Formula 1 fans watched online history being made as Lewis Hamilton equalled Michael Schumacher’s record number of 91 race wins at the Formula 1 Aramco Grosser Preis Der Eifel 2020 in Germany on October 11th. The race was broadcast on the Formula 1 YouTube Channel live and for free, in seven European markets: Germany, Switzerland, […]
Video calling app Zoom has announced a system to allow users pay for live, online events and experiences. Branded ‘OnZoom’, the new spin-off platform is beta launching with live events for fitness, music and art. Zoom CEO Eric. S. Yuan said partners can expect “added event discovery and monetisation features” for online versions of “traditionally […]
Facebook is now operating its own satellite. The single craft was launched back on September 2nd on an Arianespace Vega rocket which carried 53 small satellites. The Facebook “experimental” vehicle weighed just 138 kgs and was built by Maxar technologies. Facebook is not saying much about the mission other than that the satellite has “broadband […]
Never.no, the engagement specialist, has announced the latest release of Bee-On, a cloud-based social and content management platform. Producers will have instant access to the latest features including an upgraded scalable Personal Response engine, advanced Historic Twitter Search, and Trend Tracker. Bee-On’s tools help producers hand-pick audience generated content and publish and redisplay into entertainment, […]
WWE’s official YouTube channel has surpassed 50 billion total views. The channel is YouTube’s top-ranked in the Sports category – ahead of the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, ESPN and NASCAR — and is closing in on 70 million subscribers. “Reaching 50 billion video views on YouTube is a testament to our compelling storylines, larger than […]
Dubai-based broadcasting giant MBC has signed an exclusive Entertainment Partnership with Facebook’s MENA region. The deal gives Facebook Watch access to some 20,000 videos. The content comes from an assortment of MBC channels including Mbc1, Mbc2, Mbc4, Mbc Masr, Mbc Drama, Mbc the Voice, Mbc the Voice Kids and OTT service Shahid. Content will involve […]
NBC Olympics and Twitter have extended the content partnership both parties announced in 2019 to include the postponed Tokyo Olympics set for the summer of 2021 and the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in February 2022. Most elements of the extension mirror the original agreement, which was announced solely for Tokyo 2020 in July 2019. Now, both […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom’s second Mobile Matters report analyses how around 200,000 people used their Android mobile phones between January and April this year, shedding light on how people make calls and get online on the move. The report reveals marked differences in how people used their phones before and during the initial Covid-19 lockdown […]
Covid-19 will boost worldwide revenue on content consumed on mobile phones by 28 per cent in 2020 according to Strategy Analytics’ Global Mobile Media Forecast: 2015-2025 report. Stay-at-home guidance issued by governments as result of the pandemic has stimulated an increase in spending within mobile games and mobile apps, as consumers have been forced to […]
Sky Sports has announced a set of new measures coming into effect immediately to combat online abuse and hate across its platforms. Over 40 million users engage on Sky Sports’ channels on digital and social media platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) which have seen a spike in hateful comments on the basis of race, […]