Study: 29% will stream content whilst at Glastonbury
Attendees to this years Glastonbury Festival will upload some 35 social media posts, take 143 photos over the whole festival, and make a combined 25.3 millions calls, according to a…
Facebook pays users for their data
A new Facebook app will allow users to sell their data to the social meida giant, providing insights on how they use competitors’ apps. Facebook is recruiting users to download…
BT Sport, Google offer social media training to pubs
BT Sport has announced plans to offer its licensees the opportunity to grow their business by offering free personalised digital training in partnership with Google Digital Garage. A survey of…
Research: US adults spend more time with mobile than TV
US consumers are now spending more time using their mobile devices than watching TV, with smartphone use dominating that time spent, according to eMarketer. Consumers’ use of smartphones will continue…
Social Media and TV: frenemies?
Love, lust, envy, intrigue, hatred, violent threats, networking: just another episode of Game of Thrones? Or just another day on social media? Both, of course. As the cultural phenomenon de…
BuzzFeed show launching on Twitter
TV studio Celebro is set to begin hosting a new weekly show brought to air on Twitter by BuzzFeed. Launching on June 6th, #What2Watch will be a weekly roundup of…
India: NBA, TikTok partnership
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and TikTok, the short video platform, have launched a new campaign in India to celebrate the ongoing NBA Finals. The TikTok campaign includes a contest…
Ofcom: Adults spend 50 days per year online
Internet users in the UK are increasingly worried about being online, research suggests, with around four in every five harbouring concerns. The joint study by Ofcom and the Information Commissioner’s…
Survey: Comic Con attendees flock to SVoD
A survey conducted by Experience12 reveals the continued decline of live broadcast TV among Comic Con attendees, with just 7 per cent picking it as their preferred way to view…
Australia’s National Rugby League chooses Blackbird
Cloud video platform Blackbird has announced that Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) has chosen Blackbird for the live clipping, editing and publishing of match highlights. The NRL is the most…
Survey: Equal gender share for Women’s World Cup audience
An international survey of 114,973 internet users by GlobalWebIndex reveals the audience gender disparity is not as varied as people think between women’s and men’s event. By gender, the audiences…
Report: US streaming viewership up 72% YoY
Conviva’s Q1 2019 State of Streaming TV report shows that while adoption of streaming is increasing in the US, so is the complexity of achieving the goal of seamless video…
Rakuten launches streaming service
Rakuten, the Japanese e-commerce and internet company, has launched a new live video streaming service known as Rakuten LIVE. The streaming service allows artists, celebrities and general users to live…
Study: Big social media boost for GoT advertisers
Research by 4C Insights shows that IKEA, who launched one of the most successful fast response campaigns, tops the list of brands who saw the greatest social lift from ads…
Report: $80bn AR and VR market may diverge before converging
Some in the AR/VR industry see it converging into a singularity of spatial computing in one magical device, but mobile AR, smartglasses and VR could actually diverge in the medium-term…