is almost as bad as having bad reviews.   So be open to reviews and deliver what your customers are looking for! If you’re looking for genuine reviews, we highly recommend you to check out our proprietary “Review Widget” which helps you get positive reviews on Google and Yelp. Not only that, it automatically filters out negative reviews being displayed on your website thus enabling better customer experience.

  Moz has released the 2018 local search ranking factors last month & it reveals a lot about the upcoming big changes in the SEO world. If you are looking for accurate predictions, or just want to stay updated about the current trends, we recommend reading the full report.   2018 was a good year for Local SEO since we witnessed a major boost in the rankings of the local players instead of the corporates. This just solidifies the facts that no matter your size, if your site has what it takes, then there’s no denying that you can even beat the mega corporations.   Keep in mind that this survey was conducted among the SEO professionals. They were asked to rank the main ranking factors. Here are some of the key findings.  

  Local SEO has changed drastically over the past 3 years and if you are sticking to old SEO practices, it will do more harm than good. Also, if you want your site to rank high, you will have to prefer quality-over-quantity. Be it content, backlinks, reviews or citations.   It has been observed by many SEO professionals that you can manipulate the content on the knowledge graph. It mostly works for hijacking brand queries or getting clicks that you will not get normally.    Also if your site is not receiving the kind of traffic that you were expecting that maybe you have to send signals to Google. What it means is that if Google gets the “hey this business is alive signal”, it might boost your rank a little. You can then use this to show a detailed report of your SEO efforts. But you will have to figure out which thing to prioritize. Because there’s a lot of things going on and there’s a good chance that your client will not understand the technical things.  So you may have to break it down in simpler terms.   Factors to pay attention to in 2019 An easy way to check for what Google thinks is important with internal links is to do a site search on Google, type in one of your keywords & see what comes up first. This will help you determine what Google thinks is most relevant for your keyword.  And if the result is not what you expected, fix it and do a search with the same keyword again.   If your business is new, you have to ensure that you have covered all these basics.   Order Citations Website is up and running. Page loads quickly. High quality and relevant content Add schema to the site You are using Google My Business posts You’re responding to Questions asked via knowledge graph listing   If your business is around for a while, it is going to take a lot more efforts. You can start by checking the source of the traffic, if you are paying for it, then is it converting? Are your blogs up to date. Are you regularly uploading high quality content?  These are only a few of the questions that you should ask yourself about your website. Be informed that GMB categories are a major ranking factor. Therefore it is often manipulated BUT GMB related spam can be reported on Google Maps or escalated to Google via their various support channels. So if you see anyone misusing it, you should report it.   The conclusion of the survey is hard to sum up but if you will pay attention to the details, you will be able to crack the secret ingredient to a successful local SEO strategy. Although, you will have to do a lot of research to revise your current plans without hurting the existing campaigns.  

  Google is slowly moving features and data from the old Search Console to the new one. However, not all are happy with the way data is presented within the new search console because many reports are missing from it. Although Google has promised that all the data will be available in the new version as well. Google announced via a tweet that reporting features for AMP, Index Status, Links, Manual actions, Mobile Mobile Usability, Rich Cards, and Search Analytics have been successfully moved to the new Search Console.  

  Here’s a table that shows which reports have been moved where and what are they called.  

  Takeaway:  Google search console is one of the most powerful marketing tools out there. It provides you with invaluable data, so if you are not using it, then we highly recommend reading this guide on how to get your website on search console and start utilizing this powerful tool to the fullest.   And if you are already using the new Search Console, the above table will help you locate old reports. Maybe it will be bit difficult to get used to the new Search Console, after using the old one for years, but as we all know, the only thing constant in digital world is change. So get used to the new interface and use it to your advantage.  

It’s no secret that customer reviews are important to ALL businesses. People vale customer reviewers as much as personal recommendations. However, old reviews may not be as important as the new ones as reported in our earlier article. The freshness of the review matters a lot.   So it came as no surprise when Yelp decided to update their automated recommendation software to show only fresh reviews. The software moved the older reviews to not recommended category, hence taking it away from the public eye. As a result, many business owners were shocked to see a sudden plummet in their business’s ratings.   We tried to gather as much information as possible about the update, and here are our findings:   Everyone was impacted by this update since it was a cross-platform update. Not all 5 star reviews were filtered, it just moved the older ones to the “Not Recommended” category. It doesn't matter if you advertised on Yelp or not or if you were Yelp Elite, everyone was similarly affected. Reviews that were on the platform for several years were filtered.   For a little clarification watch this short video where Yelp explains why some reviews are filtered and some aren’t.

  Takeaway: You can’t do anything about the filtered reviews. They are gone forever so you should start focusing on getting new reviews instead of getting upset over the older ones.   If Yelp played an important role in your overall marketing efforts, then you should start focusing on getting new reviews from your satisfied customers. You will have to come up with creative yet simple ways to generate new reviews, like adding the link to your business’s Yelp profile into the receipt email or on the checkout page.   Furthermore, you can also allow users to “check in” when they are in your location. Adding Yelp Review Widget on your site is also one underrated way to get more reviews. You can also embed some of the best reviews on your site to  not only generate trust but also to prompt customers to check your business profile on Yelp. And last but not the least, keep your Yelp profile updated.   Finally, we highly recommend you to check out our proprietary “Review Widget” which helps you get positive reviews on Yelp. Not only that, it automatically filters out negative reviews being displayed on your website thus enabling positive customer experience.  

  You may have witnessed a sudden drop in the number of subscribers on YouTube. It is because YouTube is actively removing spam subscriptions from their platform.   Google said that they regularly check the authenticity of the accounts on YouTube and remove the accounts that looks suspicious. It means that they not only deactivate the spam accounts but also remove their subscription from every channel they are subscribed to.   The most recent cleansing drive was performed on December 13th.  So if you noticed a drop in the number of subscribers, this might be the reason why.   Upon contacting, they said -   “Removing spam from the platform helps ensure that YouTube remains a fair playing field for everyone and should result in higher confidence that you’re organically building a community of authentic fans”.   However, Google is not keeping the channels in dark. They are showing a banner on YouTube studio & Classic Creator Studio which informs the affected channel about the removal of spam subscribers.   However, Google is not keeping the channels in dark. They are showing a banner on YouTube studio & Classic Creator Studio which informs the affected channel about the removal of spam subscribers.   You maybe wondering that how Google decides that which account is spam. Here’s their answer:   “We use a mix of industry leading techniques and proprietary technology to identify spam on the platform. Often, these types of actions are meant to make channels look more popular than they actually are”.   Google explained that it will not affect the watch time since they were spam and wouldn't have watched the videos in the first place. So you will only loose numbers of subscribers and not the number of actual viewers.   Your biggest concern would be falling below the 1000 subscription threshold required to qualify for the YouTube Partner Program because that’s the only way most of the YouTubers get paid. Addressing this concern, Google stated that:   “Channels that had a high percentage of spam and fall below 1,000 subscribers will no longer meet the minimum requirement for YPP and will be removed from the program. They are encouraged to reapply once they’ve rebuilt their subscribers organically. You can learn about how to apply for YPP here.”   Takeaway If your subscriber count fell below the YPP 1000 minimum, then there’s nothing you can do to gain those back. You should focus on getting new subscribers instead. And to avoid this type of sudden shock in future, make sure that they are not spam from your end. If you need more information, we recommend reading this article by Google.   Read the full article

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That doesn’t mean that web page optimisation isn’t important anymore. You still have to optimise websites for search engines.

It’s the definition of SEO that has evolved over the years.

New technologies, such as social media and mobile, have changed the game.

SEO is still very much alive.

We’re going to explain why you need SEO and how you can adapt to the new SEO world.

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We all know the basics of SEO.

It’s a bunch of techniques, tools, and strategies that you use to earn high rankings in search engines.

That’s the simple version.

SEO is the key driver for two things:

Rankings

Visibility

They’re related concepts, but they’re not the same thing.Rankings are what most people jump to when they think of SEO.

It relates to where your website ranks in search engine results for the keywords you target.

Visibility is a much more complex subject.It’s how prominent you are in the search engine results pages (SERPS). This takes your rankings into account.

However, it also includes things like local search results, PPC ads, and if your products pop up on Google Shopping.

It also covers how visible you are across multiple platforms and devices. Visibility takes social, voice and mobile search into account too.

Combined, they drive traffic and conversions.

The Value of SEO

Does SEO provide a good ROI?

As a marketer, you’ve probably heard that question a dozen times.

You’re surrounded by people who may not understand how digital marketing works and want you to validate your efforts.

They’re relying on you to explain it to them.

Here are some useful stats that break it down:

Figure 1 - https://searchengineland.com/report-google-beats-amazon-product-search-reach-rival-sees-greater-loyalty-282570

Here’s the big one.Search can provide up to $20 of revenue for every $1 that you spend:

Figure 2 - https://neilpatel.com/blog/comparing-the-roi-of-content-marketing-and-paid-advertising/

That’s an enormous return on investment that highlights the power of great SEO.

Unfortunately, it’s not enough to optimise towards desktop users anymore. And for that, you’ll need to focus on some new areas:

Mobile Search

Voice Search

Social Search

Ready to optimise your website for search engines? Consider these areas.

Mobile Search

Mobile is the big thing in the current search environment.In the United States, over 70% of internet usage occurs on mobile devices.

And over 57% of your search traffic comes from mobile devices.

Figure 3 - https://searchengineland.com/report-57-percent-traffic-now-smartphones-tablets-281150

If you’re not optimising for mobile, you’re missing out.

That’s because Google also takes the quality of the mobile experience you deliver into account.

In fact, mobile searches deliver different results to desktop searches in about 80% of cases.

You need to optimise towards mobile search.

Here are a couple of mobile website optimisation tips to get you started:

Tip #1 – Use AMP Mark-up

Since 2016, Google has given priority to websites that use AMP mark-up. AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages and it allows you to provide a better experience for mobile users.

Figure 4 - https://ampbench.appspot.com/

This means you achieve higher rankings. In some cases, a site that uses AMP mark-up can rank above ads on mobile platforms.It’s also a great tool for increasing ROI.

Using the AMP carousel, you can maximise the visibility of your search results.

Here’s how it works.

With the carousel implemented, your search result doesn’t just include one piece of content. Instead, it includes a carousel of pieces that relate to the piece that the user discovered.

You can pack multiple pieces of content into a single search result.

Best of all, the carousel updates whenever you post new pieces that relate to the topic or keyword the user searches for.

Use AMP for web page optimisation on mobile.

Then, use the carousel to maximise your ROI from your search results.

Tip #2 – Get Responsive

Keeping track of a desktop and mobile website is a pain.

That’s where responsive design comes in.

Responsive HTML allows your webpages to adapt to the size of the user’s screen.

If they find your website on desktop, the page balloons up. If they find it on mobile, it shrinks down to fit the screen.Google favours responsive design. Plus, it gets results.

Take Blast Advanced Media as an example. They implemented responsive design for their website and achieved a 188% revenue increase for Black Friday.

Responsive design allows you to customise the website experience to the user. This means you optimise websites for search engines for both desktop and mobile devices.

Tip #3 – Get Rid of Adobe Flash Content

This is a simple one.Google doesn’t allow the use of Adobe Flash as part of its AMP project. If your website uses it, you can’t use AMP Mark-up.And that means your site won’t rank as well as it should in mobile search results.

Plus, you won’t be able to take advantage of the carousel mentioned above.

Adobe Flash also slows down the user’s device and has several vulnerabilities.

Simply put, search engines don’t like Flash. And mobile search engines hate it. Stop using it.

Voice Search

Most modern mobile devices incorporate voice search.Apple’s Siri is a great example.

And Google already receives over 20% of its queries from voice search.

Many modern laptops have voice search built in. And we now have devices like the Amazon Echo that process results based on voice commands.

It’s not a fad. Voice search is here to stay and your website has to account for it.

Figure 5 - https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/03/14/google-voice-search

It also transforms how you do web page optimisation.

Voice searches differ from desktop search in a few major categories:

It uses longer search terms that contain more conversational language.

Users expect an immediate result, rather than having to search through ranked results.

Voice search favours local results.

Now you need to know some website optimisation tips that take these issues into account.The following actions help:

Tip #1 – Optimise Your Business Listing

Once you’ve claimed your business listing, you need to optimise it.

Start by filling out all of the information that Google wants.

You want accurate opening hours and descriptions.

When people use voice search to find a local business, you want to provide them with accurate information.

Make sure your phone number includes your area code. Google uses this information to provide accurate results for the increasing number of “near me” queries.

From there, take advantage of the tools in your Google My Business (GMB) dashboard.

Add posts so that useful information comes up whenever someone sees your business in search rankings. Answer the questions that people post and include attractive images that catch the eye.

Finally, check back often. Others can edit your business information, often without you receiving any notification.

Check your listing weekly to make sure it’s still accurate.

Tip #2 – Understand Your Audience

We’ve established that voice searchers use longer queries.

And they want direct answers, rather than a list of websites that might answer the question.

This technique is a simple one: create content based on the questions that people ask.

A company called River Pools and Spas demonstrates a great example of this.

They checked their data and found that a lot of voice search users asked the question “how much does a fibreglass pool cost?”

One blog post later and the company pulled in over $2 million in sales.

Use the same tactic.

Figure out the questions that people ask and provide direct answers to them.

A tool like Answer The Public helps with this. Enter a search term and you’ll get a bunch of questions based on that term:

These are all questions that voice searchers may ask.

There are plenty of other ways to find out what people want to know. Check industry-relevant forums to see what people ask others. Examine your competitors to see what they’re writing about. Use social media groups to get a sense of the hot-button issues in your industry.

You can even pick up on what people are asking your sales teams.

You’ll build a list of questions that people are already asking. That allows you to gear content around them so that you can rank for the voice queries that people make.

Social Search

There’s a change afoot in social media.Until now, you used it to create brand awareness and interact with customers.You may have even used Facebook ads.

They’re effective too, as Barbell Apparel found out when they used them for their Kickstarter campaign. They ended up attracting $735,000 on a $15,000 goal using Facebook ads.

Figure 6 - https://wisemerchant.com/surpass-kickstarter-campaign-goal/

Most people don’t figure social media and SEO to fall into the same category. SEO is all about web page optimisation whereas social media is all about engagement.

That’s not the case anymore.

Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, have shifted into the search domain. All of them have created tools to make it easier for users to search for content.

Instagram is a great example.

The platform offers regular suggestions packed full of influencers you could follow.

However, these platforms also work differently to traditional search. Website optimisation tips aren’t going to help you with social search.

These platforms provide results based on different metrics to search engines.

They’ll look at metrics such as the content and posts that the user likes. Or, they’ll check the accounts that they follow. They may even pick up on locational data to make content recommendations.

It’s an entirely new game.

It’s search without the user having to actively search.Social media platforms have also started to change the ways that they display content to users.

Take Facebook as an example.

Traditionally, somebody would click through to your website when you post an article on Facebook. Now, Facebook sometimes uses its Instant Articles tool to display the article directly on the platform.

This raises an interesting conundrum. It decentralises your content, so you have to worry about more than web page optimisation.You also have to optimise content for display on these social media channels.

It’s SEO that doesn’t necessarily take your website into account.

Unfortunately, there’s not a ton that you can do to optimise social media search results. They’re based on user actions, rather than active searches.

The best that you can do is optimise your social content towards specific groups, interests, and locations. Think about how social media platforms look at somebody’s activity.

All of those likes, shares and follows link into specific brands and interests.

Your content and social media search strategy has to take that into account.

Final Word

What is SEO?

In the modern age, it’s so much more than web page optimisation.

Optimising for search engines is, and always will be, important.

Emerging technologies and changing consumer habits mean you have to adapt and evolve.

This article provides some advice on how to do that for some emerging SEO fields. It helps you to account for the rising popularity of mobile, voice, and social search.

Focusing on these platforms ensures you maximise your search strategy. You reach more people through a larger variety of channels.

Finally, you reach people on the channels that have become more popular than desktop search.

However, there’s so much more to learn.

Got Questions?

Pushing traffic towards a website is an extremely important part of any SEO strategy. But it’s the quality of that traffic that’s the true deciding factor.

Even poor SEO can boost the traffic numbers. But it won’t provide a business with the quality that it needs to generate a return.

With all of this evidence, along with the many statistics shared in this article, you can now see just how vital SEO is for the modern business. You can also see how it’s evolved into something completely different to what it was before.

But you might have questions? Or you might be wondering if SEO is the right choice for your business? If so, just go here to have a friendly no-obligation chat with one of our gurus.

We’ll ask you a few questions and tell you honestly if SEO makes sense for your situation. And if it doesn’t we’ll tell you that, too!

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Facebook’s new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal

Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation, and safety. The goal? To find out what other competing apps and features Facebook should buy, copy, or ignore.

Today Facebook releases its “Study From Facebook” app for Android only. Some adults 18+ in the US and India will be recruited by ads on and off Facebook to willingly sign up to let Facebook collect extra data from them exchange for a monthly payment. They’ll be warned that Facebook will gather what apps are on their phone, how much time they spend using those apps, the app activity names of features they use in other apps, plus their country, device, and network type.

Facebook promises it won’t snoop on user IDs, passwords, or any of participants’ content including photos, videos, or messages. It won’t sell participants info to third parties, use it target ads, or add it to their account or the behavior profiles the company keeps on each user. Yet while Facebook writes that “transparency” is a major part of “Approaching market research in a responsible way”, it refuses to tell us how much participants will be paid.

“Study From Facebook” could give the company critical insights for shaping its product roadmap. If it learns everyone is using screensharing social network Squad, maybe it will add its own screensharing feature. If it finds group video chat app Houseparty is on the decline, it might not worry about cloning that functionality. Or if it finds Snapchat’s Discover mobile TV shows are retaining users for a ton of time, it might amp up teen marketing of Facebook Watch.

The launch shows Facebook’s boldness despite the threat of anti-trust regulation focusing on how it’s supressed competition through its acquisitions and copying. Democrat presidential candidates could use Study From Facebook as a talking point, noting how the company’s huge profits earned from its social network domination afford it a way to buy private user data to entrench its lead.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

How Study From Facebook Works

Unlike Onavo or Facebook Research, users can’t freely sign up for Study. They have to be recruited through ads Facebook will show on its own app and others to both 18+ Facebook users and non-users in the US and India. That should keep out grifters and make sure the studies stay representative of Facebook’s user base. Eventually Facebook plans to extend the program to other countries.

If users click through the ad, they’ll be brought to Facebook’s research operations partner Applause’s website that clearly identifies Facebook’s involvement, unlike Facebook Research that hid that fact until users were fully registered.. There they’ll be explained how the Study app is opt-in, what data they’ll give up in exchange for what compensation, and that they can opt-out at any time. They’ll need to confirm their age, have a PayPal account that are only supposed to be available to users 18 and over, and Facebook will cross-check the age to make sure it matches the person’s Facebook profile if they have one. They won’t have to sign and NDA like with the Facebook Research program.

Anyone can download the Study From Facebook app from Google Play, but only those who’ve been approved through Applause will be able to log in and unlock the app. It will again explain what Facebook will collect, and ask for data permissions. The app will send periodic notifications to users reminding them they’re selling their data to Facebook and offering them an opt-out. Study From Facebook will use standard Google-approved APIs and won’t use a VPN, SSL bumping, root access, enterprise certificates, or permission profiles you install on your device like the Research Program that ruffled feathers.

At 15 years old, Facebook is at risk of losing touch with what the next generation wants out of their phones. Rather than trying to guess based on their activity on its own app, it’s putting its huge wallet to work so it can pay for edge on the competition.

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10 Excellent Google Analytics Alternatives You Should Check Out (2019)

Construct a ask to any on-line web page positioning professional to level out an analytics instrument and likelihood is their scoot-to decision is google’s. Many aren’t even attentive to google Analytics picks.

It makes pretty a lot of sense. SEOs obtain their success by google SERP rankings, so why now not scoot with the correct instrument?

Nonetheless, there are appropriate causes to assume once more. The primary is privateness. google Analytics is gathering pretty a lot of recordsdata about your clients. If that’s now not one thing you agree with, then going with a competitor who’s extra acutely aware of this topic makes pretty a lot of sense.

Alternatively, that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps effectively need to hint recordsdata that the favored analytics suite upright doesn’t present. Or, that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps effectively accumulate the consumer interface overwhelming and are looking for one thing much less superior.

Any of those are appropriate causes to stare for picks to google Analytics and inside the subsequent, you’re going to accumulate an entire bunch of them. Let’s achieve began.

1. Kissmetrics

First up is Kissmetrics. This decision makes a speciality of clients reasonably than mere on-line web page views. It allows you to study extra about who they’re and what they attain on your put of residing. Kissmetrics allows you to hint their actions, actions, and the design they navigate your pages.

Why Kissmetrics?

With this google Analytics different, that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps perhaps survey the consumer scramble on your put of residing. It even allows you to establish clients, which makes conversions loads extra easy.

As successfully as, Kissmetrics allows you to buy what recordsdata points most to you. By default, google Analytics chooses the metrics you survey by itself. With its competitor, you resolve what’s essential to you and achieve entry to it by job of a beneficiant interface.

The offering is rounded off by further aspects like break up assessments and recordsdata segmentation. Kissmetrics additionally integrates together with your product sales and e mail cAMPaigns, permitting you to optimize your put of residing for earnings. The painless integration job is yet another plus.

Verdict

Kissmetrics is nice for firms who need to transcend vanity metrics and notice their consumer inaccurate bigger on an specific specific individual stage. Nonetheless, there’ll not be this sort of factor as a pricing recordsdata readily accessible, so it’s laborious to verbalize what financial have an effect on this might perhaps effectively have.

2. Woopra

This analytics instrument is similar to our first contender in that it additionally makes a speciality of monitoring the consumer scramble and actions in genuine-time. By doing so, it allows you to make a behavioral profile of your clients.

Why Woopra?

Woopra follows your viewers from the second they land on your web pages to the time they go away. Not like google Analytics, it shows and experiences excellent genuine-time buyer actions reasonably than the make the most of of a sAMPling window. It may presumably perhaps perhaps moreover attain so throughout a great deal of models, browsers, and dealing programs.

With the recordsdata the instrument presents, that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps perhaps establish boundaries inside the consumer scramble and assume steps to realize rid of them. Woopra helps you attain so with recordsdata segmentation, experiences for traits, cohorts, and retention as well to behavioral segmentation.

It additionally presents collaboration aspects, reside chat, CRM efficiency, integrates with third-party instrument and heaps extra.

Verdict

Businesses wanting upright and reside consumer monitoring instruments are bigger off with Woopra. Have in mind, alternatively, that that could be a extremely specialised instrument made for mission wants.

This fact might be mirrored inside the worth level. It’s free for 500,000 actions, 90-day recordsdata retention, and core analytics aspects. After that, the associated fee is $999/month, so now not a decision for little commerce.

3. GoSquared

This subsequent instrument presents insights into your buyer and buyer habits for each web pages and cell functions. That that you simply simply should to presumably put it to use to compose leads, map merchandise, and toughen your put of residing. There will be a wordpress plugin for uncomplicated integration.

Why GoSquared?

GoSquared does now not excellent present internet analytics however are additionally residing chat and a buyer recordsdata hub. Nonetheless, excellent probably the most useful two are readily accessible at no cost as a lot as a diploma.

This google Analytics different allows you to survey how clients work together with your put of residing in genuine-time, utilization traits, and e-commerce analytics. That that you simply simply should to presumably moreover customise your GoSquard legend to snarl you what points most to you. Furthermore, its personalization function helps you analyze and tweak your funnels on a per-customer basis.

Lastly, the analytics suite is totally GDPR compliant and made for privateness. In circumstances of elevated buyer sensitivity in opposition to these points, that’s an useful function.

Verdict

GoSquared is particularly big for turning a whole lot of recordsdata into insightful and uncomplicated recordsdata. Their analytics are free as a lot as 1,000 month-to-month on-line web page views, after that plans supply at £29/month, about $37.

4. LeadFeeder

Leadfeeder is a hybrid instrument that integrates your product sales recordsdata together with your internet analytics to current extra detailed lead recordsdata. The instrument is good-looking distinctive because it’s miles not so exceptional an alternative choice to google Analytics however an enhancement. To make make the most of of LeadFeeder, or not it’s essential to first join it with the google provider.

Why LeadFeeder?

LeadFeeder’s product sales integration function makes it stand out. It actually shows which firms are visiting your put of residing, the pages they give the impression of being, the put they’re coming from and pointers on tips on how to contact them.

The instrument additionally integrates with many CRM instruments, so that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps perhaps assume motion right away. This recordsdata is particularly estimable for B2B firms trying to find to toughen the connection between their product sales and on-line web page on-line guests.

Verdict

Briefly, at the same time as you are looking for google Analytics picks for B2B functions, LeadFeeder is your reply. That that you simply simply should to presumably put it to use at no cost to move attempting the ultimate seven days of put of residing train and a most of 100 leads. For extra, pricing begins at 53€/month (ca. $60)

5. Clicky

Clicky is a lightweight however extremely environment friendly internet analytics instrument for monitoring your internet put of residing on-line web page on-line guests and consumer habits. It presents each on-line web page on-line guests recordsdata and growth materials analysis and has a wordpress plugin that makes setup extra easy.

Why Clicky?

The title of this instrument comes from the precise undeniable fact that it presents warmth maps that indicate that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps perhaps visualize your consumer’s mouse train. The monitoring recordsdata occurs in genuine-time and is captured proper right down to the ultimate minute.

The decision additionally presents an exact approach to establish and personalize your buyer recordsdata for bigger notion. That design, what specific specific individual clients attain on your put of residing.

Clicky is flexible and allows you to make a desire on the recordsdata that you simply simply in precise reality need to hint. The consumer interface is orderly and uncomplicated, although it may presumably perhaps perhaps make the most of a assemble change. It additionally complies with GDPR ideas.

The instrument is free to make make the most of of for customary analytics however to make make the most of of heat maps, break up testing, function monitoring, uptime monitoring and extra, you’re going to want to realize the best worth mannequin.

Verdict

To sum up, Clicky is comely for purchasers who want an easy system to hint their buyer habits. Its lightweight nature additionally approach your put of residing stride stays intact. The instrument is free as a lot as three,000 day-to-day on-line web page views, after that, it’s starting at $9.99/month (or $79.99/12 months).

6. Countly

Countly is a accumulate, strong internet analytics instrument for monitoring and determining consumer journeys and interaction on web pages, cell functions, and instrument. It comes each as a self-hosted and mission cloud mannequin.

Why Countly?

The free mannequin of Countly provides you customary analytics, customized occasion monitoring, the potential to ship push notifications and extra.

Inside the paid mannequin you achieve consumer profiles, incredible segmentation, customized dashboards as well to occasion and look flows. Countly may perhaps moreover infer your buyer lifetime worth in verbalize to toughen your promoting and advertising funnels. As successfully as, it provides many integrations to extra toughen its aspects.

Verdict

This instrument is a extremely environment friendly decision that provides various recordsdata and event-purchase functionalities. It’s direct of the work and lets what’s occurring with out sifting by strategy of heaps of recordsdata. Prices for the cloud mannequin are excellent readily accessible on contact.

7. Start Internet Analytics

Right here we have an delivery-source decision for monitoring buyer visits, habits, and occasions on web pages. The instrument helps wordpress and is self-hosted. That approach, in verbalize to make make the most of of it, or not it’s essential to put in OWA on your put of residing first.

Why Start Internet Analytics?

Start Internet Analytics is one in all probably the most celebrated google Analytics picks. It’s wholly delivery-source and developed by a neighborhood of entrepreneurs and instrument engineers. In consequence, upright like wordpress, you don’t must pay to make make the most of of it.

The instrument additionally presents comely monitoring abilities together with.

Cursor train by job of heat maps

Click on streams

Pageviews

E-commerce transactions

Conversions

Assign referral

Negate materials experiences

Buyer experiences

Feed requests, subscriptions and readers

Customized-made put of residing actions you created

Yow will uncover extra aspects on the Github on-line web page. Start Internet Analytics might be lightweight so it obtained’t hog your internet put of residing’s sources or have an effect on the consumer abilities. Fancy different candidates, it may presumably perhaps perhaps attain with a assemble change.

Verdict

For SMEs who want a free monitoring decision with out the privateness issues of google Analytics, that’s perhaps the precise wager. As successfully as to offering wealthy recordsdata for analysis, it additionally allows you to make a desire and optimize them at will. You upright want the technical abilities to house it up.

8. Matomo

Previously is called Piwik, this analytics instrument allows you to hint clients, occasions, clicks, and interactions on your internet put of residing or cell utility by job of API. It’s readily accessible as a downloadable, delivery-source mannequin as well to a paid cloud decision. There’s a wordpress plugin that helps you join it to your put of residing.

Why Matomo?

Matomo is ideally worthwhile for on-line web page on-line house owners looking for a visible abilities. It makes use of real recordsdata, now not recordsdata per extrapolation or similar, and shows it fantastically.

Matomo has a formidable focus on recordsdata privateness. You protect whole possession of your recordsdata and the instrument is GDPR compliant.

Excluding that, the customizable interface can snarl you experiences on your mates as well to efficiency in serps like google and yahoo and key phrases.

The cloud mannequin of Matomo aspects warmth maps and connects to third-party reporting and analytics instruments. It additionally comes with A/B testing, monitoring, and lead funnel optimization.

In case you occur to need to have any of those aspects for the self-hosted mannequin, that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps perhaps guide them by job of {the marketplace}.

Verdict

Matomo is able to absolutely change google Analytics as a privateness-fantastic different. However, you’ll identical to the technical abilities to put in force it except going for Matomo Cloud. It’s free for customary aspects, legit aspects supply at 19€/12 months, cloud begins at 19€/month (that’s about $22).

9. AMPlitude Analytics

AMPlitude allows you to hint, analyze and plot insights from consumer recordsdata, occasions, and actions on your internet put of residing or product utility. The is an project-stage instrument and is extinct by high firms like paypal, Microsoft, and Twitter.

Why AMPlitude?

AMPlitude presents recordsdata on the overall buyer scramble inside your internet put of residing in genuine-time. The instrument syncs your recordsdata from various models whereas determining and categorizing consumer habits intelligently. It additionally presents a wealthy, intuitive dashboard that shows in-depth insights gleaned from buyer recordsdata.

Verdict

AMPlitude is one in all probably the most viable google Analytics picks. The instrument captures big datasets, however not like google’s decision, it manages to condense them into insightful and related recordsdata. It’s free for customary aspects and or not it’s essential to realize involved for legit plans.

10. StatCounter

Here is a lightweight analytics instrument that lets little web pages and apps observe their consumer recordsdata.

Why StatCounter?

The google Analytics competitor comes with the an identical outdated stuff like pageviews, classes, mates, and so forth. It additionally presents google key phrase recordsdata and specific specific individual buyer monitoring.

StatCounter is comely at detecting fraudulent clicks and robotic visits. That design, you don’t stop up with a bunch of ineffective recordsdata. It’s going to attain the an identical on your adverts.

As successfully as, the instrument is very lightweight and will perhaps have minimal have an effect on on your put of residing’s sources. Its dashboard makes recordsdata straightforward to heed and the tools is rounded off by lead abilities aspects.

Verdict

Restricted web pages and e-commerce shops taking a look to toughen their leads must think about into legend this instrument. It manages to effectively curate and assemble excellent the primary recordsdata that you simply simply’ll must map commerce selections. StatCounter is free as a lot as 500 logs, after that it’s starting at 7€/month ($8), much less at the same time as you pay yearly or quarterly.

Wrapping Up: google Analytics Selections

Absolute confidence, google Analytics is a behemoth inside the on-line optimization and growth materials promoting and advertising house. Nonetheless, there are collected appropriate causes to move attempting for picks. These encompass recordsdata privateness, visualization options or achieve entry to to recordsdata google doesn’t present.

Above, we have offered you to a wholesome different of various options. Optimistically, by now, you in precise reality really feel assured in attempting out one or two of them. Whichever risk you buy, we hope it has a positive have an effect on on your put of residing and commerce.

What’s your celebrated google Analytics different? The comfort so as to add to the guidelines? Allow us to know inside the suggestions fragment beneath.

Cleave Schäferhoff

Cleave Schäferhoff is an entrepreneur, on-line marketer, and legit blogger from Germany. He discovered wordpress when he wished a web based put of residing for his first commerce and instantly fall in love. When now not setting up web pages, creating growth materials or serving to his purchasers toughen their on-line commerce, he can most basically be discovered on the gymnasium, the dojo or touring the world together with his companion. In case you occur to need to want to realize involved with him, that you simply simply should to presumably perhaps perhaps attain so by job of Twitter or by strategy of his internet put of residing.

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Facebook’s new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal

Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation, and safety. The goal? To find out what other competing apps and features Facebook should buy, copy, or ignore.

Today Facebook releases its “Study From Facebook” app for Android only. Some adults 18+ in the US and India will be recruited by ads on and off Facebook to willingly sign up to let Facebook collect extra data from them exchange for a monthly payment. They’ll be warned that Facebook will gather what apps are on their phone, how much time they spend using those apps, the app activity names of features they use in other apps, plus their country, device, and network type.

Facebook promises it won’t snoop on user IDs, passwords, or any of participants’ content including photos, videos, or messages. It won’t sell participants info to third parties, use it target ads, or add it to their account or the behavior profiles the company keeps on each user. Yet while Facebook writes that “transparency” is a major part of “Approaching market research in a responsible way”, it refuses to tell us how much participants will be paid.

“Study From Facebook” could give the company critical insights for shaping its product roadmap. If it learns everyone is using screensharing social network Squad, maybe it will add its own screensharing feature. If it finds group video chat app Houseparty is on the decline, it might not worry about cloning that functionality. Or if it finds Snapchat’s Discover mobile TV shows are retaining users for a ton of time, it might amp up teen marketing of Facebook Watch. But it also might rile up regulators and politicians who already see it as beating back competition through acquisitions and feature cloning.

An Attempt To Be Less Creepy

TechCrunch’s investigation from January revealed that Facebook had been quietly operating a Research program codenamed Atlas that paid users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month in gift cards in exchange for root access to their phone so it could gather all their data for competitive analysis. That included everything the Study app grabs, but also their web browsing activity, and even encrypted information since the app required users to install a VPN that routed all their data through Facebook. It even had the means to collect private messages and content shared — potentially including data owned by their friends.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

Facebook’s Research app also abused Apple’s enterprise certificate program designed for distributing internal use-only apps to employees without the App Store or Apple’s approval. Facebook originally claimed it obeyed Apple’s rules, but Apple quickly disabled Facebook’s Research app and also shut down its enterprise certificate, temporarily breaking Facebook’s internal test builds of its public apps as well as the shuttle times and lunch menu apps employees rely on.

In the aftermath of our investigation, Facebook shut down its Research program. It then also announced in February that it would shut down its Onavo Protect app on Android, which branded itself as a privacy app providing a free VPN instead of paying users while it collected tons of data on them. After giving users until May 9th to find a replacement VPN, Onavo Protect was killed off.

This embarrassing string of events that stemmed from unprincipled user research. Now Facebook is trying to correct its course and revive its paid data collection program but with more scruples.

How Study From Facebook Works

Unlike Onavo or Facebook Research, users can’t freely sign up for Study. They have to be recruited through ads Facebook will show on its own app and others to both 18+ Facebook users and non-users in the US and India. That should keep out grifters and make sure the studies stay representative of Facebook’s user base. Eventually Facebook plans to extend the program to other countries.

If users click through the ad, they’ll be brought to Facebook’s research operations partner Applause’s website that clearly identifies Facebook’s involvement, unlike Facebook Research that hid that fact until users were fully registered.. There they’ll be explained how the Study app is opt-in, what data they’ll give up in exchange for what compensation, and that they can opt-out at any time. They’ll need to confirm their age, have a PayPal account that are only supposed to be available to users 18 and over, and Facebook will cross-check the age to make sure it matches the person’s Facebook profile if they have one. They won’t have to sign and NDA like with the Facebook Research program.

Anyone can download the Study From Facebook app from Google Play, but only those who’ve been approved through Applause will be able to log in and unlock the app. It will again explain what Facebook will collect, and ask for data permissions. The app will send periodic notifications to users reminding them they’re selling their data to Facebook and offering them an opt-out. Study From Facebook will use standard Google-approved APIs and won’t use a VPN, SSL bumping, root access, enterprise certificates, or permission profiles you install on your device like the Research Program that ruffled feathers.

Different users will be paid the same amount to their PayPal account, but Facebook wouldn’t say how much it’s dealing out, or even whether it was in the ball park of cents, dollars, or hundreds of dollars per month. That seems like a stern departure from its stated principle of transparency. This matters because Facebook earns billions in profit per quarter. It has the cash to potentially offer so much to Study participants that it effectively coerces them to give up their data. $10 to $20 per month like it was paying Research participants seems reasonable in the US, but that’s enough money in India to make people act against their better judgement.

The launch shows Facebook’s boldness despite the threat of anti-trust regulation focusing on how it’s surpressed competition through its acquisitions and copying. Democrat presidential candidates could use Study From Facebook as a talking point, noting how the company’s huge profits earned from its social network domination afford it a way to buy private user data to entrench its lead.

At 15 years old, Facebook is at risk of losing touch with what the next generation wants out of their phones. Rather than trying to guess based on their activity on its own app, it’s putting its huge wallet to work so it can pay for edge on the competition.

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Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation, and safety. The goal? To find out what other competing apps and features Facebook should buy, copy, or ignore.

Today Facebook releases its “Study From Facebook” app for Android only. Some adults 18+ in the US and India will be recruited by ads on and off Facebook to willingly sign up to let Facebook collect extra data from them exchange for a monthly payment. They’ll be warned that Facebook will gather what apps are on their phone, how much time they spend using those apps, the app activity names of features they use in other apps, plus their country, device, and network type.

Facebook promises it won’t snoop on user IDs, passwords, or any of participants’ content including photos, videos, or messages. It won’t sell participants info to third parties, use it target ads, or add it to their account or the behavior profiles the company keeps on each user. Yet while Facebook writes that “transparency” is a major part of “Approaching market research in a responsible way”, it refuses to tell us how much participants will be paid.

“Study From Facebook” could give the company critical insights for shaping its product roadmap. If it learns everyone is using screensharing social network Squad, maybe it will add its own screensharing feature. If it finds group video chat app Houseparty is on the decline, it might not worry about cloning that functionality. Or if it finds Snapchat’s Discover mobile TV shows are retaining users for a ton of time, it might amp up teen marketing of Facebook Watch. But it also might rile up regulators and politicians who already see it as beating back competition through acquisitions and feature cloning.

An Attempt To Be Less Creepy

TechCrunch’s investigation from January revealed that Facebook had been quietly operating a Research program codenamed Atlas that paid users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month in gift cards in exchange for root access to their phone so it could gather all their data for competitive analysis. That included everything the Study app grabs, but also their web browsing activity, and even encrypted information since the app required users to install a VPN that routed all their data through Facebook. It even had the means to collect private messages and content shared — potentially including data owned by their friends.

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them

Facebook’s Research app also abused Apple’s enterprise certificate program designed for distributing internal use-only apps to employees without the App Store or Apple’s approval. Facebook originally claimed it obeyed Apple’s rules, but Apple quickly disabled Facebook’s Research app and also shut down its enterprise certificate, temporarily breaking Facebook’s internal test builds of its public apps as well as the shuttle times and lunch menu apps employees rely on.

In the aftermath of our investigation, Facebook shut down its Research program. It then also announced in February that it would shut down its Onavo Protect app on Android, which branded itself as a privacy app providing a free VPN instead of paying users while it collected tons of data on them. After giving users until May 9th to find a replacement VPN, Onavo Protect was killed off.

This embarrassing string of events that stemmed from unprincipled user research. Now Facebook is trying to correct its course and revive its paid data collection program but with more scruples.

How Study From Facebook Works

Unlike Onavo or Facebook Research, users can’t freely sign up for Study. They have to be recruited through ads Facebook will show on its own app and others to both 18+ Facebook users and non-users in the US and India. That should keep out grifters and make sure the studies stay representative of Facebook’s user base. Eventually Facebook plans to extend the program to other countries.

If users click through the ad, they’ll be brought to Facebook’s research operations partner Applause’s website that clearly identifies Facebook’s involvement, unlike Facebook Research that hid that fact until users were fully registered.. There they’ll be explained how the Study app is opt-in, what data they’ll give up in exchange for what compensation, and that they can opt-out at any time. They’ll need to confirm their age, have a PayPal account that are only supposed to be available to users 18 and over, and Facebook will cross-check the age to make sure it matches the person’s Facebook profile if they have one. They won’t have to sign and NDA like with the Facebook Research program.

Anyone can download the Study From Facebook app from Google Play, but only those who’ve been approved through Applause will be able to log in and unlock the app. It will again explain what Facebook will collect, and ask for data permissions. The app will send periodic notifications to users reminding them they’re selling their data to Facebook and offering them an opt-out. Study From Facebook will use standard Google-approved APIs and won’t use a VPN, SSL bumping, root access, enterprise certificates, or permission profiles you install on your device like the Research Program that ruffled feathers.

Different users will be paid the same amount to their PayPal account, but Facebook wouldn’t say how much it’s dealing out, or even whether it was in the ball park of cents, dollars, or hundreds of dollars per month. That seems like a stern departure from its stated principle of transparency. This matters because Facebook earns billions in profit per quarter. It has the cash to potentially offer so much to Study participants that it effectively coerces them to give up their data. $10 to $20 per month like it was paying Research participants seems reasonable in the US, but that’s enough money in India to make people act against their better judgement.

The launch shows Facebook’s boldness despite the threat of anti-trust regulation focusing on how it’s surpressed competition through its acquisitions and copying. Democrat presidential candidates could use Study From Facebook as a talking point, noting how the company’s huge profits earned from its social network domination afford it a way to buy private user data to entrench its lead.

At 15 years old, Facebook is at risk of losing touch with what the next generation wants out of their phones. Rather than trying to guess based on their activity on its own app, it’s putting its huge wallet to work so it can pay for edge on the competition.

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