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        <h2>Introduction</h2>
            <p>
                Over the past couple of decades, mobile operators have made substantial investments in 5G, Edge technology and more. These businesses are blessed with abundant opportunities to distribute and innovate with cloud-based applications, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual reality, so on n so forth. However, despite these advancements, we believe that end consumer experience has not witnessed a paradigm shift at the same accelerated pace. 
            </p>
            <p>
                In this article, we will explore the current state of mobile operators and aim to highlight the need for a new approach.
            </p>
            <p>
                Before we begin, let us look at how Telcos and OEMs are placed in this space and how consumers are receiving them.   
            </p>
   

            <h2>Current State of Telcos and OEMs: A Disjointed Landscape</h2>


            <p>For device manufacturers, edge technology can significantly improve device performance and responsiveness by bringing computational power closer to the consumers. OEMs have made progress in edge computing and AI capabilities, enabling faster processing and real-time experiences. However, we feel like there is still a massive room for improvement in terms of optimizing the performance across different device models and addressing the potential bottlenecks.</p>

            <p>
                For Telcos , incorporating edge AI, IoT to enable connected experiences and smart functionalities, while ensuring ease of use, across multiple devices and platforms, remains a challenge. Also, adoption of 5G for Edge implementation that helps manufacturers, in enhancing performance, lowering latency, and improving connectivity, is in our opinion, sufficiently underutilised.  
            </p>
            <p>
                Telcos face several challenges in fully utilizing the innovation potential of 5G technology. They struggle to recoup their financial investments in 5G and are experiencing intensified competition from various players and device owners. Moreover, with the widespread emergence of Web 3.0, consumers and business requirements are beyond the capabilities offered by 5G alone. 
            </p>
            <p>
                So, let’s ask the important question here, which is ‘What is that key element that will help improve   this lagging consumer experience? Let us look at the current state of consumers on  digital platforms and their expectations from the same. 
            </p>
            <h2>
                The Current State of Consumers: Digital Expectations
            </h2>

            <p>
                The fast-moving professional landscape, rise of Gen Zs and clear access to generative AI, has intensified consumer demands for personalized experiences. From what we gather, consumers, (often brand ambassadors of devices) are predominantly young and working individuals who expect digitally enabled experiences in every aspect of their lives. They seek device intelligence that can bring functional benefits like, where’s the last order, what’s the latest in sports and news, step count during the day, bills to be paid by eod, and more.  They’re looking for ways to  outsmart their own mindset and deliver on-demand convenience in the best way possible. This also includes high-quality gaming, real-time updates, live content, seamless shopping, personalized recommendations and more. 
            </p>
            <p>
                Now that we understand where the gap is, let us try to find a way to fix it by providing meaningful solutions, for these expectations. 
            </p>
            <h2>Bridging the Gap: Creating a Smaller, Smarter, and Smoother World</h2>
<p>Over the past three to four decades, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the way content is consumed across channels, and how it is relatively smoother with the advent of the internet.</p>
<p>However, some critical questions that we would like to ask are: Does consuming content really become easier, or does it lead to cognitive overload? Does it make a consumer’s life easy during functional hours of the day or does navigating through multiple apps become a challenge? Is the consumer journey in search for knowledge, and doing an action, become seamless?</p>
<p>To answer these questions, we have found that adopting a new approach is the need of the hour. Let’s talk about what this approach would intend to do in bridging the gap.</p>
<h2>New Approach: Immersive Surface Experience</h2>
<p>Adopting a chic smart is needed to bridge the gap, that helps transform the cognitive overload into a thin layer of meaningful content. This smart layer, integrated into mobile devices or tablets, can effectively declutter the abundance of content and make the physical device more meaningful and personalized for users. Basically, this is that “Surface”, which reads human minds (with the power of AI) and serves consumers what they need. Edge also helps keep personal data secure, unlike cloud computing.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Telcos and OEMs can join hands in leveraging Edge and 5G to deliver this <strong>Immersive Surface Experience</strong> that will declutter every moment for consumers. With this improved consumer experience, Telcos/OEMs can generate amplified engagement, which accelerates growth, not just for them, but content developers too.</p>
<p>Not just that, apart from an amazing user experience, this approach ensures a completely secure experience that focuses on keeping all the privacy guardrails in place. Isn’t that brilliant?</p>
<h2>Conclusion: Building a More Focused Consumer Journey</h2>
<p>While we feel like handset manufacturers play a crucial role in connecting consumers across the globe, it is equally important for them to contribute to the development of a more focused individual. This necessitates the emergence of a smart layer, illustrating the concept of an app-less consumer journey. By inspiring, engaging, and growing with consumers, this smart layer can effectively lead to the creation of a better surface technology.</p>
<p>To learn more about how the app-less surface ecosystem can enhance technology experiences, stay tuned to our blogs or reach out to us at <a href="mailto:marketing@glance.com">marketing@glance.com</a></p>
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            <p>
                It's that time of year again! Recaps, rewinds, flashbacks, and a host of gift-wrapped nostalgia -
                if
                you
                have a
                Glance-enabled phone, this <b>GlanceBack</b> is for you! And even if you don't, join us on a short
                walk
                through
                time,
                as we revisit what millions of Glance users in India liked, loved, and LIVE'd on their lock
                screens!
            </p>

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            <p class="title">If 2022 was a lock screen ··· </p>
            <p> ··· then <b>190 million Indians</b> locked onto <b>533 million hours</b> of <b>LIVE
                    shows, gaming, sports,
                    shopping, and trends,</b>
                not to mention <b>popular movie and music launches!</b> </p>
        </div>
        <div>
            <p class="extra-bold" style="color: #FF0000">GlanceBack FunFact #1</p>
            <p style="color: #9900FF;">On the lock screen at least, Belgium beat Argentina as a trend about Courtois was
                <b>seen 150 million
                    times </b>-
                way more than the one about Messi's first goal in the tournament!
            </p>

            <p>Now let's dive into the <b>Top Glances of 2022.</b></p>

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                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>Bhediya and Mili's
                            promo shows
                            were watched LIVE by
                            18
                            million
                        </b></div>
                </div>

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                        <img style="width: 44vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/c.png">
                    </div>

                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>37.4 million LIVE
                            viewers during
                            the BGMI Masters
                            Series </b></div>
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                        <img style="width: 26vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/t20-2.gif">
                    </div>

                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>3.9 million
                            watched Pitched
                            Battles and T20 shows
                            LIVE
                        </b></div>
                </div>

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                    <div style="display: flex;align-items: center;">
                        <img style="width: 20vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/fpl.png">
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                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>LIVE shopping
                            shows like Fashion
                            Premier League
                            with
                            brand launches
                            by EK, Dcraf, and others, had an astonishing 2.2 million tune in </b></div>
                </div>

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                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>India stayed
                            vigilant in 2022
                            with trends on
                            covid updates seen a staggering 241 million times</b></div>
                </div>

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                        <img style="width: 20vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/bhediya.png">
                        <img style="width: 20vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/dhrishyam.png">

                    </div>

                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>Move over
                            billboards - production
                            houses chose the
                            lock
                            screen to
                            promote their releases in 2022.
                            The numbers speak for themselves: Bhediya's promo was seen by 12 million users on
                            Glance!
                        </b>
                    </div>
                </div>

                <div class="card">
                    <div style="display: flex;align-items: center;justify-content: center;">
                        <img style="width: 20vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/dhoobey.png">
                        <img style="width: 20vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/dhrishyam2.png">

                    </div>

                    <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b> Millions of lock
                            screen users
                            grooved to top
                            music launches as well, like Doobey and Drishyam 2!</b>
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        <div>
            <p class="extra-bold">In 2022, India came a-LIVE with Glance LIVE Fest!</p>
            <p style="margin-top: 36px;">
                <b>24 hours in a day, 2080 hours in 2022,</b> but here's what will blow your mind - 2022 saw the
                <b>world's
                    largest
                    digital LIVE and interactive fest</b> come a-LIVE on <b>20 million lock screens, from 3rd to 5th
                    June.</b>
            </p>
            <div style="display: flex;justify-content: center;align-items: center;margin: 24px 0px;">
                <img style="width: 18vw;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/glf_mobile.png">
                <img style="width: 25vw;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/glf-3.gif">
            </div>

            <p>Users, top celebs, creators, game streamers, and brands all came together for 3 insane days of premium
                LIVE
                experiences on Glance. Users watched a whopping <b>4.5 billion seconds of live streams,</b> with over
                <b>100
                    streams</b>
                across <b>fashion, gaming, cricket, music and entertainment.</b>
            </p>

            <p>Some of the stars who lit up lock screens in Glance LIVE Fest include <b>Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor
                    Khan,
                    Rajkummar Rao, Rana Daggubati and Ektaa R Kapoor, singers Mohit Chauhan, Jasleen Royal,</b> and many
                others.</p>
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                    <img style="width: 20vw;;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/karan.png">
                    <img style="width: 28vw;;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/kareena.gif">
                    <img style="width: 20vw;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/jasleen.png">

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            <p>
                And there's more! <b>Glance LIVE Fest brought the most stanned DJs from the clubs of Goa to
                    India's lock
                    screens,</b> lighting up phones and moods till the wee hours. <b>DJ Saj Akhtar performed his set on
                    the
                    3rd
                    of June
                    with 551K users tuning in. DJ OJO played to a virtual audience of 677K</b> on 4th of June, while
                <b>DJ
                    Harsha took
                    over the dance floor on the 5th of June with 405K LIVE viewers.</b>
            </p>

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                <div style="display: flex;align-items: center;justify-content: center;">
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        <div>
            <p class="extra-bold" style="color: #FF0000">GlanceBack FunFact #2</p>

            <p style="color: #9900FF;">
                India has the largest stadium in the world, with a capacity of over 130,000 - now picture an audience
                over
                10 times that capacity, grooving to the beats of India's best DJs, right on their lock screens.
                That's <b>1.6
                    million Indians moving to the grooviest beats during our LIVE and interactive fest!</b>
            </p>

            <p>
                That's how big it was, and no, we're not playing around. But speaking of playing around,
                <b>India's lock
                    screen
                    users watched more than 470 million hours of LIVE game streams on Glance</b>. Here's a look at
                the
                <b>Top
                    Games played on Glance Games Center</b>, along with the <b>Top LIVE Gaming streams</b> this year.
            </p>

            <div class="card">
                <div style="display: flex;align-items: center;justify-content: center;">
                    <img style="width: 20vw;;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/chess.png">
                    <img style="width: 20vw;;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/fruit_ninja.png">
                    <img style="width: 20vw;height:vh;margin: 16px;" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/glance-2022/cropped/jungle_man.png">

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                <div style="margin-top: 12px;font-size: 1em;text-align:center;max-width:80vw;"><b>Chess takes Queen with
                        192 million
                        plays, followed by
                        Fruit
                        Katana and
                        Wothan the Barbarian, with 144 million and 86 million plays respectively!
                    </b></div>

            </div>

        </div>

        <div>
            <p class="extra-bold" style="color: #FF0000">GlanceBack FunFact #3</p>
            <p style="color: #9900FF;">Remember Tetris, AKA the 'brick game' ? It's been played a
                whopping
                177 million times
                since
                2008, and that's
                huge, but did you know, <b>Glance's top 3 games of 2022 got played a whopping 423 million times
                    just
                    this
                    year!</b>
            </p>

            <p>When it came to <b>LIVE gaming streams, Glance College Battlegrounds - Season 1</b>, a three-day
                tournament
                enabled
                passionate college gamers across India, battle it out in an online multiplayer battle game -
                Battleground
                Mobile India (BGMI) and compete for a <b>total prize of Rs 2 lakh. 64 colleges from across India
                    participated,
                    and 1.7 million LIVE viewers tuned in on Glance!</b></p>
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        <div>
            <div style="font-weight:bold;font-size: 20px">Locking 2022 away
            </div>
            <p>
                Whew! That's a wrap, and what an incredible year it's been. Thank you for being such an important part
                of
                our journey - you really made our year by Glancing through 2022! And right before we <i>glance</i> ahead
                to
                2023,
                we wish you a very <b>Happy New Year!</b>
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Looking back at the year that went by, through India's lock screens

Year at a Glance 2022

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    <h2>Glance - Transforming Lock Screens Into Smart Surfaces</h2>
    <p class="italic" style="font-weight: 600">
      Decoding Glance's US Experience
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      <p>
        The humble smartphone lock screen has recently been catapulted into
        stardom.
      </p>
      <p>
        Traditionally, the lock screen has been a passive space for
        run-of-the-mill information such as notifications, time, weather, date,
        and so on.
        <span class="bold">In 2019, Glance reimagined this as a surface for discovering the
          internet.</span>
        Over 400 million devices across Asia now come enabled with the
        revolutionary Glance lock screen experience, and we plan to launch
        Glance for Android smartphones in North America soon. News of this
        upcoming launch has sparked curiosity about Glance’s value proposition
        in the US. In the past weeks,
        <span style="text-decoration: underline">major tech publications have analyzed</span>
        how Glance and the evolving lock screen are changing the way consumers
        engage with smartphones for good.
      </p>
      <p>
        While we are still working on the Glance lock screen experience for the
        US, we thought it might be best to share our vision for the product in
        the country, and delineate exactly how we hope to create valuable
        digital experiences for consumers here.
      </p>
      <p class="bold">What is Glance’s vision?</p>
      <p>
        Glance’s vision is to add value to people’s digital lives. We do so by
        converting conventionally passive digital surfaces, such as the lock
        screen, into <b>smart surfaces</b> that leverage the capabilities of
        today’s sophisticated mobile devices.
      </p>

      <p>
        Surfaces like the lock screen have typically been used for very limited
        purposes: notifications, weather, and time. In some ways, this
        experience reflects what was possible on early generations of
        smartphones which had limited capabilities. We believe that the lock
        screen can be made much smarter and more useful, unlocking a new and
        exciting potential with power that is yet to be harnessed.
      </p>
      <p>
        We all interact with our lock screen surfaces multiple times each day.
        Sometimes we know exactly what we want or need to get done (we have
        “intent”); at other times we do not have anything specific in our mind
        (we are bored, killing time, or seeking “inspiration”). Glance helps
        users make the most of these moments by transforming the lock screen
        into a smart surface with rich and relevant experiences tailored to
        where the consumer is on the <b>“intent to inspiration spectrum”</b> in
        their daily journey. We call these experiences or experience zones
        <b>“Spaces”.</b>
      </p>
      <p class="bold">What are Glance Spaces and what can they be used for?</p>
      <p>
        <b>Glance Spaces</b> are live experience zones on the lock screen that
        an individual may choose, to cater to their specific interests. People
        can tap into Spaces to derive more value from an ongoing activity or
        experience content that is relevant to them at such a point in time.
        Spaces are intended to be a premium experience, designed to delight the
        individual via every interaction. Spaces are activated through the
        consumer’s consent and intent, and they can personalize the surface on
        which Spaces appear.
      </p>
      <p>
        For example, a Fitness Space can provide suggestions, including choice
        of a workout or playlist to listen to while you exercise. During a live
        football game, a Sports Space can provide live scores through a
        scoreboard on the lock screen, along with trivia and other updates.
      </p>

      <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; padding: 8px 0px">
        <img class="blog-img" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/desk_uploads/Running-0.png" alt="running">
        <img class="blog-img" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/desk_uploads/Running-1.png" alt="running">
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      <p style="text-align: center">
        <span class="italic">
          A Fitness Space can enable users to access workout stats, workout
          choices, playlist recommendations
        </span>
      </p>

      <p>
        Consumers can set up an OTT Space that lets them watch trailers of
        movies or TV shows on their existing apps, as well as trending content
        on other apps. The News Space can help consumers stay updated with
        relevant breaking news and they can also choose to activate Spaces to
        get news wrap-ups and summaries at specific points of time in the day.
      </p>

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        <img class="blog-img" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/desk_uploads/Weather-0.png" alt="running">
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      <p style="text-align: center">
        <i>News Spaces keep consumers updated with relevant breaking news,
          personalized daily news summaries, weather information
        </i>
      </p>
      <p>
        Spaces can also be shared, allowing consumers to engage and interact
        with others in the same Space if they choose to. Consumers in the same
        Music Space, watching the same virtual concert can interact with one
        another, participate in polls, request songs, etc.
      </p>
      <div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; padding: 8px 0px">
        <img class="blog-img" src="https://web.glance-cdn.com/images/desk_uploads/Lights-0.png" alt="running">
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      <p style="text-align: center">
        <i>Live Music Concerts in Music Spaces allows music lovers to connect
          with each other, interact with performers, request songs and more
        </i>
      </p>
      <p>
        A consumer can access a specific space by swiping on the lock screen.
        While we have begun with simple use cases of Spaces, we believe the
        possibilities are endless.
      </p>

      <p><b>What Kind of Content Appears on Glance? </b></p>

      <p>
        Being on the lock screen is a massive responsibility. Glance takes this
        very seriously and ensures that anything that goes onto the lock screen
        is privacy compliant and meets high aesthetic standards. Glance content
        and experiences are not consumer-generated but rather curated through
        partnerships with premium and trusted developers or media companies. In
        fact, we intend to <b>launch the Glance Developer Platform</b>
        that will bring developers immense opportunities to create premium
        experiences for consumers.
      </p>

      <p><b>How is Glance Monetized? </b></p>

      <p>
        In the US, monetization on the lock screen surface will be primarily
        driven by the Space that a consumer chooses to consume at any moment.
        For example, consumers can pay a subscription fee for premium news wraps
        by a major publisher arriving every morning on their lock screens; or
        they could choose to buy products from merchants when the product drop
        of the day surfaces on the lock screen. Glance is a smart surface, not
        an ads platform. We do not intend to show ads on the lock screen
        surface.
      </p>
      <p><b>What controls are available to consumers? </b></p>

      <p>
        Giving control to the consumer is core to our philosophy. Our consumers
        decide what they want to experience on the Glance lock screen. While
        Glance’s fundamental value proposition is consistent, the appearance and
        features will align with what our research shows consumers want in
        specific markets.
        <span class="bold">For example, Glance will be a 100 percent opt-in platform in the US
          in the spirit of empowerment of consumers and all privacy legislations
          including FTC Act, CCPA, CPRA.</span>
        Opting-in to Glance will be part of the “unboxing” experience of
        powering up and activating a new phone.
      </p>
      <p>
        Given that Glance seeks to add value every time you reach for the phone,
        consumers are able to customize what they see on the lock screen. Some
        will choose to ignore the content and unlock the phone as they normally
        would; some will derive value from the visual and headlines that appear
        on the lock screen before they unlock the phone; others will want to
        dive deeper and tap or swipe to explore more. If consumers do not find
        Glance experience exciting, they can opt-out via the settings screen on
        the phone at any point of time.
      </p>
      <p><b>Summary </b></p>

      <p>
        We live in a world where there is more content than can be consumed by
        any given individual in a lifetime.
        <b>With Glance, and our concept of Glance Spaces, we want to empower
          people to consume content without getting consumed by it.</b>
        They have the right to know everything they want to know, watch what
        they love whenever they want, but also to easily disconnect, and go back
        to their physical lives instantly. We believe that glancing at
        snackable, relevant, timely content about what really interests
        consumers on the lock screen – the surface which they organically
        interact with the most – enables that. 
      </p>
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Our vision, philosophy and facts on how Glance will transform lock screen in the US

Glance US Vision - Blog

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