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MTV network rebrand

MTV International, which spans 160+ countries and territories and 32 languages, has announced that effective immediately the youth brand will evolve from “I want my MTV” to “I am my MTV.” The network will celebrate its audience and talent by spotlighting their social media videos between programming on-air and across all platforms with #MTVbump, the […]

June 25, 2015

Analyst: ‘Facebook vs. YouTube at Break Point?’

Facebook is poised to take on YouTube’s dominance in video content, according to media analysis firm Ampere Analysis. Currently viewed as a platform for building awareness, Facebook hasn’t yet been able to compete with YouTube’s ability to deliver revenue returns to content creators through its huge engaged audiences across the globe. But now it appears […]

June 22, 2015

Sky Sports launches #MyAshesSummer campaign

Sky Sports is asking cricket fans to send in their own images to feature in its new TV ad, celebrating “why an Ashes summer is like no other”. Using #MyAshesSummer, fans can send in their own content. Those user-generated images will sit alongside footage of great Ashes moments as well as behind the scenes content […]

June 22, 2015

Wimbledon, IBM serve up enhanced fan engagement

Building on a technology partnership that has existed since 1990, IT consultancy and technology expert IBM and the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) have revealed a number of innovations for the Championships to mark the next step in the Club’s digital strategy for the Wimbledon tournament. Making use of its latest technology advancements in […]

June 18, 2015By Colin Mann

YouTube Gaming this summer

YouTube has announced that YouTube Gaming will launch in the UK and US later this summer, a new app and website designed to keep users connected to the games, players, and culture that matter most to them, with videos, live streams, and the biggest community of gamers on the web – all in one place. […]

June 15, 2015By Nik Roseveare

Facebook scraps satellite constellation plan

It seems that the non-announced ‘plan’ for Facebook to launch a constellation of mini-satellites, or else one $500 million super-satellite, has been dropped. The scheme, widely talked about some 6 months ago, was going to provide low-cost internet services for the developing world. The latest unconfirmed report (in The Information publication) says that Facebook found […]

June 10, 2015By Chris Forrester

97% of youth ‘bored’ despite owning 6 connected devices

MTV has published international research revealing that almost all (97 per cent) of more than 15,000 12 to 24-year-old respondents across 26 countries claimed to be affected by boredom, with two-thirds experiencing it on a weekly basis and nearly one-quarter daily, equating to more than 340 million people aged 12 to 24 being bored at […]

June 2, 2015

Thaicom launches 2nd screen platform

Thaicom, one of Asia’s leading satellite operators, alongside a joint venture between Kantana Group and Intouch Holdings has launched its first 2nd Screen platform in Thailand. The service will first be used to air Gossip Girl, licensed from the Gossip Girl TV series in the US, on the Channel 3 Television Network. “2nd Screen is […]

June 1, 2015

$850bn mobile Internet revenues by 2018 



Smartphone sales growth is slowing to less than 10 per cent annually to 2018, and mobile networks saw just 5 per cent growth in the last decade. So while Apple continues to knock it out of the park and Xiaomi skyrockets, mobile internet is the mobile growth market. Digi-Capital now forecasts almost 3x mobile internet […]

May 27, 2015

Beamly beats Twitter for Eurovision engagement

Beamly, the social discovery network for TV, has announced the results of the live ‘Votelys’ (polls) it ran during this year’s Eurovision competition. By the end of the Grand Final, the viewing public from across Europe had used Beamly’s social network to cast 9,077,194 votes in total, significantly beating Twitter’s engagement figure around the show […]

May 27, 2015