FOX Sports, the exclusive English-language home of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in the US, has agreed collaborations with Snapchat and Twitter for the global event, with the intention of will providing dynamic opportunities tailored to each respective social media platform and its wide, growing audience. “These exciting collaborations with Twitter and Snapchat mark a […]
BT Sport will be broadcasting the NBA London Game between the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics via Facebook, the BT Sport app, on TV or on BTSport.com. The NBA London Game 2018, featuring the Philadelphia 76ers and Boston Celtics, will be available live to fans across the UK on BT Sport’s Facebook page. Coverage of […]
The 2017 season saw Formula 1 register an increase in audience figures across both TV and digital platforms compared to the previous year, with F1 the fastest growing sport brand on social media platforms. The TV cumulative audience – i.e., the aggregate of the average audience of all the F1 programmes broadcast across the year […]
Video streaming and monetisation specialist Ooyala has released its State of the Broadcast Industry 2018 report which maps out the challenges for content creators and distributors as they strive to maintain and grow audiences in an increasingly fragmented media landscape. The report – which draws on Ooyala’s own data and analysis as well as research […]
Facebook and Universal Music Group (UMG) have agreed what they describe as an “unprecedented” global, multi-year deal under which UMG becomes the first major music company to license its recorded music and publishing catalogues for video and other social experiences across Facebook, Instagram and Oculus. The pair say the partnership will facilitate deeper engagement between […]
Facebook has released its Transparency Report, previously called the Government Requests Report, for the first half of 2017. For the first time, it is expanding the report beyond government requests to provide data regarding reports from rights holders related to intellectual property (IP) — covering copyright, trademark, and counterfeit. The report also includes the same […]
HBO’s Game of Thrones is the top-ranked TV programme of 2017 in terms of total interactions per episode across the Facebook and Twitter social media platforms, according to Nielsen. The penultimate season of the fantasy-epic averaged 2.566 million interactions across the two social networks for each of its seven episodes, nearly tripling the total of […]
In the US, just four companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google – will harvest up to two-thirds of all new TV and video revenue in 2018. Their gains will be due partly to the saturation of traditional TV in the country, but also to their growing domination of the OTT video market. Amazon and […]
Bloomberg Media and Twitter have launched TicToc by Bloomberg, a 24/7 global news network built for a social media platform that targets on-the-go, mobile-first news consumers. TicToc combines the global news gathering capabilities of Bloomberg’s 2,700 journalists and analysts across 120 countries, with the immediacy of Twitter. The first iteration of TicToc will feature a […]
Facebook-owned Instagram will be used by nearly one in four smartphone users worldwide this year, according to eMarketer’s global forecast of the photo- and video-sharing social platform. Since Instagram’s launch in 2010, the app has continually innovated and added new features in a bid to attract new users. The updates have proved particularly popular with […]