Facebook and WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) have announced a new in-ring series, Mixed Match Challenge, that will stream live in the US exclusively on Facebook on Tuesday nights beginning January 16th. The 12–episode series will air on Facebook Watch and feature WWE Superstars from both the Raw and SmackDown Live rosters competing in a single-elimination mixed tag-team tournament to win $100,000 […]
Netflix has defended a tweet that referred specifically to 53 people who had watched its new Christmas film every day for 18 days. “Who hurt you?” read the tweet, addressed to them. Some viewers protested calling the tweet “creepy” for the platform to keep such close tabs on its audience, and mock them. Netflix said […]
A report from UK TV Licensing shows a rising trend in people watching live TV via social media, as audiences predict a sharp increase in how many of them will be viewing live TV on sites like Facebook and Twitter in the next 10 years. At present, around
As 2017 draws to a close, Juniper Research has drawn up a list of predictions for the coming year, all neatly wrapped up as the top trends for the technology industry for 2018. Juniper has identified 2018 as the year in which OTT players including Amazon and Facebook turn sporting events into the next content […]
Facebook is opening a new London office that will allow it to create 800 new UK jobs in 2018. By the end of next year about 2,300 people will work for the social media giant in the UK. The office will be Facebook’s biggest engineering hub outside the US, and opens during its tenth year […]
Research has shown that in a world of digital and social media, TV is still the main medium by which consumers learn about new product launches. Some 44 per cent of Brits say they first noticed
FAST.com, a broadband speed checker website launched by streaming giant Netflix, reports that it has now generated over quarter of a billion speed tests from around the world. To mark the milestone, the service has now added social media functions. In a blog post, Netflix said: “We all want a faster, better internet, yet internet […]
Social video creation platform Wochit has announced that Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Southern and Western Europe, Middle East and Africa cluster has selected the company’s cloud-based toolset for implementation across brands in eight markets. Enhancing VIMN’s aggressive social video strategy, the deal gives the network’s brands and editorial teams greater ability to rapidly produce […]
More than half (54 per cent) of UK 12- to 15-year-olds use social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, to access online news, making it the second most popular source of news after television (62 per cent), according to regulator Ofcom’s Children and Parents Media Use and Attitudes Report 2017. The news that children read […]
Innovid, the video marketing platform, has released a report, Where are Brand Marketers Taking Their Video Strategy in 2018?, which presents the results of a survey completed by 140 marketing decision-makers at top brands, conducted during the summer of 2017 by Brand Innovators in partnership with Innovid. The survey queried brand marketers on how they perceive their brands’ […]