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Grabyo partnership boosts DAZN global growth

According to cloud-based video production, editing and distribution platform Grabyo, DAZN, the online sports streaming service owned by DAZN Group, has enjoyed an impressive 2018 leveraging the power of social video to bolster its brand awareness and drive subscription growth using Grabyo’s platform to deploy a targeted video distribution strategy across its social channels on […]

January 16, 2019

FA Cup digital clips generate 46m online views

London-based sports production specialists Input Media captured and delivered complete coverage of The Emirates FA Cup third round for the first time, with all 32 matches made available as world feeds for The FA’s international rights-holders and a new digital clips service racking up 46 million views on social media. One digital clip was viewed […]

January 10, 2019

NBA, Turner, Twitter live stream deal

The National Basketball Association (NBA), Turner Sports and Twitter have agreed a live streaming deal that will provide fans in the US with a complementary experience on Twitter (via @NBAonTNT) for 20 NBA on TNT games this season. During the second halves of those games, fans can watch the action through a single-player, isolated camera […]

January 10, 2019

Study: Over 65s four times more likely to share ‘fake news’

Over 65s are almost four times more likely to have shared ‘fake news’ on Facebook than younger generations, according to research published in the journal Science. On average, Facebook users in the US over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as those aged between 18 and 29, researchers from […]

January 10, 2019

Australian Open to expand global content with Grabyo

Ahead of Australian Open 2019, Graybo has partnered with Tennis Australia to enhance its international video content strategy and expand Tennis Australia’s reach across the globe. Grabyo’s cloud-based video platform will enable Tennis Australia’s digital and social teams to create, edit and distribute real-time video clips and live streams to multiple social and digital platforms […]

January 10, 2019

Facebook Watch: 400m monthly viewers

Fidji Simo, Head of Video at Facebook, has revealed that three months since its global launch, there are already more than 400 million people monthly and 75 million people daily who spend at least one minute on Facebook Watch. In a Blog Post looking back on 2018 and looking ahead to 2019, Simo described 2018 […]

December 14, 2018By Colin Mann

Question Time most tweeted BBC show

Topical debate programme Question Time (1), political interview programme The Andrew Marr Show (2) and iconic drama Doctor Who (3) are the most tweeted about BBC TV shows of 2018, TV Licensing – the body responsible for collection of the Corporation’s licence fee has revealed. In a year of unmissable television moments, BBC news and current affairs […]

December 12, 2018By Colin Mann

Data: Love Island ‘most engaging TV content’

New data published by connected intelligence specialist Kantar Media shows that reality television has driven the highest level of social media engagement over the course of the past year, closely followed by current affairs programmes. Kantar Media measured engagement amongst UK viewers between December 1st 2017 and  November 30th 2018. The insight is taken from […]

December 11, 2018

Study: Social media tops print as US news source

Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five US adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16 per cent) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. In 2017, the portion […]

December 11, 2018

Conviva acquires Delmondo

Streaming TV real-time measurement and intelligence platform Conviva has acquired cross-platform social video analytics solution provider Delmondo, enabling it to offer the first solution that unifies real-time census-level streaming TV intelligence from apps and the web with content and audience intelligence from social media platforms. With the launch of Conviva Social Insights, streaming TV publishers […]

November 29, 2018