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Social media shape shifters

There are two things we know without doubt about social media platforms: they are big and their main purpose in life is to be engines of profit. Long gone is any naive belief in their patronising mission statements reminiscent of 1970s cola adverts. Just like big food, big oil, big pharma or big anything else, […]

February 11, 2019

Australia: Optus streams UEFA football on YouTube, Twitter

Optus Sport, the exclusive home of the Champions League and Europa League in Australia, is trialling a new arrangement that will give football fans the chance to watch selected matches via Twitter and YouTube. The arrangement will see Optus Sport transmit a total of 10 matches between February and April 2019 on the Optus Sport […]

February 11, 2019

Intel True View offers immersive fan experience

Three leading clubs in England’s top-flight football tournament the Premier League are offering fans the possibility of watching a season-defining moment, then reliving it from any angle including from the perspective of their favourite player as they run up to take a penalty or make an improbable goal-line clearance. In partnership with Arsenal FC, Liverpool […]

February 7, 2019By Colin Mann and Nik Roseveare

Facebook to open content review centre in Kenya

As part of its continued investment across Sub-Saharan Africa and commitment to safety and security on its social media platform, Facebook is opening a new content review centre in Nairobi, Kenya. In partnership with Samasource – one of the largest digital employers in East Africa — the site in Nairobi will be Facebook’s first content […]

February 7, 2019

TF1 launches digital division

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has created a new digital division.  The unit will have three key business lines: 1)   Publishing: aufeminin (and its international equivalents: alfemminile, enfeminino, gofeminin, sofeminine), Marmiton, Livingly Media, MyLittleParis, Merci Alfred, Doctissimo, OnMeda, Les Numériques, CNET, ZDNET, GameKult, Parole de Mamans, Beauté Test 2)   Brand Solutions and services: Ykone, Studio71, Vertical […]

February 6, 2019By Chris Forrester

Snapchat subs stable, revenues rise

Snapchat, the social media sharing app, has seen user numbers stabilise after two consecutive quarters of decline. Parent company Snap said the platform had 186 million daily active users in the three months to December 31st. The number is unchanged from the previous quarter but analysts had expected users to fall. Q4 revenue rose by […]

February 6, 2019

Report: Kids shunning YouTube for more interactive media

Market research firm Kids Insights, who conduct regular surveys into the attitudes and preferences of children and tweens, has published its latest trend predictions for the next 12 months. The Future Forecast report, which is based on Kids Insights’  surveying more than

February 4, 2019

Zuckerberg: “Facebook Watch more mainstream in 2019”

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, has said he expects the Facebook Watch service to become “more mainstream” this year. The social network’s ad-funded VoD service has so far failed to set the market alight and present any real competition to the likes of YouTube, but Zuckerberg believes this is set to change. Speaking during […]

February 1, 2019

Research: Children increasingly connected

The average time children spend online has increased to three hours per day with a rise in the proportion accessing the Internet out and about, according to the latest 2019 CHILDWISE Monitor Report. The findings diverge to some extent from those released by media regulator Ofcom on January 29th, which suggest that UK children’s online […]

January 30, 2019

Facebook plans to merge message services

Facebook plans to integrate its messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. The move, reported in the NYT, will require Facebook to reconfigure how WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger function at their most basic levels. While all three services will continue operating as stand-alone apps, their underlying messaging infrastructure will be unified, the paper […]

January 25, 2019