The Internet has overtaken TV as the main place Australians turn for their news, according to findings from Roy Morgan Research, which suggest that 12.7 million Australians (60.6 per cent, up 2.8ppts from 57.8 per cent in mid-2018) now use the Internet including: social media – 37.6 per cent; news or newspaper websites or apps […]
Following the news that Facebook is launching its gaming app two months earlier than planned, Rupantar Guha, Senior Analyst of Thematic Research at GlobalData, offers his view on the move: “By launching early, Facebook is attempting to exploit the increase in streaming caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the platform currently lacks the influential game […]
Facebook has launched a new, live streaming app in a bid to take on the likes of video game streaming platform Twitch. The coronavirus lockdown has led to an increase in popularity for gaming, giving live streamers a much larger audience to entertain and keep invested. As such, Facebook decided to release the app earlier […]
Australia has announced plans to force Google and Facebook to pay media outlets for their content, which would make it the first administration to make the tech giants share lucrative advertising revenues with traditional media. According to Josh Frydenberg, Australia’s Treasurer, a mandatory code of conduct, set to be unveiled by July and enacted soon […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Microsoft have announced a new multiyear alliance, which will transform the way fans experience the NBA. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft will become the Official Artificial Intelligence Partner and an Official Cloud and Laptop Partner for the NBA, Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), NBA G League, and USA […]
TikTok, the video-sharing social networking service, is donating £5 million (€5.75m) to a British nursing fund, to help it during the coronavirus outbreak. The Royal College of Nursing Foundation will use the money to provide support to frontline nurses. It is the biggest pandemic donation made by a social media company to date to a […]
Almost half of UK online adults came across false or misleading information about coronavirus (Covid-19) in the last week, media regulator Ofcom has found. Ofcom is conducting weekly research to help understand how people are receiving and acting on information during the current pandemic. Its first results from week one of the ‘lockdown’ show that […]
Jack Dorsey, the founder of social media platform Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1 billion towards efforts to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic. According to Dorsey, who made the announcement (naturally) on Twitter, the donation represents approximately 28 per cent of his total wealth. Dorsey will use shares he owns in […]
WWE set WrestleMania Week viewership records with more than 967 million video views across the company’s digital and social platforms including WWE Network, WWE.com, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, an increase of +20 per cent year-over-year. Additionally, a record 46 million hours of content was consumed during WrestleMania Week, an increase of +28 […]
Content demand data specialist Parrot Analytics has tracked increases and decreases in demand for various content genres since the global Covid-19 pandemic gave rise to lockdowns around the world. Its resultant study shows differences in genre trends between the US and Europe, as well as between specific European markets. For the US study, Parrot Analytics […]