For the first time in Portugal, Eleven Sports will show Bundesliga football live on Facebook as part of an innovative strategy reach fans across the nation. On November 24th, Bayern München will take on Fortuna Düsseldorf, and all Facebook users in the country can watch the game for free via the Eleven Sports page. Jorge […]
Facebook has appealed against a fine imposed on it by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data watchdog, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The social media giant believes that because the regulator found no evidence that UK users’ personal data had been shared inappropriately, the £500,000 penalty was too harsh and ultimately unjustified. Last […]
A bid by Facebook for the rights to the English Premier League is “not on the cards” according to the social media giant’s director of media partnerships, EMEA, Patrick Walker. Addressing a meeting of the Broadcasting Press Guild in London, Walker said that Watch, the company’s digital video platform, was built around three main pillars: […]
Snapchat has launched 18 new, exclusive shows in France with various partners that include M6, France Télévisions and its digital platform slash, as well as BFM TV, among others. The social media sharing app, which targets teens and young adults, is aiming at keeping users on its platform for longer and take and take on […]
Channel 4 News has formed a partnership with Facebook to produce Uncovered – a weekly news show exclusively for Facebook Watch. Scheduled to launch early next year, Uncovered will be an in-depth news and analysis programme from Channel 4 News’ team of correspondents, who will go beyond the headlines to tackle the stories that often […]
Snap has agreed a deal with independent factual production company Barcroft Media to bring eight of its digital series to its mobile sharing app Snapchat. Five new TV series — Ridiculous Rides, Snapped in the Wild, Beast Buddies, Born Different and Shake My Beauty — are already available already to Snapchat users across the globe. […]
GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, has released its second annual State of Video report offering intelligence on consumer video consumption, advertising platforms and demand. The report is co-authored by GroupM’s Futures Director, Adam Smith, and Senior Advisor, Rob Norman. It provides in-depth commentary on key trends concerning advertisers: declining linear TV viewing, new addressable television […]
The January-June 2018 issue of the Kids TV Report by Eurodata TV Worldwide reviews the latest trends in youth TV programming and analyses the latest children’s hits in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. Kids daily viewing times and use of catch-up TV significantly differ between countries ; local production is high in the […]
Snapchat, the social media sharing app, is adding 26 new UK shows from the likes of Channel 4, Sky News, Vice and Manchester City FC in an attempt to broaden its offering and attract more UK users. A number of US shows produced by premium partners on the platform have already attracted five million UK […]
Ad-free open video platform Vimeo, has agreed a product integration with LinkedIn that will enable broader and more effective distribution from the video platform to the professional network. Anyone using video as a professional communications tool can now natively publish videos with a single click from their Vimeo account to their LinkedIn Company Page as […]