According to research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), the amount of time consumers spend each week using a ‘screen’ — a television, personal computer, tablet, or mobile phone — now tops 50 hours. Importantly,
Israel-based Spacecom says its upcoming AMOS-6 satellite is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on September 3rd. Facebook is a major client for the satellite with capacity booked through Eutelsat of Paris, and worth (to Eutelsat) some $95 million (€83.9m) in total contract value. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the scheme in […]
Amazon’s video game streaming service Twitch has bought gaming news and social media company Curse, giving Twitch access to 30-million visitors to Curse’s websites, video and social media channels and desktop app. Terms were not disclosed. “We’ve long been fans of Curse, which is an innovator in the games industry with a strong culture built […]
Visual sharing Media site Pinterest has launched video advertising as it fellow social media destinations that are cashing in on the popularity of online clips. Pinterest has developed a product, Promoted Video Pins, that advertisers in the UK and US can purchase as premium, reserved ad inventory. The company said its new product follows a […]
Ahead of the simultaneous global premiere of new season two episodes of Fear the Walking Dead on August 21st, AMC Global has teamed up with Snapchat to create an exclusive zombie themed lens. The lens will allow fans of the series to transform themselves into the undead within the Snapchat mobile picture messaging app. Marking […]
Google has launched its video chatting app, branded Duo, to take on the likes of Apple’s FaceTime, Microsoft’s Skype and Facebook’s Messenger. The new app is being released as a free service for phones running on Google’s Android operating system as well as Apple’s iPhones. Calls are encrypted and the video resolution changes depending on […]
Kids’ media consumption in Australia has increased over the past year, with their total spending power rising to A$1.8 billion (€1.2bn) annually, Cartoon Network’s annual research study into children and parents New Generations 2016 has found. The report revealed that TV ads are still the most effective for reaching children, with watching TV remaining the […]
A number of celebrities have been warned about endorsing products on social media sites such as YouTube and Twitter without declaring they had been paid to do so, the UK government has said. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), also warned the firms paying them and forced the intermediary, Social Chain, to undertake to stop. […]
Having introduced live broadcasting to its service, Facebook is now testing a feature on both its Android and iOS apps that would allow users to stream Facebook videos on their TVs. The social media giant is planning to have the feature work with TVs that are connected to Apple TV or Google Chromecast, apart from […]
The top 3 apps used near the Olympics opening ceremony were all Facebook properties – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. This proves that at least in Brazil, when people share, Facebook is the big winner. Facebook owned over 46 per cent of the total consumption around the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony, according to stats from Procera […]