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Juan Vucetich es un apeadero ferroviario del ramal Temperley - Villa Elisa - La Plata del Ferrocarril Roca.

Se encuentra ubicado frente al Parque Pereyra Iraola, la avenida Centenario y la escuela de suboficiales Juan Vucetich en el partido de Berazategui, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Servicios
En 1962 se designó "Levene" a la parada km 42 entre Bosques y Villa Elisa, pero en 1981 pasó a tener su actual nombre. Frente a las protestas de los vecinos, que querían conservar su nombre tradicional, en 1987 se designó "Levene" a la parada km 59 antes de Cañuelas.

Era estación intermedia del servicio diésel metropolitano de la Línea General Roca desde la Estación Temperley a la estación La Plata. Los últimos servicios desde Constitución hasta La Plata vía Temperley (prestados con coches motores Fiat 7131) que pasaron por este apeadero fueron operados por la empresa estatal FEMESA (vía Temperley) hasta el cese de operaciones en el año 1995.

El apeadero está compuesto con andenes de tierra y pasto, contenidos con bordes de durmientes de quebracho, cercos perimetrales con alambrados y barrilones y los nomencladores de piedra originales del Ferrocarril Roca.

Actualidad
Actualmente se conservan en pie los nomencladores de piedra de lo que fuera el antiguo apeadero. El tramo entre Gutiérrez y Villa Elisa se encuentra desactivado para el servicio de pasajeros, por lo que circulan únicamente trenes de carga. Recibía el ramal proveniente de Bosques, que actualmente solo transporta pasajeros hasta la estación Gutiérrez; un tren bobinero y dos carboneros con destino al puerto de Ensenada recorren el ramal entero.

En la actualidad, la empresa Trenes Argentinos Operaciones presta servicios eléctricos: por la "Vía Circuito", Constitución a Bosques eléctrico, y entre Bosques y Gutiérrez desde el 4 de octubre de 2017 circulan trenes diésel remolcados de tres coches ida y vuelta (los cuales antes de la electrificación de la vía Varela eran de siete coches y eran entre Constitución o desde Temperley o Claypole hasta Gutiérrez intercalados con los de vía Ranelagh y locales a Bosques solamente), abasteciendo los partidos de Lomas de Zamora, Almirante Brown, Florencio Varela y Berazategui. Entre las estaciones Gutiérrez y Villa Elisa se encuentra inactivo el ramal desde las privatizaciones de 1993 para el servicio de pasajeros, que anteriormente si lo hacía la empresa Ferrocarriles Argentinos / FEMESA con los servicios Constitución - La Plata vía Temperley. El motivo de la quita de los servicios con pasajeros fue principalmente por el calamitoso estado de las vías y terraplén inestable a la altura de las zonas de las escuelas de suboficiales Juan Vucetich y escuela de suboficiales Dantas, se decidió que los trenes con pasajeros culminen (en Bosques entre 1993 y 1995) y luego en Gutiérrez (desde 1995 hasta la actualidad) y de Gutiérrez en adelante sólo cargas, traslados, trenes de pasajeros vacíos y algún desvío especial por accidentes en la vía Quilmes, por ahora circula trenes de cargas de NCA, Ferrosur Roca y Trenes Argentinos Cargas.

Anteriormente, este ramal conjunto con el Temperley-Haedo fue trazado y usado por el Ferrocarril Oeste logrando que formaciones de Haedo lleguen hasta La Plata pasando por estas estaciones. Su nacionalización hizo que pasara a la Línea Gral. Roca y hasta 1990 se inactiven varios puentes y tramos que lograba esa comunicación con Haedo y La Plata.

Está proyectado la reactivación para pasajeros, volviendo a darles la oportunidad a los usuarios de la vía Varela conectar con localidades platenses y con la capital provincial. Principalmente previo a todo se renovarán las vías entre empalme Bosques y empalme Villa Elisa, primero renovarán una vía y después la otra, terminada esa renovación se efectuará la electrificación con cables de sostén, hilo de contacto, ménsulas, herrajes, contrapesas y colocación de columnas de fibrocemento en lugares que falte y para cantones, el ramal ya cuenta con columnas metálicas tipo Renfe colocadas en el año 1988 entre empalme Temperley y casi Ringuelet, con el primer proyecto de electrificación entre Temperley y La Plata (proyecto anulado con el fin del gobierno de Raúl Alfonsín y principios de gobierno Menemista debido a la crisis económica de fines de los 80).

Véase también
 Ramal Temperley - Villa Elisa
 Listado completo de las estaciones de ferrocarril del Gran Buenos Aires
 Juan María Gutiérrez
 Ferrocarril General Roca

Juan Vucetich
Juan Vucetich
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There can be little doubt that Australian contract law today exists as a discrete and rich subject which merits serious study. This volume seeks to examine key questions and debates in respect of this body of law. Although appropriate attention is paid to developments in English law – which none would deny continues to be an important source of law for Australia – the focus is nonetheless thoroughly antipodean.
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Chapter 1 – Implied terms: constriction instead of construction? – Adam Kramer
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Chapter 3 – Negotiating Damages in the UK Supreme Court – Andrew Burrows
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Chapter 5 – The contraction of restitution in the twenty-first century – Eli Ball
Chapter 6 – Restitution for partial contractual performances – Timothy Pilkington
Chapter 7 – Rationalising Australian equitable estoppel in the twenty first century: doctrinal coherence or fragmentation? Allison Silink
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Chapter 9 – Equitable doctrine, fairness and the law of contract in Australia – Warren Swain
Chapter 10 – Government contracts – where private meets public – Nick Seddon
Chapter 11 – The international dimensions of Australian contract law – Lisa Spagnolo
Chapter 12 – Cognition, Automation and the Future of Contract Law – Ryan Catterwell
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The British group of department stores has appointed Eoin Tonge to take over the position as financial officer, a role that David Surdeau assumed on an interim basis on January 3 after Humphrey Singer's exit in December.
Marks&Spencer seizes CFO. The department store group has named as the new chief financial officer. Since January, the role was held by David Surdeau, who took office on January 3 on an interim basis after the departure of his predecessor.
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I just want to say you are all amazing. I both dread and love Fridays. I dread no news weekends, but it also gives us freedom from refresh! Happy Friday everyone!
Congrats! Which program at Waterloo did you apply to, full or part time?
I applied to the May start Advanced Standing part time program for those with a BSW. I can't recall the day in January, sorry. I happened to check Loris and saw a congrats letter where I usually check. A few minutes later I received an e-mail that linked to the same letter. It was a few days before other cohorts were notified as I think part time AS get notified first.
I found out I was accepted to Laurier through Loris before the e-mail went out, if that helps at all. I am still waiting to hear from Waterloo. Positive vibes to all!
Many schools will extend a deadline as this is not your fault - perhaps write the school, let them know the steps you have taken, and ask them what can be done.
Should I tell school of other admission offers?
I suggest waiting it out. You could advise people that you are waiting for all offers before the big reveal.
I was trying to figure out how I would maintain a practicum and employment. My employer is willing to work around my schedule and to support me in a new role that has never been tried. Things are gellin!
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To avoid a negative reference and leave on good terms I would suggest providing at least the minimum notice. Here it is two weeks, so I think a month is fair and appropriate.
I too would be very hesitant about putting my effort and money into a non-accredited school.


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Just so I know we're talking apples to apples, when you mentioned the mild swear in the opening, we're you referring to the "oh cr*p", or when you whispered "oh sh*t" right after?
Man, those Boss tracks were so good! That Last Bible III track in particular got me going. I felt totally pleased that I recognized Masashi Kageyama/Sunsoft and Hitoshi Sakimoto/Terpsichorean immediately, but was rather disappointed that I missed the PSIV track and incorrectly attributed the Heavy Nova track as a Ron Hubbard joint, and also mistook the Rocket Knight Adventures track as being from Streets of Rage III(it has that vibe though, doesn't it!?). All in all, super boss.
While I clearly need to fix my mistake of not having listened to the Kirby 64 soundtrack, I have heard Zero-Two's theme somewhere, arranged, and it made an impression. It kept stirring up vague recollections during its sublime duration here.
This was quite a journey.
The devil is the preacher's best friend, as the hero is Boss Key's best friend. It is the yin-yang connection of good and evil. I love how there is all this egging on to push each other to provide a real challenge. And when Boss Key shouts "DANCE!" you better get those little legs movin', or else!
The script and voice acting was tons of fun, and that tracklisting! Wow. So many red hot bangers in there. I like the flow of the mix too, how it kind of builds on itself and changes up the tempo. It's like it starts funky, gets faster, then becomes more chaotic, and then heroic. You really capture the feel of a good boss battle experience throughout both KBOS episodes.
Great work! I can't wait for more sequels. I hope we get KBOS III: Revenge of Columns and KBOS IV: Lightening Force.
So... they just took Eye of the Tiger and made it a boss track?
I guess I'm ok with it, since my socks have been rocked right off.
You should have listened to Randall Aluminums.


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The European Union and New Zealand have finalised a formal agreement for co-operation which Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully hopes will be a springboard to a free trade deal.
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Discussion in 'Houston Astros' started by Snake Diggit, Nov 25, 2018.
There's been consistent debate about how "all-in" Houston should go this offseason, so I thought it might make a decent thread.
I've put some thought into it, and the tipping point I think I would use for when a competing team should rebuild is this: when a team cannot field a group of 6 (or less) players who project for a total of 25 WAR and represent <50% of the total payroll. With those conditions met, a team will always have enough core talent to be competitive and enough payroll flexibility to add to that core talent to field a championship contender.
The current group has featured Altuve, Springer, Correa, Bregman, Cole, and Verlander (along with Keuchel, who is now gone) as star players. For 2019, those 6 project for 28.3 WAR with total salaries of $60.4M. So I don't think anyone would contend that Houston should start a rebuild this offseason. And I also think we'd all agree that Houston should keep the window open as long as possible, without ignoring reality.
But there will very likely come a day when the Astros cannot present a core that meets the requirements I listed above. When will that be? That depends on a lot of very unpredictable factors, led by the continued health and production of the current star players who they control into future seasons as well as the front office's ability to identify and develop cheap star talent. Based on my (very) rough estimates, unless Houston is able to add cheap star players via the draft or otherwise, extend one of their current core players at below market value, or is able to afford a payroll >$180M, they will need to rebuild after the 2021 season, when Carlos Correa, Lance McCullers, and Roberto Osuna reach free agency.
The 2020 season will be the last season of the big 4 (Springer, Altuve, Correa, Bregman). Lance McCullers, Forrest Whitley, Josh James, and others will lead the rotation. Houston will have to spend money and/or prospects to reload the pitching staff, but there should be plenty of resources to field a championship caliber team.
2021 will see Springer leave, but Bregman, Correa, and Altuve still present enough affordable talent to warrant continuing contention, assuming Houston is able to find 2-3 really good (but maybe not quite star level) cheap players. For this exercise, I am assuming that Whitley, McCullers, and Tucker will add to Altuve/Bregman/Correa to get them over the 25 WAR hump while accounting for less than $90M total.
But by 2022, unless they unearth a cheap superstar, the run may be over. Correa will reach free agency, where he will be playing elsewhere and paid $40M+, leaving an aging, expensive Altuve and arbitration eligible Bregman as the only remaining members of the current offensive core. On the pitching side, Lance McCullers, Chris Devenski, and Roberto Osuna will be gone, leaving zero members of the 2018 pitching staff remaining. By that point, trading Bregman and whichever other valuable veteran players they have should make the rebuild much less painful than the one they began in 2011.
That said, the possibility certainly exists that Houston will indeed be able to develop a replacement core. Forrest Whitley could be a young Verlander. Kyle Tucker might be Christian Yellich. Yordan Alvarez could be David Ortiz. But the odds are stacked heavily against even one of those comps playing out, much less all 3.
So there's my assessment. What say you? When do you think it will be time to tear it down?
My opinion is that I think it's insane to try to project a roster 3 years out. Just look at the 2015 Astros - could you have foreseen most of the current roster? The same will be true 3 years from now, thru endless FA signings and trades.
Not projecting 3+ years out is how you end up like the 2010 Astros. Yes, the predictions are likely to be largely inaccurate. But GMs should be able to get a general idea for when their competitive window will close. Rebuilding takes years. Knowing when to start a rebuild can save an organization 2-3 years of fielding mediocre teams who have no realistic chance of winning but also are failing to build toward the next winner.
Hard to know. The Astros could extend their window for years if even a few of the guys like Tucker, Whitley, Beer, JBB, etc turn into all star players. The Astros will most likely never be a top 3 or 4 team in terms of payroll. They need to be selective on which players they give large contracts and contiune to develop players from the draft and international signings. Baseball is the hardest sport to predict draft picks success in MLB. You never know when a 7th round pick is going to turn into Dallas Keuchel, or the 1st pick turns into a Mark Appel.
Of course, I fully expect them to run away with the division since Seattle is selling, Texas is awful, Angels have no pitching, and Oakland likely won't be the same without Manaea and some of their free agents leaving.
Good organizations don't have to rebuild.
Will we have to step back and retool for a year or two, probably. But if we have to go full rebuild Luhnow screwed up.
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That depends if you're just building up and tearing down, or trying to constantly replace your core piece by piece. Lots of middle-payroll teams like the 1990s-2000s Atlanta & St. Louis, even the Astros from 1996 to 2006, just try to keep changing out pieces and remaining competitive instead of doing a full rebuild.
The way you end up as the 2010 Astros is by failing at both the major league and minor league level.
The window to win a World Series is closed after this season imho.
Thanks for the in-depth speculation. I do think you are leaving out the possibilities of free agent signings and trades as the years unfold.
We didn't have Cole or Verlander in mid-2017 and we were gonna win 100 games.
We nearly beat the would be champs in 2015, and could have won it all that year.
Yes. But a midmarket team can't sustain a contender just with free agent signings and trades. If they aren't able to produce enough star players internally then eventually they will have to rebuild.
The Cardinals have continued to produce star players internally. Of their 8 position players projected for 2+ fWAR in 2019, 6 were produced internally. 5 of their 6 SP were developed internally. And I would argue that the last few seasons the Cardinals have not really been World Series contenders. Playoff contenders, sure. But their teams have not been in the same talent level as the Dodgers, Red Sox, Yankees, and Astros. So the Cardinals can serve as a good example of how a midmarket team can stay competitive long term without ever rebuilding, but I'm not sure they serve as an example of a sustained championship contender, and there's certainly nothing about the way they have been run that discounts anything I laid out in my original post.
When they want to have a real chance of beating teams as good as the Dodgers, Red Sox, Astros, and Yankees. Their current roster projects to be a full 10 wins worse than the real contenders, and they're not even currently favored to win their division.
When they want to have a real chance of beating teams as good as the Dodgers, Red Sox, Astros, and Yankees. Their current roster projects to be a full 10 wins worse than the real contenders.
That's a flawed model. You don't tear down your team in order to improve a few positions.
It depends on the goal. If you want to win the World Series, you do. You have to have controllable stars/superstars. If you want to just field a good team that you know is extremely unlikely to ever win it all, then you can be like the Cardinals.
That's how you end up like the 2009 Astros. They were just a Miguel Tejeda trade away!
If you look at just the last few years, this is true - the Cubs, Astros, and Red Sox were all arguably the best team in baseball or at least one of the top 2 or 3. But prior to that, bottom-tier playoff teams regularly won the World Series. The 2 recent Cardinals championships, for example, were 88 and 90 win wild card teams. San Fran also won their last one as an 88 win wild card team and their other two were not as the best-team-in-baseball tier teams. Making the playoffs regularly is a legitimate way to win a World Series.
Teams can build either way, but I'd much prefer an 8-10+ year window of being consistently really good than a 2-3 year window of being great and then several years of rebuild and forgetting all the players anyone cared about. Beyond that, you have to consider human nature - no matter how much analytics is involved, you can be sure Crane and Luhnow, once they experienced the feeling and stadium energy of winning, don't want to go back to the rebuilding days. Same with fans.
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I'm guessing most teams probably project out about 5 years. In 2015, it should have been easy to see Astros would likely have Altuve, Springer, Correa. While it is impossible to project who would be around those guys, it was very easy in 2015 to see that they likely had money to add some guys and had prospects (to trade or to keep) to have a very good team in 2019. Verlander and Cole trades really elevated this team from very good to great.
Be Honest: Before this season, how closely did you follow the astros since 2010?


Saba Farhoudnia is a contemporary visual artist based in New York City and a 2019 MFA in painting candidate at the LeRoy E. Huffbeger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, where she graduated from the University of Science and Culture (USC) with a BFA in painting and an MA in art research, and she migrated to the United States in 2013. Her early artistic activities included calligraphy, animation, drawing, playing Persian traditional instruments, and painting, which became her focus. Her paintings explore deeply personal subject matter. Suffering a chronic back problem led her to wish for all humans and animals to have a greater understanding of their own condition, and she considers herself a painter of pains, wishes, and regrets. She strives to tell stories through representational objects, and the elements that she uses are integral in arousing responses from the viewer.


Chinese iron-splashed black glazed 'partridge feather' temmoku teabowl of conical form with gently everted rim, covered on the interior with a lustrous black glaze streaked and splashed in iron-rust beneath the similarly coloured rim, the exterior covered in an iron-rust semi-matt glaze falling short of the knife-cut buff coloured stoneware body revealed at the short foot rim.
4 3⁄4 inches, 12.1 cm diameter.
Northern Song Dynasty, Hebei Province, 11th – 12th century.
Formerly in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III, Chicago.
• Included by Christie's New York in their auction of Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from an American Private Collection, 21st September 1995, lot 180, pp. 34/5.
• Formerly in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Breece III.
• Included by Christie's New York in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 18th September 2003, lot no. 251, p. 147.
•Formerly in the collection of Peter Scheinman (1932-2017), New York.
• Two conical bowls with a similar splashed pattern also described as 'partridge-feather mottles,' Northern blackware of Cizhou type of the same date, from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, were included by Robert D. Mowry in the exhibition of Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Chinese Brown- and Black-Glazed Ceramics, 400 – 1400, 1996, nos. 37a & b, pp. 140-142; another was included by Eskenazi in their exhibition, Song: Chinese ceramics, 10th to 13th century (Part 5), 2018, no. 13, pp. 38/9.


In an effort to build on the good work currently taking place in the sector, AWARE-NS has designed a strategy which involves the implementation of a standardized health and safety management system (HSMS) for home care/ home support organizations in Nova Scotia. This initiative is being facilitated through a Communities of Safe Practice approach and will include a customized, standardized and progressive Certificate of Recognition (COR) process aligned with the WCB's proposed rate incentive program.
The Community of Safe Practice (COSP) Program serves to establish formal peer to peer safety support networks and is designed to make prevention an integral part of health and community services workplaces in Nova Scotia. The COSP program recognizes organizations that make the prevention of workplace injuries and illnesses a daily habit by building it into their current management systems. It is based on the premise that an integrated workplace health and safety program will promote organizational excellence. A standardized HSMS is an integrated set of organizational elements involved in a continuous cycle of planning, implementation, evaluation and continual improvement, directed toward the reduction of occupational hazards in the workplace.


Martin Pedersen (born 15 April 1983) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI Continental Team Christina Watches–Dana.  He rode with Team PH in 2004, and after a great 2005 season with many wins for the small, talent producing Team GLS, he signed his first professional contract with Team CSC for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
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6 Most Important Trends In Social Media
Social media—once a competitive, dynamic space—has gotten predictable. Facebook added a hundred million users in a quarter? What else is new? Facebook is in trouble for failing to stop fake news, extremist messages, and child pornography? Par for the course. Facebook shamelessly copied another Snapchat feature? Yawn.
It's all been going on for years. And you'll notice I only brought up Facebook news, since it's now by far the most significant social media player.
In 2016, Facebook accounted for almost two-thirds of all social media ad spending. Expect that share to increase because, according to a recent BI Intelligence report, the network has added a million more advertisers to its already sizable roster in the last seven months.
That said, there are still plenty of important assumptions surrounding social media that make the rounds in marketing circles. eMarketer's latest report on social media, the US Social StatPack, brings some much needed clarity to the space.
Here are six social media trends that marketers should know about.
1. Facebook's mobile transformation is almost complete
Mobile was a huge buzzword a few years ago, but recently it seems like many marketers have forgotten that we're still in the midst of a massive transition away from desktop devices.
In 2012, in the midst of an IPO, Facebook made a concerted effort to transition from desktop to mobile. Five years later, that transition is largely complete. By 2020, eMarketer predicts that 59 percent of U.S. users will access the app only through mobile. And 80 percent of the company's revenue already comes from mobile ads.
It's not a coincidence that the largest internet service in the world is increasingly mobile-only. Add in the fact that most of Facebook's user expansion is coming from the Asia-Pacific region, where mobile-only access dominates, and the company's early focus on mobile seems remarkably prescient. An increase in mobile ad spending should follow, albeit slowly. By 2021, eMarketer predicts that mobile will rise from 24 percent of total media ad spending to 37 percent.
2. Video, the present and future king
Along with mobile, video has become Facebook's latest major crusade. According to a recent Verge article on the troubles of Instant Articles, "the camera is the keyboard" has become "a popular refrain" among Facebook employees. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly made clear his intention to transform Facebook to a video-first platform—one executive went so far as to say that the app will be "all video" by 2021. Most of the changes focus on "adopting"--some might say copying—popular Snapchat features such as Live Stories.
Snapchat, meanwhile, has been video-oriented from the start. The company has long classified itself as a "camera company" rather than a social network, which sounds remarkably similar to Facebook's new refrain.
Twitter has emphasized video as well, releasing a native video publisher, integrating live streaming platform Periscope into the app, and purchasing network television deals. Pinterest, likewise, has integrated video throughout its platform. LinkedIn has quietly introduced video features as well, though only for influencers thus far.
Text-based content will stick around, but for marketers hoping to survive on any social platform, it's obvious what format they need to pursue.
3. Social isn't just for millennials anymore
Social media used to just be a playground for the young, wild, and free. Now, platforms across the space are being colonized by older demographics. That's largely thanks to Facebook, where 53 percent of U.S. users are now 35 or older. (On Twitter, the age split is relatively even as well: About 45 percent of users are at least 35.)
Instagram and Snapchat, meanwhile, remain a haven for the young: 69 percent of Instagram users are under 35, as are an incredible 82 percent of Snapchat users. Every platform is expected to get older by 2020, Snapchat and Instagram especially.
4. The line between "internet user" and "social network user" has blurred
If you use the internet, there's a good chance you also use social media. That may seem obvious, but in 2009, only 46 percent of online adults used social media, according to Pew Research. Today, that figure sits at about 70 percent. The rise is largely thanks to those aforementioned Gen Xers and baby boomers, who have flocked to social media services (and the internet at large).
At this stage, social media penetration has plateaued in the developed world. The percentage of social media users to internet users will only increase about 2 percent over the next four years. Now, the focus for social networks is wringing as much money as possible from those users.
5. Average revenue per user is the new focus
While every social platform wants user growth—sans maybe Snapchat, who is too cool for user growth—growing average revenue per user (ARPU) has actually become the new metric of choice to gauge success.
Facebook, for example, has boosted its ARPU from $13.7 to $19.81 in just one year. Snapchat, likewise, has promised investors that growth per user (not user growth) will provide returns. The company bumped its ARPU from $0.67 to $2.15 in Q4 2016. Twitter saw its ARPU decline in 2016, a sign of the platform's poor fortunes.
Marketers should be happy that growth is now more about building value from each user rather than growing the entire user base. While brands may have to pay more to promote as ARPU rises, social platforms will need to justify higher prices with better targeting, more ad slots, and improved features.
6. Martech dollars are flowing into social
As social takes over, marketers across industries are taking the platforms seriously. Money is beginning to flow more to software that promises to organize, optimize, and manage a brand's social presence. According to a study on the state of marketing technology by Walker Sands, a PR firm, marketers plan to purchase social media software more than any other type of marketing technology in 2017.
The market for social media software is evolving as well. Sprinklr, perhaps the biggest player, recently rebranded itself as a "customer experience cloud." The move, which is a reflection of the increasing importance of customer experience, demonstrates how marketers are viewing social media as more than just content distribution channels. The emphasis is becoming about software that can manage relationships with customers. Even if social media is predictable at the moment, that martech investment could make the space more interesting in the next few years. Because whether you're advertising, marketing, or providing customer service, platforms like Facebook will do everything they can to be a marketer's best friend.