Catering to Gen Yers frustrated by fake news, Compass News is a subscription aggregator app that provides non-partisan news in digestible bullet points. The start-up’s non-advertising revenue business model removes perverse incentives that encourage sensationalist news.

Online advertising has transformed from once-static, clickable images to targeted messages that follow people as they browse. Canvas8 spoke to Don Marti, a Mozilla strategist and Nudgestock speaker, to learn how this evolution has impacted the perception and effectiveness of digital ads.

MedMen’s campaign aims to normalize cannabis across stereotypes unassociated with weed-consumption. By associating cannabis closer to people’s actual identities, rather than tired stereotypes of its users, attitudes towards to drug could change.

Following news of how Facebook data was used to affect voting behaviours in the US, the politics of nudging has come under scrutiny. In advance of Nudgestock 2018, Canvas8 spoke to Rory Sutherland, founder of Ogilvy Change, to discuss what it means to nudge ethically.