Business Weekly
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BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As India battles a surge in Covid cases and hospital beds become scarce, Business Weekly hears how social media is helping connect patients with medical help. Several areas of the country have gone back into lockdown. We get reaction from businesses. In Denmark, the authorities have introduced a Corona Pass, which lets the vaccinated attend various events. Our reporter looks at how well it’s working. We look at the online advertising industry as several big companies scale back their digital marketing spend. The suggestion is that they aren’t seeing the returns on investment they perhaps should be, and that data doesn’t always give an accurate idea of success. Could a bubble be about to burst? And is your boss clueless? We hear about a new piece of research from Microsoft which suggests managers aren’t aware of how lockdown has affected their workers. Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Matthew Davies.
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service. |
| 0:02.2 | He said he was hecker. |
| 0:03.3 | So many millions of dollars. |
| 0:04.5 | It's got to be North Korea. |
| 0:05.5 | How in the world did this happen? |
| 0:07.0 | The Lazarus Heist. |
| 0:08.3 | Episode 1 is available now. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, this is Business Weekly with Lucy Burton. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:19.7 | Today, we'll be looking at online advertising. |
| 0:23.4 | Some really big companies like Procter & Gamble and Airbnb have slashed their digital marketing |
| 0:29.2 | budgets because they're just not seeing the return on investment. So is there a huge |
| 0:34.0 | overvaluing of the global ad industry? Is a bubble about to burst? |
| 0:38.5 | We'll investigate later in the program. |
| 0:41.1 | And have you started a new job during lockdown? |
| 0:44.6 | Our reporter looks at some of the challenges facing new joiners |
| 0:48.1 | as they meet colleagues over video conference calls |
| 0:50.5 | and are yet to set foot in the office. |
| 0:53.1 | First, though, we turn to India, which is |
| 0:55.7 | facing a devastating second wave of coronavirus. Hospital beds across the country are in short supply, |
| 1:02.4 | as is oxygen and vital medicines. The number of new cases is climbing at the fastest rate in the world, |
| 1:09.7 | with around 300,000 infections reported |
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