🐏 Wall Street Turns to ‘Solar Grazing’ Sheep

🐏 Wall Street Turns to ‘Solar Grazing’ Sheep

Wall Street big dogs are paying local farmers to graze their sheep around solar panels and prevent grass from growing too high.

It’s called solar grazing. And while the practice of ditching lawnmowers for sheep isn’t new, it is spreading rapidly as more investors pivot to green energy. The number of sheep-mowed solar farms in the US has multiplied 10x over the past two years.

This is the biggest opportunity “the sheep” industry has seen in at least a generation. Read more.

🥇 Olympics New Ad Record

NBC expects the highest ad record for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The network has already booked $1.2 billion in ad revenue for this summer’s Olympic Games and is sold out of ad inventory on all platforms. $350M of the committed revenue is from new sponsors. Read more.

🔄 TikTok is Launching an Instagram Clone

It’s very meta if you think about it. TikTok is taking a page out of Meta’s playbook by taking a page out of Meta’s playbook.

Amid the possible twilight of its US existence, the short-form video app said it will soon launch “TikTok Notes,” a photo-and-text-based platform intended to mimic the appeal of Instagram. The social media copycat trend continues. Read more.

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