The BBC’s election debate on May 31st will be streamed live on Twitter as well as broadcast on television. It marks the first partnership of its kind between the social network and the BBC. A “real-time curated timeline” of tweets will bring commentary from BBC experts and BBC Reality Check to Twitter users during the […]
UK intellectual property protection organisation FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) has welcomed the recent move by Facebook to update its Commerce Policy to ban the sale of illicit streaming devices from its site. According to the site,items, products or services sold on Facebook must comply with its Community Standards, as well as the Commerce Policies, with […]
In March of this year, Fullscreen partnered with Leflein Associates to field a quantitative national online survey and ethnographic interviews (in the greater NYC area) with Gen Z and millennial individuals. They investigated media preferences and trends, passions and values, influencer fandom, consumer journeys, and brand love –– and perhaps most significantly –– where Gen […]
Channel 4 has commissioned a new Gogglebox-style review show for 16-24 year-olds featuring online viral content and a regular cast of young reviewers, exploring the content they consume beyond their television sets. Produced by Studio Lambert, a first series of 6 x 60 minute episodes of Vlogglebox will launch on E4 on June 18th. Vlogglebox […]
Levels of trust in traditional media are increasing across Europe as people question the veracity of what they see and read online. Public trust in traditional media (broadcast media and the press) increased in the last year as trust in the Internet and social networks continued to fall. According to an EBU study – Trust […]
Facebook has been fined €110 million by the EU for providing “incorrect or misleading” information on its purchase of WhatsApp in 2014. The European Commission said Facebook had promised it could not automatically match user accounts on its own platform and WhatsApp. But two years later it launched a service that did exactly that. The […]
Nielsen has expanded its measurement of Twitter mobile campaigns to 23 new global markets, in addition to the US. Through Digital Ad Ratings, Nielsen will now provide independent audience verification metrics for campaigns on Twitter’s mobile app globally, enabling clients to measure how effectively ads on the social platform reached their intended audience. With global […]
Twitter has signed a multi-year deal with the US National Football League (NFL) to live-stream pre-game coverage as well as a 30-minute show on the social media site. The show will be aired on Twitter five days a week during the NFL season, covering news, highlights and pre-game updates. Twitter already has a partnership with […]
Shares in Snap, the parent company of social media service Snapchat, dropped by nearly a quarter on May 10th after the app reported a loss and slow user growth. Snap reported a $2.2 billion loss for the first quarter of the year, its first set of results since becoming a public company. But while the […]
Trusted Media Brands (TMBI) has unveiled results from its study exploring the future of digital video. The study found that 68 per cent of participants (a 12 per cent increase from TMBI’s previous digital video survey conducted in June 2016) feel social platforms (e.g. Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter) are the most important partners for digital video […]