Digital content studio and media network, Little Dot Studios, an All3Media Company, has been awarded the social media contract for Novocomedy, a distributor of non verbal, family focused funny content – from pranks to home videos and more. Starting with immediate effect, the partnership will see Little Dot Studios run Novocomedy’s official YouTube and Facebook […]

Instagram, impacted by the introduction of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy in 2021 and a subsequent weakening of the digital ad market, is recovering stronger than its social media peers. WARC Media forecasts Instagram’s advertising revenue to reach $71 billion (€66.3bn) in 2024, driven by parent company Meta’s innovation with AI to assist content […]

TikTok has been fined €345 million for breaking EU law in its handling of children’s personal data, including failing to protect underage users’ content from public view. The EU, said the Chinese video app had committed multiple breaches of GDPR rules. It said TikTok put child users’ accounts on a public setting by default; allowing […]

App Science, wholly owned by Sabio Holdings, a provider of Connected TV/OTT advertising platforms validated by performance, has released audience insights comparing bilingual and Spanish-only US Hispanic streaming audiences. The findings in the report provide analysis into how bilingual (English and Spanish) and Spanish-only speaking Hispanics may differ from each other. It highlights the unique […]

Tubular Labs, a specialist in social video intelligence, has released its latest US viewership trends from its Audience Ratings product – giving insight into deduplicated, unique viewership and minutes watched of trending video categories, creators and more across YouTube and Facebook. Top takeaways include: WWE Still A Hit With Younger Audiences – In the middle […]

Sky Sports has released a new social-first docuseries called SCENES that will provide four different perspectives of a matchday experience – blending first-person storytelling with candid behind-the-scenes footage. Starting at Turf Moor where Vincent Kompany welcomed his former boss, Pep Guardiola, the YouTube series will follow a group of creators as they are sent to […]

A report, Regulating Video-Sharing Platforms (VSPs), from UK comms regulator Ofcom lifts the lid, for the first time, on how easy it is for people to access, use and understand the terms and conditions set by six platforms: BitChute, Brand New Tube, OnlyFans, Snapchat, TikTok and Twitch. It also scrutinises how these VSPs communicate what […]

The media diets of viewers and listeners in the UK appear to be more diverse and fragmented than ever, according to broadcast regulator Ofcom’s latest annual report on the TV, online video, radio and audio sectors. As competition for the nation’s attention intensifies, Media Nations 2023 finds that the proportion of viewers who tune in […]

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says has admitted that Threads has lost more than half its users. The Twitter rival surged to more than 100 million users within days of its launch earlier this month. But Zuckerberg has acknowledged those numbers have fallen away. “If you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it […]

Social media platforms, websites and services such as advertising display networks will have to take tougher action to stop children seeing age-restricted adverts for products such as alcohol or gambling. Fake celebrity scams and pop-up malware from hackers will also be clamped down on as part of new rules to make advertising regulation fit for […]