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PLUS: Wooden skyscrapers and YouTube’s growth buffers. [The Hustle] You may have taken a pilates class before, but probably not from Liana Levi. She describes her clientele as “not the masses,” which is one way to describe regulars like Ariana Grande and Kylie Jenner. If you're interested, get ready to pay up — Levi charges $75-$100 per group class and $500 for a private session. In today’s email: - Gummy bears: The history of our massive gummy economy. - Chart: YouTube’s growth is buffering. - Wooden skyscrapers: Sustainable, and they look cool. - Around the web: The Earth’s evolution, beefing with companies, a kitten’s great escape, and more fun internet finds. 🎧 On the go? [Listen to today’s 10-minute podcast]( to hear Jacob and Juliet discuss fitness gaming, Meta’s earnings, a new Avatar, and the delicious (and sometimes functional) $40B gummy industry. The big idea [gummy bears]( The evolution of gummy bears Regardless of where you grew up, there’s a good chance gummy bears were part of your childhood. And there’s a good chance that’ll be the case for generations to come. What started as a novelty candy 100 years ago has evolved into a full-blown [gummy economy]( that’s only getting bigger, according to The New York Times. Gummy bears… … were invented in Germany in 1922 by Hans Riegel, the founder of Haribo. It took ~60 years for gummy bears to take off in the US, but once they did, competition arose quickly: - Jelly Belly introduced the 1st American-made gummy bear in 1981 - Haribo opened its 1st distribution center in the US in 1982 - Albanese released its own gummy bears in 1983 Along the way, rival candy companies pushed gummies beyond the bear, like Trolli’s sour gummy worms and Mondelez’s Sour Patch Kids. In 1997… … gummies were given a new purpose: Hero Nutritionals introduced the [Yummi Bear](, the 1st gummy vitamin. The invention kicked off a booming market that’s still thriving. Nutrition Business Journal [estimated]( American gummy vitamin sales at ~$1.4B in 2018. More importantly, the move showed that gummies can be used to deliver more than just a sugar high, leading to a wide range of products, including: - Gummy supplements, from caffeine to fish oil - Sleep gummies, usually featuring melatonin and other ingredients - Weed gummies, including both CBD and THC varieties Estimates [peg]( the global CBD gummy market as high as ~$14B by 2028. Add that to the global market for gummy and jelly candy, which is [estimated]( to reach $40B by 2024, and it’s clear gummies are big business. Why do we love gummies so much? One reason is nostalgia, according to Marcia Mogelonsky, director of insight at marketing analysis firm Mintel Food & Drink. Candy store owner Elizabeth Schmitt agrees, saying gummies remind her of simpler times. P.S. If you’re looking for a new way to enjoy your gummies, Schmitt’s store, Ruby Bond, offers a wide variety of [gummy charcuterie boards](. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Send as email to a friend](mailto:?subject=The%20Hustle%20wrote%20something%20I%20think%20you%27ll%20like...%0A&body=The+evolution+of+gummy+bears%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthehustle.co%2F04282022-gummy-bears%3Futm_campaign%3Dgummy%2Bbears%26utm_content%3D04282022-gummy-bears%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Ddaily%0A%0AYou%20can%20subscribe%20with%20my%20link%20here%20to%20get%20the%20latest%20in%20tech%20and%20business%20daily:%0A [View on our website]( SNIPPETS Ugly outlook: Meta [forecasts]( $28B-$40B in revenue for Q2 2022. The low end of the range would result in the company’s 1st YoY revenue drop. Department store dynasty: Simon and Brookfield, owners of JCPenney, made an offer to buy competitor Kohl’s for $8.6B. Bad news: Robinhood [announced]( it’s laying off 9% of its staff in an effort to increase automation. The move will impact ~340 employees. Bitcoin HQ: Fort Worth, Texas, [became]( the 1st city in the US to mine bitcoin, and even built a small mining farm in City Hall. Helping hospitals: A doctor dropped out of residency to solve a major problem: Babies in the NICU needed safe, fast access to breast milk. The Hustle sat down with him to find out [how he did it](. --------------------------------------------------------------- Hey — enjoy getting quick updates on what you care about? Take [20 seconds]( to personalize your Snippets. Pick your preferences👇 and we’ll send you more of what you love. Boom. [Personalize my Email →]( Chart [YouTube vs Netflix revenue]( Singdhi Sokpo / The Hustle YouTube’s growth struggles to load Google’s Search and Cloud businesses may be loading at lightning speed, but YouTube’s is buffering. YouTube was the weakest link in Alphabet’s earnings [report]( this week. Alphabet saw 23% growth to $68B, and YouTube even grew [14%]( to $6.87B, but the video unit fell short of the 25% growth analysts expected. So what happened? - TikTok and more streaming options than ever, happened. There’s only so much time in a day. - Ukraine: Alphabet execs said Europe saw a pullback in ad spending since Russia’s invasion. What’s YouTube doing now? Working on Shorts, the company’s TikTok clapback. YouTube launched the format in 2020 free of commercials and financed it with a $100m creator fund. Now, execs say the plan is to introduce ads. Haha: Naturally, Reddit users pointed out that YouTube should be making YouTube [Shorts-branded shorts](. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Send as email to a friend](mailto:?subject=The%20Hustle%20wrote%20something%20I%20think%20you%27ll%20like...%0A&body=YouTube%E2%80%99s+growth+struggles+to+load%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthehustle.co%2F04282022-YouTube-growth%3Futm_campaign%3Dgummy%2Bbears%26utm_content%3D04282022-YouTube-growth%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Ddaily%0A%0AYou%20can%20subscribe%20with%20my%20link%20here%20to%20get%20the%20latest%20in%20tech%20and%20business%20daily:%0A [View on our website]( Free Resource Mastering media and content planning in 2022 Emails, videos, podcasts, blog posts, socials, memes… Where do you begin when growing your audience? All the above? Perhaps, perhaps. What a turnoff. There are a ton of outreach avenues to consider, so HubSpot experts surveyed 600+ content and media experts for strategy specifics. Skim [The State of Media and Content Planning Report]( for the most relevant insights. Themes inside the research report: - Marketers’ top goals are engagement and new audiences. - They’ve figured out new-era content and are optimizing. - Are you looking at your audience the right way? - 41% of marketers aim to evolve their media mix in 2022. - Here’s why so many media planners swear by templates. - What automation/integration/planning tools are you missing? There’s more. And resource links included throughout. [Crush content planning →]( Timber Towers [wooden skyscraper]( Wooden skyscrapers look cool — and they’re sustainable, too Wooden skyscrapers may at first sound a little impractical, like that time you had to build a tower out of balsa wood in high school. But apparently, they’re all the rage. They’re made from “mass timber” That’s when [pieces of wood]( are combined using nails, screws, lamination, or glue to create layers, resulting in large structural posts, beams, or panels. Visual learners can check out an infographic of various styles [here](, or [this video]( depicting how one of the most common forms — cross-laminated timber — is made. Building with mass timber has several benefits: - It’s strong, like concrete or steel, but lighter - It sequesters CO2 unlike concrete, which generates it, [per]( Fast Company - It reduces construction time, labor, and waste, [per]( Vox It also looks nice. For example, check out [this tower]( in Norway or [this house]( in Australia. Now, you might be thinking… … about the little pig who built his house out of sticks, but mass timber has proven to be safe. It does well in earthquakes and high winds and, should damage occur, is easier to repair than concrete. It’s also much less of a fire hazard than you’d think. The outside layer [chars](, protecting the inside. So why aren’t there more of them? Mass timber was developed in Austria in the ‘90s and has been prevalent in Europe — just slow in the US. But in [2021](, a change to the [International Building Code]( — which most US cities use — allowed mass timber structures up to 18 stories. That means more are coming, including a 25-story Mikwaukee apartment building that, [per]( Axios, will become the tallest such structure in the world when complete. [Share on Facebook]( [Share on Twitter]( [Send as email to a friend](mailto:?subject=The%20Hustle%20wrote%20something%20I%20think%20you%27ll%20like...%0A&body=Wooden+skyscrapers+look+cool+%E2%80%94+and+they%E2%80%99re+sustainable%2C+too%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fthehustle.co%2F04282022-wooden-skyscrapers%3Futm_campaign%3Dgummy%2Bbears%26utm_content%3D04282022-wooden-skyscrapers%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Ddaily%0A%0AYou%20can%20subscribe%20with%20my%20link%20here%20to%20get%20the%20latest%20in%20tech%20and%20business%20daily:%0A [View on our website]( AROUND THE WEB 🐑 On this day: In 2004, a New Zealand sheep that had been missing for 6 years was shorn on TV. His long overdue haircut resulted in [60 pounds]( of fleece. 🌎 That’s cool: Ancient Earth is [a tool]( that lets you input an address and see how the area has changed over the past 750m years. 📗 Useful: A [simple, cute site]( that uses genres to help you find a book to read. 😠Haha: A Twitter user has created a [list of companies]( he has beef with, including Applebee’s, “the Shein of restaurants,” and Shein, whose “shirts feel like sandpaper and the wet part of a shower curtain combined.” 🐾 Aww: And now, [a kitten]( who’s very bad at breaking out of jail. Meme of the day [gummy bears meme] It’s just human evolution. (Source: [imgflip.com]() SHARE THE HUSTLE Hey. Stop keeping us a secret. Refer just 3 people and we’ll start to send some goodies as a thank you. [My First Million ebook]( Spread the news. Help us grow 🌱 [Share The Hustle 🤠→]( Or copy this custom referral link: [ Your referral count: 0 How did you like today’s email? 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