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Tom Tsinas
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20+ years in Performance Marketing | Photography | Travel | Food | Toronto
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Santa Maria Maior,
Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹

#BlueSkyArtShow #streetphotography #Lisbon #urbanphotography #Portugal #travelphotography #fotografia #photographersofbluesky #photography #photographer #PhotographersUnited
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Holy Trinity
Greek Orthodox Church
Schwedenplatz
Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vienna #streetphotography #street #urbanphotography #travelphoto #Austria #Wien #streetpic #photos #travelphotography #fotografia #photographersofbluesky #photography #travel #photograoher #PhotographersUnited
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Voldendam, Haven
Netherlands 🇳🇱

#BlueSkyArtShow #theroad #streetphotography #urbanphotography #travelphoto #lensculture #streetpic #travelphotography #photographersofbluesky #Netherlands #Europe #photography #travel #travelphotography #wunderlust
October 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Bath Retro Store
Abbey Green
Bath, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

#BlueSkyArtShow #theroad #streetphotography #urbanphotography #travelphoto #lensculture #streetpic #travelphotography #photographersofbluesky #UK #England #photography #travelphotography #wunderlust #books
September 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Theatre District.
London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#BlueSkyArtShow #theroad #streetphotography #urbanphotography #travelphoto #lensculture #streetpic #travelphotography #photographersofbluesky #UK #England #photography #travelphotography #wunderlust
September 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Klima, Milos, Greece 🇬🇷

#Photography #TravelPhotography #iPhone
August 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Town Area, Gibraltar 🇬🇮

#Photography #StreetPhotography
August 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Palmeral de las Sorpresas, Malaga, Spain 🇪🇸
#Photography
August 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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CN Tower, Toronto Canada 🇨🇦
#Photography
August 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Knowing that an ad was made by AI makes respondents to this survey like the brand less (30%) than more (18%)

#AI #Marketing #Advertising
Consumers Split on AI in Ads, See Negative Impact on Brand Perception - Marketing Charts
Knowing an ad was made using AI affects brand perception negatively for many consumers.
www.marketingcharts.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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China’s total trade surged from $474 billion in 2000 to $6.2 trillion in 2024, overtaking both the U.S. and EU to become the world’s leading trading power.
📈 Global Trade Dominance: U.S., EU, or China (2000 vs. 2024)
This dual world map compares global trade dominance by identifying the largest trading partner (combined exports and imports) for each country in the years…
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July 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Google averages 13.7b searches per day, more than 2X the second-place platform, Instagram (6.5b). Even major video and social platforms like YouTube (3.3b), TikTok (1.0b), and Reddit (0.9b) fall significantly behind.
#Marketing #SEO
ChatGPT Lags Far Behind Google in Daily Search Volume
ChatGPT currently handles 1 billion searches daily.
www.visualcapitalist.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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ChatGPT still has a long way to go, but it is interesting to note the growth of AI apps as discovery tools, and what that means for search engine marketing.
#DigitalMarketing #SEO #Marketing
Are AI Chatbots Taking Over Online Search? [Infographic]
AI is becoming a bigger discovery source.
www.socialmediatoday.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Canada would rank 4th by GDP and 10th by GDP per capita amongst 27 EU countries.
It has the highest share of university-educated adults.
It is sixth-lowest when it comes to home ownership rates.
#EU #CANPoli
Visualized: How Canada Would Rank in the EU by Five Metrics
In this thought experiment we look at how Canada would rank if it were part of the EU: by GDP, GDP per capita, military spending, etc.
www.visualcapitalist.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Data shows how daily median incomes have changed in G20 from 1994 to 2024. The US has the least median income growth versus peers like Germany, UK, and France and lags its counterparts in life expectancy despite having the highest health expenditure.
#Canada #CDNpoli #ONPoli #USpolitics
Charted: How Daily Incomes Have Changed in Top Economies (1994-2024)
Tracking per capita daily median incomes between 1994 and 2024 for 20 countries reveals where the most income growth has occurred.
www.visualcapitalist.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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58%, of consumers have replaced traditional search engines with Gen AI tools when it comes to searching product and service recommendations. A huge jump from just 25% in 2023.
#DigitalMarketing #Marketing #SEO #SEM
Consumers embracing Gen AI tools in lieu of typical search engines
Over half, 58%, of consumers have replaced traditional search engines with Gen AI tools when it comes to searching product and service recommendations. The statistic reflects a huge jump from just 25%...
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April 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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How are you finding the right balance between “buying Canadian” and “avoiding American” products during the trade war with the US?
#CDNPoli #ONPoli #TOPoli #Canada #TrumpTariffs
The Balance Between Buy Canadian and Avoiding American - The Real Cost to Canadians
American companies, with Canadian operations, employ hundreds of thousands of Canadians at stores, warehouses, delivery companies and buy from thousands of Canadian suppliers.
retail-insider.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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85% of US consumers express concern about how tariffs will affect their personal finances and shopping behaviors, up four points from February and 72% are very or somewhat concerned about a recession occurring in the coming year.
Tariffs a growing concern with shoppers
A majority of households have concerns about tariffs, a potential recession and stock market volatility, according to a Numerator report.
www.retailcustomerexperience.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,500 points in last 2 days. Now Goldman Sachs expects the S&P 500 index to dip to 5,300 over the next three months, before rebounding to 5,700 by year-end and 5,900 in 12 months.
#TrumpTariff
Goldman Sachs Slashes S&P 500 Forecasts Again Amid Tariff Tensions
After a flurry of soft economic data , US stocks closed out last week with a 2% drop as investors reevaluate their assumptions about the economy. Cr…
www.voronoiapp.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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TikTok confirms election manipulation in Europe.
In Romania:
•92k fake accounts
•33k spam accounts
•Pro-Russian
•5.3m fake likes blocked
In EU:
•100s of millions of fake accounts removed
Tactics included AI generated videos
All this from just one social media platform.
Transparency Center
disinfocode.eu
April 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Toronto ranks 2nd among North American cities by the number of major sports championships won.
#NFL #MLS #NHL #MLB #NBA #CFL #TFCLive #LeafsForever #WeTheNorth #LightsUpLetsGo #Argos #PullTogether #Toronto
Mapped: Major Sports Championships by North American City
New York City has the most major sports championships in North America, and has won at least one championship in every major league.
www.visualcapitalist.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Its not just Europeans, for April 2025, only 295,982 bookings from Canadian passengers to the US have been recorded, a 75.7% decline.
#TrumpTariffs #CDNPoli #ONPoli #Canada
The Trump Effect? Some Europeans Rethink U.S. Travel
International tourists are rethinking their travel plans to the United States. According to Ceylan Yeğinsu of the New York Times , travelers around the wor…
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March 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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91% of Canadians prioritizing Canadian products in response to Trumps tariffs. 71% of Canadians are willing to pay more for Canadian-made products, with 76% of respondents stating they’d pay 5–10% more according to this study.
#Canada #CDNPoli #ONPoli
Canadian consumers reshaping shopping behaviours: Lightspeed
The Lightspeed study found that 71% of Canadians are willing to pay more for Canadian-made products, with 76% of respondents stating they’d pay 5–10% more.
retail-insider.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Russia ranks poorly in transparency, corruption, and democracy according to The Economist, ranking 150th out of 167 countries in its Democracy Index, highlighting the lack of political diversity and frequent election manipulation.
Infographic: Freedom, Corruption, Democracy: Russia's Poor Record
This chart shows Russia ranked against the rest of the world in a series of international indices.
www.statista.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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53% of Google searches are informational, 32% navigational (using Google to help get to a known destination), 14.5% commercial, such as product-comparison or product information searches. 0.7% share of searches are transactional searches, indicating an intent to purchase or sign up for something.
So How Much Do Americans Use Google? - Marketing Charts
The average desktop web users in the US makes 126 unique Google searches per month.
www.marketingcharts.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM