Lock in this weekend as there is something for everyone with Free Play Days! Sword Art Online Fractured Daydream and The Survivalists are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core members to play from Thursday, January 30 at 12:01am Pacific until Sunday, February 2 at 11:59pm Pacific.Additionally, Alan Wake 2is free for all Xbox members to try from Thursday, January 30 at 12:01am Pacific until Sunday, February 2 at 11:59pm Pacific with a 3 hour timed trial (Xbox Game Pass Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core membership not required).How To Start PlayingFind and install the games on each of the individual game details page onXbox.com. Clicking through will send you to the Microsoft Store, where you must be signed in to see the option to install with your Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Standard and Core membership. To download on console, click on the Subscriptions tab in the Xbox Store and navigate down to the Free Play Days collection on your Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.Keep The Fun GoingPurchase the game and other editions at a limited time discount and continue playing while keeping your Gamerscore and achievements earned during the event! Please note that discounts, percentages, and title availability may vary by title and region.Free Play Days (Xbox Game Pass Membership Required)SWORD ART ONLINE Fractured DaydreamBandai Namco Entertainment America Inc.117$59.99Get it nowSword Art Online FracturedOptimized for Xbox Series X|SIn this online co-op action game, enter a distorted version of the Sword Art Online world. Pick your role in the form of favorite Sword Art Online characters and team up with 20 players for raids to defeat powerful enemies.The SurvivalistsTeam17146$24.99$2.49Get it nowThe SurvivalistsSurviving on a remote island can be a challenge but if you do it with friends youll have a great time regardless. The Survivalists is an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, and craft with up to three fellow castaways across a variety of fantastical islands.Free Play Days For AllAlan Wake 2Epic Games435$59.99Get it nowFree TrialAlan Wake 2Optimized for Xbox Series X|SSaga Anderson arrives to investigate ritualistic murders in a small town. Alan Wake pens a dark story to shape the reality around him. These two heroes are somehow connected. Can they become the heroes they need to be?

Xbox is your ultimate destination for free-to-play excitement! From January 28 through February 10, join the Free-To-Play Frenzy and immerse yourself in thrilling worlds, epic quests, and intense battles with millions of players worldwide. Take advantage of fantastic discounts and special Perks offers to elevate your gaming experience (perks and offers may vary by region and title. Check the Xbox console or app for the latest details).Whether youre into international pop stars, exploring expansive mountain ranges, or flushing out enemies, Xbox has the perfect free-to-play game for you. But dont waitthe collection is only available until February 10! Enjoy new experiences in popular titles like Genshin Impact, Fortnite Festival and Valorant. Heres whats new in each game:Genshin Impact: Version 5.3, Incandescent Ode of Resurrection, is now available! Fight for Natlans future alongside Mavuika and Citlali, and welcome Teyvats new year with the joy and tradition of Lantern Rite!Fortnite Festival: Mikufans, its time to grab your glowsticks (or should we say leeks?!). Hatsune Miku (), one of the biggest virtual pop stars in the world, is bringing her futuristic sounds to Fortnite as the Icon for Festival Season 7! Valorant: Say hello to our newest Agent, Tejo, whos joining the roster from Colombia. As part of the Initiator class, Tejo specializes in flushing out enemies. Tejo, like all Valorant Agents, is unlocked with a Game Pass membership. Learn more about his abilities on Xbox Wire.Exclusive Perks for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate MembersLevel up your gaming with exclusive Perks for games like Throne & Liberty, War Thunder and Crossout. From bonus loot to unique skins, these rewards will enhance your gameplay experience. Visit the Perks gallery on your Xbox console or app to claim these exciting offers.Throne & Liberty Lottie and Percy Bundle (Xbox Exclusive): Join the Resistance in this Xbox exclusive colored Lottie Outfit and get a Fuzzy Percy Amitoi to tag along on your adventures. Crossout Midgar 2.0 Bundle: Get a unique armored car, Fenrir 2.0, a character portrait, Wotan, a paint can: Red grid, 1500 in-game coins, and a premium account for 21 days.War Thunder Year of the Snake Bundle: Celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Snake with a mighty tank, the Sherman Jumbo Cobra King, and a versatile fighter plane, the P-63C-5 King Cobra.Get Ready for Non-Stop FunXbox Free-To-Play Frenzy is your gateway to endless adventures. Whether youre trying new games, revisiting old favorites, or creating your own stories, theres something for everyone. Grab your controller, hit play, and let the fun begin!Check out our Free-to-Play Frenzy collection here.

There are a handful of challenges that many developers like to tackle as something of a rite of passage to prove their coding worth.One is creating a compiler. That fundamental building block of many programming languages translates the more human-understandable code into something a computer understands.Another and far more ambitious challenge is building an operating system. The scope is almost limitless. You could create a Linux distribution, which often requires less coding, but more assembling of pre-existing packages and dependencies. You could create a command line operating system that works on limited hardware or on a low-level machine. Or you can create an all-singing, all-dancing graphical operating system in an attempt to take on the Windows, macOS, and Linux oligopoly.Finally, theres a browser. On the surface, this doesnt seem as difficult as an operating system, but think of how complex websites have become and the thousands of things a browser needs to handle. Like creating a Linux distribution, you could take an open-source rendering engine, the part that converts the code behind web pages to what you see and interact with, and add an interface. This is the approach many browsers take. Alternatively, you could create everything from scratch and challenge the Chromium (Google Chrome, Edge, Brave, and more) and WebKit (Safari and others) duopoly. A battle that even the venerable Firefox is slowly losing.Register NowOr you could do all three.Andreas Kling is one of the people trying to do that.Kling rose to broader public attention around 2018, when he started working on SerenityOS, a retro-inspired operating system built completely from scratch as something of a project to help Kling get through a drug recovery program.I tried to figure out what to do after rehab, which was like six hours a day, every day, the Swedish programmer recalls. And when that ended, what was I supposed to do? I now had these full empty days with nothing to do and all this energy. And I just needed something to do. So, I just started programming, which is what I always do. And I started building an operating system because I thought that would be fun.From Serenity to the LadybirdSerenityOS found success for two main reasons: it was a perfect project for experienced hackers and it gained attention thanks to Klings regular coding live streams where he worked on the OS.The SerenityOS codebase is a monorepo, meaning that contributors can find the code for all functionality in one place. This means they could start with an interest in working on the text editor but gain experience by also digging into and becoming involved with the code that interacts with the host hardware. One of the most popular components of SerenityOS was the Ladybird browser. More on that later.Over time, Klings live streams attracted thousands who would watch him code and struggle to solve problems in the Serenity codebase. This helped viewers learn, and helped Kling overcome shyness and emerge from a reclusive lifestyle to become accountable to an increasingly large group of people.At one point, nearly the same number of contributors were involved with Ladybird as Serenity. This situation created challenges for the different contributor groups and led Kling to realise that the web could do with a new browser and browser engine. People were eager to work on this and, more importantly, to finance its development.While Kling had received reasonable but small donations throughout the lifespan of Serenity and Ladybird, in 2023, Ladybird attracted larger donations from Shopify and Chris Wandsworth, a GitHub cofounder.I reached out to Wandsworth and asked, Hey, do you like Serenity? Do you like browsers, too? says Kling. We connected over this idea of building an open-source browser and trying to avoid the mistakes other open-source browsers have been making, especially regarding how they pay for stuff.The browser driveThis isnt Klings first experience building browsers. For two years, he worked on building browsers for the Qt team at Nokia. Qt is a cross-platform toolkit for building native applications used in various use cases, some of which you likely use daily. In the early 2000s, Qt was pushed as an option to counter the rise of Android and iOS. Those attempts failed, but the project continues, and you can find many engineers from that era spread across European tech.The Qt browsers used WebKit, which has a long and scattered history but is now primarily the rendering engine in Apples Safari, which led to Kling working on Apples WebKit team. Working for a US company from Sweden for nearly six years took its toll, leading to the drug problem mentioned earlier and where our story about Ladybird began.So why build a new browser at all?Its an interesting time for the browser market. There are dozens of intriguing competitors to the dominance of Google Chrome and Apples Safari, but they barely dent their combined market share of 85%. Even Safari accounts for only 17% of that number. Microsofts Edge comprises about 5%, Firefox is around 2.5%, and all the rest register such small percentages that you can barely make them out on charts. Despite this, 1 or 2% of 5 billion internet users are still tens of millions of people and a decent-sized business, so browsers like Brave, Arc, and DuckDuckGo, while barely registering on usage charts, are making decent progress.However, without the weight of Googles advertising revenue (though, in the age of AI chatbots, this is less certain) or Apples hardware and services profits behind them, they have to find some way to fund their operations. People dont expect to have to pay for a browser, so can they convince enough users to either subscribe (Arc) or use privacy-focused ads (Brave and DuckDuckGo) or tokens (Brave again)?Money for the LadybirdKling plans for Ladybird to be donation-supported, which is challenging for platforms aiming to become market leaders. Could Signal survive on just donations if its user base scaled from the current 70 million to WhatsApps 2 billion per month? Could Mastodon survive if it scaled from its 10 million users to the 3 billion per month of Facebook? It would be a challenge.But again, you dont need a large share of users to be viable and do something meaningful. As Kling puts it:We feel there should be a browser not beholden to the advertising industry or anybody else for funding. Donations are all no strings attached, so you cant get us to do anything besides putting your logo on our website.The world should have a browser that, even if we cant throw a thousand engineers at performance, we believe we can build something thats useful to people and works well enough that people would like it.Browser standardsAnother reason for building a new browser and rendering engine is standards. While it was during the webs nascent days, anyone old enough to remember the dominance of Internet Explorer will remember how many websites wouldnt work in anything but Internet Explorer. With the number of websites I encounter that seem to have only been tested to work in Chromium-based (the open source core of Google Chrome and many other browsers) browsers, sometimes it feels much the same today. The webs loose standards body, the W3C, publishes specifications and standards on many web features. None of them is binding, and browser engines can interpret them differently, not at all, or use their alternatives instead. With Chromium browsers so dominant, users can come to expect web pages to work a certain way, even if its not the standard way. And as frustrating as this might be for the spirit of the open and compliant web, with a 70% market share, why should designers and developers spend time building for targets other than Chromium?Kling hopes Ladybird will stick to and implement the W3C specifications as much as possible.Sticking to the spec is one big reason people like what were doing. And its a big part of why we want to make a browser. We want to make one that follows the specs, and that proves that the specs are implementable.Despite its early stages, Ladybird already has representatives in W3C working groups contributing to the project.We even have people from the W3C who now actively hang out in our community and actively contribute to Ladybird, says Kling. And this [plan to stick to spec] is sort of what got them interested.Building for impactKling and the Ladybird project aim for an alpha release around mid-2026, which sounds like a long time away, but the project has seven full-time engineers starting from scratch. In comparison, while there are no exact figures, thats a tiny fraction of the probable size of the Chrome team, and the Chromium project alone has nearly as many lines of code as the Linux Kernel.At Ladybird, Kling aims to prioritise the largest impacts.I dont have a full picture of everything needed, but its fairly complicated, he says. One issue were having is that we have to figure out what gives the most benefit across the board.We could spend a bunch of time getting games to work well in the browser, but maybe that doesnt benefit most websites, even though its fun to do that kind of stuff. We want broad compatibility at reduced fidelity with a large part of the popular web.Freeing the LadybirdThe interests and enthusiasm of the contributor community will guide much of the feature development. As Kling says, sometimes this leads to less popular decisions.We are deferring on a bunch of things that are not popular. So were deferring on Windows and mobile. iOS outside of Europe is basically locked down browser-wise anyway.Contributing to a browser isnt the simplest task, even as an experienced developer, but if Ladybird and what it stands for interests you, one task anyone (on macOS and Linux) can get involved with is testing websites to see if they work and if not, why not.The web and how we interact with it is in a state of change. A change we can be an active part of if we want it.Weve all been shepherded into this reality where a big advertising company controls the web, says Kling. Weve accepted that thats just the way things are. And then the idea that maybe it doesnt have to be that way. I think that appeals to people. Story by Chris Chinchilla Technology writer, podcaster, and video maker by day. Fiction, games, and music by night.chrischinchilla.com Technology writer, podcaster, and video maker by day. 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Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes, the metaverse, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined an interesting new priority for this year: getting back to OG Facebook.Zuckerberg has OG Facebook as focus area for the yearFacebook is, by any reasonable measure, a massive success for Meta. It has billions of active usersbillions.Yet in the current fragmented social media ecosystem, Facebook is an afterthought for many.But it sounds like Zuckerberg aims to change that this year.During Metas earnings call, the CEO explained:Facebook is used by more than 3 billion monthly actives and were focused on growing its cultural influence. Im excited this year to get back to some OG Facebook.This comment about OG Facebook was at first made with no further details. But later in the call, the CEO was asked to share more.Per Metas official transcript, he explained:I think that there are a lot of opportunities to make it way more culturally influential than it is today. And I think that thats sort of a fun and interesting goal that will take our product development in some interesting directions that we maybe havent had a focus on it as much over the last several years.So I dont know that I have anything much more specific on this other than that this is going to be one of my focus areas for this year. I mean I think its an investment area and something Im going to spend some time on.[]But overall, Im really excited about doing some exciting stuff hereas we start rolling stuff outI think some of this will kind of get back to how Facebook was originally used back in the day. So I think it will be fun.Zuckerberg even hinted that some of the changes could mean sacrificing financial gains for the sake of improving the product. He said, It might mean that in the near term, we make some trade-offs to kind of focus on some product areas of what were doing ahead of just kind of maximizing business results in the near term on it.9to5Macs TakeI remember those OG Facebook days, and they were a lot of fun. Over the years, however, Facebook became significantly less appealing to me personally.Some attribute Facebooks cultural decline to the fact that its not cool anymorea shift blamed on parents and grandparents joining, perhaps. But for me, I stopped using Facebook because the product itself seemed to decline. For the sake of boosting engagement, my Facebook feed started showing all kinds of information I had no interest infor example, every random like one of my friends made. Originally, Facebook was all about user-generated content from people I cared about.Id love to see OG Facebook return, so Im curious to see exactly what Meta has in store.Are you interested in seeing OG Facebook come back in some form? What would that look like to you? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

You dont have to be in the Super Bowl stadium to be exposed to a lot of noise during the game. A new Apple Watch study found that noise levels across America are significantly higher than normal for about nine hours on Super Bowl Sundays.On average, across the US, youre likely to be exposed to noise levels between 1.5 and 3 decibels higher than usual which is a lot worse than it sounds when it comes to potential hearing damage Youd expect things to be pretty loud in the stadium during the Super Bowl, but things get pretty loud on game days no matter where you are.The Apple Hearing Study a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Apple uses the Noise app on Apple Watches worn by more than 115,000 volunteers to learn about noise exposure. For this particular study, researchers wanted to know whether noise levels in the US were higher during major events, even if you were nowhere near the location.We analyzed noise levels during the past four Super Bowls (2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024). We looked at average noise levels 6 hours before and 6 hours after the start of the game on Super Bowl Sunday and compared them to noise levels at the same time on the following Sunday []On average, across the US, we saw about a 1.5 to 3 decibel increase in noise levels among participants during the past four Super Bowl games compared to levels on the Sunday following the game. The average for the 2021 to 2024 Super Bowls [shows] this increase started about 3 hours before the game started and lasted about 3 hours after the game ended.That doesnt sound like a lot, but decibels are measured on a logarithmic scale, so a 3dB increase represents twice as much sound energy. The problem is that our ears dont perceive it in this way. We can thus be exposed to potentially harmful levels of noise without being aware of it. The university recommends using the Noise app on your Apple Watch to monitor your exposure, and to use earplugs or earphones with noise cancellation when attending noisy events.Photo byJumping JaxonUnsplashAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Just over a week after firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard, eliminating all members of a key aviation security advisory group, and freezing all hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration including key air traffic controllers, the United States has experienced its deadliest aviation disaster in nearly 24 years.Officials fear that all 60 passengers and four crew members on board an American Airlines flight have died after the jet collided with an Army helicopter on a training exercise while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC early Wednesday evening.While the timing of the Trump administration's gutting of aviation safety prior to the crash is impossible to ignore, it's still unclear what exactly led to the mid-air collision. We know that it was a clear night above the Potomac River, and both aircraft were flying in standard patterns, as the Associated Press reports. Yet obviously something went tragically wrong, and officials believe the crash was preventable.In the immediate wake of the disaster, Trump posted a chilling update on Truth Social in which he speculated wildly about the event in what sounds a lot like an attempt to deflect blame for the deadliest crash in the US since all 260 people aboard an American Airlines flight died just after takeoff on November 12, 2001, in New York, just two months after 9/11."It is a clear night, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn't the helicopter go up or down, or turn," Trump wrote. "Why didn't the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane."As Bloomberg global aviation editorial leader Benedikt Kamell has since pointed out, it's "unusual for officials to come out this early with theories, but Trump isnt known to take his time in publicly airing his views."In a followup almost twelve hours after the accident, Trump said he had "been fully briefed on the terrible accident which just took place at Reagan National Airport. May God Bless their souls."Others took a more somber tone."Its absolutely heartbreaking to think of families waiting at the airport, expecting to greet loved ones, only to receive such devastating news," said former FAA deputy administrator Dan Elwell in a statement.Regardless of where the investigation leads, the Trump administration's gutting of aviation authorities highlights the potential consequences of throwing the entire federal government into chaos.The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating the incident. In the meantime, we should expect to hear more harebrained theories as to what may have led to the crash, considering the sheer amount of disorderthe Trump administration has stirred up over its first two weeks.On that note, multi-hyphenate billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk who has previously blamed Black pilots for causing plane crashes without providing any evidence whatsoever has yet to comment on the matter."It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE," he wrote in a January 9 tweet, a bafflingly racist outburstthat intentionally mixed up the letters of the acronym for "diversity, equity, and inclusion."The deplorable utterance had civil groups horrified at the time.More on the FAA: The FAA Grounds SpaceX's Rockets for a Third Time After Mysterious AnomalyShare This Article

Donald Trump's White House insists that the strange drones seen flying over New Jersey were approved by the government but a UFO whistleblower is calling bull.Days before his inauguration, Trump vowed to uncover the truth about the massive mystery drones that were allegedly seen flying all over the Garden State, including near the golf course he owns in Bedminster, NJ.Just a week in, he seemingly kept good on that promise by having his inept press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, tell the public that there was nothing to see in the skies."After research and study, the drones that were flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the [Federal Aviation Administration]," Leavitt said during a briefing earlier in the week. "This information comes directly from the President of the United States."Beyond its dismal sentence structure, the statement left much to be desired, including who did the "research and study" and whether that included similar drones seen flying in New York and elsewhere.Dissatisfied with the White House's non-explanation, a user on X reached out to an Air Force veteran-turned-UFO-whistleblower named Jake Barber to ask for his thoughts."The activity there was not FAA approved. I know firsthand," Barber wrote. "I was assigned there specifically to look at the debacle from a FAA violation standpoint in order to give a basis to the FBI.""Someone is not presenting the whole story to our new president," the whistleblower continued.Considering that Trump is essentially trying to gut the entire government, it's certainly plausible that the FAA isn't telling him the whole truth.But Barber's comments, especially about having worked on the Jersey drone investigation, should nevertheless be taken with a grain of salt.Earlier in January, Barber took to the right-leaningNewsNation with an incredible story: that during his time in Air Force special ops, he encountered bizarre debris from UFOs, or "unidentified aerial phenomena" per Pentagon parlance."Just visually looking at the object on the ground, you could tell that it was extraordinary and anomalous," the former military official told the news station of the egg-shaped, SUV-sized objects he claims to have seen. "It was not human."Like other ex-Pentagon-ers before him, Barber maintains that he worked for a secretive UFO retrieval office within the military. He said that after witnessing the massive and bizarre debris, it was confirmed to him that its origin was from "nonhuman intelligence."As with everything, there should be no mutual exclusivity between the fishiness of the White House's drone "explanation" and the weirdness of Barber's UFO claims.So who's telling the truth? Because this isn't "The X-Files," we probably won't ever know.More on Trump contradictions: Trump Said We Should Kill Drug Dealers. Then He Appointed One as Health SecretaryShare This Article

Today is a great day for people who love watching movies without putting on pants. Netflix unveiled their slate of films for the year ahead and it is full of promising-looking titles from major directors and movie stars. Theres so much to watch, you might never have to leave the house for entertainment.The highlights include the thirdKnives Out mystery from Rian Johnson,Wake Up Dead Man, along with the secondHappy Gilmore from Adam Sandler. (Sandlers also got a new movie with ... George Clooney??) Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have a new thriller, and Guillermo del Toro finally got to make hisFrankenstein.And then, yknow, countless other things sprinkled throughout the year too.Please keep in mind: This is just what Netflix is hyping rightnow. This is nottheir complete lineupfor 2025. They have quite a few more titles coming that they havent finalized dates or even titles yet Kathryn Bigelow has a new movie coming to Netflix in 2025, butthe streamer hasnt revealed anything about it except the cast list (Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson are its stars.)Other announced but not fully revealed titles include a documentary onThe New Yorker, a new film from Errol Morris about Charles Manson, and a new film fromConclave director Edward Berger starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton.Also, while theyve announcedall of thesemovies, they havent revealed official images fora few of them yet. (Ill update the list with those when I can.) With those caveats, heres whats coming to Netflix in the year ahead.Netflix 2025 Movie Preview`Here are the big movies coming to streaming on Netflix in the year ahead.READ MORE: The Best Netflix Movies of the YearGet our free mobile app10 Actors Who Adopted Animals From Movie And Sets

Squid Game is coming to an end.Netflix announced as part of a preview of their entire 2025 that the third season of their most-popular series in history will return later this year, just months after the debut ofSquid GameSeason 2.Thats the good news. The bad news forSquid Game fans is that Season 3 will not just continue the story, it will conclude it.As part of the announcement, Netflix also unveiled several first-look images from the final episodes, along with this description:Gone is the rainbow-hued track of Season 2s six-legged pentathlon; in its place, a vivid swirling flower-pattern floor ominously foreshadows the cutthroat finale to come. The sinister silhouettes of Young-hee and her companion Cheol-su first hinted at in last seasons post-credit scene suggest that even more brutal games lie ahead.Squid Game 3Lee Byung-hun as Front manNetflixloading...READ MORE: Netflix Is Raising Prices Again for 2025The initial season ofHwang Dong-hyuks series became a worldwide cultural phenomenon, and the most-watched show in the history of Netflix. Season 2, which premiered back in late December, has done nearly as well. Netflix says it racked up 68 million views (the most in a premiere week ever, they claim) and is thus far the third most-watched season of a TV show on Netflix to date.Here is how Netflix describes the plot ofSquid Games final season:Picking up where the second season left off, Season 3 explores the choices Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) will make amidst overwhelming despair. As the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) plots his next move, the surviving players find their decisions leading to increasingly dire consequences with each round of the deadly games. This season promises to push the limits of suspense and drama, keeping viewers glued to the action.Squid Game: Season 3 will premiere on Netflix on June 27.The Most Popular Netflix Shows EverAccording to the streaming service, these are the most popular series based on their total viewsd in their first 28 days of release on NetflixFiled Under: Netflix, Squid GameCategories: TV News

Salesflow is a fast-growing SaaS company revolutionizing the way businesses approach outreach and lead generation. Were looking for a creative and proactive Marketing Executive to join our team and play a key role in driving our marketing efforts forward.If youre passionate about content, social media, and marketing strategyand want to gain hands-on experience in the SaaS industrythis is the perfect opportunity for you!As a Marketing Executive, youll be at the heart of our marketing team, working across content creation, social media, email marketing, and SEO. This is a hands-on role where youll contribute to high-impact projects, refine your skills, and gain exposure to multiple areas of marketing.Expect to: Research and create engaging content Manage social media and email marketing campaigns Optimize content for search engines Analyze marketing performance and contribute to data-driven decisionsIf youre a creative thinker with a knack for storytelling and a passion for digital marketing, wed love to hear from you!Key Responsibilities: Content Creation & Research Stay on top of industry trends, competitors, and customer pain points to create engaging content. Develop actionable step-by-step guides, strategies, and hacks for outreach and lead generation. Create and edit content, including blogs, case studies, email campaigns, and social media posts. Manage and schedule blog content (experience with Webflow or WordPress is a plus). Repurpose content for multiple platforms and formats, including ebooks, guides, and video scripts. Content Distribution & SEO Manage and schedule content across social media, email, and other channels. Maintain a strong social media presence on LinkedIn, Instagram, X (Twitter), and TikTok. Optimize content for SEO to boost organic reach. Email Marketing Support Assist in crafting and executing email campaigns (promotional, onboarding, and re-engagement). Analyze email performance and suggest data-driven improvements. Social Media Management Help manage our social media accounts by scheduling posts, monitoring engagement, and responding to interactions. Stay ahead of industry trends and contribute fresh content ideas. Marketing Analytics & Reporting Track and analyze marketing performance metrics across campaigns and platforms. Prepare insightful reports to guide the marketing teams strategy. Collaboration & Teamwork Work closely with the Marketing Manager and cross-functional teams to execute marketing campaigns and product launches. Keep up with SaaS marketing trends and share new ideas with the team.Who Were Looking For 1-2 years in marketing or sales, ideally within SaaS, outreach, or lead generation. Strong writing and communication skills Understanding of SaaS marketing metrics (CAC, LTV, conversion rates) Familiarity with HubSpot, Google Analytics, Buffer, or similar tools Basic knowledge of SEO and email marketing best practices (a plus) Self-starter: You take initiative and love getting things done. Collaborative mindset: You work well with teams and contribute creative ideas. Willingness to learn: You stay curious and eager to grow in marketing. Bonus Points if You Have: Experience in ghostwriting Experience working with design agenciesWhy Join Salesflow? Salary range $27,000 and $32,000 Paid holidays + 8 bank holidays Remote Work from anywhere! Career growth opportunities within the company A fun, collaborative, and remote-friendly work environment Professional growth Gain hands-on experience across multiple marketing disciplines and our L&D resources Fast-growing SaaS company Be part of an exciting journey. Impact-driven role Your work directly contributes to our marketing success.