BRAND: Movie spacesuits almost always look better than their real world counterparts. That’s probably why SpaceX has tapped legendary costume designer Jose Fernandez to develop their own in-house spacesuits.

BRAND: In recent years the hierarchy of international beer brands has been massively shaken up by the increasing popularity of the alcoholic drink in China. In fact, four of the ten top-selling beer brands globally are now Chinese, according to data shared with Business Insider by research firm Euromonitor.

*ECOMMERCE: Given the problem of what to write (a form of writer’s block) and the danger of publishing poor product descriptions (lower conversions or duplicate content), some online stores may want to take a mechanical approach to building (writing) product descriptions. The idea is simple.

DATA: The objective of data art is to create aesthetic forms and artistic works from the digital nature of the data generated from big data (graphics, simulations, worksheets, statistics, etc.). Any virtual data produced by our environment can be transformed into images, objects or sounds.

MEDIA: In the coming weeks, we’re launching broadcast search and drone support to help people form communities around the topics they care about and broadcast from new perspectives. We also want to share a preview of our full beyond 24 hours approach that will be available in the coming weeks.

MEDIA: What makes some content marketing succeed, while other efforts fail? Like any framework, this one can be stated simply. Actually executing it is going to be more complicated. But if you use it, you’ll avoid the pitfalls that bring down most content marketing. The framework: Education + Personality = Effective Content.

MEDIA: Most of Spotify’s 75 million subscribers probably think of it as their favorite music streaming service. Will they love it just as much for streaming video? The Swedish company is hoping—and betting—that they will by pouring a significant amount of resources into creating original video programming.

MEDIA: While Faida wouldn’t talk about how much revenue this still-controversial program is generating for AdBlock Plus, he did say that today, of the 100 top U.S. websites, 40 have acceptable ads on their pages. Those numbers represent significant growth in ad blocking, given that at the beginning of the year the company was touting 500 million downloads.

ECOMMERCE: Over the past year, its employee count has soared by 49%, to 245,200. Generally, an increasing headcount precedes revenue growth; in Amazon's case, investments in additional staff are necessary as the company adds new fulfillment centers, expands AWS, and makes other key investments.

BRAND: When it comes to Instagram adoption, almost every industry sector, with the exception of beverages and consumer electronics, is almost full penetrated. For example, 100% of auto brands examined by L2 Think Thank have adopted Instagram, and other industries such as fashion, beauty, watches and jewelry and travel, are almost fully saturated.