Mitzi Wants a Cow for Christmas (And Other Gifting Trends) (E5)

This week on Big Things: olive oil is the gift of the season, modern parenting is bad for your health and Instagram doubles down on group chats. We share a teaser about our upcoming holiday gift guide, a shocking stat about working moms and get annoyed about Snapchat (again).  More from us:Mitzi Payne @mmmitziP Mike Payne @mmmiiike Timestamps: 01:00 – What we’ll be chatting about today. 01:40 – Thing 1: Olive oil is set to replace bottles of wine this holiday season. 05:00 – What gifts we will be giving this year. 8:50 – Mitzi develops an emotional connection with a chicken.11:12 – The upcoming special addition of SCAN 👀 CLUB. 14:00 – A little teaser about our halloween costume (tune in next week on YouTube to see it). 18:20 – Thing 2: Modern parenting is so stressful that the U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory about it. 21:30 – A shocking stat about working moms. 29:20 – Thing 3: Instagram is adding a WhatsApp button that will allow brands and creators to link directly into group chats. 31:35 – Snapchat is adding advertising placements into the DMs. 35:30 – What we’d like to see from Instagram Broadcast channels.  Show notes:SCAN 👀 CLUB: https://scanclub.substack.com/p/what-digital-audiences-want-in-2024Snapchat is bringing ads to the Chat tab: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/08/snapchat-is-bringing-ads-to-the-chat-tab/  Big Things with Mitzi (@mmmitzi) and Mike (@mmmiiike). For more from Arcade, follow us on Instagram and TikTok @helloarcade. https://www.arcadearcade.ca/ Production by Morgan Berna, editing by Oliver Banyard.