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Study: Culturally-relevant content drives engagement

Music video platform Vevo has partnered with MAGNA and IPG Media Lab, to reveal significant findings around the nuances of multicultural audiences’ video viewing behaviour. The Anatomy of a Video Experience: A Multicultural Study explores how audiences consume content across multiple devices and their motivations around viewing habits. Understanding these subtleties is key for advertisers […]

August 24, 2020

Apple TV+ announces The Oprah Conversation

Apple TV+ and Oprah Winfrey have announced The Oprah Conversation, a new series that will continue to explore impactful and relevant topics with fascinating thought leaders from all over the world. The Oprah Conversation will debut on Apple TV+ on July 30th. Filmed remotely and incorporating audience engagement, WInfrey will lead timely and intimate discussions […]

July 28, 2020

ITV launches on screen Black Voices initiative

ITV is to launch a series of short films offering black people a platform to share stories of racism and their vision of changes they believe should happen. Aiming to promote understanding and discussion around a cause of profound importance, in order to contribute towards inspiring long term change, ITV will feature of range of […]

July 13, 2020

ITV announces Diversity Acceleration plan 

ITV has outlined its plans to accelerate change in diversity and inclusion on screen and across ITV by creating more opportunities for those from Black, Asian, minority ethnic and other underrepresented groups.  Over the next 12 months ITV will increase investment in this area and this plan will deliver measurable change across all levels and […]

July 9, 2020

Disney signs first-look deal with Kaepernick

Ativist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to feature in an exclusive docuseries produced by ESPN Films as part of a first-look deal with The Walt Disney Company. The deal between Kaepernick’s production arm, Ra Vision Media, and Disney will focus on telling scripted and unscripted stories that explore race, social injustice and […]

July 7, 2020

Kaepernick drama series heading to Netflix

The adolescent life of NFL quarterback and activist Colin Kaepernick will be explored in Colin in Black & White, a new scripted limited series from Kaepernick and Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Ava DuVernay. The Netflix series will focus on Kaepernick’s formative high school years, lending insight into the acts and experiences that […]

June 29, 2020

BBC commits £100m to diversity

The BBC is setting out the first in a new series of bold steps to transform its programming and better represent the public it serves. The BBC’s Creative Diversity Commitment – the biggest financial investment to on-air inclusion in the industry – will prioritise £100 million (€110m) of existing commissioning budget over three years (from […]

June 22, 2020

Yanga! on VisionTV app

Yanga! TV, the home of African diaspora entertainment, has brokered a deal with Vision 247 and can now be streamed via the VisionTV app which is freely available on Android and iOS. Yanga! TV puts the viewers first, inviting their opinions and giving them and community leaders a platform to share their opinions . This […]

June 22, 2020

64% of US broadband users visit CNN in May

As the news continued to impact people all around the globe, users continued to turn to CNN across platforms for reliable and trusted news and information. In the US, May 2020 saw 172 million unique visitors to CNN’s digital properties – 64 per cent of the US population with internet access. It is the third […]

June 17, 2020

FOX News maintains most-watched US cable channel

FOX News Channel (FNC) continued its dominance as the most-watched network in all of US cable across total day and primetime, advancing its winning streak to 23 straight weeks in total day and 21 weeks in a row in primetime among total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. During breaking news coverage of the nationwide […]

June 17, 2020