In line with its Phase 2 provisional findings issued in August 2021, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has concluded that Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy would reduce competition between social media platforms and that the deal has already removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the display advertising market. The independent CMA panel reviewing […]
GWI, a supplier of audience insights, has shared the findings of its report, Connecting the dots 2022. The research focuses on changing consumer attitudes and how their behaviours will shape the year ahead. The report is compiled through the continuous collection of survey data throughout 2021, by GWI, from 700,000 interviews across 47 countries. It […]
The take-up of SVoD continues to soar, with 56 per cent of Brits now viewing these services each week, according to post lockdown 2021 IPA TouchPoints data. The IPA TouchPoints dataset, which provides a 360-degree understanding of British consumers’ daily lives, reveals that since 2018 to post lockdown 2021, the reach of SVoD services (including […]
The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, with a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people, but which teams are capturing the public’s attention the most and who has the happiest fans? Currys PC World explored the world of the online football fandom to reveal which Premier League teams and players are fan favourites, and which are the target of the most ridicule. The most […]
Channel 4 and Instagram have announced a real-time social reality series told through social media. You Do You will air exclusively on Instagram from November 14th. The four-part social series is set in the bustling UK city of Manchester and follows the lives of a group of young creatives, whose relatable stories are shared with […]
AccuWeather NOW, the video streaming product from AccuWeather, hasy announced it is joining STIRR’s roster of over 100 channels, meeting an increasing demand for streaming weather and climate news content. STIRR’s audience of over 7.3 million users can now access AccuWeather’s forecasts as well as 24/7, continuous daily programming, dedicated to all things weather. This […]
A report from analysts at MoffettNathanson (MN) questions to what extent Facebook has been hurt by recent service interruptions, a negative report in the Wall Street Journal, and highly critical congressional whistle-blower testimony from Frances Haugen. The consequences were something of a downhill slide for its share price (ranging down 12.34 per cent, or $46 […]
Broadband networks and all that comes with them – CDNs, nodes, edge servers etc – were expected to fall over in the pandemic. The forecast of friction points, and outright failure, as traffic caused by WFH and more time to use entertainment, was so solid that the big streamers voluntarily cut their data intensity, trading […]
Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised after its social media services – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, went down for around six hours on October 4th – affecting users globally. An internal technical issue took the services offline at about 4pm BST and the scramble to bring it back online eventually succeeded at around 10pm. […]
Social media ad solutions and shopping experiences platform StitcherAds has revealed the results of a study on how social media advertising influences purchasing habits across generations, analysing 500 US-based respondents, ages 18 and over. Among the key findings:. Gen Z and Millennials Drive the Push for ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ on Social When asked if […]